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Please do not feed the trolls
The Original Barnstar For being bold and because I can't believe you haven't got one yet! Sophia 16:33, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The E=mc² Barnstar You might not know me, but I know you. I've seen you editing articles about evolution, and I just wanted to say thank you so much for contributing so much to Evolution articles and reverting vandalism and original research, among other things. I love you! Keep up the good fight! Ķĩřβȳ♥♥♥ŤįɱéØ 17:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The Undeniable Mechanism Award For arguing the undeniable mechanism, upholding intellectual rigour, and expanding evolution topics, it is my pleasure to pin this badge upon your most evolved chest. Samsara (talk • contribs) 08:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The Original Barnstar For your dedicated work on scientific articles, keeping the pseudo out of science, I hereby award you, Orangemarlin, this Barnstar. Your work on Good and Featured articles like Evolution and Minoan eruption has greatly improved Wikipedia. Thank you. Firsfron of Ronchester 07:20, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
To Orangemarlin for exceptional work on herpes zoster. JFW | T@lk 10:50, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You are retentive and obsesive. Now have a co<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/navpop.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css&dontcountme=s">okie. Tim Vickers 23:12, 6 July 2007 (UTC)]][reply]

On the Hoyle-Boeing-thing-going

Hi Orange, I will try to get back when I have an identity on WP, planning to do so. Until now I've left comments here and there signing with IP. I saw you had a bad day checking for the original Hoyle quotation. This was from some archived discussion group, objections - evolution, or something. I don't have a firm reference at hand. Here's what I think, what I remember (I'm a physicist). Hoyle might have written it in a book, rather than an article. The book was coauthred, but I don't remember the name of the other author (Indian sounding). Whether or not the quote is there in that book, I think I know what he was referring to. Hoyle (almost certainly) firmly believed in evolution through natural selection, he understood that mechanism, he never questioned it, or he was just uninterested in it. What he was actually concerned about was the origin of life. He thought that life must have emerged somewhere in the universe, not on Earth specifically. Wherever it originated, it has travelled everywhere through comets and the likes. His motivation for coming up with this hypothesis was that life is very improbable, too improbable to arise in many planets independently at (more or less) the same time. But the Universe is very vast. So, by extending the "pool" for life to begin to the entire universe, such probability might become sensible. In summary, he argued, life has originated only once somewhere sometime in a vast universe (he probably still believed vaster than most do), and then was spread all around. This is also known as panspermia. Hoyle is using a kind of entropic principle he had used before for an outstanding discovery in Physics regarding how carbon atoms arose in stars. To paraphrase, he thought that a functional boeing can actually come around by chance if tornadoes are happening all over a vast universe at the same time. To conclude, his boeing argument was an argument in favor of panspermia, in relation to the origin of life, and had absolutely nothing to do with evolution, nor evolution by means of natural selection. It goes without saying that recent findings that suggest life exists in meteorites, compatibly with Hoyle, are dismissed as false by creationists, who cite Hoyle's objections out of conetxt, but then refuse to embrace his authority in regard to the origin of life (and the related findings possibly confirming one prediction of his). In other words, Hoyle passes from being a total genius in their view when he proposes the boeing argument, to a pure idiot just a few lines later when he advocates panspermia. --209.150.240.231 04:33, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You mean Hoyle, the confusing guy? I swear everytime I read something of his, he's saying something different. Do I know you? Orangemarlin 05:30, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is not likely we know each other. Not from WP though, I still have to open a user account. I make just comments to talk pages, usually suggestions for articles, anonimously.

