User talk:Skysmith/Archive 2009

Dealing with Vandalism/Spam

Hi, and thanks for the welcome and info! Before I created an account, I was just removing vandalism and spam in articles recently edited. I know there are bots that automate this i.e. ClueBot (sort of), but what guidelines do they follow and what's there response time. I know they can't catch everything, but how can I be more effective in removing vandalism by removing the content they're likely to miss?

TheSpoonbender (talk) 20:06, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For example, you can add articles you know something about to your watchlist to check them periodically. Bots have good response time but cannot distinguish false information, minor changes and outright graffiti from genuine contributions. - Skysmith (talk) 09:07, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Mailer post

I'm wondering why the addition I made to Norman Mailer's page was removed? It is fact. He did produce a short film titled "Prose & Cons" that aired October 3, 1981 on 'Saturday Night Live" starring Eddie Murphy. What is objectionable about that? Here's a link to it http://vodpod.com/watch/1535406-hulu-saturday-night-live-prose-and-cons

Here's my post: In the early '80s, Mailer also produced a short satirical film for 'Saturday Night Live' called Prose & Cons starring Eddie Murphy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.36.57.10 (talk) 17:39, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- Then add the reference to the article. - Skysmith (talk) 07:39, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

From Sathishmls:

May i know the reason why you have removed the news from verified source and its directly related to the article Sri Ram Sena ??? Sathishmls (talk) 11:46, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's not news, it's POV religious advocacy. And go ahead, report this to administrators - Skysmith (talk) 11:53, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot understand what you are saying. Can you explain the relation between the news i added and POV religious advocacy ???

Also is that the news about the Union minister i have specified relates to POV religious advocacy ? Sathishmls (talk) 12:04, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added the news above in order to align with Neutral point of view (NPOV). But your removal of news from article Sri Ram Sena is conflicting with NPOV. Sathishmls (talk) 12:26, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What you did was to add a religious reference and a strongly POV statement about it. The news story was also strongly POV, referring only to one side of the matter. That is not NPOV.

What the article needs is information about founding and organization about the group, their leaders and possible headquarters, the positions they hold (with possible references to the religious writings they use as a basis of their arguments), their methods and actions and public reactions to them and comments from their opponents. However, you need to present it in third-person NPOV - "According to <specific source> the <verifiable spokesman for the organization> has stated that they oppose a <certain behavior> because of their view of <specific religious writings>. - Skysmith (talk) 12:54, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- If you are referencing This reference: [1], this is not a valid source, as the page is hosted on a free webhosting service. Also, according to WP:RS, "Reliable sources are credible published materials with a reliable publication process; their authors are generally regarded as trustworthy or authoritative in relation to the subject at hand." Thirdly, we are not here to promote a specific point of view, the truth is that the section that you added was not NPOV. A religious text may be used to verify a groups actions, but we cannot promote those views on Wikipedia. Sephiroth storm (talk) 19:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- - That is essentially what I tried to explain. - Skysmith (talk) 19:48, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lasers for Wireless Electricity Transmission

This is a long standing discussion (4-5 months) on the talk page and discussion page of WET wiki entry. Please provide arguments on the discussions page why a Laser based technology is less capable than other conventional Electromagnetic solutions? Lasers and photo-detector approach is one that uses principles of Modern Quantum Physics which is not clearly understood by general public. However, the limited number of engineers with knowledge of Quantum nature of energy greatly appreciate this sound technology for Wireless Electricity Transmission.

? Exactly what you are referring to? I have no stake or opinion about this issue - Skysmith (talk) 09:03, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sri Ram Sena

Notice
I have opened this issue at the Administrators' noticeboard for Incidents. I will not be here next week and I cant observe, so I hope everything works out. Here is a link to the posting.[2] Sephiroth storm (talk) 05:50, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Prince Valiant in RuneQuest article

Hi Skysmith. In the RuneQuest article, Prince Valiant is mentioned after that: The only two Chaosium role-playing games that didn't use the BRP system were..., so Prince Valiant MUST be mentioned with Pendragon (Prince Valiant is based on rolls of coins and Pendragon is not percentile based, so both are not based on the BRP system). Regards! 343KKT Kintaro (talk) 02:38, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, technically speaking, not exactly. Pendragon is a modification of BRP system; it uses 1-20 instead of percentile scale, it's HPs are not halved (they are SIZ+CON), it adds personality traits (that originated as an old RQ experiment) and uses a single STR+SIZ-based damage value (modeled on damage bonus) instead of weapon damages boosted by the damage bonus. Among other things. It mainly goes further from the "basic" BRP than, say, Elric or Elfquest - Skysmith (talk) 12:21, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gladiator

Hi! and thanks for the vandal revert. Haploidavey (talk) 23:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your work on ethnic groups (etc.)

