User talk:Beefman

Re: Who are you?

>>What's your real name? --CKL

My real name is August Pieres. My original first name (in Spanish) was Augusto (which derives from Augustus): that is what I was called (in Argentina) before I moved to the U.S. Actually, I was called by my nickname, Chapi, which derives from "chap". But in primary school I was mostly called "Pieres", which, surprisingly, turns out to be a Wikipedia article, though on an unfamiliar topic: a more familiar topic (though still somewhat distant) is given by this link. OK, I answered your question, and then some. —AugPi 21:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Now I remember: in primary school (St. Brendan's), I ended up with the nickname "Papi". I had once accused (behind his back) a fellow classmate of being the teacher's pet: "Cirelli es el papi de la maestra". That comment backfired, and soon everyone in the class was calling me Papi. To ameliorate the situation, I tried to rename myself as "Papyrus", but I don't recall that it worked.

meantone vs. 31-equal

sorry, dear beefman, 1/4 comma meantone is NOT identical with 31 equal, it only comes CLOSE. strictly speaking: it uses the interval 5/4, which 31 equal does NOT! Kmbemb 22:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, this is correct. The article does NOT state otherwise. The problem with your edit was that it assumed 1/4-comma meantone has only 12 tones. The article contradicts that in at least two places. CKL

absolutely correct. i just wondered, why beefman erased my distinction between the cent deviation of 7/4 in 31 equal and in 1/4 comma meantone. - as to the two and more augmented sixths: the problem may be this: if we read "1/4 comma meantone", we may first think of this tuning consisting of 12 tones per octave, since very rare readers can imagine keyboards with split keys. Kmbemb 10:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Cents deviation of different meantones is too much detail for an overview article about microtonal music in general. CKL

then my suggestion: NO repeated comparison 31 equal - 1/4 comma meantone in this huygens context. we have to eliminate redundancies anyway. Kmbemb 18:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I believe I've already fixed this paragraph. I just retouched it now. CKL

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LucyTuning/88-ET

Thanks for raising the concerns about LucyTuning...I did not realize that there were concerns about LucyTuning page being original research. If your comments are true, it would be a serious issue and would justify either deleting the page or some of the material on it. I proposed the merge because I believe 88-ET did not meet the Wikipedia:Notability criteria. It may be that LucyTuning does not meet those criteria as well, although reading the page suggests that there may be more reliable sources documenting LucyTuning than 88-ET. If we can't find reliable sources, rather than merging LucyTuning into 88-ET, I think we would need to delete both pages. My concern is that I cannot find any good sources for 88-ET. I will begin discussion by posting on LucyTuning's talk page...please join in. Cazort (talk) 22:29, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. BTW, should I reply here, or on your talk page? I'm relatively new to the messaging system.

I often find Original Research issues to be hard to unravel. The LucyTuning entry is being heavily edited by Charles Lucy, usually from an anonymous account (we've had private correspondence about this). I'm a member of WikiProject Tunings, and Charles is well known in tuning theory circles as a vigorous self-promoter. That said, LucyTuning may be notable, in that several musicians have recorded music using it. 88-ET is, theoretically speaking, a much more general concept, but it may not be as notable as LucyTuning (it seems silly to have an entry for every equal temperament through, say, 200, but if we tried to discuss all important ETs on the equal temperaments page, it would no doubt be attacked for being too long... sigh). In this case I would suggest deleting the redirect only.

Lucy's concept of ScaleCoding, on the other hand, is clearly original research (and also not notable). We're currently looking at a possible edit war over whether it should be mentioned on the LucyTuning page. -CKL

PCP section

If I was a "true wikipedian" and removed all the unsourced material, I would, in fact, be quite counter-wikipedian. I add fact tags to warn people of dubious or unsourced statements that should not necessarily be taken as fact. I make no assertion as to the factuality of embalming chemicals' confusion with PCP, one way or the other. I desire one particular answer, though: why did you call the tags "vandalism"?

I apologise if you took the tags as a personal affront: they were meant as nothing of the sort. However, I must say that I find your (sarcastic?) remarks to be somewhat standoffish. I'm not suggesting a removal of any information with a fact tag, I'm simply advertising for confirmation, in an effort to better wikipedia. If I were to propose a removal of all unsourced information, many of the articles I contribute to would be gone, particularly those in WikiProject Warhammer 40,000. I don't understand what was witty about my tags, and I'll have you know that I don't actually have any barnstars yet, nor do I know what "shaq-fu" is.

If you have some references, or some leads, please let me know, and I'll add them if I can, but I'd rather encourage you to be bold and do it yourself. Not that anyone would object.Tealwisp (talk) 05:57, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

If I was a "true wikipedian" and removed all the unsourced material, I would, in fact, be quite counter-wikipedian. I add fact tags to warn people of dubious or unsourced statements that should not necessarily be taken as fact. I make no assertion as to the factuality of embalming chemicals' confusion with PCP, one way or the other. I desire one particular answer, though: why did you call the tags "vandalism"?