Re: Hoyle. I am certain he proposed panspermia. I'm almost certain (99.9%) that's were he used the Boeing 747 example, which was not meant to be literal, of course it wasn't. He couldn't see an easy mechanism for the origin of life, so he kind of went for an argument from ignorance (I cannot see it so it must be very very improbable). But in essence he was just trying to increase the probability for life, still from the point of view of a pure naturalist/scientist, by enlarging the stage for life's first step (from Earth alone to space). One could accuse him of not being expert in that field, but he was not totally crazy, just bizarre (none other than Crick is another proponent of panspermia). His version also had kind of constant injection of biological "stuff" from space. But predisposition to bizarre theories is what has made the day for many scientists. Holye not being awarded the Nobel prize in Physics with Fowler was an injustice, but the intuition he started from was kind of bizarre, but absolutely correct. He was opposed, maybe, for his character. But to my knowledge, he never took any stance on Darwin. --209.150.240.231 05:55, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dunno if this helps, http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/chance/chance.html attributes the Boeing quote to Hoyle F Evolution from Space JM Dent 1981, http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/wic.html#nonchris refers panspermia to Hoyle, Fred & Chandra Wickramsinghe, Evolution from Space: A Theory of Cosmic Creationism (Simon & Schuster, NY, 1981). At Kitzmiller, Behe testified that "n the year 1973, a man named Francis Crick, the eminent Nobel laureate who discovered the double helicle shape of DNA with James Watson, he published, with a co-author named Leslie Orgle, he published a paper entitled Directed Panspermia, which appeared in the science journal Icarus.", while Buell testified "Dr. Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe published together an article in the journal, a technical journal called Icarus. The title of the article was Directed Panspermia. ... and then Dr. Hoyle... wrote a book entitled the Intelligent Universe." Make what you will of that lot. .. dave souza, talk 11:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hoyle also presented a paper on panspermia at a Royal Astronomical Society meeting in 85/86 (can't quite remember but can look it up if necessary) which was not well received (got very heated to say the least). Chandra Wickramasinghe was also lecturing at the time as we invited him to talk to our Astrosoc and from what I remember he was analysing cyclical patterns in disease outbreaks - the biologists in the audience complained that all he had done was prove that people got colds in the winter! Neither mentioned boeings in relation to these as far as I recall - they were just trying to get a serious debate started on whether life could have "seeded" in the same way other elements that make up the earth have come from other parts of the universe. Hoyle was a really nice man and it's sad that his legacy is so warped by the fixations of the time. This "life in comets" could prove him right yet. Sophia 22:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, probably Hoyle had an issue with natural selection too. Anyway, the 747 mystery might have no solution. Maybe it's not even in print anywhere. One hypothesis is that he mentioned it during a radio program. Now, that'd be interesting, as he had also invented the term Big Bang during a radio program (to mock it, actually). Anyway, Dawkins mentions it in The Blind Watchmaker. He's quite reliable, therefore I assume the quote is correctly attributed, wherever he learned about it. --209.150.240.231 06:13, 7 July 2007 (UTC) That was me! Now I exist as a wikipedian. --Gibbzmann 16:26, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Scary articles

Below are articles articles, mostly medical but some in the sciences, that promote ideas or POV's that might endanger human life. Feel free to add your own, but I'm watching and cleaning up these articles. Please sign if you add something.

List of medicinal herbs-lacks any references, and implies these drugs can help.Orangemarlin 00:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Herbalism-same as above Orangemarlin 00:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Homeopathy-ridiculous Orangemarlin 00:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Attachment therapy-don't let your children go there Orangemarlin 00:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Medicinal plants of the American West-more unsourced POV edits Orangemarlin 00:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Alternative medicine-more of the same Orangemarlin 00:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Naturopathic medicine-Actually not completely off the wall, but some parts are bad. Orangemarlin 00:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: another Mac question

Hi there! Sorry it took so long to get back to you, but I've been on a knitting bender, making socks for Christmas gifts, then the archiving bot took your post to my talk page archive before I saw it.

Anyway, if there's a program to help lose weight, I haven't found it, but I'm optimistic. When I had my first child, I lost 24 pounds in six days, so I've done it once and can do it again. That was expensive, though. And I had to take a baby boy home with me too. ;-) You could always turn to the myriad 'supplements,' like the ones that use chitin to bind cholesterol or some other such nonsense. (If that really worked, why not just eat lobster shells with a nice sauce and a lot of liquor and be done with it?)

