Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-21 Thread Charles Matthews
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: WMC lost his admin tools over his block of me during RfAr/Abd-William M. Connolley, but that was not by any means an isolated incident. Mmmm, no. William's fuse is shorter than ideal. Obvious enough to many people, and over the years there has been much

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-21 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Mmmm, no. William's fuse is shorter than ideal. Obvious enough to many people, and over the years there has been much provocation over at the climate change articles. Now what was that word they use on the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-21 Thread David Gerard
2009/12/21 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: The article was likely overstated. However, the editor involved did have a substantial history of using administrative tools with respect to global warming and related articles, as well as extensive editing in the area, taking a consistent

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:04 PM 12/21/2009, David Gerard wrote: 2009/12/21 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: The article was likely overstated. However, the editor involved did have a substantial history of using administrative tools with respect to global warming and related articles, as well as

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-21 Thread Charles Matthews
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 12:04 PM 12/21/2009, David Gerard wrote: This is the one you were taken to arbitration over, and was the source of your proposal that experts be banned from editing articles on their expertise. Not at all, completely incorrect, even though asserted

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-21 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Nathan wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Mmmm, no. William's fuse is shorter than ideal. Obvious enough to many people, and over the years there has been much provocation over at the climate change articles. Now what was that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-21 Thread Ray Saintonge
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: The Trolls of mythology, however, totally got the shaft. In internet terms. Trolling was always a verb, originally, and never a pronoun; and it referred to techniques of fishing. Thank you. I have often despaired of finding anyone on the net who understood

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:08 PM 12/19/2009, Ken Arromdee wrote: Now has a Slashdot story: http://slashdot.org/submission/1137140/Climategate-spreads-to-Wikipedia Which links to two articles: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=62e1c98e-01ed-4c55-bf3d-5078af9cb409

[WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread Ken Arromdee
Now has a Slashdot story: http://slashdot.org/submission/1137140/Climategate-spreads-to-Wikipedia Which links to two articles: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=62e1c98e-01ed-4c55-bf3d-5078af9cb409

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread Charles Matthews
Ken Arromdee wrote: Now has a Slashdot story: http://slashdot.org/submission/1137140/Climategate-spreads-to-Wikipedia Which links to two articles: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=62e1c98e-01ed-4c55-bf3d-5078af9cb409

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread geni
2009/12/19 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net: Now has a Slashdot story: http://slashdot.org/submission/1137140/Climategate-spreads-to-Wikipedia Which links to two articles: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=62e1c98e-01ed-4c55-bf3d-5078af9cb409

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread Amory Meltzer
I'll add that it doesn't appear to actually be a story yet, just a submission made through Firehose. Regular /.ers have clearly spoken as to how they feel about it, as noted by the colorful tags placed on the submission and its poor rating. Meanwhile, the article itself is a misleading,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/12/19 Amory Meltzer amorymelt...@gmail.com: I'll add that it doesn't appear to actually be a story yet, just a submission made through Firehose.  Regular /.ers have clearly spoken as to how they feel about it, as noted by the colorful tags placed on the submission and its poor rating.  

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread Fred Bauder
We all know William Connolley is an advocate for taking climate change seriously. However there remains a lack of reliable information which negates his position. If there was such information, those of us who follow this issue would have settled his beeswax fast enough. Fred Ken Arromdee

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/12/19 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net: We all know William Connolley is an advocate for taking climate change seriously. However there remains a lack of reliable information which negates his position. If there was such information, those of us who follow this issue would have settled

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread The Cunctator
Clearly this is just a plot by scientists to take money from oil companies (well, only some of them, because Shell and BP support action) and give it to investment bankers in order to build bird-killing windmills. This plot was hatched back in the 1960s, when MIT climatologist Ed Lorenz

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread Durova
Climate change is a myth. There have always been palm trees on the Antarctic peninsula... On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:11 PM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Clearly this is just a plot by scientists to take money from oil companies (well, only some of them, because Shell and BP support

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, David Gerard wrote: Indeed. Ken was presumably sent this link by a troll and mistook it for something that actually had any chance of ending up published. Actually, I routinely browse Firehose and didn't realize that I had jumped the gun by sending the link here while it's

Re: [WikiEN-l] Climate change on Wikipedia

2009-12-19 Thread Fred Bauder
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, David Gerard wrote: Indeed. Ken was presumably sent this link by a troll and mistook it for something that actually had any chance of ending up published. Actually, I routinely browse Firehose and didn't realize that I had jumped the gun by sending the link here while