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Punctuation (hyphenation)

I reverted your edit to Sierra Club. Our article on Hyphen explains that phrases like "federally owned lands" don't use a hyphen. The hyphen is proper in "well-known person" because "well" could be an adjective modifying "person", so the hyphen clarifies that it's an adverb modifying "known". By contrast, "federally" couldn't modify "lands" so there's no ambiguity. It's like "wholly owned subsidiary" -- perhaps the most common phrase in which the hyphen is improperly inserted. JamesMLane t c 08:28, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Shankar Narayan

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lacks coverage in reliable sources. I'm finding some google news hits on this name, but it does not appear to be the same person.

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Your user page

I'm sorry to bug you beyond our discussion about the climate responsibility page, but I see that you've got your user page set up as though it were your own personal home page. Please see WP:User page: "Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal website. Your user page is about you as a Wikipedian, and pages in your user space should be used as part of your efforts to contribute to the project." —Largo Plazo (talk) 01:33, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

I think I have adjusted that ENOUGH for the middle of a busy Tuesday afternoon. MaynardClark (talk) 19:52, 15 December 2009 (UTC) If more is needed, then more tomorrow, OK? MaynardClark (talk) 19:52, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Climate responsibility

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I'm working on improving it, but I think that it should be moved into another larger discussion IF we don't get ACTUAL participation from those who had promised last week to work on parts of a template once it is up. That won't happen until mid-week, if at all. Otherwise, it falls to me to develop this on the weekend. I think the terms say December 20th). MaynardClark (talk) 19:53, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Shankar Narayan

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Well, he's well-known in his region, but hey. Standards are standards. I was disappointed to see that work nixed. MaynardClark (talk) 20:00, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Climate responsibility

I have nominated Climate responsibility, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Climate responsibility. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

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I added to the end of the first paragraph in the Climate responsibility article this line: "...this article could be integrated with the Climate Ethics article and the Responsibility article studied."

That would at this time be my suggestion on what to do with it, IF there's anything there that's useful and would improve on the Climate Ethics discussion, though issues of 'responsibility' are surely complex and deserve much more thorough treatment than I am able to do at this time.

You are right, some larger vision may have value; what is there now could not develop that in the short time frame available, and I ought not to have posted it in such an incomplete way.

Climate Ethics and Climate Justice are aggressive social movements in liberal churches and a number of other churches. The term 'responsibility' may be a 'hot potato' that is difficult to vet... at this time ... in ways consistent with Wikipedia's mission. That was your winning card.

The userpage still needs cleaning up, but I think expecting a thorough cleanup in less than 48 hours is unrealistic for anyone except the most devoted hobbyist (who can afford to check such a site daily for comments). MaynardClark (talk) 18:19, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

December 2009

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Climate responsibility. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. —Largo Plazo (talk) 19:44, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Your comment at AfD

You posted a comment to Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2009_December_15#Warren_Baker, but you haven't contributed to that article. My guess is you meant to add your comment to Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2009_December_15#Climate_responsibility. Is that right? You invested a fair amount of time in that essay, I trust you will make sure to save your work before it goes away.--SPhilbrickT 22:46, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:MaynardClark

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You seem to want to delete ME from Wikipedia. I'm an accomplished editor. What would you like to be removed FROM the userpage so that it conforms to your view of standards? Tell me that. Do E-Mail me at Maynard.Clark@GMail.comMaynardClark (talk)

Might I noted the local TIME of Largo Plazo - it seems to be AFTER 5 pm local time there, while it's 3 pm here, and I'm in the middle of a work day. Is Largo Plazo in Europe somewhere? MaynardClark (talk) 19:55, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

If I read the guidelines correctly, there is more leeway in terms of personal content on a user subpage as contrasted to the main user page. Based upon that belief, I proposed that you move your bio material to a user subpage, then make a user page, more in line with other user pages. I don't know if that would be acceptable to those arguing for delete, but if you found it acceptable, it might solve the problem. What do you think?--SPhilbrickT 16:24, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Closed the MfD as keep. User page looks fine. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 13:18, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you =

