User talk:TedE

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Hi, TedE, Welcome to Wikipedia!

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You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round.

Joe I 02:47, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for project vote smart update

Hey Ted - just wanted to say thanks for fixing the project vote smart edits I've done by also adding the main page - I realized I had forgotten to do this after I got through them all and didn't have the time to go back immediately.Nimocks 04:44, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Galerius

Hello,

Please don't blindly revert to an earlier version. Among other things, your edit [1] removed interwiki links for various languages, which I don't believe you intended, so I've reverted it. When making your edits, please edit only the section you actually wish to change (presumably the "worms" section). -- Curps 00:35, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

It's happened to me before: you click on an earlier version in the article's history and then later you start editing it, not remembering that it's not the latest version. In this case, your edit resembled that of "Brambo" from September 24, so perhaps you followed links and ended up editing the older version. -- Curps 00:53, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Bandelier National Monument - Puye Cliff Dwellings

Thanks, I think you are right and those pictures are actually of Bandelier National Monument. I've now corrected the images names and descriptions. -- Solipsist 09:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the 2-minute turnaround time on the Jaggi Singh article, much appreciated :) Sherurcij ^{(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)} 09:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Atlanterhavsveien

Sorry I forgot to log in when editing that page. I'd stick with both points of my edits though - Wikipedia definitely doesn't use "," as the decimal separator, even on Continental European articles, or when working in kilometres. Secondly, it's a road, not a bridge. However, it is a road that has a lot of bridges on it - a good analogy is the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys. For now I'd be happy to leave it in the bridge section. I don't understand why you reverted the inclusion of Category:Roads in Norway - I mean, it is a road, and it's in Norway, right? TheGrappler 18:17, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

No worries, apology appreciated :) It looks like you do a lot of good work here, thanks! TheGrappler 18:56, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Lawrence High School reverts

Thanks for the unfortunately too frequent reverts on the Lawrence High School page. How are you doing the reverts so that all of the detailed info regarding the previous edit is included? Alansohn 15:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Coca Cola

The following was on my User page. I've moved it here. Ted 03:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

but it should be anounced what coke did in 1985 on the coke page and the fact coke is made in most countrys with sugar with the eception of the US due to the infalted price of sugar and the goverment price subidies on corn. (placed by) Magnusfl 18 March 2006

NatSel

I do not know how far you up to date with the conflict that is keeping editors from editing the page. If not, I suggest you have a look at the arbitration case that is currently pending. KimvdLinde 21:03, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

To facilitate, this was the version most people (except Marcosantezana) could live with:

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Natural selection is the process in which individual organisms that possess favourable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce. Natural selection works on the phenotype, the outward form determined by genes (the genotype), the environment and the interaction between them. Only heritable variations in a trait will be passed on to the next generation and the frequency of favourable heritable traits will increase in subsequent generations. The underlying genetic variation in traits is the result of genetic processes, such as mutations and recombinations, and can undo the effect of natural selection if strong enough relative to the effect of natural selection. Natural selection, together with other mechanisms such as genetic drift and mutations, is an important component of evolution, a cornerstone of modern biological and medical research.

The term was introduced by Charles Darwin in 1859 in his book "The Origin of Species", as an analogy with a farmer choosing individuals that possess desired characteristics for his breeding stock, which Darwin called artificial selection.

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Maybe you find it not god, and in that case, I am curious what you think of that. KimvdLinde 22:54, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I made a lits of aspects here: User_talk:KimvdLinde/Natural_selection#Natural_selection_aspects KimvdLinde 02:28, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

DeMarco-Becket Memorial Trophy

You did a lot of reversions to DeMarco-Becket Memorial Trophy. I have been following the edits of the IP that you reverted (24.87.69.253) and that person has been doing a good job of editting CFL related articles. And at the time you were reverting the page they were trying to put the list of winners into two columns to match other CFL awards pages. They often make many edits that could be combined into one through the use of preview, but after they finish editting their edits are generally good. Eventually this user gave up trying to make the columns work. Just something I thought you should be aware of. Tnikkel 21:11, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I see, my apologies then. Tnikkel 21:45, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for helping out at WP:CFD/W!