Can't help you with the women, though. OTOH, it _is_ July, and you could always go over to a hospital near you and check out the brand new crop of wide-eyed interns. You know it's July when we have to dust off the "Ventilator Settings and IV Orders In The Real World" class and give it to them every damn morning until it sinks into their skulls. No software to teach them the difference between medical school and reality, and I'm _not_ optimistic about that. I guess I can't have everything.

Seriously, though, the apps/scripts I use most often, besides Butler, for Wiki-stuff (apologies if I've told you about these before):

My monobook.js file has Lupin's popups, Misza13's Status Switcher, and Twinkle.
TextExpander - a preference pane (accessed through System Preferences) allows me to type shortcuts - like "kk" for the four tildes, "citenews" to put in the {{cite news}} template, "oldafd" for {{Oldafdfull}}, and so on. It keeps track of how much time it saves you, and I'm at 2.86 hours of typing time saved. TextExpander was developed originally by the same guy who wrote Butler, Peter Maurer. He sold it to SmileOnMyMac last year sometime.
PTHPasteboard PRO - Butler allows custom pasteboards, which is good, but I've run into problems with instability if I ask it to save more than 50 pasteboards. PTHPasteboard is another preference pane that holds as many as I want and lets me do more things with them. I can name them, use hot keys for pasting each particular thing, and I can even publish and share pasteboards with other users (I haven't done that yet). There's a free version that I used for a long time, but I'm glad I paid the $20 for the pro version.
Sidenote - Sidenote is a tiny little memo app that hides on the side of your window and slides out when you need to jot something down. It's freeware, and you can create as many little notes as you like, format them with color, font, text size, and titles, name them, email them, export them, and more. It's very handy for numbers, phrases, instructions, quick reminders, grocery lists, and so on. For admin duties, I use it to hold blocks of text while editing, and for AFDs that I've relisted - each relisted AFD has to be manually removed from the old log and inserted into the new date, and I do that in batches of four or five, so I list their titles there so I can make sure I handle each one correctly.
browseback - another SmileOnMyMac app that runs in the background and saves my browser history. I used to use HistoryHound, but it didn't save the page as it's viewed, and browseback does. There have been some complaints about the app's CPU usage, but Camino uses more than browseback does, and I'm on a 15" PowerBook G4 with 1.5GB of RAM. If you use Application Enhancer, browseback has to be on its Master Exclude List because it crashes otherwise, but don't worry about it if you don't use anything that requires Application Enhancer to run.
Saft - I use Camino as my default browser, but when I do use Safari I use Saft. Saft is an input manager that lets me customize features of Safari. There's at least 50 different things it does, so go to VersionTracker if you want to check it out. The developer is a Chinese guy living in Sweden and his English isn't perfect, but he's really quick with support if you need it.

Okay, I'll shut up now. Email me if you have any questions, so I don't clutter up your talk page. It's time to eat some ice cream. See ya - KrakatoaKatie 22:52, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Navou

You have a solid history as a Wikipedian so I'm curious how you reached your decision about that RFA. I decided to make admin coaching a priority this year because the site needs more good sysops. Navou came to me six months ago and has been one of my most active and productive proteges. What particularly impresses me is his willingness to handle tough disputes where policy and content issues dovetail. There's a serious shortage of sysops who take on those cases and he does it well. He's demonstrated to me over the long run that he wants the tools for the right reasons and can be trusted with them. Perhaps his RC work turned you off? Durova^Charge! 18:22, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like applicants that don't add to the project. I don't care about the admin tools, don't care about reverting vandalism, just care about building the project. A good admin needs to resolve issues, kick some ass when required, but add to the project through leadership. You're mentoring a follower, not a leader. I'm adamant that we need leadership in this project, not a bunch of janitors to clean up the mess. Navou is nothing but a janitor. Not useful to the project. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 04:21, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NOR