For catching that; very embarassing though :-). _{talk to}^{spy on} K^ae 19:09, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

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Nice rewrite. I'm glad you have taken charge. Galaga1902 (talk) 04:44, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

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In your deletion rebuttal, you said “ Not everything can be "re-written-up" in Wikipedia;”

In fact it can and is (with some rare exceptions not relevant here). If it cannot be rewritten up for Wikipedia, it won’t be included.

You also said, “Now, in America, where I suspect this judgment came from, the term JAIN is not as well known as say, "Christian" or "Muslim" - or even Hindu or Buddhist" “

That played no part in the decision.

You said “Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations - false claim, indefensible claim”

Sorry, but you are incorrect. I do realize that you did not simply copy and paste, but light copy-editing is not enough to eliminate the concern about copyright. See Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing.

The subject does sound worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, but this isn’t the way to do it. Please feel free to contact me if you want some ideas.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:04, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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It's surely getting lots of site visitors and has a useful package of information; he's been speaking in person and online, and he's a major donor to the vegetarian and animal rights movement, without which a great any of these media productions and vegetarian organizations would not have been funded. MaynardClark (talk)

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I did not contribute to the article. MaynardClark (talk)

No, the edit that led me to think you might not be aware of the policy was your contribution to the AfD. VQuakr (talk) 03:33, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Nanak And Vegetarianism

Hi Maynard, you mistakenly added that Nanak the founder of Sikhism was a vegetarian. One of the most famour couplets written by Nanak was when he was chastised by Hindu Brahmins on his way to Kurukshetra for accepting meat from a hunter and eating it. "Fools Wrangle Over Meat and Flesh was his response" . See page 75 here. Saying that other Guru's were vegetarians others were not. The 6th and the 10th actually hunted meat. The Sikh position on meat is one of personal choice and personal conscience. Thanks SH 20:18, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

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Your POV edits on Barry Black

Maynard,

For some time now, you have been on a rather persistent campaign to incorporate an excessive amount on Barry Black's vegetarianism into his bio. In doing so, you have linked to YouTube, even though several editors have advised you that the videos there are generally not accepted here for several reasons, including copyright concerns; curiously, you have also used several links to Amazon.com, which never even reference his vegetarianism and are not reliable sources even if they did; and you have linked to interviews where his vegetarianism is never once mentioned. In the sourced quote which does remain in the article, Black makes it clear that his vegetarianism is "not something that is a test of fellowship in my church" - but he simply says, "I’m a vegetarian because I grew up that way." So your attempts to connect it to his Seventh-day Adventism are disproved by his own words. But Black also makes it clear that he neither publicly advocates nor proselytizes for vegetarianism. It's just a part of who he is. While your single-minded focus on including his vegetarianism in the BLP exposes your interest in doing both. As does your own user page. Black also exhibits a fondness for bow ties and shaves his head, but he doesn't advocate or proselytize for them either. So please refrain from continuing to do so in the future. Especially by including sources that have no relevance whatsoever to his vegetarianism. It can and likely will be construed as disruptive editing and POV pushing if you persist in restoring these irrelevant or inappropriate sources and could result in your being blocked from editing on the article altogether. The article currently states his vegetarianism and uses a source that explains it in perspective. As other editors have already weighed in, the consensus is that is more than sufficient. Piling on more is undue weight not supported or justified by his publicly stated position. Thanks. 107.214.30.15 (talk) 21:53, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Who wrote this? I gave up on this some time ago, but my understanding of Barry Black is that he grew up as a vegetarian BECAUSE he is a Seventh Day Adventist - he was SDA THEN and he remains that today, and that's the denomination he represents as Senate Chaplain.

