User talk:Cquan/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Archive 2

Thanks

I uploaded a page as I noticed that there wasn't a page on magic magazines and I made the effort to put up an impartial post about the various magic magazines including the newest one street magic magazine that has become the only public magazine of this nature and has an actual ISSN, whereas the others that are listed do not. I contacted the editor as was given permission to use a photo. I have no association with them whatsoever, yet these pages were all taken down by you. I simply do not understand that when some of the people listed under "street magic" have NO fame whatsoever in our community and are selfishly promoting themselves, yet they stay on and a link to a recongized magazines does not. I am new here and I wish to follow the rules, but I have to say, it has been an unenjoyable experience thus far. But for the record I have a LOT of knowledge about the magic community, whereas, few here do. Would you be wiling to help me do this right? Thanks, TJ StreetMagic2 .

Hey Cquan, thanks for the welcome message. I'm not going to bs you, I am the same person as below :-/ Can you appreciate the honesty, despite my having been 31-hour-spended? GroverTheGnome 08:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that new note. I'll be honest, this is all for my own amusement. Daffodil Daniel? Please, I know you know better. GroverTheGnome 09:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm just exercising good faith. I've come to terms with the fact that a lot of it may be wasted. -Cquan 09:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough, comrade. GroverTheGnome 09:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Messages from 68.96.212.147

.......What do you think about biometrics that use ultrasound angled in two converging planes, and accompanying software, to create a 3-dimensional map of the venous system in a certain part of the human body, say, the distal portion of the forearm? It came to me in a dream. I can't argue that it's necessary more efficient than finger prints or an iris scan, etc, but it would probably be harder to trick. You could treat each venal junction as a vector intersection; perhaps you'd need an infrared component as well, to distinguish temperature differences (e.g. venal or arterial). Map angles in two planes to get a shit ton of 3D vectors, biometric data at its simplest form could be the angle data from the vectors across two planes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.96.212.147 (talk • contribs)23 March 2007 (UTC).

Not exactly sure why you're gracing my talk page with this stuff, but ok...sounds interesting. Go for it. -Cquan 06:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

>>>>Vandalism: a crime or new wave of public expression that Wikipedia has stamped out through authoritarian policies and Draconian measures (possibily including burning down orphanages as retribution)?

I view my contributions as manifestations of a nascent movement whose seminal events we are only beginning to see emerge. We are, veritably, on the brink of a global revolution. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.96.212.147 (talk • contribs)23 March 2007 (UTC).

Everyone has the right to disagree. I'm relatively sure no orphanages were harmed in during edits on Wikipedia, but I won't make that assertion until I have a good reference to back it up. Viva la revolution or whatever. You may want to consider using the Wikipedia:Sandbox if you feel the need. I would appreciate it if you didn't use my talk page as your outlet. Thanks. -Cquan 06:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

UPDATE: I am sorry, Cquan. I have taken a serious business far too lightheartedly, and that was wrong of me.

This is something I wrote last night. I post it here (probably inappropriately, I admit) simply for your amusement. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.96.212.147 (talk • contribs)23 March 2007 (UTC).

You're right, it is inappropriate...no matter how amusing. also it's cluttering my talk page:-P. -Cquan 04:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Cquan,

Have you ever been to the College of William and Mary? As a current undergraduate junior at the College of William and Mary, I have heard the word "colegio" (Spanish) used dozens of times. I am concerned that you're not making particularly good use of your biomedical engineering degree by making wild assumptions about topics on which you're obviously not informed. Additionally, my brother is an undergraduate Chemical Engineering major at the University of Rochester. The edits I made to that page were loosely based on a conversation that took place on or about 15 MAR 2007. This is not original research, but rather a clarification of information that was already in the entry.

Saddened by your ignorance, Grover —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.96.212.147 (talk • contribs) 02:31, 23 March 2007 (UTC).