Thanks for the help. Its nice to see newer users getting involved in some of the behind the scenes tasks. :)

I wanted to also leave you a note to let you know that when placing categories in different sections on the page, please put a colon in front of the category name inside the brackets: [[:Category:Living people]]. That will show a link to the category like this: Category:Living people. The way you did it with the cats you put up for deletion put WP:CFD/W in the categories you were asking to delete. Its a pretty common mistake so don't feel bad for doing it (certainly no harm done). --Syrthiss 19:24, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Bipolar

I tried to be gentle. I guess I could have been subtler. I tried to add the most suitable template. Too much RC patrolling can get you grumpy sometimes. Thanks for the heads up. Joelito 04:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Dermatoglyphics

apers0n 15:07, 5 May 2006 (UTC) Ted, I was wondering why you deleted the link to the American Dermatoglyphic Association in Dermatoglyphics? http://www.adelaide.edu.au/health/anat/ada/

Ok, the other link below it was a temporary placeholder until I could expand the scientific references for the article properly, and shouldn't have been there, but how is the ADA link 'misrepresented'

Great Depression

Yes, I got confused with all the redirects & moved page. I'm reverting the move right now, and added a "globalize" template to the Great Depression page (which, since Great Depression in the United States redirect to it, thought was just the US page). Tazmaniacs 21:04, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

X rating

I was wonderin what a "c certificate" was. I was in Mexico in May that year, and it the theaters that I saw listed it as X-rated. As this site supports. [2] Was the ratings lessened, or is "c certificate" a synonym for x-rated? 12.220.94.199 01:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks. I guess the rating must of been lowered. 12.220.94.199 02:02, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA

Hi Ted, thanks for your comments on my RfA. I have to say, that while the two edits you referred to might not be my finest hour, I don't agree they display significant incivility. One was pointing out that a new user was perhaps a little misguided about the standards for content on WP, and the other was a response to an anon IP who called me a "maniacal nerd". I would also say that the two edits in question are several months old. I also dont agree that most of my almost 600 talk edits are related to redirects or unsigned comments, indeed I would say that's quite misleading and Special:Contributions/Deiz would back me up. While I am not necessarily expecting this to change your vote to support, I would feel a little disappointed to be opposed on the strength of these particular concerns. Please give me a shout if there's anything else on your mind. Cheers, Deizio talk 21:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Ted, thanks for taking another look at my edits and your new note on the RfA. I truly hope that editors are interested in my contributions as a whole, and take as much time as you have done to have a second look if there is anything they are unsure about. Nice one, Deizio talk 01:42, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Civility

I totally agree with your prioritisation of "civility" in RfA. It prevents a lot of preventable problems. Tyrenius 19:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof

I use VandalProof, and I can't figure out how to get the program to fill in edit summaries for me. Do you have any idea how I can fix this? --Zpb52 02:41, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism comment

I could be missing something here, but as you gave the test 4 template for this edit, the next 3 edits to Lake Forest Academy don't seem to be vandalism. Indeed, they aren't the best edits, but they don't fall under WP:VAND. Blocking should only occur if vandalism continues after the test4 is given. Thanks, AndyZ _t 20:23, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

history of science

Hi! You might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science if you haven't seen it already. Anyhow, keep up the good work on Fisher.--ragesoss 21:09, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Dear TedE — Thank you for your support on my recent RfA. It succeeded with a final tally of 72/2/0 and I am now an administrator. I'll be taking things slowly at first and getting used to the new tools, but please let me know if there's any adminnery I can help you with in the future. —Whouk (talk) 11:06, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi TedE, thanks for supporting my request for adminship! Unfortunately, it ended with a final tally of 45/15/2, no consensus. I may have another go in the near future, once the school year is over. Thanks again! -- getcrunkjuice^contribs 22:57, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you, TedE, for voting in my RFA. It closed with a final result of 75/1/0. Now that I am an administrator here, I will continue to improve this encyclopedia, using my new tools to revert vandalism, block persistent vandals, protect pages that have been vandalized intensively, and close AFD discussions. Any questions? Please contact me by adding a new section on my talk page. Again, thanks to all of you who participated!!! -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, I will try to work on the areas outlined in your oppose vote. Although I had mostly supports, it's also great to receive feedback on how I could improve. Again, thanks! :-) -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Civility