While I gave up on this point some time ago, I continue to believe that YOUR POV is simple erroneous and offensive. It would be political suicide for him to PRESS his point; he is and remains a public SDA - a highly visible vegetarian SDA (even when he downplays something which is easily kidnapped by others for THEIR political purposes - something I do not do and have never done, and which I chide others for trying to do).

I think you should allow him to be listed as a vegetarian, which he is. MaynardClark (talk)

Have you even read the sources you sought to include in the article? More to the point, have you read the link that remains in this section? Black expressly states that his vegetarianism HAS NOTHING TO DO with his religion. So the rest of your argument, based upon that assumption, is meritless. Again, I respect your right to your chosen beliefs. I simply ask that you conform your editing to the standards of this project and not use the project to proselytize - or give the appearance of proselytizing - for your cause(s), either religious or dietary. That violates every tenet of Wikipedia. You also materially misstated another fact: He is simply not a "highly visible vegetarian." While he is a highly visible African-American, his dietary beliefs are invisible! Nor has he chosen to make his vegetarianism "highly visible." Your suggestion that he doesn't advocate for his vegetarianism because it would be "political suicide" is purely conjecture on your part, supported by nothing more than your own speculation. His diet is tangential and inconsequential to his official position - either because he has chosen to make it so; or simply because he believes it should be so. So who are we to overemphasize what he does not emphasize himself? Now if you can find a source where Black expounds, at length, on his vegetarianism and/or advocates for it in a more than offhanded manner, then that's certainly reasonable to include. But barring that, you're making a bigger deal of it for him, than the man does himself. And that is inappropriate and violates all the WP policies and guidelines you've been advised about. But you are correct about one thing: the article already states he is a vegetarian. It even links to a quote explaining his view on the subject. If that is enough for him, it should be more than sufficient for editors, and readers, here. 107.214.30.15 (talk) 23:09, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

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This conversation took place before,and it was decided that Frank L. Hoffman is significant historically because of his role in the vegetarian and animal advocacy movement, which is considered a project by some Wikipedians. MaynardClark (talk)

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I am working on three stubs and need some help:

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Can't I list more than one? It only allows me to include one.

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Fruitarianism

Hi. I see that you spotted the problem with linking to Rynn Berry within the reference template. I have reinstated the link using the first and last name and authorlink parameters - this now links to the author's Wikipedia page outside the URL title link. I have also added a dead link template - it seems that the site is no longer active and the back issues do not go back to 2003. It may be that an archive link exists somewhere, so the reference should remain in place. Regards,  GILO   A&E⇑ 21:21, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Rynn Berry considered himself a fruitarian and had a book ready to go to press, we think - or it's in press (to be published posthumously), on a history of rawfoodism. MaynardClark (talk) 21:24, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Maynard, the usual practice at Wikipedia is Bold, revert discuss. That is, if you make an edit that someone reverts, you head for the talk page rather than continuing to revert. I've left a note on the talk page, and I'd appreciate it if you would revert yourself and start discussing instead. I'd also be grateful if you would fix the signature in my earlier post that you inadvertently changed here. Many thanks, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 22:30, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my signature, but you changed another one my posts here. It might help if you were to take a look at Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thanks again, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 04:24, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

No, I split the two sentences, which are different thoughts, which I answered separately. MaynardClark (talk) 04:40, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

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I have moved the external link to a new External links section - we discourage external links in the body of an article. I and other editors have also pruned out a lot more of the hyperbole and unencyclopedic content.--ukexpat (talk) 18:19, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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Rynn Berry

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I made some small copy edits, MOS, removing lists, ect, ect. I would be happy to discuss these changes on the article's talk page. To blindly revert them all and call them "sabotages" is offensive and not helpful. Thank you, --Malerooster (talk) 01:03, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Yes, we should discuss them, but IMO those are not small edits. MaynardClark (talk) 01:06, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

