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1 Mr-Natural-Health 2 Theresa the brave 3 Transliteration issues 4 Adivice or Mediation Requested 5 Alternative Medicine 6 VfD 7 Davide Mana 8 Just curious 9 Soap bubble 10 Your help 11 Ta 12 Leaving Wiki 13 ?! 14 Self-control 15 Admin needed at..... 16 Irismeister arbitration ruling 17 Anon user 18 Owlmannot 19 Iridology/Comrade Nick's opinon |
Case referred to the arbitration committee by Jimbo Wales on 6 Feb 2004, 15:15 UTC. Four arbitrators voted to accept this case: Fred Bauder, Martin Harper, Sean Barrett, and UninvitedCompany. The case is thus accepted for arbitration on 6 Feb 2004, 19:43. The arbitration committee will make a final decision no later than 13 Feb 2004, 19:43. Martin 19:50, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Brief statements by User:Theresa knott and User:Mr-Natural-Health and links to evidence relevant to this matter may be placed at Wikipedia:Matter of Theresa knott and Mr-Natural-Health. Fred Bauder 01:15, Feb 7, 2004 (UTC)
d==Cooking a turkey== I noticed in the edit history of Cooking a turkey that you mentioned that the roast turkey is normally not an entree. To a US writer, the entree is the main course, so the turkey is the entree. Since it has a different meaning in English English, replacing the word entree or deleting it as you did in that case is a good idea. Jamesday 13:13, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Gahhh ... Doubtless you were right to apologise. It is the practical, sensible thing to do. But, just sometimes, I catch myself thinking that we ought to be allowed to call a spade a spade once in a while. (BTW, while posting this I removed a long rant that you probably couldn't be bothered reading. It's there in the page history if you feel a need to look it over.) Tannin 10:32, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Quite right! I woke up to that myself a moment ago. Obviously, it's time I got some sleep! Tannin
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We just got permission to use two iridology charts from someone I emailed, so you don't need to draw one yourself now. I'll go and upload them. :) fabiform | talk 16:28, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I just checked Talk:Iridology when I saw it in Recent Changes. Irismeister has sent you to Coventry. I just about died laughing when I read that. :) fabiform | talk 12:51, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Your user name should be changed by acclamation to that. In my opinion, the demeaning and sexist abuse you endure (from an user I won't name) in the name of preserving the intergrity of Wikipedia is worthy of the highest esteem among your fellow editors. -- Decumanus 12:52, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
This situation with Irismeister is getting beyond a joke. Shall I place a request on "requests for arbitration"? I'd be perfectly happy to be the named participant if one is necessary (but not in mediation, as I think it would be pointless). What do you think? :) fabiform | talk 23:23, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I've found some POV edits on articles neither of us have been involved in. I've only made a very brief mention of the POV problems we had with him and iridology, I think you have a better grasp on those than I do. The page is getting a bit long, I'd better not add nay more I suppose, if anyone else is going to have room to contribute! I haven't linked to his user page and talk page yet, but I wasn't sure where to put them or what to say about them. There's certainly a lot of ranting on them. fabiform | talk 23:34, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
With regards to the irismeister evidence page, I agree it needs some refactoring to be actually readable, but sadly I don't really have the energy or inclination to do it right now. The arbitrators (or at least a few of us) did read the page in the state it was in yesterday, so the evidence has been noted, and hasn't been completely lost amidst the current rather disorganized state of the page. I'll post a message to the arbitrators to list to see if anyone has free time today to undertake reorganizing it, or if not I may try tomorrow. I do agree you likely shouldn't be the one to reorganize it. --Delirium 20:29, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)
Thank youtheresa knott 20:32, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi Theresa,
I want to invite you to weigh in at the new discussion of related matters that have come up in the last few days at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(places)#Transliteration_of_Russian_place_names. Please see the intro paragraph of Boris Yeltsin to see an example of what's been going on with articles on Russians and places in Russia....
Also, if you haven't already do so, you might want to take a look through Cantus's contributions.
Right now, the main participants in the discussion are the two people who've been changing the formats of intro paragraphs of articles -- both of whom have been here for less than a month and seem rather uninterested in other people's points of view. Many thanks, BCorr ¤ Брайен 13:57, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)
I wrote the Antebellum article, which is still largely intact with improvements by two other users. Recently a user, with only an ISP of 12.7.120.9 to identify him/her, changed the text of the article to whites in the U.S. South rather than U.S. South and from can be offensive to some Americans to offensive to most Americans. I have reviewed the article and want to change the phrase is looked back on with nostalgia to can be. I noticed the latter problem after my original post on the Antebellum talk page, but the user launched into a personal attack before I could post it.
I write personalized synopsis of the articles I initiate or signifigantly edit on my talk page. The user has taken what I wrote about the antebellum article "one of my favorite architectural and historic periods," and has used it to call me a racist in all but name and a supporter of slavery. The antebellum period was the time when America had the first flourishing of non-eurocentric culture and was not unique to the South. It includes the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. The styles of Monticello and Mount Vernon were widely copied and improved upon throughout the South. Many inovations such as elevated ceilings and verandas were distinctly African contributions.