BS in biomed article

Hello Cquan,

I saw your edit to the BS in biomedical engineering article. I aggree that the information that used to be there was overly specific to one school, but I do not aggree with your complete deletion of 7/8 of the article. When I read it before, I thought the same thing as you, but I try not to be controversial and delete so much of someones work. Maybe it would be better to add balance to the article by adding your expertise in the tissue engineering track of classes. And we can work together and remove the things like class numbers that were overly specific. But please reconsider the massive deletion. mbbradfor d 05:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Tissue engineering -- bio artificial pancreas

Hi Cquan,

I see that you are into tissue engineering. Would you mind looking at the artificial pancreas article and looking at the engineering tissue language? I think I reproduced the details from the references fairly well, but you never know, and my language probably sounds like an electrical engineer. mbbradfor d 18:27, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Page move debate opinions needed

Hi, user DIV (a chemical engineer), i.e. User talk:128.250.204.118, and myself (a chemical engineer) have been debating over the name of the Gibbs free energy article for seven months now. DIV is demanding that both the Gibbs free energy and Helmholtz free energy articles be moved to “Gibbs energy” and “Helmholtz energy” per IUPAC definitions, and is continuously rewriting all the related articles in Wikipedia on this view. According to my opinion, as well as others, e.g. 2002 encyclopedia Britannica, 2006 encyclopedia Encarta, 2004 Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry, 2005 Barnes & Noble’s The Essential Dictionary of Science, the 2004 McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Eric Weissteins World of Physics: Gibbs Free Energy, etc., Gibbs free energy and Helmholtz free energy are the most common usages. If you have an opinion on this issue could you please comment here. Thanks: --Sadi Carnot 19:53, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Artfificial Limbs

Hello cquan, I just expanded the article on artificial limbs from a stub and was hoping you could take a look at it and give me some sugeestions on how to improve the article. This was the first article that I did any kind of significant work on and thought I would ask for some assistance after seeing that you had worked on several other articles about biomedical eningeering.Nfk17 02:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Citing Footnotes

Thanks for the help on the artificial limbs article. One question about the footnotes. I saw you changed them so the name of the website is no longer listed. Is that always what should be done? When is it necessary to actually put a full citation compared with just the link. Nfk17 03:42, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: University of Rochester

I'm not sure where you get the conception that I removed content- I quite deliberately changed it. The schools colors are Blue and Dandelion Yellow, even as cited on the reference you added. While the concept of "rochester blue" is mentioned in a handful of other places, it simply is not a proper color in the same way as dandelion yellow is, in that the term has no meaning outside of the school itself. As a point of reference, for example, while Harvard university's "official" color is "harvard crimson", our article for them lists the color as what the outside world sees it as- crimson.

While I do appreciate that your note to me was in good faith, I would reccomend in the future that you be a bit more careful when leaving condescending form notes to frequent wikipedia editors. -Lanoitarus _^(talk) .:. 18:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

P.S.: The color swatches you added are a neat touch! -Lanoitarus _^(talk) .:. 18:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

please consider

it's not about me. please checkout my article...

It's 1- Biography (people) which is accepted in wiki's policies

2- About Some Competitions and festivals which are referable to their websites

Pooyarad 08:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

USER PAGE

Please Answer me about the question I asked about user page. can I put those kind of information in user page? if yes why I have deletion notice there?

Pooyarad 09:56, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case

This is a poorly executed retributive attempt due to my started case [1]. It's a bad copy/paste job as the "evidence" is inconsistent and broken linked. -Cquan 20:03, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Removed template, cases cleared by admin. Thanks again. -Cquan 21:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Emir Arven's case

Since you've already decided to get involved into this whole farce, to freely express myself, please check out Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Emir Arven and express Your opinions on the matter. Regards, --PaxEquilibrium 18:28, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually the more I read into this, the more I'm thinking this should be a case for admin/community action. I haven't officially decided to take the case since there is a lot of history to this dispute and I'm not entirely convinced there is anything to be accomplished via advocacy. I'm also not comfortable advocating for anyone that seems bent on dishing out everything they recieve. All I'm recommending right now is stepping back and a last ditch offer of peace to discuss it, but it looks very much beyond that. Unfortunately I'm not an admin, so I can't take any of the prescribed actions directly. At the moment, I'm thinking on the same lines as Nishkid64 on the course of action and unless I hear back something positive and calm soon from the parties, I'm going to elevate this to "under investigation" and recommend continuing the dispute resolution process. Arbitration may be called for at this point. -Cquan 18:55, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Regardless, I invite you to voice your opinion there (in any manner/way). The case seems to be dead, so we need some fresh comments to keep it going (Emir Arven took a long pause after the case against him was opened). Cheers, --PaxEquilibrium 20:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to investigate this case and all members involved in the dispute since there seems to be bad faith on both sides. If that is the case I will recomend to Steve that it be refeared to ArbCom Æon ^{Insanity Now!} _{Give Back Our Membership!} 21:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I have cross posted on the involved users talk page requesting there informatino about the case once I have that and I review both the RfC and there contribution history I will make my recomendation. I have also let Steve know that this could become a hot issue. Æon ^{Insanity Now!} _{Give Back Our Membership!} 23:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Esa29

You may want to google esa29 wikipedia. He pulled the same nonsense on some kind of Wikipedia IRC [2]. I would bet that if you look at people blocked and articles deleted around December 2, you will find him in there somewhere. --Born2x 23:23, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't believe that I have been incivil. Please forgive me if I have. Calling a hoax a hoax is not incivil. --Born2x 23:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:What is a troll says, "trolling refers to deliberate and intentional attempts to disrupt the usability of Wikipedia for its editors, administrators, developers, and other people who work to create content for and help run Wikipedia." Based on the user's latest nonsense edit [3] the "source" for this church was revealed [4], I think the characterization is pretty well accurate. --Born2x 00:02, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

knock knock; request for assistance

HI,

I have a request for science-related assistance. I've already asked Biomedeng, too, so to save myself a lot of typing, I'll link to that request :-)

I see you speak Min Nan, as does my wife :-) This question may involve POV issues re:Taiwan...

Thanks for your time & trouble, --Ling.Nut 20:22, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I don't think I'm very qualified to weigh in on the discussion. I'm just an engineer:-P. I'll try to look through it to see if I have anything to contribute/say about it. I may have to dig out my genetics and heredity textbooks...and they are a tad dusty. -Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 20:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your time & trouble!

I looked for Wikipedia:WikiProject Genetics and came up red-linked... do you know anyone who is directly knowledgeable on these issues?

Thanks! --Ling.Nut 20:47, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

You may want to try Wikipedia:WikiProject Evolutionary biology or maybe Wikipedia:WikiProject Medical Genetics. -Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 21:01, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

(undent) Thanks! I also just asked User:TimVickers, whose name is listed on Talk:DNA.. thanks again!! --Ling.Nut 21:06, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

re: University of Rochester article help

Sounds like an interesting challenge- Ill take a closer look at work tomorrow! -Lanoitarus _^(talk) .:. 02:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

WWII Revert.

You reverted the wwII page where I got rid of the chronology section.... this was not meant to be vandalism but was me pointing to the main article on the chron. of WWII.... if had previously been tagged as possibly needing to be moved because the article is too long... thanks. Scifiintel 13:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates/Requests/March 2007/Jalabi99

The correct forum for complaints about the closure of a deletion debate is WP:DRV. Per the talk page I resent the personalisation of a routine administrative issue, and request closure of the "case". Thank you for your time. --kingboyk 13:47, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

AMA deletion

The Association of Member's Advocates is being threatened with deletion. Please consider visiting and adding your voice to the MFD discussion. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 17:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Helium.com

Cquan, please elaborate on why you find the introduction of the page Helium.com inappropriate. After what I hear the site is comparable to sites like About.com and Yahoo! Answers (Search Engine Journal: "About, Yahoo Answers & Wikipedia All Rolled Into One"). As you may have noticed, I have introduced the page before but it was deleted due to "lack of reliable sources". I would expect it to be a reliable source when "Helium's CEO, Mark Ranalli, discussed blogging, vandalism and user-generated content with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Editorial Director of PCMagCast.com, Sebastian Rupley, in Episode 58 of CrankyGeeks hosted by John C. Dvorak."*[5] Finally, the page was clearly marked as a stub. Kalvitz 02:04, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

You're good

Hi Cquan, I noticed you're pretty active on the Stem Cell Controversy article. I recently launched a MediaWiki-based site where members translate Congressional legislation into plain English and explain its deeper implications. I'm launching it with a few tech-oriented bills, three of which are stem cell funding bills that are going to be debated in the Senate this coming Tuesday. With your background in law and bioscience (and wiki civility), it looks like you'd be a valuable contributor. I hope you can stop by. MatthewBurton 04:24, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:AIV

I couldn't report User:66.45.66.18 on WP:AIV because of this annoying edit conflict. I hate when this happens. Amos Han ^Talk 21:54, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Haha, yeah me too. Reported though...actually I'm hoping that article just gets deleted. It qualifies for CSD and is way too much trouble. -Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 21:57, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unforgivable Trilogy

If you can point out the previous AfD for this, which I couldn't locate, then I'll nuke it on the spot. Otherwise, if it was just a previous speedy, it's worth putting it through the mill once to be able to speedy it in future. Splash - tk 23:24, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Cardiac event monitor

I noticed you have a degree with a concentration in biomedical engineering. Do you know anything in particular regarding this particular piece of equipment. Or where I could look as far as paper referenced. Anything could be helpful. Thank you in advance. Navou ^banter 22:21, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not especially familiar with this particular piece. I actually associated it with a holter monitor at first, but a quick google search revealed otherwise. I think it's in relative mainstream usage, so you may want to just sift through a google search. Sorry I can't be of more help. -Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 22:29, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Amusing

What have you against sepuculative biology? Anyway, that whole Warfwar3 Ward this was just ridiculous. OR was it? Warfwar3 01:23, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

That was just a bit of commentary on my part...just clicked in my head, which is why I suggested it's probably just coincidence. As to speculative biology, once I read an article in Nature about it, I may consider it scientific. Until then, one book and a cute discovery channel series won't convince me it should be presented as scientific. However, I think there should be discussion on this, perhaps if other editors know more about this than I do, which is why I nominated for AfD instead of tagging for CSD like Future Human Evolution. -Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 01:26, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Janowitz

I am not Neil Janowitz nor do I know him. I've read his work in the CT and was very surprised to see him in ESPN the Magazine. I'm not familiar with the notability requirements re: sports, but Neil signed a minor league contract with a MLB team and attended spring training, which has seemed sufficient for players in the past. Sibpin 19:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Unforgivable Trilogy

Cquan, please don't be a stubborn deletionist. I am not a partial person, but am fully aware (as are millions of others) that a multitude of secondary sources will soon be available pertaining to Unforgivable. Whether you like it or not, the Trilogy has become EXTREMELY influential and does deserve a Wikipedia page. Not if, but when it's acknowledgement transcends the immense underground cult following into mainstream media sources (as you suggest is necessary - you will be sorely mistaken. In the words of another one-time cult artist, Let it Be. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Neoelitism (talk • contribs) 21:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC).

Applying a predictive argument isn't going to help. As others have said, once there ARE evident non-trivial sources to establish notability, I'll be perfectly happy to advocate keeping the article or, if it is deleted, I would have no problem with its recreation. Until then, "cult-following" arguments are not going to convince me. Just be glad that the AfD is still ongoing...if it were my call, it would have been speedied long ago. -Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 15:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

I neglected to realize the super-horrible implications of posting articles about myself and friends; I had no idea just how much my inconsideration could anger the Wikipedian gods. Sorry for being a resource-hogging prick, I bow to your nerd-power ;) IronTailFratley 04:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Renaissance Framework

Please feel free to delete the article on the Renaissance Framework. I did not intend this as advertising as this is a free product which will be of use to many. However, I do not wish to upset anyone connected with Wikipedia administration so please remove it in case it should reflect badly on the author or the product. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Quiet martin (talk • contribs) 15:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC).