So you would rather the article be shit? Great. --Malerooster (talk) 01:55, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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I will use the article talk page to discuss improvements to the article. I will not post here again. --Malerooster (talk) 02:39, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you, Alex. You will see that we DISCUSS issues (and not always in the kindest of terms). We have the 3Rs rule, which I've not violated, but there are substantive edits and arguments which I feel warrant a referee in this matter. Whqat has not been acknowledged are my quesations for a concept (or topical) organization of the inner portion of the article, since the subject has based his work - the ANDI and his teaching - on nutrient-density, SPECIFICALLY the notion of micronutrient density. What is missing for 3rd party readers is a discussion of what micronutrients and macronutrients are (though they could look them up with the links). Other actors on the article seem determined to not look at the scientifically established (or at least scientifically discussed) concept of nutrient-density (as I documented on the talk page). I hope that you will applly the same rigorous standards of editorial fairness when looking at some of the comments (not merely edits) of the other actors on the article. MaynardClark (talk) 04:12, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Edit-warring has been happening on that page and 3RR I am sure has been broken. This was just a gentle reminder to ensure you aware of the policy. Discussions about the article's content should take place on its talk page but in brief it's important to avoid WP:OR and WP:SYNTH by ensuring any sources cited for Fuhrman's concepts are explicitly about those concepts. Alexbrn ^{talk|contribs|COI} 04:24, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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Please be aware of WP:COI, Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest. Have you got any conflict of interest around the topic of Joel Fuhrman? Alexbrn ^{talk|contribs|COI} 04:20, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

The other actors on the article seem to have a COI. Have you asked each of them?

Nothing but the facts - established facts. MaynardClark (talk) 04:22, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

That was a non-answer. To avoid misunderstandings and save time could you please either answer the question or simply say you are not going to (which you are perfectly entitled to do). To be clear I am not asking for any details, just a simple "yes", "no" or "no comment" would be helpful. Alexbrn ^{talk|contribs|COI} 04:27, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm guessing that you or some of the other actors may, since they have reverted edits numerous times, including grammatically correct edits. I think you need another super-editor coming in here to review it.

An answer to your question depends on what you mean by COI. I do believe in the scientifically-established concept of nutrient density as clinically useful (and as established independently of Dr. Fuhrman's ANDI formulation, which is essentially a chart of foods RANKED by their nutrient-density; ranking is commonly used in statistics AND biostatistics), but I have no fCOI with anything related to Joel Fuhrman. Did I answer your question? MaynardClark (talk) 04:31, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Not really. I'll not press it. Alexbrn ^{talk|contribs|COI} 04:38, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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It's CRAZY to delete Norman Daniels, one of THE most famous, prolific, and longwest-working healthcare ethicists working in terms of public goods. MaynardClark (talk) 15:37, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

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MaynardClark: Thank you for your welcome several weeks ago to the philosophy of science project. I posted a talk section on wanting to revise the instrumentalism article so that it would be relevant to articles on inductive reasoning, John Dewey, and Karl Popper. None of these talk postings has generated a response.

Can you suggest further sites or actions I could take to find editors with related interests? Many thanks.TBR-qed (talk) 15:09, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

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A possible 'rewrite' could be Role of nurses in ebola outbreaks (patient care, advocacy, research subjects, policy contributors, etc.). I would like to know how many research subects are in this specific trial (which neither the more general vaccine article nor the array of articles on the history of ebolavirus outbreaks are appropriate to hold), how long this drug trial is expected to last/require and some of the crisis issues related to vaccine production, and maybe even convert the page to a page that addresses some of that interest in the research subjects. MaynardClark (talk) 17:15, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