Because I see them as a form of vandalism. Flitting by and adding a few meaningless characters to a page. Editors show good intention by adding relevant information to an article, demonstrating expertise in its subject matter, demonstrating that they've taken any time at all to research the subject, study the article's revision history, or read its talk page.

Requiring material to be sourced externalizes any debate about the truth but doesn't make Wikipedia any more factual. It's a cheap way out of the truth problem and the tacit solution enacted by the Wikipedia ecosystem was to present original research and unsourced material anyway. Tons of it. Almost all of it. And despite pretending to be impartial, it turned out to be the best truth system ever. And now all editors have a responsibility to that information. Inconsistently applying irrelevant rules in a fraction of cases does nothing to make good on it.

I apologise if you took the tags as a personal affront: they were meant as nothing of the sort. However, I must say that I find your (sarcastic?) remarks to be somewhat standoffish. I'm not suggesting a removal of any information with a fact tag, I'm simply advertising for confirmation, in an effort to better wikipedia.

I didn't take them as a personal affront. There should perhaps be a better mechanism to track down the author of a particular piece of content. But the best action must have been to look for a source yourself and/or make a note on the article's talk page. In this case, the best source I'm aware of happens to *be* the article's talk page.

If I were to propose a removal of all unsourced information, many of the articles I contribute to would be gone, particularly those in WikiProject Warhammer 40,000.

Wait, your main shtick is Warhammer / anime / fictional universe content? Get out of town! That's so unlikely. Though it probably is all just as true and unique as the math and hard sciences content I had in mind when I made that comment.

If you have some references, or some leads, please let me know, and I'll add them if I can, but I'd rather encourage you to be bold and do it yourself.

Now there's a concept! I already explained I think this is original information, though that may have changed since 2006. beefman (talk) 03:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

If it is original research, it probably should be removed. Tealwisp (talk) 21:21, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Lucy tuning

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Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. — Gwalla | Talk 22:55, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Gwalla. I would like it to be known that the user LucyTune is apparently retaliating for the page deletion by removing references to my domain from wikipedia. There is no commercial activity of any kind (including ads) anywhere on my domain -- I host scholarly materials on behalf of several authors. I believe LucyTune is Charles Lucy, who has on another forum expressed his belief that I nominated the page for deletion (I did not). Thanks, by the way, for reverting many of these edits. In fact the one case you did not revert, the Haken Continuum entry, where the external link LucyTune deleted was also a citation... I strongly doubt LucyTune was aware of the redundancy. beefman (talk) 00:27, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

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np, see you need help on the progrom article too. Galassi is giving us both a hard time lately it seems...--Львівське (talk) 20:21, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

abiogenic petroleum

Please explain at Talk:Abiogenic_petroleum_origin#Why_is_Glasby_source_outdated.3F. --Enric Naval (talk) 14:08, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Please provide better sources instead of reverting the edit again. I already explained on the talk page why those sources are not enough to remove that claim. --Enric Naval (talk) 14:52, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

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For the last time, stop reverting that edit unless you can provide sources that actually support the removal. --Enric Naval (talk) 22:35, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Look, I think it's great that young people have taken such an interest in fighting things like homeopathy. But please, stick to easy targets like that and stay away from subjects that actually are technical. And please, keep the lolcats on 4chan. beefman (talk) 03:17, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but, you need to provide sources, you can't use your personal expertise here to justify edits in wikipedia. Three editors (including myself) have already explained why they think that those sources are not good enough. Next time you revert without giving a better source, I will simply report you to the edit warring noticeboard, and you might be blocked.

A good faith suggestion: try Wikiversity. You can write educative material and have more control over them than wikipedia articles. You can ask other people not to edit your material, you have academic freedom to make original research, you can enter into as much detail as you want, you can explain how the field has been mistreated, etc. You could start a page at wikiversity:Abiogenic petroleum and explain the theory in a level of detail that wouldn't be allowed here. It's a bit difficult to explain, it's better explained at this rough guide wikiversity:Help:Creating_educational_content_at_Wikiversity/2. What do you think? --Enric Naval (talk) 11:55, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

What are you talking about? I provided sources before you even wrote on this page. Meanwihle you will find your threats will not alter my behavior. beefman (talk) 22:32, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Or maybe...

.. it was written in 2006, long before the current infatuation with style over substance, when a lack of in-linking was not assumed to be evidence of an evildoer. Ahh, the good old days, when we came to write articles, not waste oh so much time playing games.

So, to you sir. One might find they can trivially ref any one of these statements with a bit of Google-fu. For instance, much noise will return if they Google up "S-N", but narrowing the search ever so slightly with a bit of context, and *poof*! The second part will not be so easy, but by no means impossible (hint: the math was from a well known Torontonian). Maury Markowitz (talk) 03:47, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

I hope I gave ample clues to the extreme sarcasm being used (except for the part about thanking you for the content). I was more looking for a shoulder to cry on (I started editing in 2003 and used to inhabit the c2 wiki). You can read some of my thoughts on the, uh, culture changes here and I would like to read yours if you have any. beefman (talk)

Indeed, this is why I responded in kind. I do hope the post above comes across jokey and not serious!