The user has also ignored an above synopsis about a confederate general I added which says "my opinion of him isn't polite." I have also added articles on a Major Civil Rights Leader, a Civil Rights Organization, an African Queen who I state on my User Page as being an "often ignored major historical figure." I have posted a neutrality dispute to the article, unfortunately because of the user's personal attacks it has also become a User Conflict. Therefore I do not think it would be appropriate for me to edit the article, under the current circumstances.
I think you would be expertly qualified to mediate this, the only other result would be an article war and I do not wish to be drawn into one that utilizes personal attacks. All of the other users I have had discussions with are Americans and I think it would be best for someone with a detached view and experience with dealing with difficult users. I realize this is a lot to ask from someone who has already taken so much of this type of abuse. Please notify me if you accept to become a mediator, or have any advice.
-JCarriker 05:39, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on Antebellum! -JCarriker 10:20, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)
OK I've done that for you. theresa knott 09:28, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Thanks once again! -JCarriker 09:39, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)
I've had a go at reorganising and tidying the Support for and concerns about alternative medicine, Science and alternative medicine and History of alternative medicine sections of Alternative medicine at User:MykReeve/Alternative medicine.
Given your involvement with the article with Mr-Natural-Health, I'd appreciate your input before I post it to the actual article. - MykReeve 22:55, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I don't think Davide Mana should become a redirect to the user page. It is a bad precedent to allow redirects to user pages. It makes the redirect seem to be a legitimate article to outside links and during database extracts and other forms of porting to other formats for the encyclopedia it will not take user pages (I think) and thus it goes as a broken link. Please reconsider your redirect and return the issue to VfD. - Texture 23:02, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Since you are helping me out today, I was wondering if I can ask you to review Wikipedia:Columbia Encyclopedia article titles and all its subpages which have been listed on Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements and I added to Wikipedia:Speedy deletions to get a final look before removal. (It was also on VfD for a time). The concensus is to delete the entire set and I planned to work on that today. Can you review it and let me know what you think? Thanks - Texture 18:04, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for zapping those 2 Alnwick Garden things. Nevilley 00:46, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I will probably be leaving wikipedia soon and I wanted to thank you for being one of the few wikipedians that made me feel like I was part of the community. My decision is not yet final but probable, if you have any reasons why I should reconsider please post them on my talk page. I am currently looking for a good home, or postion on a user watchlist, for my contributions many of which are not monitored by anyone else. You can find a complete list on my user page, please post any you are interested in on my talk page so I can see which ones still need homes on watchlists.
Deepest Thanks,
Jay Carriker
JCarriker 07:55, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)
--JCarriker 04:32, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)
Thank goodness you protected Dissolution of the Monasteries; all the reverting was clogging up RC --Merovingian ↕ Talk 14:46, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)
PS. Why didn't I think of that?
I know you're just doing your job by deleteing two completely unrelated pages: informational difference and fractional paradigm.
I was wondering what a consensus was. I know now that it's four votes.
It is certainly strange that we are deleting entries in an online encycopedia that a written encyclopedia, specialized on the given field of study, would surely accept.
But then again, it did get four negative votes beyond the request. The voters were unfamiliar with the terms, I guess. Does that make them any less real? Apparently so. What can you do. That's the way we human beings work. Apparently these voters are considered smarter than the college professors who teach their students about these subjects that supposedly don't exist. Apparently IEEE is wrong and Wile E. Heresiarch is right. Well, Wile sure has his work cut out for him: he has a lot of books to rewrite, and a lot of books to burn.
I'm just infomring you, for what it's worth, of my irritation. I also get kind of depressed by this sort of thing. But I am not blaming you for any thing. You're just doing your job. After all, they were four(+1) votes. Kevin Baas 20:16, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Nah you don't need an admin. I've put half caste on wikipedia:cleabnup and I've given lion Nathan a bit of a going over myself. theresa knott 09:19, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Ah, it was nothing personal... I supported 4 and opposed the rest, following Tim Starling's example. (Since that's about the right number of people to have the new powers IMO.) You're the second person to query me on a vote today, so perhaps I should clarify on the page? :) fabiform | talk 12:16, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Following the ruling by the Arbitration committee on the matter of Irismeister (see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Irismeister), you are reminded to discuss matters in accordance with good Wikiquette and to avoid making personal attacks in future. --Camembert
The above is me with my official arbitrator's hat on; this is just me: I wanted to say thanks for apologising about the remarks you made to Irismeister--I know it was ages ago, but thanks anyway. It really makes things a lot easier when people do that. All the best--Camembert
Regarding avoid making personal attacks: I have two complaints to file. User:Friedo and User:Charles Matthews.