We typically don't have articles about people only notable for one event. The information about clinical trials can go into the article on CAd3-ZEBOV just fine... Issues about vaccine production are probably best covered in Ebola virus disease#Vaccine. Information on the role of nurses you've suggested fits in the Nursing article just fine, without a separate article about Ebola nurses. We already cover some of the effects of Ebola virus disease specifically on healthcare workers: Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Africa#Deaths_of_healthcare_workers. If you want to rewrite/convert the Ruth Atkins article into an entirely different topic, you could do that in your user space. But it sounds like you want a bunch of different information that fits into existing articles just fine... Xqxf (talk) 17:47, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Be sure that it does include that data somewhere (I don't yet see anything approaching it at this time!). The human interest side of the human subjects research is underappreciated, yet it's really a very stressful role in testing something that is that urgently required but for which efficacy has not been calculated. There COULD be a 'stub class article' MaynardClark (talk) 17:53, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

If you want to be sure the data is included, the best way is to keep an eye on the CAd3-ZEBOV article and see that the data is added when the trials are further along. About the human interest side, this is probably best covered in articles like Human subject research and Guidelines for human subject research. The articles on ZMapp and brincidofovir (other Ebola drugs) have "human interest" sections, and you could add similar to CAd3-ZEBOV, perhaps. (Or expand Ebola virus disease#Vaccine to cover anything you feel is missing about the use of experimental drugs in Ebola patients.) Xqxf (talk) 18:06, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you

I wondered if anybody would notice that I reassessed Ebola virus disease as Top for WikiProject Medicine and only High for Wikiproject Viruses, and reassessed Ebola virus as only High for WikiProject Medicine but Top for Wikiproject Viruses. Abductive (reasoning) 06:55, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

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you got there! please note Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Lists_of_ebola_patients_and_articles_on_individual_ebola_patients Jytdog (talk) 08:18, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

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Jeff Novick page??

Great edit to Plant-based diet - perhaps you could make a Jeff Novick article? I think it would make a great contribution to the plant-based page. I would start but am swamped in RL and am only on the WP in spurts. -Classicfilms (talk) 18:25, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. I will. Maybe not today, though. What would you like to see included in it? MaynardClark (talk) 18:33, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Of course, time is always hard for everyone, maybe just something to think through for awhile. WP:BLP articles are something that I tend to do, but am pretty to open to content. Maybe it would be useful to see what is there for T. Colin Campbell, John A. McDougall, Rip Esselstyn, and Caldwell Esselstyn. With BLP's secondary sources are probably the most important place to begin so that may take some time to track down. I've read Novick's work and it is I feel quite notable but it may take some time to organize enough materials for an article. Plant-Based Diet is a tough area because there isn't a great deal of consensus as to terminology but maybe BLP's are a good place to begin -- and to expand (meaning current articles could all use work). -Classicfilms (talk) 20:14, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Here is a 'start': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MaynardClark/JeffNovick

I prefer tne nutrient-dense approach, not the calorie-dense approach. MaynardClark (talk) 20:20, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Wow, that's a great outline. I would say that the goal now would be to work with WP:BLPSOURCES. Solid secondary references tend to be at the heart of BLP's and that is what may take time to track down. Signing off for today but will check back in next week. -Classicfilms (talk) 20:22, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

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I'll look for them, but it's midnight before a working day, and I'm really sleepy! Thanks for the heads up! MaynardClark (talk) 04:46, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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Here is your revert. Perhaps you know the better way to indicate the logical fallacy, then do it, please. However, given your logic, circular reasoning is appropriate for the article page. Besides, what already (properly) appears on the talk page? My text, or the whole article? 85.193.232.131 (talk) 04:08, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Maynard. An accident I presume? :-) Just letting you know in case you meant to do something else. Sunrise (talk) 23:49, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry. I cannot recall my having added that string 'the weather and even luck' MaynardClark (talk) 23:55, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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Reasonable question. Why not discuss the issue on the talk page first, before making the change which may be seen as drastic. MaynardClark (talk) 15:02, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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You appear disinclined to fix your error, by restoring the talk page comment that you deleted. Is that correct?Anythingyouwant (talk) 04:07, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

What are you discussing? MaynardClark (talk) 04:40, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

In this edit of yours, you apparently removed a talk page comment written by another editor. If this error was inadvertent, would you please fix it? If you don't know how to fix it, then I would be glad to fix it for you. Thanks.Anythingyouwant (talk) 04:50, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for showing me where. MaynardClark (talk) 04:56, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Edenic diet

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These are essentially (a) titles of the two Harvard Faculty and (b) their important books (bibliogrpahy is proper format). How is that a copyright violation? You did not show that 'entire sentences' were pasted into the article. The software says that phrases (academic titles, recent important books).

