User talk:JoJo Anthrax

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Pillow fights? Really?

Hi there - I'm curious why you take offense to that uncited statement in the University of Rochester page in such a stark way. College pages tend to have these sorts of innocent artifacts, and in this case, I believe it to be an accurate reflection of student life: http://www.rochester.edu/studentlife/galleries/pillowfight/index.html

One would hardly expect Dartmouth College page moderators to take down references to Keggy the Keg even though that might be met with an aghast 'Really?'.

Cheers, EOS — Preceding unsigned comment added by EOSage (talk • contribs) 18:47, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your note. I do not take offense at the content. I simply believe it is inane, and inappropriate for an encyclopedia. That other articles contain such content is not, in my opinion, a compelling reason for its inclusion here. Should we also include undoubtedly true but non-encyclopedic, un(reliably)sourced, "innocent artifacts" like "students eat lunch" and "students have sex with each other?" JoJo Anthrax (talk) 13:22, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply! I understand your concerns regarding inanity and impropriety; however, I disagree with your execution of the concept in this case. Pages for universities tend to include information that is relevant to them -- a pillow fight on a quad organized by students and documented with photos certainly transcends the banality of dormroom relations and rises to the level of 'student life' or 'college culture'.

Indeed, one would omit 'students have sex' from an encyclopedia entry on a college as it is assumed that they do, indeed, have sex. However, one would add 'students do not have sex' in instances where some cultural phenomenon promotes an unexpected, emergent property. Here, I see the students having pillow fights an important marker of the culture of the college, much like BYU's honor code prohibiting sexual relations between students.

Cheers,

EOS EOSage (talk) 18:19, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

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Sunlightenment

Thanks, that was perfect - and very funny! I really thought it was his book, having looked at some pages on Amazon and at Draft:MissionGoldenAges both are equally incomprehensible. Doug Weller talk 18:48, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks - I'm glad to have helped. I have always had a weakness for the entertainingly unfathomable. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 20:42, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

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Retirement

Sad to see you leave, particularly given the circumstances, but I respect the principle behind it. I'm hoping that something can be done to salvage the current situation, but to be honest, I'm not very hopeful. After discussing with the CEO of Wikimedia, the disconnect seems even worse than I thought. I'm sure she is a nice enough person in real life, but the Foundation seems determined to control more and more of what happens here, while not having a clue what it actually takes to get thousands of volunteers working in relative harmony. For free. I'm not editing, and only sticking around a short while to see if there is any glimmer of hope, but I may not be far behind you. God speed and good luck in your future adventures. And thank you for your contributions. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 23:24, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

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Merge

FYI, don't edit the sandbox til the history is cleaned up ; ) See User_talk:Usedtobecool#Merge. - LuckyLouie (talk) 18:31, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Holy cow, what a to do! I certainly won't be going anywhere near my wee sandbox anytime soon. Thanks again for all your efforts. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 18:39, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

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Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network

I want to apologise to you for my earlier interaction with you over this article. You were right, I completely misjudged the sources here, and probably misjudged you too. Again, apologies. SpinningSpark 07:03, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for this kind note. I look forward to collaborating with you in the future. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 15:09, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

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Query on undo on "Pentagon UFO Videos" Article

Hey there! I did a pretty substantial edit on the previously mentioned articles not too long ago and you seemed to undo it (I dont disagree per say, I just want to understand more of what you said). The edit itself had substantial references citing legitimate news sources and multiple interviews with first hand witnesses. Some of the references were made on considerable unreliable sites, that I recognise, but a huge majority of those referenced interviews are pretty well trusted, not to mention they are verified and trusted by the pentagon and DOD who have started an investigation and even opened an abnormal aerial phenomena unit because of the incident.

Also, I attempted to remain as neutral as possible and am by no means on the "fringe" nor a conspiracy theorist. I have remained un-opinionated and just stated the facts as is. One of the section's titles: "Cover Up" can be seen as inappropriate as it is not proved and disputed; I respect that this must be changed.

Otherwise, I would like some clarification if thats ok. Please use my talk page. Thanks.

