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Re: Talk:Fossil fuel power plant

I have added comments to the Talk Page about fossil fuel power plants. I was wondering why trouble is taken in converting steam into water after the steam turbine, only to be turned right back into steam again later in the furnace. You could just send the steam from the steam turbine straight back into the furnace. I thought you may be able to educate me as to why this is not done. *Just thought* Is it because the vacuum created by the condensing water helps drive the turbines faster?--JB001 14:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do we really need 4 articles on the same subject?

Wikipedia now has these 4 articles, all on the same subject:

Do we really need all of these? In my opinion, this sort of thing reflects badly on Wikipedia. What can we do to get these four articles merged?? - mbeychok 18:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit at Mole

		The Minor Barnstar
		For finally correcting the value of Mole and saving me and many others from widespread misconception :) æn↓þæµß¶-ŧ-¢ 22:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have no idea. From where I come, I was taught the incorrect value(6.023) for 3 years. At such minor doubt, I turned to Wikipedia, nd it was wrong :) That is why the Barnstar! --æn↓þæµß¶-ŧ-¢(I prefer replying to each other's talk pages.) 11:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Artificial Limb Edit

Hi, I saw you changed the history section back to what it had been a couple days ago by taking out a new paragrpah. I'm new to wikipedia and didn't really understand why you made this change. Could you give me a little more detail on my talk page? Thanks Nfk17 03:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comprehensive NT

Thanks for your note. The book is being published by Cornerstone. I have a prepublication copy and got permission to use material from it, but it shouldn't be available on Amazon until the summer. Tim 13:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for advice on categorisation

Thank you for your advice on how to categorise correcly in Wikipedia. I am not very computer-savvy, so tips like this are always welcome. ACEOREVIVED 19:59, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your WP:AIV post

Hi Blainster! I noticed you placed a request for protection for Isaac Newton at AIV. In future, it's best to place requests for protection at WP:RFPP, where they will get attended to. Thanks :) – riana_dzasta 06:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Subpage mistake

Thank you so much for checking for my own accuracy! Unfortunately, I don't understand the mistake I made. what's wrong with [[User:Ephileli/POV|My POV]]?

I'm about to start reading Siddhartha (novel). Have you read it? --Ephilei 03:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pierce

Thanks for letting me know about Slim Margin and the others. :-) I've reverted to a December version, protected the page, and left a note for you on talk. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:57, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppets

Hmm, the semi-protection didn't appear to be working that time. I'll try re-applying it. Jayjg ^(talk) 20:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rock Springs Massacreeee

Hello. About six months ago I penned this article, Rock Springs Massacre, which I have been working hard to cleanup and reference and de-POVify, now being, of course, a much more experienced Wikipedian (I think I wrote that about two weeks after registering). I remembered you giving some helpful tips and edits in the past so I thought I would contact you. Anyway, its up for peer review, and as I said I have been working to improve it, any input or edits you could provide would be greatly appreciated. I am hoping to one day make this a Featured Article Candidate, it may be up to GA as is, would be my fourth now if I nominate it, what do you think? Is it ready? Thanks in advance. IvoShandor 15:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re: Banned user Jon Awbrey

This banned user continually makes new sockpuppets (the latest is User:Samboner) and continues to edit Charles Peirce. Please see Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Jon Awbrey. It seems our defense is to keep the article semi-protected and keep blocking the new usernames as he creates them. I also notified Jayjg who has been dealing with Awbrey for a long time. --Blainster 16:14, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I feel more comfortable letting Jayig handle this, if he has experience with this situation. But let me know if there's anything you'd like me to do. --Fang Aili ^talk 16:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know; I've blocked the latest 5 socks. Jayjg ^(talk) 22:05, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Paul Tillich and Calvinism

Was Tillich so much a 'Lutheran', or in actuallity from the German Evangelical tradition (the union of German Lutheran and German Reformed churches in Germany)? My understanding was that he was brought to America connected with the Evangelical Synod of North America (the same denomination of the Niebuhr brothers), which subsequently became part of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and then finally part of the United Church of Christ. Also, I suspect one could probably make the case that Tillich's influence was probably greater on moderate-to-liberal Reformed type folks (the United Church of Christ, moderate-to-liberal Presbyterians, etc.) than it has been on Lutherans. I will confess that I don't have much at hand in the way of sources/citations for any of this at the moment. Emerymat 15:45, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re: Harvey Cox

Regarding your concerns about the Category:American sailors and inclusion in Wikipedia:WikiProject Maritime Trades, the second paragraph begins "After a stint in the U.S. Merchant Marine..." which seems to cover both items. I've copied this on your talk page for your convenience, and will happily continue the conversation, if you desire, on my talk page. Cheers. Haus^Talk 16:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ACM founder

