User:Northfox
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I stumbled across wikipedia a couple of years ago and I am a frequent user. Many times, my first stop for information are not the big search engines, but Wikipedia. So I thought that I should give back to the community and started editing. With varying success (see below). When I am bored, I access random pages (and in the process initiated some AfDs)
Created pages
- Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter, featured on DYK on Nov. 27, 2008
- Bolaamphiphile
- Biointerface
- Center around
- Dimethylurea
- Henri Bénard
- HiROS, a German IR satellite
- Huxley Memorial Debate, since Feb. 25, 2009 redirected to Richard Dawkins
- Kathleen Morikawa
- Knudsen pump
- St. Colman (martyr)
Waiting to be created
- Polyvinylpyridine
Edited pages
I occasionally edit assorted biology, chemistry, physics, Germany, and Japan related pages.
Here are some other pages in alphabetical order that I try or tried to improve.
| A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism |
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A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism: My edits and the ensuing discussion finally prompted me to request my first RfC. My suggestions were rejected and the text in question remained: Southeastern Louisiana University philosophy professor Barbara Forrest and deputy director of the National Center for Science Education Glenn Branch say the Discovery Institute deliberately misrepresents the institutional affiliations of signatories of the statement "A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism".[21] The institutions appearing in the list are the result of a conscious choice by the Discovery Institute to only present the most prestigious affiliations available for an individual..... Similarly confusing and misleading lists of local scientists were circulated during controversies over evolution education in Georgia, New Mexico, Ohio, and Texas.[21] Here again, at one point in the discussion, I did not observe WP:V (when do I learn that my standards for scientific publications and citations need not to be met on wikipedia? If the source is quotable, no matter about the quality of the contents, it is WP:V. I really find it unfortunate that Forrest's paper in Academe has no footnotes. So nobody can look up the 'similar lists' that were circulated). I apologized for my wrong WP:V claim, but my apology was not accepted. The discussion preceding the RfC is full of gems (ATTENTION: the gems are taken out of context. Please read the context before commenting). My comments are in the brackets.
Filll commented on our number of edits (I stood at 372 and he at 16532) here(): I would like to answer with the Zen wisdom at the bottom of |
| Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed |
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some comments of the talk page (before they disappear in the archives) Expelled from Expelled: Youtube on Dawkins interviewing MyersHere. Seems to be an 'interview' in a hotel room after Myers was expelled and looks like a planned event; was shot from 2-3 different angles simultaneously. Dawkins fed some questions and Myers answered. One reason why future viewings of Expelled have been cancelled may be that Myers said in this Youtube video that he 'instructed' (his own words) people to sign up for future public viewings by the name PZ Myers. Organizers then might have pulled future film showing out of security reasons. Northfox (talk) 01:51, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I will admit that the Myers and Dawkins clip looks fairly professional, particularly with the camera angles. It does make me wonder why it looks so good. And it looks like it was shot within a day of the actual expulsion. What gives?--Filll (talk) 03:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
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Level of support for evolution
| Objections to evolution |
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Objections to evolution: Here I learned the hard way what WP:POV, WP:NPOV, and WP:Verifiability means. I objected the Gregory S. Paul statistic that there is a positive correlation between 'religiosity' and crime, and also the Barna group study on divorce rates among different faith groups. My edits were reverted, because both are verifiable facts. But I and several other individuals, among them professional statisticians, still think that the Gregory S. Paul study is flawed. |
| Richard Dawkins |
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Richard Dawkins: Initially, I added just some information about the Oxford Union debate. Interestingly, as long as the wrong information (a devastating loss for the 'creationists' side: 15 to 198 votes) was in the article, the information was kept on the page. A few days after I corrected it to 150 (or 115, there is some ambiguity) to 198 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Dawkins&oldid=128177886), showing that it actually was a less impressive win for the 'evolutionist' side, it was suddenly not deemed appropriate for a 'lifetime biography' anymore ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Dawkins&oldid=129582049) and the relevant information was deleted. But I was allowed to reinsert it, albeit as a footnote (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Dawkins&oldid=131487823). |