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About your comments on my talk page

I really liked the tips and I'm sure they will be of great help, even more that I'm very new here. So, I will read all this before doing any editing here on Wikipedia, so I don't make any mistakes.--HunoEru (talk) 00:36, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

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ANI discussion

Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to pull together that thorough report at WP:ANI. As frustrating as it's been trying to communicate with that editor, I'm not sure that it's reached an obvious enough level of disruption for the community to decide action is needed, but it's worth a shot, eh? Schazjmd (talk) 14:49, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

@Schazjmd: No problem. The disruption has become too caustic, with no end in sight. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 19:33, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Examples of POV-pushing on pages related to UFOs

Condensed because failed WP:AN appeal has been archived

Below are examples of what I believe to be pro-fringe POV-pushing behavior by Gtoffoletto in the broad area of UFOs, a behavior that contributed to their topic ban. The diffs are presented here because in this discussion I claimed to have them, Gtoffoletto "challenged" me to present them, and I believe presenting them at this Talk page might help prevent Gtoffoletto from inadvertently violating their topic ban. There is no intention or interest on my part to (re)initiate a debate/discussion/litigation of any sort. Again: I claimed to have diffs, I was fairly challenged to produce them, and here they are. It is abundantly clear that Gtoffoletto does not believe that any of these edits, most of which were reverted, represent POV-pushing. Talk page comments are excluded. The creation by Gtoffoletto of USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO Incidents (ultimately merged into Pentagon UFO videos) was itself a massive POV-push, along with their subsequent edits to it (two examples: this and this). Edits to Luis Elizondo (now a redirect following its AfD) were a POV-push (for example, here, here, here, here, here, and here. POV-pushing edits are evident at Ufology (for example, here, here, here, here, and here), and also at To the Stars (for example, here, here, here, and here). Lastly, posts at WP:FTN also display POV-pushing (for example, here and here). JoJo Anthrax (talk) 18:49, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

RFC - UFO pentagon videos

Please note - there is an ongoing RFC discussion about this, which you were previously involved in Here

Activity level?

Like you, I have dozens of UFO related pages on my watchlist as the result of years of volunteer service at WP:FTN. Lately there seems to be a surge of advocacy activity on UFO-related pages along with the appearance of new accounts as well as some older users with low edit counts. Has Netflix released some new provocative series? Has Joe Rogan featured some incendiary guests? Has Qanaon dropped some ET-related crumbs? Or is it just the end of August when many people are on vacation and their fancy turns to All Things Ufology? I'm truly puzzled. - LuckyLouie (talk) 18:25, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

LuckyLouie I too have observed the increase in activity, especially from the single-edit crowd. I am at a loss to explain it, but outside of some natural stochastic process I suspect continued coverage of the Pentagon UFO Report is a contributing factor. With the passage of time additional exposure at the level of Discovery Channel-type SHOCKING TRUTHS REVEALED!!! is to be expected, especially given the emergence of things like this. I do like, however, the idea of a seasonal phenomenon (affective disorder?) when a young man's fancy turns to UFOs. Perhaps this is the time of year when young women are most likely to terminate their relationships with said young men? Out with the old and in with the new at the start of the school year. If the standard response to such heartbreak - drinking heavily at the local watering hole for several weeks with a clutch of old timers who are always complaining about their wives and taxes - is sadly unavailable due to covid restrictions, perhaps pushing pseudoscience on Wikipedia becomes a viable option? Young people these days. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 19:29, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Whatever it is, it's definitely the season for it. - LuckyLouie (talk) 00:35, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Holy crap. Definitely time to hit the Caol Ila. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 01:41, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

I was about to make a wisecrack about Yeti piloting UAPs at Talk:Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and mistakenly hit one-click-archiver. Ah, well, maybe it's for the best... - LuckyLouie (talk) 17:11, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

You archived the most cogent thread on that page?! Why I oughta... JoJo Anthrax (talk) 18:53, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Sorry. But keep up the good work and someday you may be inducted into the OWEDTRWSMRTMC. - LuckyLouie (talk) 11:52, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

And yet the instructions I am receiving from outer space suggest otherwise. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 12:38, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

UFO Pentagon videos - Dispute resolution noticeboard

There is a dispute resolution open at the DR noticeboard in which you have been involved Here Deathlibrarian (talk) 10:12, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

You've removed all the Green Fireball content... why?

The information contained on the green fireball page was invaluable to me as a witness. I wish you'd not removed it all!!! Now the majority of the page is just saying it's a meteor thing and psuedo-science, WHICH IT'S NOT!!!