Hey Blainster, do you happen to know of any way to source the founder(s) of the ACM? I saw that you added Berkeley as the founder, but it was my impression that the ACM was not founded by any one person, but actually a group. I also have it in my mind that the group consisted of seven individuals, each of whose signatures appear on the founding document of the organization. I don't know what this document was, or where it is, or who signed it, or how any of this might be sourced, which is why I'm hoping you can help fill in the gaps. Cheers, Robert K S 20:49, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Integral talk

I originally moved integral theory to integral thought (renamed it, essentially) to include writers who are not technically theorists, like William Irwin Thompson, who is a poet/literary figure/cultural critic. Later, M. Alan Kazlev split the article intto Integral Thought, a broader broup, and Integral theory, about Ken Wilber and the group of authors and artists around his theory. — goethean ॐ 19:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just removed the redirect code from Talk:Integral theory. — goethean ॐ 19:22, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rock Springs Massacre

Hello there. Since you have commented on or assisted with editing Rock Springs Massacre in the past, I thought I would notify you that the article reached Good article status recently, (if you didn't already know that). Since then I have undertaken a significant expansion/overhaul/source verification mission which has resulted in a new version of the article. Soon, I hope to take it to Featured Article candidates. What it needs now is some outside input and copy editing. Anything you can offer in the area would be helpful. You may want to start by taking a look at the talk page first, I have been updating my progress on the article there regularly. Thanks ahead of time for your help. IvoShandor 09:31, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glider

Yes, admins serve as bookkeepers in this matter. However, CFDs are not decided by headcount. What is relevant is that there's already a list article that covers the subject better (so no information is lost here), that we in general don't categorize people by hobby, and that the debate centered around whether piloting a glider was or was not a defining characteristic. It has been shown that the cat contained mostly people who are famous in other fields, and also happen to like gliding; as such, it is not defining (unlike, say, Category:Aviators, which in general contains people famous for being an aviator). HTH! >Radiant< 08:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article on Matrixism: a Religion Based on the Writings of Aldous Huxley

There is an article on a entheogenic new religious movement called Matrixism being created at User:Xoloz/Matrixism. There are numerous sources for this article yet it has because contentious because it deals with the subject of entheogens. Thought you might like to look at it and perhaps contribute. 206.124.144.3 05:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mainline

You wrote: Please don't change an article title (Mainline) by using redirect. That is what the move tab is for. Read Help:Merging and moving pages for the correct procedure. What you did hides access to the article's history. --Blainster 07:57, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I got into a tangle trying to sort out a chain of items and ran out of time to check it thoroughly, didn't realise all the ramifications. Regards, Rexparry sydney 06:28, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I am not clear why the bot (or you) is placing itself into categories which are meant for articles, not users or Wikiprojects. What is the reason for it? --Blainster 10:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Would appreciate your comments on Afd

Blainster, I would appreciate it if you took the time to comment on the proposed deletion of the Air pollution dispersion modeling books article. The discussion on the proposed deletion is located at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Air pollution dispersion modeling books. I oppose the deletion. Regards, - mbeychok (talk) 19:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnam Vets

please take a look at above page and see if you think reference to k. adams 1950 is probable vandalism. thanks. Toyokuni3 (talk) 16:12, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

very good catch

on the spam at Bruce Chilton - I missed the way those ISBNs had been linked. I've cleanup tup the content there also. The ip doing it has been warned many times previously, so I have blocked it and will be alert to further abuse of the sort. It is extensive enough that I will probably also contact the employer's head of PR from my university address. DGG (talk) 04:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ken Wilber

Hi there. Would you like to step over the Ken Wilber and give your opinion on an issue? — goethean ॐ 14:49, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Recent cat deletion: electronic music pioneers

I did not see this discussion until it was closed. The cat was removed on what looks to be a 2/3 vote. I agree with your assessment, this is no different from the cats of other pioneers in technology progress. The cat should have been kept and narrowed to the inventors and developers of the technology. With my vote it would have been 2/4 and would not have had "consensus". Would you support me if I restored the category? Also, I only know of perhaps 4 or 5 who qualify for the category (Moog, Carlos, Mauzey, Theremin). Can you help with any others? --Blainster (talk) 22:05, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Restoring a deleted category is not a good idea, as it mostly perpetuates the conflict. The next place to take this would be Wikipedia:Deletion review, where it can be considered by more seasoned Admins. If you need help with this, I will be back online tomorrow, but all you need for now is to request that the deletion be overturned.

