User:Duae Quartunciae/MyWikiHistory
In this page, I have placed details of things I have done at Wikipedia.
Where I have been involved in changes that have been contentious with other editors, I have tried to put a bit of detail in what was involved.
Original Summary
[edit]I had some minor improvements to an article on Genarlow Wilson, in Wilson v. State of Georgia, relating to current events in 2007.
I am currently trying to clean up the biography of Fritz Zwicky, and some editors were a bit unhappy with the changes made. You can find out more in the talk page of that article. I think the whole matter is now pretty much resolved, and I am pleased with the way Wikipedia conventions allowed everyone to have input into that process, without leading to everyone having direct input into the final text.
I have done some archiving of big talk pages, and some minor fixes at a few articles: Galileo Galilei, William A. Dembski, Boys Like Girls (some pop group), and Baraminology.
I keep exploring the things one can do. I have put together a proposal to merge pages relating to the fringe biology of Rupert Sheldrake. See Morphic field. -- 20:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
I've spent a bit of time fixed up links to the old morphogenetic field, which should go to the new morphogenetic field (Rupert Sheldrake), or else be removed altogether.
I have written a historical introduction to morphogenetic fields. To make that work well, I have also put up a small biography for the biologist Paul Alfred Weiss.
I fixed a bad error in the biograph of Alexis Carrell (pointed out by comments at Pharyngula (blog).
I have cleaned up (or that's how I see it — I do try to talk about big changes first) articles on Newton's law of universal gravitation, Robert Sungenis, Pran Nath, Speed of gravity and Immanuel Velikovsky.
In support of other changes, I have made small fixes in Paul Weiss, Roger Wolcott Sperry, C. Leroy Ellenberger and List of unrecognized accreditation associations of higher learning. (The latter was to give a nod to the alma mater of Robert Sungenis).
Also got into something of an edit war with Icebear1946 (talk · contribs), and also tried to welcome him. The two don't work well together, but it had to be tried.
Found and reported a bug in the {{verify}} template, at Template talk:Verify credibility. Gave away some free advice at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts.
More detailed descriptions
[edit]Wilson v. State of Georgia
I first joined to fix up a minor error in the article on Genarlow Wilson, at Wilson v. State of Georgia, in relation to legislation intended to allow Wilson to be freed. My change was not perfect, and after some discussion on the page, I made revisions, and all problems were fixed. The changes were in relation to "Senate Bill 37".
Fritz Zwicky
I took up consideration of the Fritz Zwicky biography. This was a major bit of work.
I began by flagging some concerns on the discussion page. Shortly after that, I removed some Lyndon Ashmore related stuff from a subsection on tired light, and then waited for comment. Two days later, after no reaction was forthcoming, I really set to work. I stripped out the entire tired light section and replaced it with a brief remark more directly related to Fritz Zwicky himself. Then I started cleaning up all the rest of the biography, since it had effectively been made into an advocacy piece for modern tired light notions. Soon enough, the tired light advocates showed up in discussion pages, and we had a minor edit war. I won, with the backing of other wikipedians. Fritz Zwicky won as well, in my view, with a far better biography in his honour. I'm particularly proud of this work.
Here's a neutral account of how it all went down.
- Here is how the article appeared at 19:50, 14 May 2007.
- There was a major series of edits from 18:43, 16 May 2007 to 23:09, 29 June 2007 by 84.158.*.*
- There was a major series of edits from 09:27, 8 July 2007 to 15:53, 10 July 2007 by Duae Quartunciae (me).
- Lyndon Ashmore (Cosmic Relief) made three fairly small edits from 10:01, 11 July 2007 to 10:06, 11 July 2007.
- Duae Quartunciae made two revisions to the Cosmic Relief changes on 13:39, 11 July 2007 and 15:04, 11 July 2007.
- In a series of edits from 18:08, 12 July 2007 to 20:49, 12 July 2007, 84.158.*.* reverts all the tired light section, and adds some paragraphs apparently intended to argue for its legitimacy.
- The original tired light section was reverted at 18:08, 12 July 2007, by 84.158.*.*