Is amazing and fantastic. Thank you. Somehow, it needs to be incorporated into the general article on Cultural Anthropology. I'm a big fan of regional approaches to culture - and to the kind of taxonomic approach you take in your list. I feel it's essential - if not the essence - of cultural anthropology. The article needs to be rewritten to give prominence to the kind of work/listing you did - and your work needs to be on that page. I'm trying to work on it.--Levalley (talk) 05:14, 2 April 2009 (UTC)LeValley[reply]

Hello

Dr. Blofeld told me that you were interested in making a species bot, and I have this Java script that lets me make articles like instantaneously, if you could direct me to any large list of species in the same genus, I would be happy to start them. Buɡboy52.4 (talk) 17:18, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Skysmith Bugboy has script abilities which means he can generate over 50 articles a minute. I feel his knowledge of scripting would be extremely useful in starting the many thousands of articles missing on species and just about anything else. Could you kindly help him and provide lists of thousands of missing articles that can be started using a certain database or source. Best Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:45, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Strickly speaking, I am interested mainly in the context of my list of missing animal articles and others in the missing topics list. Unfortunately many of the sources I have used to contruct those lists are offline. As far as biology-oriented topics are concerned, apparently some others have been more active in those page than I am nowadays - Skysmith (talk) 08:10, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies re List of occupations

I'm sorry, I have no idea what happened there. How I managed to revert your worthy additions is quite frankly anyone's guess - my guess would be a misplaced click. Please accept my apologies. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 13:10, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

These things happen. I reverted unexplained deletions of an apparent vandal - Skysmith (talk)

Edward James

You recently reinstated some vandalism I had reverted in Edward James. Please see the image at the reference indicated; his head really is a fireball. Cstaffa (talk) 14:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gladiator

Hi Skysmith. I notice you've removed "fag" from the phrase "fag targeteers" in the section on Schools and Training. The original was as cited. Not a very pleasant epithet, and I can see why anyone might think it either vandalism or offensive, but it is (according to Futrell's sourcebook whence it comes) an accurate idiomatic rendering of the Latin original. Best regards! Haploidavey (talk) 13:08, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reverting. Haploidavey (talk) 13:21, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bernie Madoff Discussion page

I see you reversed my edit only minutes after I made it - without any explanation. I believe if you look, you will see that I did not delete any text - the reason for the edit was to fix the font - it was in a tiny tiny font below about half way down the page. If you can fix that properly, please do, but your edit reverted it back to the tiny font. So, no offense, but I have reverted your edit. I am not an expert in Wikipedia - if you can properly fix it, by all means please do. Thanks in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.151.43.30 (talk) 17:54, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Missing topics about Nazism on the WikiProject Fascism to-do list

I added your user subpage Missing topics about Nazism to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Fascism to-do list. I hope that`s all right with you. Ecto

I'm glad if you find it useful - Skysmith (talk) 08:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Springsteen

Ha! Did my ridiculous edit summary confuse you? Sometimes it's hard to drawn the line between vandalism and those stupid editors trying to do a "humorous" send up of the whole thing! It's been reverted back now anyway. Take care. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits) 14:51, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nightingale floor

Hello. Why is it that you removed my Wikipedia link to Nightingale floor ? Petrus Patings (talk) 19:38, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The building feature has no direct connection to samurai. - Skysmith (talk) 08:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Perhaps not direct, but it certainly has I connection. It may even be a Samurai "invention"".
- I put it there because I think that people interested in Samurai will also find this interesting, even though not directly related. Petrus Patings (talk) 09:04, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - It could be more relevant in, for example, Japanese castle because it was part of the security detail but not part of the samurai article - Skysmith (talk) 09:13, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

have done some redirects on list of missing topics

Earlypsychosis (talk) 03:58, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - Skysmith (talk) 11:04, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Skin-related missing topics =

There are actually a lot more skin-related missing topics than what are found in your list. I am currently working on a list of redlinks at list of skin-related conditions. If you notice any skin conditions missing from that list, please add them to that list's talk page and I will add them in. ---kilbad (talk) 13:41, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you. I'll look into it - Skysmith (talk) 13:46, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Army Modeling & Simulation Directorate

I added an an article for Army Modeling & Simulation Directorate and you may want to delete it from the User:Skysmith/Missing topics about Military and Warfare and contribute to it. Thanks!