Just wanted to say how much I agree with your comments on civility, and admire your being first to point to this in the Robchurch AfD. Tyrenius 19:26, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello Ted. Thanks for pointing out the fact that I haven't used talk pages a lot, and the constructive suggestions are definitely aprreciated. It is unfortunate as most of my constructive editing is in places where nobody else edits. I deliberately focussed more on the weaker areas of the encyclopedia, so I found myself editing in a rather lonely manner. On the list of articles that I created, which you may want to look at on my userpage, I don't think that any of them have been changed except for typos, cats, templates, pics, formatting, but the content has never been contested. The other thing is geography, election statistics, physics, and mathematics tend to be quite objective and clear-cut and don't tend to attract POV disputes. The other thing is that as there seems to be relatively little high-profile disputes, I tend to centralize the discussion at Australian WP notice board, Indian notice board, Project talk for Indian Cinema and Project talk page for Cricket to get some attention. Also if it is a 1-1 dispute, sometimes I use the user talk directly. In the case of Ajith Kumar, I had six edits to the talk page (which the edit counter doesn't count as they are recent), and talked directly at User talk:Anwar saadat nine times, and also at the Indian board and the Indian cinema board, so there would be a total of probably more than 20 posts regarding one article. The same applies to cricket; I rewrote the Brett Lee article the other week, and posted a summary and reasoning which you can see at WT:CRIC and asked for feedback/questioning, but nobody seemed unhappy about my rewrite. As for the Dravid issue, it fizzled out, so I don't think that I bulldozed the others out of the way. Of course, I would reassure you, that as I have had little experience in the extreme heat of controversial politics and religious articles, I would always maintain a conservative approach if I were to dabble into larger disputes. Regards and thankyou.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! - review me 04:32, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

As your talk page is already filled with RfA subject lines, I won't add another. Just wanted to drop a thanks for pointing out the numbering error on Talk:Criticism of Mormonism. Should you think to, if you happen to notice any other errors on my part, whether during or after the RfA, just let me know so I can set them straight. I appreciate it. Tijuana Brass^¡Épa!-E@ 04:51, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Gerald Flurry

Hello TedE, The proof that you asked for is up ---- Watchman Fellowship has been tracking cults like this for years.... In answer to your other question, Branch Davidian deaths were not caused by the cult. they were caused by the ATF/FBI etc. Jim Jones is a different matter, caused by ignorant people following Jim Jones into hell. No one (except the cult watchers) knew that the People's Temple were a dangerous cult until the mass suicide in Guyana(?). Many other cults have appeared benign to most of us until there was a mass suicide or mass murder (Does Manson Family ring a bell?) Wasn't there a mass suicide in California in the last few years, something about people being ready to take off in a space ship or something?

And yes, there have been deaths due to the "abusive, manipulative, or illegal control over their followers’ lives"; after being disfellowshipped, John Briggs went home and killed his wife and two small children and himself, his reason (in the suicide note) "without membership in the PCG, we have no salvation"!! That's what Gerald Flurry teaches Malachi's Message, v.7. Malachi's Message can be read at pcog.info if you are interested.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.144.40.33 (talk • contribs)

Hello again: When I put it in my own words, you tell me you want proof, when I give proof, you want it in my own words, what do you really want, and who are you to be protesting information given which has facts to back it up? Are you a moderator or admin? I'd just like to know what is going on. I'm not attacking anyone, I just want to make sure that both sides of the story are being told, not just some fawning bio of the man. And I'd also like to know why factual information like court dockets, arrest records etc. are being removed. I don't know why the red letters are there, I was just trying to mimic the symbols that others have used to be able to add to the WIKI. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.144.40.33 (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kiddush_club_(2nd_nomination)#.5B.5BKiddush_club.5D.5D