Friedo: "User page reveals this guy is a crank..." [1]
Charles Matthews: [2]
These are objectively and indisputably personal attacks. The latter one (charles) is pretty shameless, uninhibited, and rhetorical. I have had similiar problems with this person before. Kevin Baas 20:15, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Yes. That answers my questions. Thank you Theresa. Kevin Baas 21:37, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Dr. Jipa is not publishing original research, he is merely noting the work that Dr. Waniek's team has spent 20 years doing. I have never stated that Dr. Jipa is a "leading opthamologist" -- but the group does exist, they do have medical degrees, and they are conducting research on trans-iridial light therapy. I wonder if your dislike of me is clouding your judgement? Lirath Q. Pynnor
Dr Jipa and Dr Waniek are almost certainly the same person. As for Dr Waniek's team's 20 years of research - where are the papers? (I don't mean the ones he sells himself from his website, I mean real papers) Where are the citations by other experts in the field? Anyone can claim they have been doing anything. I could claim to have been doing research for the past 50 years that proves that aliens are living in central London. I can claim my research is scientific, and peer reviewed. ( it's scierntific because I say so, it's peer reviewed because I reviewed it myself and I am the leading scientific expert in the field.
Should I be allowed to add it to wikipedia ?
Look at it that way. Iridology has always been thought of as a load of old bullshit by the medical profession. If real doctors, really had scientific evidence otherwise then it would take the scientific world by storm. So why isn't he famous? Where are the articles in nature? theresa knott 18:02, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The above paragraph proves that you are biased. You think iridology is bullshit, fine -- Drs. Waniek and Jipa are not the same person, and they don't believe iridology is bullshit. Perhaps it would help you to read Agegate by Dr. Spazio of the University of Urbana -- perhaps I know more about this than you. Of course, you will probably claim that Dr. Spazio is also Dr Jipa. Why, perhaps even I am Dr. Jipa. [3] Lirath Q. Pynnor
You have missunderstood me. I didn't delete because I thought they were bullshit. That would be POV. I leave a lot of stuff in that I think is bullshit. See my edits to reflexology for example. I deleted it because it is bogus, A lie, not true, made up. Do you see the the difference? theresa knott 18:30, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
bogus=bullshit -- two people have now told you that it's not "made up" -- so what is your problem? Its pretty clear that you think iridology is bullshit, so why don't you admit that you are biased? Lirath Q. Pynnor
I already have admitted that I am biased. Did you read my reply earlier on on this page? Everyone is always biased on everything. Thos who say otherwise are fooling themselves. The point is I am aware of my biases, and try my best to make up for them. Are you aware of yours ? Do you really and truly believe that research published on an editors own web page, and nowhere else, should be in Wikipedia ? Do you truly belive that such "research" should be labelled as scientific? Anyway why are you all of a sudden interested in iridology now? Does it have anything to do with Ed Poor ? Is your dislike of him affecting you good judgement? You don't need to answer these questions. Just think about them. theresa knott 18:56, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Thats just it, its not published nowhere else -- do you really and truly believe that I would be adding the information if I was only aware of it from reading that website? Ed Poor has nothing to do with this. Lirath Q. Pynnor
Well, naturally there isn't going to be a great deal of information online -- since its a relatively obscure topic. Most people don't know what iridology is, let alone who is actually studying the field. However, unless you also think Dr. DiSpazio is the author of crackpot "bogus bullshit" -- you would do well to note: http://www.iridologyst.org/iridostimolo.htm where he discusses his attempts to build upon Waniek's work. Lirath Q. Pynnor
It's not obscure. There are loads of pages on iridology on the web, just not many trhat mention irismeister. One tiny mention of wanieks name in a webpage does not an expert make. Still I tried to check it out, but I'm having a lot of problems with the language (I don't speak italian, and machine translations are truly awful)A couple of questions that are bugging me -
Can you help me out with these questions? theresa knott 06:08, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Well Theresa, I am aware you could find anyone's address, phone number, etc. but I am not interested in that. I spoke to someone who knows eyes (My Eye Doctor) and he told me that he heard of Dan Waniek and said that (even though he didn't beleave in iridology) you shouldn't have put on VFD, because it would be purging sources which you don't agree which is unscientific (however, if most of community agrees that it is than i will be swayed). To be honest with you i think Iridology is a bunch of bull, but anything to do it must be kept because it is the history of science, which is important for all of us.
Frankly Ms. Knott, many of my professors, and many of my friends are discussed with Wikipedia (out of over 40 people i asked to join only one did, and that one was just for the soul purpose of 'trolling me'), because of it's too closed, too strict. Now I am inclined to agree with them, but I still contribute because I feel I am helping those who come to wiki by giving them information and I am very proud of that. The thing I want for wiki is reform, to allow users to have rights, I feel this could be done by a written Consituition. And I ask for your support in this planned document Plato aka Comrade Nick
PS found the address (LOL)
I take it you mean disgusted rather than discussed? As for the rest of what you wrote -you wan't my support for a document than you plan to write? Something that doesn't actually exist yet? You're 'aving a lauffff , as they around here. theresa knott 08:40, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Sorry, for spelling wrong was a little EWI (editing while Intoxicated), with the Consitution I'll discuss it when i finish it (it's about 1/2 way done). Now I wish you reconsider VFDing that article because I have some interest in quackery, and more should have been to Dan Waniek, he seems someone importanted in the history of quackery to me. Comrade Nick
Please stop supporting User:Exploding Boy for adminship. He makes innapropriate articles like Finger fucking and Collar (BDSM). Radical WiKi 13:20, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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