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Thank you for your note. I'd like to point out that the article was deleted for being entirely copy / pasted without permission, not on notability grounds, and assuming anyone is willing to write an original and properly sourced article about Mr Müller, there are no procedural hurdles against it.

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I would be willing to develop such an article. MaynardClark (talk) 23:12, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

I've created a new stub based on the non-creative content of the previous article here: Draft:Gottfried Müller. MLauba ^(Talk) 14:02, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I didn't know that we could create a public 'draft' article. Nice. MaynardClark (talk) 15:39, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

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The pages in question are User:MaynardClark, User:MaynardClark/AboutMe, User:MaynardClark/Wikipedia and User:MaynardClark/Veg. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 22:23, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Could you tell me what specifically ON those pages is in question? I do not believe that there's a violation here.

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We've gone through lots of issues, discussions, and praise, but the aboutme page was in particular suggested as a way to discuss issues important to the Wikipedian. MaynardClark (talk) 23:10, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

The guideline at WP:UP is "limited autobiographical and personal content" and "A small and proportionate amount of suitable unrelated material". You literally have the "five page résumé" instead of the "brief three sentence summary". Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 01:47, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Only MaynardClark is the userpage.MaynardClark (talk) 01:49, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

? You're kidding right? If not please read WP:UP again. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 02:39, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

OK. Let me get to work on migrating some of this content elsewhere. WP:USERTALKBLOG. Is that what you would suggest/wish? MaynardClark (talk) 02:55, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

I offer more of an FYI, seems excessive. Personal BIOs should probably be a paragraph or two limited to the userpage. I don't think Infobox Writter is to be used outside Wikipedia article space, I have seen admins delete it off personal pages. I leave the cleanup/interpretation of guidelines to you for now. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 21:05, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Changes cannot happen until Sunday, though. MaynardClark (talk) 21:20, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Goof... Look for |url= * [[Gerald Chan]], Co-Founder, Morningside Group and second largest benefactor of Harvard University</ref> Bgwhite (talk) 21:39, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Marnard. You posted on my user page. You said "It was a typo. MaynardClark (talk) 01:33, 19 May 2016 (UTC)" I don't know the context of this comment. I'm assuming you meant that message for someone else? Carlroddam (talk) Never mind. I figured it out. You were referring to the page on Inflation (cosmology), not Calumny.

Boston vegetarians

Ah, so you founded the place. Thanks for your thanks. Is Howard Lyman still active and traveling around, haven't spoken to him in years. Thank you for your work, and your continued advocacy. Randy Kryn 21:08 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Yes, (Dr.) Howard Lyman is still alive, but we all age (though at different rates). He looked pretty good in his 70s, and he has managed to consistently (a) lose weight AND (b) build muscle on a vegan diet since he was given expert instruction by some in-house 'handlers'! MaynardClark (talk) 16:38, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you for your updates to the Harvard Chan/David Hunter page!

Would you be willing to add a photo of David Hunter to his page?

Also, can I request a small clarification? David Hunter will retain his title of "Dean for Academic Affairs" even while he is still Acting Dean.