Hi, Ted. After some thought, I decided to change my vote to an outright delete. The practice described in the article really doesn't have any appropriate place in kiddush. What do you think? HKT 22:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Kim's RFA

Aye, time's the acid test, we'll see... I just thought you'd overstated your case WRT Marcos's RFA, otherwise I'd not have said anything. I honestly have no memory of Marcos & heritability, I'd have to go look at the edit history. I really stopped working on anything he was active on. I don't know how much effort it would have taken to really interact constructively with him, but it seemed far more than any reasonable person ought to be expected to put in (the same could be said of a few people on Nat Sel, list membership debatable, but I think we both understand that well). I pretty much gave up on anything that requiring more than a 15 second attention span some time after that, and it doesn't look like Nat Sel is going to fall under that threshold anytime soon. I'm not planning on trying to clean up any more messes, at least not outside game theory topics, until fall at the earliest. Anyway, good luck with your science (I'm kind up to my neck in childcare for the near future, just going to try and make sure no one burns the lab down over the summer). Cheers, Pete.Hurd 17:23, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

You may notice that I took Marcos' side for quite a while and resisted some of Kim's efforts, both in editing NS and in the ArbCom lane, but I got fed up with Marcos' apparent inability to use the tools correctly. There was one occasion where I copyedited for him and he found some spurious fault with my edit that did not seem to relate to anything I had written. At that point, I gave up on him. Articles need to be rewritten from scratch once in a while, that's just how things are, and Kim went to the effort and deserves credit for that contribution. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 18:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Heritability

OK, I'll try to give it a solid read-through sometime this weekend. Cheers, Pete.Hurd 18:24, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Reverted Page

Thanks for letting me know you reverted Alienus' talk page. Not sure why you did that though. Alienus contacted me and I was replying. Why would you mess with someone else's talk page? I have to revert back.

64.178.145.150

Thank you for the reply. No vandalism was intended. Alienus wrote to me. I was responding. Curious... what is it that makes it look like vandalism?

64.178.145.150 03:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you again. I looked at the history and I see what you are talking about. It DOES look like Vandalism. But I do not think that was me. Something "weird" happened during the posting -- some error came up and I had to hit reply twice. I notice in the history that my comments do not come up "red" but some deletion does. Not sure what happened, but I promise it was not an intentional act. I was only trying to reply. Thanks for being watchful! I respect Wikipedia and I am a financial contributor because I believe in it. I would not intentionally harm it.

64.178.145.150 04:05, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Blnguyen's RfA

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Hello Ted. Thank you for your support and honest comments at request for adminship. It ended at the overwhelming and flattering result of (160/1/0), and leaves me in a position of having to live up to a high standard of community expectation. Naturally, as I am rather inexperienced in dealing with sticky situations, I would take it slowly in that facet. If you need help with admin powers, feel free to ask me. Of course, if I make any procedural mistakes, feel free to point them out and I look forward to working with you in the future. Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:51, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

NS definition

Thanks for letting me know about your post. You may or may not know that we had this discussion at length ages ago. The current rewrite of NS is a direct result of the discussions back then, and was a major effort. I seriously doubt anybody will be prepared to go over everything again. I recommend you read Talk:Natural_selection/Archive_002 before taking this any further. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 18:01, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

"or to tell me I'm a complete whack-o" ... ummmm, for proposing that exact definition, or embarking on the attempt at all? ;-) ... I'll see what I can do. -Cheers, Pete.Hurd 18:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll have a look at it when I have time - right now I'm just scanning my watchlist in between trying to get things done...horrible idea when you need to get things done ;) Guettarda 23:36, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation

Ted, thanks for the invitation for the renewed definition discussion at NatSel. I think however that it is wiser that I let it in your hands and refrain from participating. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done at other important articles that I for the moment prefer to concentrate on those instead of spending my energy on a renewed definition discussion. Best -- Kim van der Linde ^{at venus} 19:08, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Blacklisted?

I was reading the vandalproof page and it says when you make a change the user is blacklisted? Does that mean you cant see comments from me anymore, considering my change was an accident, and now im being treated like a common criminal. Ó