At 03:20 PM 10/22/2010, you wrote:
I converted some old PaperPort files to Acrobat format. I came
across this comment from Martin Fleischmann, 1993:
"It has been a lifelong ambition of mine to give a lecture in blank verse."
- Jed
Well, we could ask him to write one, and perhaps he could be recorded
giving it, depending in how hard it is for him with his Parkinson's.
It could be recorded in pieces. At his leisure.
Frankly, this man deserves a Nobel Prize. I hope it happens before he
dies. In any case, we should do what we can to make sure he knows
that his work is deeply appreciated.
Pons should share in that, I don't blame him for bailing out. It must
have been very hard for him.
I found that his biography (Pons) on Wikipedia was *awful*. Much
worse than Fleischmanns, though the issues were exactly the same.
Just a matter of the pseudoskeptics being less watched there.
I had just been topic banned again, by an idiot admin (neutral, he
doesn't have an agenda, he's just like ArbComm, if you have several
editors upset with you, you must be a problem. Standard Wikipedia
politics.) I risked a ban violation, but I did it right. I asked him
for permission to point out the problem, and when he didn't reply,
Wikipedia has a pretty standard policy that fixing biographies of
living persons takes priority over about everything, I went to the
BLP noticeboard and pointed out the problem.
It was, indeed, made better. Still pretty bad, but it's better. At
least the claims of fraud were taken out!
And the admin who'd banned me said, well, that was okay, but don't do it again!
(Many of these people are basically idiots, many of them literally
immature. If it was okay, what's wrong with doing it again?)