References

Thank you, ndleavitt Ndleavitt (talk) 17:15, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes, according to the HCSPH Faculty Profile Page at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/david-hunter/. He is Acting Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention (Department of Epidemiology; Department of Nutrition); Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health MaynardClark (talk) 16:40, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

List of commemorative months

Please don't add "months" that don't have articles. The "information" is not properly sourced, and these "references" are basically spam for the organizations that promote these commemorative months. Drmies (talk) 02:12, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

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Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Ann Wigmore. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 00:53, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

That is in the talk page, not in the body of the article. I'm telling you that you need to look for evidence that AWF changed its name to HHI, since your claim (based upon an Internet publication) contradicts a later paragraph in the body of the article. I've been a Wikipedian for a very long time, and we can only tell the truth to the best of our knowledge. But I know from observation that the claims you, Jytdog, are making are factually erroneous. MaynardClark (talk) 01:04, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

That warning is with regard to this edit to the article. Jytdog (talk) 01:07, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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Parfit

Is there a source for this? SarahSV ^(talk) 16:44, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

The death notice was the local paper. Anna Riedl and I are now discussing the claim about the photo. MaynardClark (talk) 16:47, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

I see only one source so far, but it's on Twitter too. SarahSV ^(talk) 16:51, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

What is the antecedent for 'this' in 'Is there a source for this?'? What are we discussing? MaynardClark (talk) 17:02, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

It's okay, it's confirmed. I was nervous about relying on just one source for his death. SarahSV ^(talk) 19:48, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year! MaynardClark (talk) 20:00, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

And to you. This is a sad start, though. Feels like 2016 isn't over yet. SarahSV ^(talk) 20:13, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Stare Source

Hey mate that would be a great quote to include in the Frederick J. Stare Article, but I can't find a publication of the speech anywhere. Did you attend the lecture and maybe have a transcript or a recording... or perhaps a contact? Yours! Bengt Hennig (talk) 01:28, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

I attended the meeting at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. I heard Dr. Willett make the comment. I wish I had audiorecorded it (or better yet, videorecorded it) and posted it for public access. However, THIS URL has an interesting article (duplicating information found in the Award lecture - at that time): https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/.

Paging through the letters, Kearns was “shocked” by his level of cooperation with the sugar industry, she said.

There are more comments like that in this and other articles. MaynardClark (talk) 03:27, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

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• @Gorthian: I think I've tidied it up now: we have:

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Thank you very much! At the least, readers are confused when they read what appear to be the same word but might in context refer two quite different ideas, unrelated to one another. There may be others, but I know of these, and now the Wikipedia helps readers see these two divergent streams of intellectual development, where dictionaries do not. MaynardClark (talk) 16:49, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

That's exactly what dab pages are for! Many thanks to PamD for making it all work. — Gorthian (talk) 01:06, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

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Bibliographic edits

Sorry, what problem of mine from "months ago for a different but similar edit" are you talking about here? I can't work out any context from what you're saying. --McGeddon (talk) 09:10, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

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... on your user page, 'Myynard'? Cheers. Swliv (talk) 00:55, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

--- Thank you for reading it. MaynardClark (talk) 01:22, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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The standard practice is to redirect articles about occupations to the related topic. See archaeologist, animal rights activist. There's also a problem in that some of the content was not cited.

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• My objection to what you did (in redirecting the article) is that (a) an animal liberationist is not an 'occupation' and (b) the Animal Liberationist article was focused upon what self-described animal liberationists think that they believe. The Animal liberation movement article talks about action and what is done in the name of 'animal' advocacy, which is somewhat different (and seemingly written as a denigration). The issues of rights vs. optimized consequences seems for the individual 'humane believers' to be crucial, foundational, central, pivotal to who each of these living persons considers herself or himself to be - which then eventuates in both public and private behaviors. MaynardClark (talk) 05:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of David Freeman (journalist)

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Norman Daniels categories

Thanks for your message, but unfortunately you've not really understood how categories work on Wikipedia. I can see that the article says that he studied at Balliol College, which is why he's - correctly - in Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford. However, there is a Wikipedia category principle that articles are placed in the lowest level category applicable, and not in the parent categories above it. This is set out at Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization (shortcut "WP:SUPERCAT", to which I referred you earlier in an edit summary, but which you would appear to have missed). Put simply, it says, Paris goes into the category "Cities of France" but not also into the higher-level category "Populated places in France", because the category "Cities of France" is itself a member of the "Populated places in France" category (it is a subcategory, in other words), and so all members of the subcategory "Cities of France" are included in the parent category "Populated places in France" by being part of the subcategory.

