User talk:Ksirok
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Attempted outing[edit]
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Famousdog (c) 09:10, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
- Do you have any proof for ANY of these claims? I'm particularly interested to know how you "know" that my doctorate is in ophthalmology, because it isn't. Famousdog (c) 09:10, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Talk:God helmet[edit]
Please do not reveal personal details about other editors, as you did at Talk:God helmet. Further info can be found at WP:OUTING; there is an ongoing discussion on the matter at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Attempted outing. GiantSnowman 09:12, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
- Ksirok, please do read WP:OUTING very carefully. If you carry on revealing private information, you will be indefinitely blocked from the encyclopedia. WormTT(talk) 09:48, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
- Ksirok, I don't know whether you were involved in recent off-Wikipedia unpleasantness, but things seemed to have calmed down now and I appreciate recent moves to cool the situation down. I especially appreciate Anon IP's comment that we should "discuss the issues, not the people" - something of which, yes, I have been guilty in the past. I believe that the current debacle stems from the fact that you have misinterpreted a self-citation as a conflict-of-interest. They are not the same thing. I have no financial interest in the success or failure of this technology - I am simply an interested academic and I cited my own work where I thought it was appropriate. I have cut the portion of the quoted source containing the disputed field strength from WP articles on which it appears. The comparison with the field strength of a fridge magnet, and the basic thrust of the argument, is however still correct. Regarding your argument that I am "biased" and so shouldn't be editing this article, I think that argument would exclude pretty much anybody from editing here! The God helmet article contains reams and reams of citations to primary sources by Persinger and colleagues putting forward their POV. If I was editing in a manner that breached WP:NPOV I would have deleted all of them. I have not. I have simply added other material (Granqvist et al, French et al, Gendle & McGrath and my own article) to "correct" what I have seen in the past as an unsceptical bias. Now, I hope that we can both continue editing in good faith to produce an article with which we are both happy. Famousdog (c) 19:47, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
- Yes we are in agreement: the relevant content are the issues. As I have stated before, I am not interested in discussing people. I accept that you do not have a conflict of interest. The recent discussion was about a reliable sources issue. I thank you for your attempt to 'cool things down'. I am confident that we can work together in a way that supports the data regarding this very difficult topic.Ksirok (talk) 20:56, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- Ksirok, I don't know whether you were involved in recent off-Wikipedia unpleasantness, but things seemed to have calmed down now and I appreciate recent moves to cool the situation down. I especially appreciate Anon IP's comment that we should "discuss the issues, not the people" - something of which, yes, I have been guilty in the past. I believe that the current debacle stems from the fact that you have misinterpreted a self-citation as a conflict-of-interest. They are not the same thing. I have no financial interest in the success or failure of this technology - I am simply an interested academic and I cited my own work where I thought it was appropriate. I have cut the portion of the quoted source containing the disputed field strength from WP articles on which it appears. The comparison with the field strength of a fridge magnet, and the basic thrust of the argument, is however still correct. Regarding your argument that I am "biased" and so shouldn't be editing this article, I think that argument would exclude pretty much anybody from editing here! The God helmet article contains reams and reams of citations to primary sources by Persinger and colleagues putting forward their POV. If I was editing in a manner that breached WP:NPOV I would have deleted all of them. I have not. I have simply added other material (Granqvist et al, French et al, Gendle & McGrath and my own article) to "correct" what I have seen in the past as an unsceptical bias. Now, I hope that we can both continue editing in good faith to produce an article with which we are both happy. Famousdog (c) 19:47, 28 July 2012 (UTC)