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= Simon Munnery =
Hi there, Bodnotbod. I too, have begun to specialise in Wiki pages dedicated to British comedy. Maybe you d like to give my Simon Munnery page the once over to make sure that everything is as comprehensive as it aught to be - User:Angry_Candy.
:Seems good to me. The style of writing is more akin to journalism than encyclopaedic, but I think that s a good thing for entertainment bios, personally. I can t really add anything. I didn t really get along with Attention Scum! . I understand Stewart Lee was still smarting from the shoddy scheduling the series got about five years after it finished. -- 22:22, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)
= Pejorative labels =
I seem to be drawn to these. The latest one I d want to make is pseudoscience, but I know that I ll then be a sort of Troll Mecca . I figured it might be best to at least qualify it a bit. Maybe something like topics in skepticism, but perhaps that s too weasel wordy.
I figure a lot of possible categories are going to be controversial, probably on articles that are already the battlefield for multiple edit wars. Anyone got any thoughts on my specific proposed category, or the broader problem -- 23:34, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)
:But what indeed is wrong with pseudoscience, Botnotbot The following dictionaries and encyclopaedias all have articles or items on it:
*Dictionaries:
*Merriam-Websters Online Dictionary *Encarta World English Dictionary *Cambridge International Dictionary of English *The Wordsmyth English Dictionary *The American Heritage Dictionary *Infoplease Dictionary *Dictionary.com *Ultralingua English Dictionary
*Encyclopedias:
*Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience *Bartleby.com (The New Dictionary if Cultural Literacy)
They can t all be misled into ill-using the English language (
. I think the word is well-established. 00:12, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
::I think what he means is that if he had to expound on pseudo-science he would need to mention controversial topics , ex. Creationism, which would attract trolls and know-nothings. -- 00:34, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
:::Sorry for my wrong-end-of-the-stick bit. The pejorative label thing threw me a little, you know, the unfortunate connotation in a name I wish you luck with the category and can see it fill up nicely, having only just recently witnessed the back-and-forth thrust of Alternative medicine and its talk section. 21:39, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
::::Hi, I moved this from the pump as it was time to archive it and didn t know if you d seen all the replies yet. 23:24, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
=Jet Audio=
:This sounds like a codex issue. You might want to either: 1. Make sure you are using the most recent wma codex, if you are, then any player that will use it should play wma files, there are several open source ones. Or, 2. download the most recent version of Windows Media Player. This will include the codex, and Jet Audio should use it if it is available. Let me know if that helps, or feel free to email me if there s anything else I can do. 15:23, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
::Well, I said that downloading WMP would be the easiest way, if you don t want to do that there are other ways to do it. I take it you tried this [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspxdisplaylang=en&FamilyID=73C47878-20D0-4C1A-96F4-177D7E0074B7] and it told you to install the latest WMP [http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli This] is an open source version of WMP, which may install the latest codec - could you point me to a link which has the file and I could take a look Otherwise try installing the latest version of some other open source media players - generally they will update the codecs when they install and other players will be able to see and use them. The most difficult thing is to manually install them. Let me know how you do, 15:38, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
= How to get images permission =
Hi Bodnotbod. Last month you contributed to a discussion on the 00:09, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
:Did I Christ I must stop drinking. -- 01:29, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
=Categories=
VfD pages still need to be listed on 20:59, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
=Napoleon=
See Nap. Talk : 23:46, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
: As far as courtesy is concerned (your comment on my talk page) well, please note that you also reverted my edit without discussion, and more importantly you amplified it: when I noticed that all the new Bill and Ted type additions came from you, I was miffed, and that s when I decided to create the page right away. Note that I showed you the courtesy of keeping all your text in the separate article, and that I qualified the link using your words as a by-word for mental ill health even though I strongly feel it is inappropriate. : 02:29, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
:: Re your posting on my talk page, OK by me. : 06:27, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
= S Up =
Thats ok, i didn t mean it in bad faith neither. Sorry. At least on the bright side, it has a sense of infamy for folk who do take it the wrong way. And people so rarely read that stuff unless they contribute to the page. Nowt to worry about. The way I saw it, you were being sarcastic towards me, which I took in good humour (and i actually did check out yer page, took one look at that picture and decided it probobly WAS good natured sarcasm), and I responded appropriately. Also, though there is an insult to you, there is also a lamentation of my crap spelling stored in this database for ever more. Chin up. -- 17:39, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
= Re: Pac-Man =
You re welcome. -- 02:49, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
= warra twat =
