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Ray Solomonoff[edit]

Do you have a source for Solomonoff's death this year? I have reverted it until it can be verified. Also, you should never mark such a large change (the death of a person) as a minor edit, even if the amount of text changed is small. See WP:Minor edit. Cheers, — sligocki (talk) 21:03, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

see http://twitter.com/bengoertzel/status/6536359942 Rainer Wasserfuhr (talk) 23:35, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ah, that's too bad. It seems like we ought to wait until a more reputable source comes out to put a death date though. I'm sure he'll have an obituary. Cheers, — sligocki (talk) 23:42, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i think the source is highly reputable: Ben Goertzel. Rainer Wasserfuhr (talk) 13:52, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mean that Goertzel is not reputable, but that a tweet is not a good source. Rumors can spread quickly through channels like twitter and well intentioned people could easily propagate them without checking the facts. Looking at Goertzel's article, there's no indication that he knew Solomonoff personally, so we don't know where he got the information from. Likewise, there's no rush to update the article and Wikipedia expects more fact-checking when it comes to WP:Biographies of living people. Cheers, — sligocki (talk) 22:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They "could", but BenGoertzel tweets under his RealName, in public. If he would be wrong, this would be corrected within minutes, which did not happen until now: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Solomonoff. So I estimate a correctness of his StateMent of at least 99%. Rainer Wasserfuhr (talk) 23:42, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

another source: http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3589 Rainer Wasserfuhr (talk) 22:35, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Outline of transhumanism[edit]

I noticed you are a transhumanist. Please take a look at this page and see if you can make it more informative/useful.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 05:14, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Hans-Joachim Frey[edit]

Hello Rainer Wasserfuhr,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Hans-Joachim Frey for deletion, because it's not written in English. To request a translation, please visit the translation page. If you'd like to contribute to another Wikipedia, take a look at our full list of language projects.

If you feel that I made a mistake, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks,

Ypnypn (talk) 01:07, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed[edit]

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02:17, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed[edit]

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17:55, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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