Off the top of my head, I would add Raymond Scott, Louis and Bebe Barron and Pierre Schaeffer to that list, but I am no expert. Many notables are listed linked from Electronic art music and other Main article articles linked from Electronic music. / edg ☺ ☭ 03:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll be tied up for the next day or two, but appreciate your suggestions. --Blainster (talk) 07:38, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since there was nothing wrong process-wise with this deletion, I don't wish to appeal to WP:DRV on my own. Let me know when you're available. / edg ☺ ☭ 13:26, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits

Hi, I apologize that my edits were not very clear. I had provided justification on Rbreen's talk page. Thanks, Mineminemine (talk) 21:10, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quantum Metaphysics

Thank you for your post re QM & Mysticism. You put the problem very brilliantly.

As I think I may have said on the page, the problem lies in peoples' misunderstanding of what Mysticism is. Mysticism is not the same thing as religion, although the two can overlap. Mysticism is much closer to Einstein's definition of 'Cosmic Religion'. It is beyond morality, hierarchies, Popes, Rabbis, Lamas etc, is non-dualistic and not about power structures. It is also, as you say, very invested in the exploration of Consciousness, specifically Consciousness of realms beyond the physical or three dimensional. So to draw parallels between Mysticism and QM is not to confirm the existence of the personal God of the Koran, the Bible or the Bagavad Gita but to reach out into the realms beyond these texts which are, nevertheless, hinted at in these texts. People are very afraid that if QM allows Mysticism legitimacy then it will allow all the fundamentalists back in and send us back to the Middle Ages. Everett, for instance, was very wary of telling Bohr his theory of Multiple Universes because he was afraid that 'it could be interpreted mystically in some quarters'. Ironically, Bohr dismissed Everett's ideas as ridiculous. Even more ironically, Everett was a committed atheist who nevertheless believed in Quantum Immortality! In this theory each individual Consciousness exists simultaneously in all the Multiple Universes, thus that Consciousness can never die, even if it does die in any number of the Mutiple Universes... A mind-blower!

In fact most of the Mystics of the Middle Ages whose insights parallel QM were denounced as heretics by the religious authorities. Mysticism was effectively a heresy at that time, which is why since the Middle Ages study of Western Mysticism has been so rare and suppressed. And yet Western Mysticism comes to the same conclusions as Eastern but uses different terms.

There is also the question being begged here: if the Mystics really WERE onto something, then how did they come to the conclusions that our modern Scientists are coming to without the benefit of advanced mathematics? It would mean that higher levels of Consciousness ARE available to us, which is exactly what the Mystics were interested in...

I have heard of Ken Wilber. I have a Kabbalistic Rabbi friend who is a great champion of his work. I will have a look. Thank you.

Something that is fascinating about QM is that, over a century after its foundational theories were coined by Einstein and the first generation of QMers, it has yet to change our paradigm on a mass level. Newtonian/Descartian Physics didn't take long to change Western Consciousness. Indeed, it could be argued that their scientific vision influenced everything in the West from politics to economics and medicine. So far, QM hasn't shifted anything. This is largely, of course, because it is felt a) we can't sense any of it and b) it doesn't effect us on a macrocosmic level. But we don't know that either of these things are true. What we don't know is HOW it effects us on a macrocosmic level - yet. But it is gradually changing various perceptions. If we could let go of the Newtonian Mind Set for a moment we could radically rethink all our systems on this planet from how we provide power for ourselves to how we interact with the natural world. We don't have to float around in parallel universes, but we could discover a more holistic, reciprocal way of interacting with each other.

So far only the New Agers have leapt on QM but their Mysticism is Mysticism-lite too. Fuzzy Science and Fuzzy Spirituality are two sides of the same coin. What would be useful, it seems to me, would be to invest some energy into exploring Consciousness more. In the past, only select people (Mystics) had the ability to enhance their Consciousness in a way which took us 'beyond' the physical into other Realities. If we invested in developing our Consciousness more in that way we could uncover interesting things. Its interesting - imagine a population with a 'Mystical Sense' rather than a minority? It would be very interesting! Lol! ThePeg (talk) 00:48, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why am I leaving Wikipedia?

Blainster, take a good look at my user page. I believe it documents that fact that I have been a long time contributor of good articles related to my many years of engineering experience.

So why have I decided to leave Wikipedia? Because I have grown weary of the revisions made by unexperienced people who think they know a subject when they really don't know it. I am also weary of people who make revisions because they "know better than anyone else". In particular, the actions of one young postgrad student who calls himself Headbomb with whom it is impossible to reason because of his firm belief that he is infallible ... and that he and only he "knows better than anyone else". His attitude has finally been the last straw in making my decision to leave Wikipedia. I am simply tired of trying to reason with the likes of Headbomb.

Goodbye to all the friends I did make here in the past two and a half years or so. mbeychok (talk) 16:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Origen Church Father?