Yeah, it seems quite petty on his part. I mean, why bother deleating what you put, when other people have put stuff of a similar nature. I think if anyone in history stands out as a questionable hero it must be Napoleon. The only people i can think of who would praise him are the French, and even then he crippled their economy. Maybe that guy is American and just dosn t get the severity of Napoleon s potential. He could kiss the precious American Ideal of Liberty goodbye had Napoleon not been stopped by Wellington (a REAL hero, though certainly not infallable) -- 17:46, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I don t really know much about Napoleon. Certainly not enough to know whether I would think he were basically a good man or basically a bad man. So all the stuff I wrote was from a neutral starting point. But I think I like Napoleon slightly less since that minor argument over the popular culture section. ;o) -- 17:52, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
=Lords Northcliffe & Rothermere=
Hello! I believe that the correct forms for article titles are: *Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe *Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere In the articles themselves, the above forms (with the middle names included, if you like) should be used for the first line. Thereafter, however, the individual should be referred to as Lord Northcliffe/ Rothermere (unless, of course, one is writing about the individual before he became a peer). The rule of referring to Lord X applies to all peers, other than Dukes. -- 19:32, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
= User page =
My response is on
= User page =
My response is on 16:46, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
= User page Revisited =
I did a little work on my user page. Does it render correctly on your pc (btw, the old revision rendered correctly for me on 10x6 res at Mozilla and IE, so...dunno). 18:44, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC) :as always...my response is on my user talk page. I promise I ll look into the matter eventually (I procrastinate a lot :D). 19:04, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
= Attachement theory and neuroimaging =
Hi there,
I m afraid I m no expert on Attachment theory, but your page seems very well written and is a good summary of the strange situation. My only suggestion would be more on Bowlby s original work, and perhaps even Harry Harlow s work with monkeys and subsequent criticisms. I ll go about looking some of this stuff up if I get a chance.
As regards to your query on neuroimaging...
:I ve been wondering recently about why it is that we routinely X-ray people for internal physical problems but rarely brain scan people with behavioural difficulties or mental illness. Am I right in assuming it s largely a matter of cost
It can be a matter of cost, but largely it s because they do different things and scans are routinely used in hospitals for the purpose of diagnosis.
Mental illnesses and behavioural difficulties tend to be diagnosed on behaviour, so a brain scan wouldn t be useful in making a positive diagnosis (although they might use it to rule out another diagnosis, i.e. to make sure the behaviour wasn t the result of a brain injury). Also, although some differences in structure and function have been found between the brains of people diagnosed with certain mental illnesses and those without, these are not reliable (some people with these mental illnesses will not show these differences) and so tend only be investigated by researchers interested in exploring brain function. Of course, this may change in the future, but this seems to be the current state of play.
Hope this helps - 09:51, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
=A suggestion=
I noticed this on recent changes 22:41, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
:If you ll forgive a further butt-in, and as you re concerned about reaction, I m not sure most people would classify epilepsy or mental retardation as mental illness , and many think that George III s illness was physical (porphyria) albeit with behavioural symptoms. By actual scientific measures (inbreeding coefficients) the House of Windsor s degree of inbreeding is not particularly notable. See [http://members.aol.com/eurostamm/ahnen.html] for serious inbreeding. For inbreeding to be of much consideration in physical or mental defects it has to be fairly recent - the marriages of distant cousins are basically irrelevant - except in cases where a specific recessive genetic trait is being examined. And a pattern of institutionization of epileptic or mentally deficient people is perhaps more indicative of society s views toward them than it is of any one family s view. Just stray thoughts!.... - 22:59, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I don t see any reason why it couldn t be moved to the main namespace as long as you get your facts right, and present the info neutrally. Get the article in as good as shape as you can, move it and see what happens. 23:07, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
:I d certainly intended to note that epilepsy wouldn t be classified as a mental illness, but that it was (maybe, haven t looked into it enough yet) regarded as one at the time. Anyway, sheesh, give me a break... I ve not even started writing it properly yet ;o) -- 15:09, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)
::I know it s a work in progress. That was a critique not a criticism :) - 20:05, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
=Admin status=
I m thinking of nominating you. Would you like me to 11:18, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC) :I m drunk at the moment, and apparently opened the window for your talk page... don t remember why, but it s worth noting that I would support you for admin too, even after I m sober. 05:50, Aug 23, 2004 (UTC)
OK what it means is - roughly speaking you do all the orrible cleaning up jobs. There are lot s of these jobs to do, which is why we need all the trustworthy people we can get. Job s that I do include: #dealing with vandals - this is a thankless task, and you need to be calm, not easily riled, and it helps to have a good sense of humour. I have on my watchlist and also regulaly watch recent changes looking for vandal edits. I warn nicely, warn sternly, then block if they ignore my warnings. As an admin you get roll back privaleges which allow you to revert vandal edits with one click of a button. #Helping with deleting. This is a nice task as you often get thanked. Non admins post requests for pages deletions on or the VP so they can move pages or they ve uploaded an image in the wrong file format. #Speedy deletions - I check for very small pages by non logged in users (|
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