Applying this to the Oxford situation: (a) Wikipedia has categories for alumni of every Oxford college and hall, e.g. Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford; (b) these are all subcategories of Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford; (c) if they are in the subcategory for their college, they should not be in the parent category for the university; (d) the OU alumni category even has a big sign on it, {{Category diffuse}}, which says in clear terms "Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories." In other words, we put Oxford alumni in college alumni categories, not college alumni categories and the university alumni category as well.

All I am doing, therefore, is applying the general editing guideline at Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization and the specific notice at Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford. Norman Daniels belongs only at Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford. He does not belong at Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford because he is in the appropriate college subcategory and Wikipedia does not double-up on such categories. Still less does he belong at Category:Balliol College, Oxford, which ought to be for articles directly about the college itself, rather than a general repository for anyone who's studied there. I hope this makes sense. Please remove the stray categories - and, better still, find a reference that shows that he went to Balliol, because the article doesn't have a reference for this claim at present. Thanks, Bencherlite^Talk 00:33, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

I had looked for that but had been unable to locate it when I looked. I appreciate (and had already understood) that principle. MaynardClark (talk) 00:36, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Good. It's a pity you found it necessary to revert me twice and leave me a message telling me to stop what I was doing, all because you couldn't find a category that was there all along. If you understood the principle, why did you keep adding the university alumni cat instead of the Balliol alumni cat? Bencherlite^Talk 00:42, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

He was also a Faculty member of Tufts College AND Tufts University Medical School. Then he was a Faculty member of HSPH AND Harvard University, so those are NOT the same; but the rule you cited, it seems that there should be two categories for his Faculty roles at Tufts and two for Harvard. Harvard's 'every tub on its own bottom' rule - and several campuses - 3 main campuses and quite a few other campuses - is part of the reason for this. The PhD program in health policy is in Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MaynardClark (talk) 00:45, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

OK, I'm happy to defer to you on that one! Good luck with finding sources for further improvements to the article. Bencherlite^Talk 00:48, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Citation needed

Thank you for your recent contribution to Consistent life ethic‎. You added a useful detail. However, you didn't cite any sources. Can you add a citation for where you found the information in this this edit? Thank you. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 18:59, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

I had thought that references to this information would have already been in the link to Rachel MacNair's Wikipedia article, but I have added such references (maybe different references) to the Consistent Life Ethic article. MaynardClark (talk) 20:40, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

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Microsoft Stream

Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I replaced your edits on Microsoft Stream because of the fact that they were promotional and relied on Microsoft, the creator of the service, as the single source. RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 19:44, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, though I think it's important to get something out there ASAP, and I think that a link to a Microsoft website is useful. I added a link to Microsoft mobile services.MaynardClark (talk) 19:46, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Michelle Carter (manslaughterer)

Hi. Can you tell me where you found out that Michelle Carter's middle name is "D."? I have looked everywhere, and I cannot find that. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 19:10, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Middle initial, but you're right. The court documents do not list a middle initial (MI), and there's 'Michelle D. Carter' who shows up voluminously in Google searches. IMO, we should not use a middle initial for this Michelle Carter, but I also feel that we should not write this article in ways which encourage anger and spite toward her. MaynardClark (talk) 19:14, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

All of the Google searches are merely "repeating" from this article. And this article had the middle initial of "D" placed in there by mistake. I removed it. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 19:28, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

ok MaynardClark (talk) 19:29, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

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