But I have to say, my writing has improved due to the ref police. Consider the National Ignition Facility article - I got tired of the wikilawers complaining so I went ref crazy. I was sent materials from the lab to help out in this quest. I'm reasonably happy with the results.

I guess the "problem" is that the bureaucracy is difficult to move. So it moves only when something embarrassing happens and then never re-considers the changes -- "we already talked about that". The ref mania started when the press started writing articles about whether or not you can trust the wiki. This is worrying, because it seems the only forward thinking part of the system is on the tech side, and the policy side is entirely reactive. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:07, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

That's a great article, thank you! If every admin worked like you I would have no problem with the policies as such.

Here are some suggestions I am too lazy to do anything about myself (I know, I suck):

• In the ICF background, a sentence explaining that NIF is essentially a Teller-Ulam bomb where the fission primary has been replaced with a laser.
• You need a photo of those insane KDF crystals.
• Some reference to the fact that its maximum firing rate is on the order of several hours. And a reference to the recent work on high-power DPSS that could change this.
• Some discussion of its role as a power station prototype, perhaps in Criticisms. It's often sold to the public this way, despite extreme dubiosity. Also, some mention of the LIFE project, which is slightly more plausible in this dept. (but not much). beefman (talk) 20:32, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Quit being a dick

You do not have my permission to delete, fix, change, move, or otherwise vandalize my comments at Abiogenic petroleum origin. Read WP:TPO, and if you can convince me that ANY of the reasons to delete comments apply, convince me. You do not own the article. You are not the world's leading expert on it; furthermore, we all have edits to make. Your insulting comments to editors is getting out of hand. Your ownership of the article is getting out of hand. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 16:51, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Pardon? I've hardly touched the article. I have not deleted or vandalized comments, and I do have permission to move them. I would however suggest ignoring trolls from 189.32.132.90. beefman (talk) 17:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Seriously? You have permission to move comments? Can you provide that diff for me to study? Thanks very much. I think you can reply here while you're blocked for disrupting the talk page with deletions for which you had no permission. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 19:37, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes, seriously. Here's the diff. beefman (talk) 00:55, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

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I've started an ANI regarding a discussion you're involved in. NickCT (talk) 18:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, but I'm afraid I can't understand those proceedings. I can tell you what happened: An anonymous user added a comment to the end of a long-standing (well, not long-standing, but stable) thread on the Abiogenic Petroleum talk page. The comment was unrelated to that thread. Orangemarlin, who apparently sees himself as the underdog defender of truth on this topic, replied. I initially deleted these comments, which in my view were flames and at minimum violated the 'talk page is not a discussion forum' concept. After Orangemarlin complained, I reinstated the comments in a new section of the talk page. Orangemarlin apparently has me confused with his perceived foes on this topic, and went nuts. Upon checking wikipedia today, I found this administrivia stuff, and the original two offtopic comments (since grown into a flame war) back in the inappropriate section of the talk page. I've moved them once again and hopefully that will be the end of it. beefman (talk) 02:02, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

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Wow, you just don't give up

You were blocked once for your edit warring at Abiogenic petroleum origin. But I guess owning the article is your goal. Good luck with that. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 01:42, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Again, I was not edit waring on Abiogenic petroleum origin nor have I contributed even a single character to that page. The page in question was its Talk page, and the "edit war" consisted of 2 or 3 edits: me initially deleting your conversational material from the page, and then, after you complained, moving it to its own section. Today I found a bunch of administrivia had been generated on your behalf, and the two comments in question become a veritable flame war, which I have again moved to their own section. I think it's great you're interested in science, but I think your behavior only enables the intelligent designers you fear. In any case, I hope you'll leave me out of it. beefman (talk) 02:06, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Garrett Lisi

I would like to mention that I'm trying to get a reasonable and NPOV version of Antony Garrett Lisi's page, that currently has been under censorship from User SherryNugil that does not want to include the current status of the Lisi's theory and that wants to keep all the articles and interviews and tv appearances and blog entries and forum discussions about Lisi. Not even for Nobel Prize Laureates there is such a complete list. I am also reporting that user for several reasons and it would be good if you could participate to the discussion giving your opinion, given that in the past you contributed to that page. Look at the discussion page for the last happenings. 24.7.128.58 (talk) 16:11, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your efforts. It seems the petty tyrant wikipedia deletionists are at it again. As you probably saw, I already engaged them on the Exceptionally Simple Theory talk page. Unfortunately there's not much I can do, since editing such articles requires expertise in high-energy physics. The deletionists of course have no such self-restraint, so they always win. They also have no lives outside of wikipedia, so they can also win by brute force of time spent here. Most folks like me have long ago given up. I just hang around for the dark humor. beefman (talk) 01:07, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Mars RFAR

You're welcome.

I thought that it had gone on too long. As I said, the conduct issues are making resolution of the content issues impossible.

An outside opinion would be useful. In particular, an outside opinion advising the ArbCom to accept the case would be helpful.

Robert McClenon (talk) 18:01, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Where should I add it? I'm not listed as an involved party on the RFAR so I'm hesitant to edit there. The best summary I've written so far is probably this diff. beefman (talk) 19:32, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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