Sidna (talk)

Thank you. I'll do so when I update the page - Skysmith (talk) 07:39, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Frustration aggression theory

Hi from a fellow INTP. I'd like to notify you that an article on Frustration-Aggression hypothesis has been started as one of the articles on your missing topics list, albeit it still has to be moved to the correct title. I'm a bit in a hurry right now, so I'm leaving it to you to have a look at the linked source in order to develop the article a bit. --79.193.75.225 (talk) 21:24, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Careful

Removing words which vandals have inserted in articles = good.

Removing words which vandals have inserted in articles, while not noticing what the rest of the sentence said = not so good.

Please be more careful in the future. DS (talk) 16:02, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Slide plate

I have (re)started slide plate, I hope I'm on the right track. Peter Horn 01:22, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Melvin Purvis and The Citadel

I noticed that you may have changed a posting on his page reinserting information that states Purvis is a 1924 graduate of The Citadel. I work at The Citadel. We have researched our records - registrar, alumni association, archives and history and yearbooks - there is no verifiable information to state he attended The Citadel or graduated from here. Please do no reinsert this information. It is being picked up by media outlets and reported. The citation goes to a Time magazine article that does not mention The Citadel. If you have verifiable information that Purvis is a graduate, we would like to see it. Please email me at gunnellsc@citadel.edu or call me 843-953-2155. Thanks. Citadeloea (talk) 19:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Melvin Purvis DID NOT graduate from The Citadel

Citadeloea - CItadel Office of External Affairs got this email today from Purvis' son.

Original Message-----

From: Purvis, Alston W Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:52 PM To: Charlene M. Gunnells Subject: RE: Melvin Purvis and The Citadel

Dear Charlene Gunnells,

Thanks for your message. No, my father never attended The Citadel. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of South Carolina.

Very best,

Alston PurvisCitadeloea (talk) 21:13, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

White Tiger

The scientific name of the Bengal tiger is Panthera tigris tigris. The Bengal is the species type.72.1.195.4 (talk) 16:44, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Recolouring

Bingo wings (AfD discussion)

One of your missing topics has just changed colour. Uncle G (talk) 15:34, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you stalking my edits?

Why are you changing my edits? What makes you an authority on the nature of the vacuum? I have seen you undo my edits to two pages now, and I am just wondering if you have been assigned to stalk me on Wikipedia. I do not vandalize the pages, I only correct the mistakes various ill-informed people make regarding the nature of space. Space is not a vacuum in that it is not empty. You might want to read over the vacuum energy page before you correct any more of my edits regarding the non-existence of any medium which fills otherwise empty space. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.217.147 (talk) 07:38, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I could you ask you what makes you authority on vacuum? As for the aether, the theory has been thrown away because it is nor necessary since the Einstein's discoveries. Trying to use an obsolete theory to defend other notions is OR and therefore forbidden in Wikipedia - Skysmith (talk) 07:43, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have a B.S. in Physics with a focus on Quantum Field Theory, and I have spent over five years researching the nature of the vacuum. If you have read the page regarding the vacuum energy, you are now well aware that the vacuum is not in fact empty. Quantum Field Theory has demonstrated that the "vacuum" is actually a dielectric capable of polarization. Since it is Einstein's theories (though they are in fact Minkowski's, Poincare's, and Lorentz's theories published under Einstein's name) which have made the use of the word aether faux pas, I will give you a quote from Einstein;

Therefore I thought in 1905 that in physics one should not speak of the aether at all. This judgement was too radical though as we shall see with the next considerations about the general theory of relativity. It moreover remains, as before, allowed to assume a space-filling medium if one can refer to electromagnetic fields (and thus also for sure matter) as the condition thereof.

Now may I please remove the part of the waves page that says there is no medium for electromagnetic waves? I am not going to mention the aether. Another quote from the Wikipedia page on Vacuum state says;

According to present-day understanding of what is called the vacuum state or the quantum vacuum, it is "by no means a simple empty space", and again: "it is a mistake to think of any physical vacuum as some absolutely empty void." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.217.147 (talk) 16:44, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You should place your comments to the discussion pages of the articles in question if you want to remove anything. Reference to other pages is not enough, either. - Skysmith (talk) 07:50, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.217.147 (talk) 08:02, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ass Wipes

Wikipedia is not censored. What is a wipe? A euphemisim of sorts? Show me where it is against wikipedia rule.