Its not as definitive as the other person thinks, see my addition to the discussion on Origen--76.31.242.174 (talk) 08:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Oskar Heil transistor patent

I reverted back to the starting point with the correct quote. It might be a good idea to change it to mention the filing date differently, but don't change the quote if you try again at that. Dicklyon (talk) 01:50, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ENIAC

Blainster - I see you moved my recent addition to the UNIAC article from the lead paragraph to the programming section. After I composed this addition I debated where to put it in the article. I finally decided it was important enough to be in the lead. What I was attempting to say was that Los Alamos usurped the BRL's role as the user of the computer. This has nothing to do with programming. GroveGuy (talk) 22:28, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the edits to the article on transpersonal psychology

Thank you to the edits which you quickly made to the article on transpersonal psychology. Although I am sympathetic to Transpersonal Psychology myself (I teach it as part of my job, and have published articles/ presented conference papers on the topic), I did see the earlier version was rather clearly a violation of NPOV. Worse, it was inaccurate - to call transpersonal psychology "the positive psychology par excellence" would ignore how a definition of transpersonal psychology by Walsh and Vaughan (1993) aimed to be a comprehensive definition, looking at transpersonal psychology dealing with the negative as well as the positive side of life (that comment, by the way, was also ignoring differences between humanistic psychology and transpersonal psychology). So thank you for keeping an eye on what are clearly POV edits. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:24, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Carl Gustav Jung

There is a very good article page on Carl Gustav Jung and a sister page Answer to Job, if this is of your interests?

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userpage

Thanks. You can contribute to my user pages if you want. — goethean ॐ 03:26, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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G'day Blainster, It was good to see your addition to the Rolling stock article. I'm just contacting you to ask whether you think "sometimes" could be deleted. I live in Australia, and know that term is well embedded, and 4 decades of reading Trains magazine makes me confident it's the standard term in the U.S. So I'd like to suggest a modification:

In North America, Australia and other countries, the term consist (/ˈkɒnsɪst/ KON-sist) is used to refer to the rolling stock in a train.

You'll see I've made a couple of other tweaks. I'll leave it to you to decide which, if any, are desirable. Best wishes, Simon. – SCHolar44 (talk) 00:37, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I gave my reasons for reverting your edits in the edit summary. There are a good deal of details and important nuance that you cut out. Those points were not written randomly, but carefully considered and taken from various Hughes biographes. Hughes changed his degree subject, then held very many jobs in his youth and they informed his experience and writing. He considered himself to be a working class Yorkshire man, so it's important to flag this in his context. Plath had won many awards before she met Hughes. I appreciate the urge for concision, but please don't knock out elements that show time progression or important context, small things thought they may seem. Anna (talk) 19:39, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Anna Roy Thanks for your detailed response. I will go ahead and put back the changes not pertaining to your objection. Blainster (talk) 20:36, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

N-dashes for dates, please

The MOS requires n-dashes between dates of birth and death, not hyphens. -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:11, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ssilvers Thank you. (but puzzled, because it's pretty hard to tell the difference.) I will have to use Wiki markup, then, because it's not on my keyboard. Blainster (talk) 16:17, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop removing "now" indiscriminately. The policy only says "words to watch", not "words to remove everywhere, not caring whether the replacement makes sense". Per MOS:VAMOS "now in Foo museum" is the correct phrase to use, avoiding nonsense like "The Mona Lisa is currently in the Louvre Museum", or works of art "residing" being "held" and so on. . Johnbod (talk) 12:16, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnbod

Thanks for your suggestions, pointing out that part of the MOS, and your civility. My removal of those adjectives is general, but not indiscriminate. They generally do not belong in an encyclopedia, as opposed to, for example, a newspaper. However, considering that the art articles are more carefully supervised, I will try to follow VAMOS. Your examples on "currently" and "residing" are clear, but can you tell me why being "held" is poor form? That seems fairly common to me. Blainster (talk) 15:35, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it may be rather a personal view, but typically archives and maybe libraries have "holdings" while

galleries and museums have "collections". You will very rarely find the best RS saying a painting is "held" (& if you do, it will probably be in a recent junior American academic context). VAMOS tries to avoid needless prolixity & Latinate formality, when "now in" does the job perfectly well. Johnbod (talk) 17:25, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnbod Thanks, that helps. Blainster (talk) 18:32, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, can you check the wording of the article 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference there are spelling mistakes --57ntaledane90 (talk) 12:53, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@57ntaledane90 It looks OK to me. 1) The spelling of "Türkiye" in the quote appears to be the spelling of Turkey in their native language. 2) I added a word ("of") that had been left out at the start of the quote, to form a complete sentence. 3) Also, there are two references in the article that are in Spanish language. These should be changed to English language alternatives. I don't speak Spanish so I can't help with that. Blainster (talk) 20:46, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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