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Thanks for the good work on the sheldrake page. I accidently deleted a few comments in TALK because I edited out of an older window which automatically deleted all the posts since, and I believe one or two of them were yours. I am going to give this a scour tmrw but if you see one of yours not there please let me know. The Tumbleman (talk) 07:28, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
It could be very helpful, IMHO, if you could post some sort of opinion (ANY opinion) HERE. The Sheldrake talk page is short of people who express opinions politely and helpfully. Anything at all from such a person could serve as an example to others. Lou Sander (talk) 02:11, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
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the section is Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Lou_Sander -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 09:22, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your sensible offer of the slight change needed for this page:) Veryscarymary (talk) 18:37, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
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Ian, might it be suggested that violating the terms of your unblocking in editing "fringe science articles, broadly construed", or have I missed something subsequent to that which overturns the overturn of the previous ban? Barney the barney barney (talk) 16:14, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
@Barney, following my Appeal to BASC resulting in my "topic banned indefinitely from editing any articles or its associated talk pages related to fringe science and physics-related subjects, broadly defined" (first grey box above)[6] there followed an "Amendment request" (22 March 2012 - 21 May 2012. See "See also" immediately following the grey box above), that results in an "Arbitration motion regarding iantresman" (second grey box above) in which " The topic ban placed against Iantresman as a condition of unblocking in [1] is hereby lifted".--Iantresman (talk) 19:46, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Meanwhile, excusing 74's bizarre verbiosity, I thank Iantresman (talk · contribs) for his clarification regarding the terms of his unbanning. I am curious though as to what makes you think that you now have the competence to edit fringe pages, when previously people seemed to believe that you didn't? Barney the barney barney (talk) 11:02, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, given your previous history I felt you may be interested in observing and providing assistance with the new wikipedia entry for Plasma-Redshift Cosmology. Orrerysky (talk) 16:49, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
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I'm reading your ?'s you posted ... you're aware that they've essentially already all been answered in the previous questions, right? ES&L 11:11, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, in response to your question at AE, I'm just trying to remove the submissions that are all about content and not about conduct so as to keep the thread to a manageable size. We, the administrators processing the request, simply don't care (and more importantly aren't allowed to care) whether that guy is the world's greatest charlatan or Galileo Galilei reborn. We only care about whether anybody has violated any of Wikipedia's conduct rules and needs to be prevented from doing it again. By making content arguments in your statement, you are only wasting your time, and everybody else's. I suggest that you stop contributing to the thread if you have no useful evidence of misconduct to contribute. Sandstein 17:33, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello Iantresman, I was pretty hard on you in my post. :-) Sorry about that; I do like you, even when we disagree. But what I would like to point out, is that you are letting Barney's us-fringe-fighters-the-only-true-wikipedians-versus-the-rest color your prose. "If any editor feels I have misrepresented them here, I will happily strike their name. --Iantresman"
You are putting Tumbleman into the same group as me, David, yourself, et al. That is not correct; Tumbleman was socking, and they in the real-o-verse have at least a personal relationship (some off-wiki sources say more[vague]) with Sheldrake. Same goes for Craig Weiland. They are COI-encumbered editors where Sheldrake is concerned, just the same as the young college kid who came here to write a BLP article about her sorority-sister that was in some indie film (a flop by all accounts) a couple years ago.
So I would ask that you remove Tumbleman from the "consensus-builder" group (not my favorite name but whatever), and add Tumbleman to a new third group (called "direct-COI editors" methinks... or something gentler if you prefer). They do not belong where they are, because they were not here to build consensus; see my post-disaster-analysis of their true motives, elsewhere. Usually I would let your judgment stand, but as Tumbleman cannot request themselves to be removed due to socking stuff, and I don't want the rest of us lumped in the same bucket, I figured it wouldn't hurt to suggest it to you. WP:REQUIRED applies, of course; it has been there awhile, and though I don't want it that way in the page-archives, please do what you think is best.
Anyhoo, thanks for keeping your cool in distressing circumstances. I'm not doing as well as I'd like. :-) So I have abandoned the Sheldrake fiasco, except in small infrequent doses. But, that said, I'll go edit some glacier articles, or something like that, and then keep coming back until we get it fixed. Hope this helps, thanks for improving wikipedia.
p.s. Others that were around when I started, but left... don't know if they have requested you strike them of if they just were errors of omission... would include Tento2 and Dingo1729 plus prolly VeryScaryMary (though she was a bit too excitable for "consensus-building" to apply). Dan skeptic and IrWolfie and MilesMoney (plus maybe Johnuniq?) used to be active amongst the fringe-fighters... and truth be told, I would actually be tempted to include wolfie in the consensus-building camp, for the Sheldrake article... because despite their zeal to 9STEPS anybody they disagreed with elsewhere, wolfie actually seemed reasonably calm to me in the sheldrake context (as opposed to *other* contexts). But nobody likes to get drug into an AE, so I would vote leaving Tento and Dingo and Mary and Wolfie off your list unless they ask... I purposely did not 'ping' them, so they can keep their own counsel. HTH, see you around. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 19:49, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
I've looked at your recent comments here, and I agree with them. Good work. There is a problem: because of the collapsing box, it is VERY hard to follow the diffs. Clicking the diff number takes you to the diff, but when you return, you return to a somewhat random place, and the collapsing box is collapsed. The effect is to make it easy not to investigate your diffs. Lou Sander (talk) 02:39, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
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Just as a matter of curiosity, are you from they parts? I grew up in Park Street. Guy (Help!) 22:56, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
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I was looking through your talk page and found that you had started this article. Years ago I somehow came upon it and did a couple of edits, some along the lines of "why are you knocking this guy without providing citations?" I even telephoned Tifft, looking for a photo. When I mentioned Wikipedia, he cursed it and hung up on me (really). I have no idea what drew me to his article, since I have no intrinsic interest in Tifft, red shift, etc. It was probably a random article. Or maybe the Mystic Sheldrake Force was somehow at work. As I recall, I was just exercising my editing skills.