I don't mind at all, in fact I welcome it - but would you mind if I first run it by a few people who have been most vocal in the debates over NOR in the past couple of weeks? I want some time to tweak it, and then I would love your comments/edits. (It would just make it easier for me to keep track of changes) Slrubenstein | Talk 15:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Homeopathy lead

After some battle, I've managed to get the homeopathy lead oown to about half its old size. It might still be a little long, but I'm not sure what else to remove. (Ironically, I had just removed a third of it when you put up the tag - C'est la vie. Adam Cuerden ^talk 17:08, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

While I don't think the lead was ever too long, as it coincided perfectly with WP:LEAD], I won't oppose the recent changes to it as they might be a little clearer and have better flow. I however do want to point out one thing to OrangeMarlin. Please explain your edits on the talk page if they are disputed. If you add a tag to something or remove something or add something and someone else disputes it then you need to discuss it. You recently removed some material which I object being removed and I posted my reasons on the talk page of the article. So please be sure to respond to them so that we can reach a consensus. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 17:26, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Show me any rule that says I have to discuss tags. One tag I placed says specifically that an editor is concerned with the section. Quit owning this article. Step away. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 17:32, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you won't explain WHY you're concerned with the section then the tag needs to be removed. If you can't elaborate and give details on the problems of the section then there is no way to improve it since I have no idea what you're even concerned about. In such case the tag should be removed. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 17:38, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that I put it there is good enough.OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 18:11, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you put it there? Please explain in detail so that I can know what you see wrong with it so that I can improve it. Otherwise it serves no purpose and must be removed. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 18:12, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S., The tag says "Please see the discussion on the talk page". If there is no discussion on the talk page then the tag is obsolete and serves no purpose. It's supposed to be used to notify new editors that it is being discussed, However you aren't discussing why exactly you placed it there nor are you giving details on how to improve it to get the tag removed. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 18:16, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, then join me in a 3RR battle please. Stop the ownership battle. It's one that you will lose. Oh fuck, you're wasting my time. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 18:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 Image:Barnstar.png| '''The Original Barnstar'''  For your dedicated work on scientific articles, keeping the ''pseudo'' out of science, I hereby award you, Orangemarlin, this Barnstar. Your work on Good and Featured articles like [[Evolution]] and [[Minoan eruption]] has greatly improved Wikipedia. Thank you. <font color="#0000FF">[[User:Firsfron|Firsfron of Ronchester]]</font> 07:20, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 Image:Barnstar2.png|To Orangemarlin for exceptional work on [[herpes zoster]]. [[User:Jfdwolff|JFW]]&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;[[User_talk:Jfdwolff|<small>T@lk</small>]] 10:50, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
-Image:Choco chip cookie.jpg|You are retentive and obsesive.<!--Correcting this? That IS obsessive! :) --> Now have a cookie. [[User:TimVickers|Tim Vickers]] 23:12, 6 July 2007 (UTC)]]
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 :::P.S., The tag says "Please see the discussion on the talk page". If there is no discussion on the talk page then the tag is obsolete and serves no purpose. It's supposed to be used to notify new editors that it is being discussed, However you aren't discussing why exactly you placed it there nor are you giving details on how to improve it to get the tag removed. [[User:Wikidudeman|'''<font color="blue">Wikidudeman</font>''']] <sup>[[User talk:Wikidudeman|(talk)]]</sup> 18:16, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
+:::Well, then join me in a 3RR battle please.  Stop the ownership battle.  It's one that you will lose.  Oh fuck, you're wasting my time. [[User:Orangemarlin|<font color="orange">'''Orange'''</font><font color="teal">'''Marlin'''</font>]] <small><sup>[[User talk:Orangemarlin|Talk•]] [[Special:Contributions/Orangemarlin|Contributions]]</sup></small> 18:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC)