User talk:Georgewilliamherbert/Archive2007-02

George,

You obviously didn't bother to read the "content" that I deleted. It read, in toto:

"The hydrogen Bomb doesnt exist actually the explosions were faked by the U.S. government in the 80's. So actually this sux i hate my life go kill yourself or else."

So please get off your high horse. I've got as much right to edit Wikipedia as you do.

Allan

PS Do you want me to put that sentence back in?

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Please do not delete content from articles on Wikipedia, as you did to Teller-Ulam configuration. If you continue to do so, it may be considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert 03:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Proposal

Hellow George, I read your user page and I can see you know about spacecrafts. I want share some ideas about the develop of new ships. I saw your very well done picture of a Medusa spacecraft and think the Nuclear Pulse Propulsion is the way to conquer the Solar´s System planets. Tell me something about this: Interplanetary Spacecraft When NASA would build de Ares V rocket (CaLV), then it would has the possibility of send a manned spacecraft with Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, Medusa named, above the magnetosphere facing the Sun (70000 km up the Earth´s surface). It sounds aggressive but we know there are high level of radiations at this altitude and also the magnetosphere deflect it, avoiding reach the atmosphere. In this place a nuclear-propulsed spacecraft woudn´t affected humans or artificial satellites. One single Ares V could lift a Medusa (60 to 70 tons) to this high elliptical orbit. This spacecraft could reach the moon faster than projected Orion spacecraft. It could descend in the Moon carrying a larger payload, making feasible an intensive colonization, exploration and mining. The ship could return the Earth and landing using an aerobraking shield and small chemical engines. Medusa could carry a large payload of minerals from Moon to Earth. Also this spacecraft could achive the long dreamed manned trip to Mars in a shorter time that current probes do. The advantages of nuclear ships travel in space are huges, they can increase drastically our domains of the Solar System.User:201.220.222.140

Orphaned fair use image (Image:ISRO-sre01.jpg)

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Q clearance badge image

The editor who was removing the badge image emailed me, and I did a brief web search and replied with the following. I certainly could be wrong, and in these post-PATRIOT Act days there might be a special statute or regulation in force, but I don't see any reason to worry about it unless DOE contacts Wikipedia via OTRS or otherwise. Here's what I wrote:

Dear _________:

Thanks for your message. Rather than emailing me, however, it would be better to post your concerns on the Talk page for the Q clearance article. While I do understand that there are security concerns related to replicas and copies of badges, I do not believe that simply presenting images of DOE badges is a sensitive issue or security risk. For example, images of LANL badges appear on LANL's own public web newsletter:

http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/News/122297.html http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/News/062998.html http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/News/010699.html http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/News/031700.html http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/News/010700.html

as well as LLNL's public web site:

http://www.llnl.gov/es_and_h/hsm/doc_20.01/images/image009.gif

In fact, it would probably be more informative to replace or augment the fuzzy image that is there now with one of the samples from the web.

Best regards,

Michael C. Berch (User:MCB)

--MCB 08:27, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the heads-up. I didn't think of the mailing list. I used to be on it, but dropped off due to volume. I found the thread in the archives. I thought Brad had actually weighed in on it already, so was wondering where that was. When I saw the previous I emailed Brad asking him to hold forth in a public place (vs. by private email (i.e, to you, me, the anon editor, etc.) so people could have a crack at it; forgot entirely about wikien-l. I'll probably join & lurk for a while again. I just didn't want it to be a seekrit discussion, or worse yet, disappear into the world of WP:OFFICE. BTW, did you trace the IP range of the anon editor to DOE, NNSA, or a lab? I confess I didn't do a WHOIS, I just ascribed it to an, er, overzealous person. But even though he's making his case in a non-wikipedia-like manner, he could well be right. Well, I'm off to dinner (remember Kabuki-West?)... Thanks, --MCB 03:05, 9 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] Oh, crikey... the IP addr is from DOE. Great. --MCB 03:09, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah, Kabuki-West... damn, it's been too many years. Have fun with that. Is David Muir Sharnoff still hosting the list?

The two IP addresses the anons were using map back to DOE and NNSA respectively, yeah. It would have been a lot easier to just ignore it if they hadn't... Georgewilliamherbert 03:11, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the list is hosted on my home server (postmodern.com), but is run by a chap named Bill Stewart. Most of the dinners are in the South Bay, but last night's was in Berkeley and David Sharnoff was indeed there. Cheers, --MCB 03:05, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Teller-Ulam image

George,

I can assure you that the obnoxious text was on the page, and I did remove it. Cite all the logs you want, but I know what I saw. I guess the one thing upon which we agree is that the figure is good and should be on the page.

I never gave much thought before to removing "content," but I think we need a lot more of that. Outside articles on technical fields, which are often astonishingly good, and an occasional gem, the usefullness of the Wikipedia project is circumscribed severely by an abundance of unsubstantiated and hyperbolical nonsense present on a scale never before known to mankind. So thanks for the idea--I think I'll go on crap removal patrol right now.

Allan

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No, you didn't delete that nonsense phrase. What you did is this: [1]

You deleted the Teller-Ulam image off the top. It's rather clear in the article history. The quote you describe was deleted a half-hour earlier by User:Alphachimp in this edit [2].

If you made a mistake, that's one thing, but what you did was delete the image. Please be more careful in the future. Georgewilliamherbert 19:32, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Dino, Benburch, FAAFA, Arbcom

For the love of all other wikieditors, do NOT discourage the ARbcom option any more. Though the Bayer corporation itself might notice the drop in aspirin sales, the rest of us wouldn't mind the results of the Arbcom. I suspect the decision would be something like 'Nuke 'em all from orbit, it's the only way to be sure'. I can live with that. This is something like the fourth problem between these editors THIS year!!! And it's only Feb! Let em complete their path of MAD. (mutually Assured destruction). The rest of us can get back to editing in peace. (relative peace.) thanks for joining in over at that AN/I, seriously, though. I hope my comments there are making sense to you and others. ThuranX 01:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Tbeatty's frequent deletions of talk comments

Could you possibly ask Tbeatty not to continually delete my talk comments that aren't directed at him with tenuous BLP claims?

I posted the following on the Roskam page regarding the well-documented homophobic breakaway faction of the Episcopal church that Roskam belongs to - and Tbeatty deleted it. He does this on a semi regular basis. Thanks! tbeatty's deletion

• The leader of Roskam's sect, Peter Akinola, supports a Nigerian law that "levies a five-year automatic prison sentence not only on almost every expression of gay identity and sexuality but also on giving advice or support to lesbians or gay men." gay.com This guy is a serious homophobe ! : "UJA, Nigeria, Dec. 20 — The way he tells the story, the first and only time Archbishop Peter J. Akinola knowingly shook a gay person’s hand, he sprang backward the moment he realized what he had done." NYTimes Homophobic Bishop No wonder the Roskamites want to downplay his membership in this sect! - User:Fairness And Accuracy For AllFAAFA 05:58, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

The only thing that is possibly objectionable is my neologism 'Roskamites' - but he deleted the whole thing. FAAFA 10:16, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Isotope23

"The comment you left on User talk:Isotope23 looks a lot like a threat to me. If that was a misunderstanding, please be a lot more careful in the future. It's at least edging into what would be blockable. Georgewilliamherbert 01:40, 9 February 2007 (UTC)"

Well, if it wasn't intended as a threat by me, and wasn't taken as a threat by him, then maybe your best bet would be to kinda stay out of it. I'm NOT threatening you here, just trying to give you some tips on manners, courtesy and etiquette. You're welcome. Space Cadet 14:14, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Regarding my comments on FR talk

FAAFA: How is posting this not a violation of the terms of the propopsed community ban? Georgewilliamherbert 22:27, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Er..... 1) it was posted many hours before this ban was ever proposed? 2) Because the ban is still that - a proposal ? (and while I'm suggesting even stronger provisions for all of us - another editor is seeking to have me blocked for a year - or forever - and he can go 'Scot-free') - FAAFA 23:03, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Conch Republic poll

I've finally gotten around to organising that poll I mentioned some time ago, to try to resolve the impasse concerning the introduction: Talk:Conch_Republic#Poll:_Conch_Republic_Article_introduction --Gene_poole 00:55, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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Q clearance

Maybe you didn't read my comment (in Q clearance talk page) but I said that I "may" not know what I am talking about. I was just speaking from the fact that so many people wanted to remove the card picture so I thought there be something more to this. Also, the Wikipedia Signpost identified these "editors" as government officials (you can see the article here) so I decided that there might be something to this. What also alerted me was that the government had removed the ID part from the original picture (see images of Q clerance cards here, you will need to scroll down) that made me even more suspicious. I may have got a little carried away when I removed the image three times. However, when I meant that a terrorist could use the ID I didn't mean in person. I meant through the computer. Also, there are people out there who can decipher numbers (with the right tools) on a blurry image of an ID card. However, I now realize if there was a danger with the image being here Wikipedia would have gotten a call from the U.S. government. So, anyway my point is that I as first was suspicious and now I understand that there is no danger in having the image here. Just wanted to clear that up!--Sportman2 21:30, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Again, I told you I know having the image here isn't a threat. Please don't tell me I didn't, because I did. Thanks!!--Sportman2 22:35, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Rewritten

May be you didn´t see this. Hellow George, I read your user page and I can see you know about spacecrafts. I want share some ideas about the develop of new ships. I saw your very well done picture of a Medusa spacecraft and think the Nuclear Pulse Propulsion is the way to conquer the Solar´s System planets. Tell me something about this: Interplanetary Spacecraft When NASA would build de Ares V rocket (CaLV), then it would has the possibility of send a manned spacecraft with Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, Medusa named, above the magnetosphere facing the Sun (70000 km up the Earth´s surface). It sounds aggressive but we know there are high level of radiations at this altitude and also the magnetosphere deflect it, avoiding reach the atmosphere. In this place a nuclear-propulsed spacecraft woudn´t affected humans or artificial satellites. One single Ares V could lift a Medusa (60 to 70 tons) to this high elliptical orbit. This spacecraft could reach the moon faster than projected Orion spacecraft. It could descend in the Moon carrying a larger payload, making feasible an intensive colonization, exploration and mining. The ship could return the Earth and landing using an aerobraking shield and small chemical engines. Medusa could carry a large payload of minerals from Moon to Earth. Also this spacecraft could achive the long dreamed manned trip to Mars in a shorter time that current probes do. The advantages of nuclear ships travel in space are huges, they can increase drastically our domains of the Solar System. 00:15, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Carl Steadman

My edit to Carl Steadman was not a joke. I cited all of my sources and yet you are claiming the edit is vandalism, without a single fact to support that claim. The "evidence" produced by Jayvdb was proven false with a few seconds of research (see linked talk page). Please check the facts for yourself before accusing other users of vandalizing articles on subjects which you know nothing about. TVshot 02:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

your RfA

Hello George. I was reading over your RfA, and I have a question for you. Do you still hold to your statement at ArbCom?:
"Posting someone's real life id info online is not a real life attack. A real life attack is being punched or having someone pull a gun or knife on you, or at the very least someone having made a real world information attack such as harrassing phone calls to you, your friends or relatives or employers, etc. It is quite serious to have people going around posting personal details online that you want kept private. But it's not a real life attack. You do not have perspective here."[1]

I would appreciate any context and background you could provide. I did not follow and have not read that whole ArbCom case, and I don't need a lot of details about your interaction with MONGO. What I'm interested in is your definition of "real life". Thank you, Fang Aili ^talk 19:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I feel like this all is a bit over my head, so I'm not going to vote at your RfA unless it looks like it's going to be close (then I'll think about it a little more). But it looks like you will probably succeed. Good luck! Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 14:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Firearms

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User talk:Artistpres

I've unblocked Artistpres. Thanks for the note. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)