I also took notice of your photo File:Sikh-temple-adornment.jpg. This thing has an uncanny resemblance to the Turkish crescent that is a favorite subject of mine. The TC is primarily thought of as a musical instrument, but there is a lot more to it, for example as a totem in battle or authority symbol. There is not much information about the latter uses, and I'm wondering what the Sikhs think about their version. Do you have any special insight into that?
And of course I notice your contributions to that notoriously pseudomathematical subject Fraction. You are just incorrigible. ;-) Lou Sander (talk) 14:48, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, in the past Rupert Sheldrake had reached out to several Wikipedia editors about his Wikipedia article. Have you discussed the Rupert Sheldrake article with Sheldrake?
Also, out of curiosity, are you still sympathetic to Velikovsky? Manul ~ talk 19:51, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
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I agree that I am allowed per the rules to proxy on your behalf, but I'm not sure whether I would be a good person to do so considering our past history. It seems like it would be better to get an uninvolved admin who can determine whether your suggested contribution is well-considered or not in light of the controversial subject material. jps (talk) 15:26, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Ian,
I am trying to understand whether you are really confused about my points or whether you are missing the points I am making on purpose. Perhaps it is because of the history we have, but I truly feel as though it is the latter. We are discussing, for example, whether the sources you listed at the two AfDs speak to the notability of the defunct Velikovskian publications to the extent that they deserve separate Wikipedia articles. The question is one that is different from the question as to whether there are reliable sources which simply mention the publications. I have been trying to emphasize this in the distributed locations we have been discussing, but nevertheless find your repeated revisiting of concepts of "reliability" as well as demands for sources which discuss sources to be borderline WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT, if you get my drift.
To illustrate:
You write, "From my point of view, it is crucial also to provide a source that link the pseudoscience to the concerns you have about Bauer's book, otherwise it appears as it if is just your opinion, and conclusions only you have made."
You write, "For my part I have already said that I have looked at reviews of Bauer's book, and they all appear positive (even if I may not agree with them all myself), and of course I am happy to provide them."
You write, "This is the big question, can an editor's opinion out-weight published sources. Or is it just WP:OR and WP:SYNTH?"
You write, "So that brings us to the suggestion that because Bauer's associated with other fringe subjects, that makes him unreliable to comment on all fringe subjects."
I am not sure how much more plain I can make this. I am reminded of previous disputes we've had where you seemed content to engage in source counting rather than dealing with the substance of a claim, often hiding behind the argument that as editors we were not capable of doing any editorial analysis whatsoever of a source. This strikes me as being a very dishonest practice and I am not particularly enthused by the point that you link to a number of sources in the AfD which do little more than mention the subjects in question (I note you do not provide any description of how one might use the sources you think are appropriate, but instead seem content to merely list them as though they are impressive enough to stand on their own).
I guess what I'm saying is that I am on the border between disappointed and frustrated with your contributions thus far to our discussions regarding Velikovsky. Seeing as how 10 years ago you issued at call-to-arms at the late Halton Arp's forum to skew Wikipedia towards "maverick" understandings of what redshift was in astronomy (arguably the source of all subsequent bad blood between us) and basically adopted the tactic of listing papers published by members of the Alternative Cosmology Group as a kind of means to attempt to skew Wikipedia towards a non-mainstream approach towards the subject, I hope you can understand how I might be wary of your current tack. What I would appreciate at this point is a bit of honesty in your approach rather than this hiding behind lists.
For example, while I am not surprised that you argued to keep the two articles you created, I am confused as to why you won't explain directly why you think these two defunct journals are more worthy of an article than any of the other journals that are devoted to this or that aspect of Velikovsky's ideas. For example, there are no articles about Aeon, The Velikovskian, or Chronology & Catastrophism Review in Wikipedia. Is there a line that can be drawn to determine whether something is keep-able or delete-able when it comes to Velikovsky promotion on Wikipedia or not? If there is no line, then at least be honest and argue for that radical inclusionist philosophy. But if there is, I would like to know how you would draw it.
jps (talk) 13:59, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for responding. I think the discussion will rapidly descend into a meta-discussion which is fine with me. I would like to expand a bit more on some points now, but I think I might say more in the future:
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Thank you for saying on the talk page attached to the article on Rupert Sheldrake that I was right about the BBC programme just being called Heretic and not Heretics of Science. While I am here, can I say how much I like the images decorating your user page - I think you may be worthy of a barn star for your delightful images!Vorbee (talk) 19:11, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
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Can you clarify whether you've successfully appealed your topic ban or not relating to astrophysics? These things are not well-documented at Wikipedia, as you well know.
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This is my draft appeal against my 2012 Topic Ban[27]
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@Huon: Thanks for taking the time to respond. I could probably write a successful appeal if I knew how to change my behaviour. As far as I know, I followed policies, so I'm after help identifying where I went wrong with my original editing, so I can make changes. --Iantresman (talk) 21:57, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
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