66.159.230.55 (talk) 08:19, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Music Articles

Is anyone allowed to add pages ect. to your list of music articles that need to be created.I have one or two i would like to include. If only you are allowed to edit this then please could you include these:

Thanks--Pianoplonkers (talk) 15:42, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind people adding missing topics to my lists (as long as they are sensible and this is). Go ahead. I would appreciate if you'd add the {{search|}} tag to the end Skysmith (talk) 08:29, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A little help

Please review articles in my edits for anything you care to add. Thanks, MBHiii (talk) 16:18, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Greene

Robert Greene is not a psychologist, even though his books may by considered "Popular psychology" by some. He is an author. The description of him in his bio is as an author, and anywhere you find references to him on the web he is listed as an author. "Popular psychologist" is inaccurate. You couldn't verify or support calling him that in a referenced link, so you can't support calling him that in the title. If you have some justification, provide it here, or I will change it back. 216.175.105.156 (talk) 15:46, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I presume you are User:Mister Hospodar. If you want to change the title, use the Move option; don't copy, paste and write up a redirect to a new title. That makes it impossible to make a move until the copied article has been deleted. See Wikipedia:How_to_move_a_page - Skysmith (talk)

Thanks for your suggestion. I tried to move the page however, and I couldn't do it because the "page already exists." So I guess I can make a request to an administrator.. But as far as I know. REDIRECT is a valid way to change the name of a page. Now it's going to be difficult. Mister Hospodar (talk) 16:38, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Revert on Lyon

Hello, I can see you have reverted my change on the page Lyon about its brand Onlylyon. I just wondered if you could give me some explanation. I am not very familiar with all Wikipedia rules. Thank you. Elisecoline (talk) 17:02, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to say...

...Thanks for your reverts on the great "anti-award-winning" issues the last few days. I'm glad others saw the problem too. Wildhartlivie (talk) 13:32, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Senator Dole's Place of Birth

The link provided makes it quite obvious that Dole was born in Russell, Kansas, not Dallas, Texas. I am not sure why you would undo that revision, without checking the sources. Furthermore, the initial person that changed Dole's place of birth to Dallas, also claimed that Senator Dole is a "T-Rex".... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.124.119.216 (talk) 03:21, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality

Article at User:Skysmith/Missing topics about Psychology does exist now. Comments and contributions welcomed. - 2/0 (cont.) 00:25, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Missing articles about Locations

I have redirected William Bromley (traveller) to William Bromley (speaker), since it seems likely that that's the one meant. I was led there by Peter Mundy. You might find more British biographical topics browsing Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome, which had these two. (Those listings are in process of being cleaned up, but they have the advantage of articles being created at Wikisource.) Charles Matthews (talk) 20:33, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the open room?

Hi. I am trying to make a good phrase around a fact relating to the history of the Goths . The archaeologist Volker Bierbrauer use the term (or phrase) 'offener Raum' in context with artefacts found outside their supposed origin . It is not so easy to google this phrasing, which mostly return something about architecture ! I did stumble on your page, not in any direct way though . I hope you can help me . My specific question would be if there is a standard reference for this concept of open room / passage / offener Raum, in either of the fields anthropology or archaeology . all the best Sechinsic (talk) 16:55, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about anthropology but the closest term in archaeology seems to be "out of context artifact". Unfortunately, the only Wikipedia reference is here - Skysmith (talk) 09:12, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

de:Interkulturalität (Interculturality) ! Sechinsic (talk) 15:52, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

American Urological Association

I just created an article for the American Urological Association, which I noticed is on your list of missing articles. (I admit that it is only a stub, but it is there.) DocWatson42 (talk) 12:42, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - Skysmith (talk) 14:14, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. ^_^ DocWatson42 (talk) 12:16, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Flore et Zéphire

Hello, Skysmith. You have new messages at Robertgreer's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Journal titles

Journal titles (and book titles too) are written here as Brain and Cognition, not Brain and cognition. Please don;t move this one back. DGG ( talk ) 17:35, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RfD nomination of Glueal region

John Holmes Birthplace

You edited the birthplace of John Holmes (the porn star) to Sioux Falls, SD from Ashville, OH. I'm curious about this. I've lived in Sioux Falls for 25 years, and no one I've talked to has ever heard of this. Other than January Jones, we don't have many famous natives, so I'm curious what the source of this was. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.216.140.209 (talk) 22:22, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]