The Wiire

Good point; I'll unprotect it now and then you can write the AfD tag when you pick this message up. (Posting this to make sure you see it). Splash - tk 19:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

You fixed my userpage from vandalism

So... thank you very much. Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 23:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem. -Cquan (talk, AMA Desk) 16:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry I'm a Newbie

Sorry. I didn't even realize I made a article page. I thought I was still on my user page. Thanks for your help! -Matt- 16:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I very much appreciated your note and gentle correction to my overly-hasty edit of the "Controversy surrounding stem cell research" section of the stem cell article. I should have realized there might be thoughtful discussion on the talk page about the naming before I went and made (what I naively thought was) a 'simple' clarification / improvement. I am not an experienced wikipedian but editing without checking the talk page first is something I have no excuse for. It appears there are plenty of people contributing to this discussion so unless I have something profoundly useful to contribute, I will refrain from hasty (any!) edits in the future. Thanks again. Pugetbill 00:18, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Warning noted

Thanks for informing me of some rules I wasn't aware of. Of course, I don't feel bad about reverting changes that have frivolous explanations. Once you gave a good explanation for the deletion I left it alone. I haven't even come close to violating the 3 reverts rule. And I do expect that anyone who dumps my changes will be able to explain why. Of course, by engaging in discussion before adding things, I can probably avoid a lot of that. Also, I've learned to do a better job of explaining the addition up front on minor changes or additions that should not be considered controversial and come with the needed annotations. Preston McConkie 23:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Stem cell pages

Hi there - just to say that I think you've been doing a fantastic job watching the stem cell pages - which are consistently being vandalised or having useless or incorrect content being added. If I could award you a star of some sort, I would. Cheers, Dr Aaron 10:35, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Usage:

Lorel D Zaide

You tagged this article for speedy deletion, but you did not notify the article's creator that it had been so tagged. While such notification is not mandatory, it is strongly encouraged, and this is mentioned in the various speedy delete templates themselves. please consider notifying article creators of speedy delete tags in future. See Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Notify authors about speedy deletion? where this issue was discussed. DES ^(talk) 19:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem. i prefer to notify except in cases of very blatent vandalism, because I think it helps educate those who can be educated, and warn those who can't be that people are watching. I pretty much always add a notificaton if one isn't alresdy there before doing a delete from the list of pages taggged for speedy delete. You might be interested in the discussion linked above, but that is up to you. As you can see, i have already deleted the page in question. DES ^(talk) 19:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Renewed vandalism by Wizard III

If a couple of weeks have lapsed between a last warning and a new incident (edits to Timeline of ancient Rome and Bob the Builder, is another warning issued, or does the user need to be submitted for blocking? Derumi 16:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Orlando Jacinto Garcia

Please remove the tag. It was uncalled for to add it 25 seconds after I'd begun the article. The composer is a very notable one and easily meets the composer notability requirements with over a dozen CDs on the market. Best of luck with your current and future editing. Badagnani 16:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Jerry Holkins and "Only Warning"

I stepped on your fix to Jerry Holkins, but fixed it. Sorry.

Also, do you use a popup or other tool for your vandal patrol? I'm curious. --KNHaw ^(talk) 17:25, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

thank you sir

thankx but can i know wht is the means of speedy deletion and how many days remain there on top of the article thank you

Qadeer Mangrio^Talk

OK

It seemed that some one erased my two articles about new egypt,new jersey...have a clue on who it was?

--68.39.118.62

Remove Tags

Please do not remove tags - consider that there are other people that have opinion as good as yours! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kosigrim (talk • contribs)

I have something important to say.

I really do have a mental illness. It is similar to Border line Personality Disorder. I have hallucinations, delusional thinking, and I hear voices. If I would like to make a page about helping people and destroying the stigma surrounding the subject I should have that right. But you know why not just crush other people's voices since you disagree with them. I'm pretty sure I still have the first amendment and if I want to make a page on my problem and sources for others to view than I'm going to do that and will keep doing so til you understand that those with power like yourself should not abuse that power because when that happens it means they have lost the true sight of what they were meant to do when making such decisions. I just hope you know I've tried to kill myself five times. I've been to numerous doctors, psychologists, and psychatrists. I've been put on various medications and if something I write about could help somebody I will do so. Have a good day. Josh596 01:56, 24 May 2007 (UTC)