User talk:Denis MacEoin

Hello,

I reverted some of your edits. Try to avoid vanity words such as "glamorous" in your editing. Also, try providing references when adding or deleting information. If you need help with formatting or other wikipedia syntax, you can see the Manual of Style or leave me a message on my talkpage and I'll try to help. Cuñado - Talk 18:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

April 2010

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Membership

I removed your comment on Talk:Bahá'u'lláh/Photo that related to statistics. The page to discuss membership would be Bahá'í statistics. I'm pasting below the comment you made for reference, and feel free to make it over there.

The 5-7 million figure for Baha'is worldwide almost certainly started with the first publication of the World Christian Encyclopedia. Before that appeared, no figures were available. In the late sixties, we were told never to reveal our numbers to the press because the public would be amazed to see how few followers this 'world religion' actually had. The World Christian Encyclopedia gave figures for Baha'is in most countries, and the figure for the UK was at least double the figure we knew. Clearly, the authors were guessing wildly. That almost certsainly means that the 5 million figure was at least double, and Baha'is have been adding to it since then. Given that the figures for non-active and former Baha'is are high, the real figure may be only one or two million.

That page also provides a discussion of the difficulties in placing a number on the Baha'i community, some of which you raised, but it gets more nuanced than that. Any Baha'i familiar with the membership process knows that the only quantitative figure is registration, but as far as active participation, it's about half of registration on average. It would be impossible to quantify who is active, and an NSA can't willy nilly remove people from membership. There are also tons of people that would call themselves Baha'is if asked, are registered, but don't participate in any way. The same can be said for Christians on a much larger scale, so as long as the same standard is used to count a given religious community, comparing them side by side is valid. For the administration's part, the House of Justice and many NSAs avoid making claims to numbers of adherents, partly because it doesn't reflect quality or community life. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 19:11, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Ghost story

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April 2013

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Ernest Bevin

Israel was left in control of territory which would have been assigned to to the Arab state under the November 29th, 1947 plan (see the pinkish area on map File:1947-UN-Partition-Plan-1949-Armistice-Comparison.png), so I'm not sure what the point of your edit was... AnonMoos (talk) 01:07, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Propaganda

We know that Middle East Quatterly is a paper of poor standing. You have to increase your standards to edit wikipedia. Please, avoid such comments. Pluto2012 (talk) 18:54, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

We do not know anything of the sort. I am an academic in Islamic/Middle East Studies. The journal is not of academic standard, but it regularly publishes excellent and informative articles. Its drawback is to be right-wing in orientation, but most general magazines of this kind have either right or left orientation, and I don't see why that should necessarily make it of 'poor standing'. I'd like to know who regards it as that. I don't like everything in it, but many of the articles are by academics of high standing. That should be the basis for criticism, not some unsubstantiated accusation. It serves a purpose, is for the most part reliable, and makes an adequate source of reference.Denis MacEoin (talk) 17:57, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Two comments on your editing

1. Please read the policy WP:REALNAME. Your recent edits have been rather biased and inaccurate, and in my opinion would reflect poorly on Denis MacEoin if that is not you. Such a situation could not be allowed. On the other hand, if it is your real identity you are welcome to announce it.

2. On multiply occasions you have marked edits as "minor" when they are not. Examples are: [1] [2] [3] [4]. This is regarded as bad behavior as it discourages other editors from reviewing your changes. The working definition of "minor edit" is here. Zero^talk 02:19, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

I don't think my edit to [1] is more than minor. I simply clarify the positions when the war ended. Israel occupied little of the area set aside for the Arab state, and did so as a defensive measure. Egypt and Jordan took Gaza and the West Bank. But I don't go into any detail, I just state the basic facts. I'm sure it can be improved, but that would make it longer.

2. is minor (just a sentence), but is more by way of an explanation and should perhaps go somewhere else. But where? And how?

3. is probably a spot longer than minor. But (ignoring my typos) it seems to me essential for any understanding of what happened. Whether it is minor or not, it is an accurate statement of historical fact. Or would you dispute that?

[4] is, I agree, not minor, and I apologize for labelling it as such.

But I still want to know where I have been particularly biased. I have never been accused of it over any of the major academic entries I have written for the Encyclopedia of Islam, the Encyclopedia Iranica, or the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in the Modern World, all of which are written to a much higher standard than Wikipedia. And I want to know where my many 'inaccuracies' are. Better to show me and have them corrected than to chastise me while keeping them secret.

I am going to report you if you don't attend to these two matters. Zero^talk 12:52, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

I have a distinct feeling of being got at, but from where I can't tell. I make efforts to avoid direct bias, and have been trained as an academic to do so. I can't think where this supposed bias lies (and I can think of hundreds of biased Wikipedia articles, notably about Islam). Nobody is really telling me, and I don't know how to find anyone to discuss this with. (DM).

I have just been reading an article entitled 'Water Memory' and found it seriously deficient. It takes a strongly hostile approach to the subject, all aspects of which it dismisses. There is no input from scientists who support the idea, no mention of the many experiments (including in vitro experiments) that have provided strong evidence for the effect in homeopathic medicine and beyond. The article is badly out of date, dwelling on a debate from the 1980s and ignoring later work from the 1990s and beyond. It is proper that the orthodox scientific stand in this debate be advanced, but it is highly misleading to ignore all research that contradicts that view, and it is flatly wrong to take such a simplistic approach to matters like the easy reproductibility of experiments. I am not qualified to write a fuller article myself, but I can bring on someone who is. What should I do?Denis MacEoin (talk) 14:30, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

You are not being got at. None of these edits are minor at all. A minor edit corrects a typo, adds a space, or at most rearranges a sentence without changing the meaning at all. There is no need to mark any edit as minor, and I strongly suggest you just don't tick the minor box at all. As a trained academic, you will know all about references - you should start using them if you change meanings or add information. Johnbod (talk) 04:54, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Minor edits redux

You added new material here[5]. You really need to stop this. As Help:Minor edit says, "Because editors may choose to ignore minor edits when reviewing recent changes, the distinction between major and minor edits is significant." Dougweller (talk) 18:59, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Original research

Please read WP:NOR and WP:VERIFY. I've just reverted you at Fundamentalism for making a large unsourced edit (does that come from MEQ by the way?). And another editor reverted you at Flight into Egypt for the same reason. Dougweller (talk) 19:01, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

I've reverted your edit to 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak as it is unsourced and appears to be original research. Please review the Wikipedia policy for reliable sources and original research. Thanks. Malke 2010 (talk) 17:16, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

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Please help me with...how I can add comments on a talk page. There are lots of existing comments, but mine is additional, not a response to any one of those. But there is no box or link where I can write my comment in. What do I do? And why is working with Wikipedia so damnedly complicated? I am an academic and writer, not a hi-tech person.

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