I witnessed it first hand, and I know it's real, so you removing all that information is horrifying, that you can just delete it and not let other people who might witness it also use it. PLEASE ADD IT BACK IN!!!!

Despite your evident sense of horror (Happy Halloween, by the way), my answer is no. The earlier version of the article was, as I wrote on the Talk page, not even close to being encyclopedic, as it was dominated by unsourced or poorly sourced content that ran afoul of WP:OR, WP:UNDUE, WP:FRINGE, WP:PUFFERY, and likely additional Wikipedia policies and guidelines. This is a collaborative project, however, so if you have any reliable, independent secondary sources that report these objects as not being, as you phrase it, a meteor thing and psuedo-science, please include them in the article. If you are uncertain about what qualifies as a reliable, independent secondary source for fringe topics like this, please read WP:FRIND. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 01:14, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

I'm just glad it's there on the history at least. The part that mentions they were seen in Manchester UK was cited as being sourced from a book, which I bought and did indeed contain the relevant info. If your requirement for showing information on the topic of UFOs is "it must be scientifically verifiable", you'll delete all of it. You've basically removed information that any witnesses out there could use to further study the phenomenon, and left the stuff that calls it "woo". Your opinion on the subject shines through dramatically, you believe it's all crazy talk. You've left me fuming.

Firstly, Wikipedia utilizes particular policies and guidelines in determining what does, and what does not, appear on its pages. I explicitly provided links to some of those policies and guidelines in my previous message, and I will do so again for you here: WP:OR, WP:UNDUE, WP:FRINGE, WP:FRIND, and WP:PUFFERY. I ask that you click those links and read the material therein. Secondly, as an editor (like you) I do not and indeed can not impose any "requirement" for what appears on a page, "scientifically verifiable" or not. We only include content that is reported in secondary, independent reliable sources. It is immaterial if that content meets, or does not meet, our personal opinions/standards of The Truth, or whether it makes us "fume." Thirdly, not all sources, including books, are reliable sources. Please read WP:RS for a full explanation of that policy. Lastly, it is good form on Wikipedia to sign all of your Talk page messages. You do so by typing four tildes (~) immediately after whatever you write. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 13:05, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

I'd suggest you delete all content on religion, consciousness, and history, while you're at it then. Just delete everything you consider unreliable. Remove all information that has a contentious viewpoint. And remove all valuable information that can guide further research on unproven hypotheses. Ridiculous. Following the rules doesn't make you right in what you're doing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.28.33.48 (talk) 12:28, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

We are done here. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 13:21, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Dispute Resolution for Malmstrom Air Force Base and others sighting on UFO sightings in the United States

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A barnstar for you!

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		Just wanted to give some recognition to you for being a vicious predatory defender of the wiki. Thanks for your work with Ariel Fernandez and their socks! --Trialpears (talk) 16:55, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

@Trialpears: Thank you for this kind gesture, and for all your help in this matter. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 17:48, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

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Ariel Fernandez

Thanks for the perspective and analysis re Arifer - I agree that a “no harm no foul” philosophy seems to dominate the consensus thinking on inclusion of references to EOCs, even as the subjects actions on and off WP belie that very thinking. I thinks it’s what lawyers call “consciousness of guilt”. Thanks again — Preceding unsigned comment added by LongTimeObserver (talk • contribs) 16:50, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Way to wield that hatchet

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Immortality

Based on your edit-summary and the fact that I did not eat pizza in 1890, that means I'm not going to die, right? DMacks (talk) 14:48, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

@DMacks: I hate to be the one to break this to you, but...are you familiar with the Bruce Willis character in The Sixth Sense? JoJo Anthrax (talk) 15:27, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Last evening, my wife and I were discussing what we were going to get for dinner this evening (our weekly take-out or dine-out night) and she mentioned she could go for pizza, but with the grease and cheese and fat and carbs it's really not healthy. I told her that eating pizza would lower her risk of heart disease and death. She asked if I was lying, and I said yes, and she punched me in the arm. I should have just directed her to Wikipedia, and saved myself an arm-punch.

Despite all that, we're still having pizza tonight. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:34, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

lol - FlightTime (open channel) 15:43, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Ha! Hope the pizza was good though. DMacks (talk) 16:20, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

A few hours still till pizza time. :( ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:22, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Hope the pizza is good dough. OK, time for me to retire for the weekend. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 16:34, 8 April 2022 (UTC)