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Pete vs BetacommandBot
I've had it, I quit. Pete.Hurd 08:42, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
- Pete, I'm very sorry to see you go. I hope that you come back sometime, but either way, thank you for all your work here! --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 22:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Peter L Hurd
Move done. :) DGG 04:12, 20 June 2007 (UTC) As for your question, I checked other pages where that user had similar problems, & yes, he does not seem to understand what research is; the view of OR is that of many uneducated people. Unfortunately, they are in the majority in WP, and some of them are positioned to cause difficulties. I've been checking the OR talk p., and SV asserts very positively a similarly uninformed view, as at so many other places & topics, & friends will back her, even those who should know better. More generally, I think formal process here does more harm than good, and is to be avoided unless forced into it by someone else, or when contending against a prejudiced mob that you know nobody will support. There is great difficulty here in talking about things which violate the orthodoxy of thinking humans are constructed & operated the way one wishes they did. (One way, adopted naturally by my postdoc advisor Allan Wilson, was having overt political positions further left than any of his critics.)
- What I think you ought to do is simply support the statements in such as way as to answer the objections raised. For this particular one, the current qy is bias from racial differences--say explicitly what the population group was in each study. If they are all "white", is there any study of other groups? Then, find some authoritative opinion about the work in a later paper, so you can say, shown by x y and z as supported by a & b, giving not just the journals but the universities. People here don't know journals. The thing to do about idiocy is to ignore it or work around it. Educate, yes, but that takes a while. I've watchlisted the p. I'll join in reverting, but realize I can't then act as an admin. DGG 23:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- Hi again, if you need assistance from an admin, just drop me a note on my talk page. Tim Vickers 17:14, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
A favor
Pete - How familiar with poker are you? If the answer is "a little" or "barely", could I ask you to look over Texas hold 'em for me? Just let me know if there is anything that is hard to follow or unclear. If you're busy, it's no problem, I won't be offended. There have been ongoing concerns with the readability of this article, but none of us really have a good grasp of its readability by a wider audience. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 22:14, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks Pete. I'll work on the article some more, employing your comments. They were very helpful. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 23:20, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Height
Thanks - I work at a University, so I can get most journal articles online anyways. But if it comes up, I'll definitely take advantage. Cheers, WilyD 01:29, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Pete, I was wondering if you could re-add a commented out bit with rewording to explain how the handicap principle changes the interpretation of stotting for example from a group selection POV to a selfish-gene POV. This piece of how it fits historically in the change of viewpoint is currently missing. Cheers. Shyamal 01:57, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
- I added it, hope it is in the correct location and in suitable form. Shyamal 04:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Comments of GAC Handicap Principle
Hi Pete,
Nice to know you are back. I saw your nomination of Handicap Principle for GA. Was going to review it myself but felt it had a some way to go, so I just left comments in a form of peer review which I hope will improve the article before someone chooses it for GA review.
Regards, AshLin 14:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, you had reviewed snake scales for GA in Mar 2007. I was offline for a while..I addressed your comments and resubmitted it. After due process, it passed GA. Thanks for the work you had done. Regards & best wishes, AshLin 16:38, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Height and Intelligence
This isn't really my field, so I'm not sure what usually is or isn't published, but do you know whether the raw data from any of these studies might be published, and where I might look for it if so? An editor has expressed a desire for a chart to give a better impression of the degree of correlation and I think he's right. Thanks, WilyD 16:22, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Contextualism
Yeah... that category is bizarre. I left a note on the category talk page. How did you stumble on that? --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 20:02, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Evolutionarily Stable Strategy
Hi Pete, I've left some comments and did some rewriting. In these articles I've always thought that even if the body of the article is dense and technical, as long as the lead is at the kind of level that could even be understood by a bored undergraduate on a hot Friday afternoon, you'll be OK! Tim Vickers 16:11, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
user page
Semiprotected your user page. Shyamal 07:41, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Ratings
Pete - Wow you really went to town last night on the ratings. Thanks a lot! --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 16:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
- The ones I looked at looked good to me. Just having a vague list is good so we can know where to focus our efforts. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 19:39, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Race science
Hello! Since a merge to Scientific racism did not get consensus, and that this is a POV fork, I've submitted a second Afd request. I hope you can quickly check it out, cheers! Tazmaniacs 17:34, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
nonsense
Why do you continue to comment that I am User:A.J.1.5.2. or User:Curious Gregor, or a whole other variety of IP addresses you have listed at here? He is a different editer who happens to be colleage of mine. The only sock account I have had is for User:Iconoclast4ever, and I only used it for two days before I realised it was a policy violation. It seems that you have forgotten some of the fundamental policies of wikipedia, especially WP:AGF.
And thank you for helping in regards to Image:ChrisC.jpg, I honestly didn't realise I had licenced the image incorrectly, and tagged it as I interpreted the guidelines inthe link provided by User:Jack Merridew. R:128.40.76.3 07:41, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
a heads-up
see: User talk:Phaedriel#back as promised diff --Jack Merridew 15:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)