User:Antaeus Feldspar/scratch

Note to smarmy jerks who go snooping around user pages and then loudly proclaiming that they "understand" what I'm about better for spying on my works-in-progress than they would by listening to what I'm saying: Get a fucking life and get off my back.

Scientology as of 2007-04-16
continue later...
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121341599
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121771691
 * Information that Scientologists have claimed alleviation of dyslexia removed. Very sure this could be addressed.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121784389
 * GO 121699 called "canceled"
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121786268
 * GO 121699 is falsely called "one instance" rather than a policy which dictated that it become a practice used whenever "needed"
 * "No actual violation of the Auditor's Code #19 has been documented however." Supporting reference is not from a reliable source with no stake in the case; it is part of Ken Hoden's testimony.
 * May be corrected by this
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121800976
 * Absolute bullshit. Removes all details of Barley Formula containing honey with bullshit edit summary "Silent birth and infant care - part deflated. As long as there is no case of Scientology kid infant botulism this is all theory and unsourced."
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121802408
 * Questionable re-interpretation of funeral rites
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=prev&oldid=121806758
 * Removal of adjective "colourful" when Scientologists themselves are saying these details make them look unusual.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121807523
 * Removal of "Internal Scientology publications are often illustrated with pictures of spaceships and oblique references to catastrophic events that happened "75 million years ago" (i.e., the Xenu incident)."
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121810394
 * Large removal of text on Hubbard's medical views with false edit summary "uncited, false and double text removed"
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121824910
 * Major changes to description of Hubbard's association with Parsons. "performing rites" is changed to "witnessing rites"; Hubbard referring to Aleister Crowley as "my very good friends" is changed to referring to him as a "Mad Old Boy".
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121843248 "my very good friend" re-added though not in same place; "witnessing" not fixed. Hubbard's recommendation of a book by Crowley added.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121835056, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121838803
 * Following text removed: "In the 1965 edition of Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, he added, "Scientology is that branch of psychology which treats or (embraces) human ability. It is an extension of Dianetics which is in itself an extension of old-time faculty-psychology of 400 years ago."" Fact tag had only been on for 9 minutes.  edit summary is "book checked, quote not in there, to the contrary: "Any comparison between Scientology and the subject known as psychology is nonsense." (p.9)"  Even if he had the 1965 edition, far-fetched that he could have conclusively determined the quote to not be there in nine minutes.  Also changed "redefined" to "defined" in discussing Hubbard's characterization of Scientology as a religion in 1960.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121842933
 * removal of Sterling Management Systems
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=prev&oldid=121882367
 * reference improperly removed because of broken URL; text of same paper is at http://www.suppressiveperson.org/psych/psychiatry-and-scn-west.html
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121882550
 * "Independent Scientology groups" changed to "Scientology splinter groups" with edit summary "correct term used"
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121953596
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121970272
 * Misou; edit summary "WP:RS has no problem with self-published sources being cited for their own views (Antaeus Feldspar)"; completely avoids discussion of the fact that the tag says that the self-published sources may be being cited as authority (which appears to be case with Hoden ref, if nothing else)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=122029117 COFS repeats *exact same edit summary*: "WP:RS has no problem with self-published sources being cited for their own views (Antaeus Feldspar)"
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121998260
 * Deceptive edit; sentence about auditing sessions presented in "have you lived?" removed from "Xenu and Body Thetans" section moved to "past lives" section, fact that some of these auditing sessions predated sci. estimates of age of universe removed completely. Reads suspiciously as if sentence had already been subtly denuded of inconvenient facts regarding space opera content of those auditing sessions.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=122064134
 * COFS removes POV of the Freezone and inserts false information that all breakaway groups refer to themselves collectively as Ron's Org.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=122068879
 * Bullshit spinning re: celebrities -- "consistently sought to recruit artists and entertainers" is converted to "consistently attracted artists and entertainers". What was correctly presented as Scientology's description is replaced by "L. Ron Hubbard saw to the formation of a special Church of Scientology which would cater artists, politicians, leaders of industry, sports figures and anyone with the power and vision "to create a better world""

Atlanta Nights
http://www.lisamaliga.com/AtlantaNightsLosAngelesTimes.htm http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/789153911.html?dids=789153911:789153911&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+5%2C+2005&author=Scott+Martelle&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=E.1&desc=Please+publish+this+dud

Albert Hofmann
Convert to Cite.php

Kathleen Willey and Edward E. Willey Jr.
http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2002/03/12/ray/index.html?pn=1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/willey031998.htm

Template:Imdb title
Add optional "description" parameter

A. B. and C.
Complete synopsis

Fred T. Goldberg, Jr.
Check just what information is and isn't supported by the NYT story

Scientology vs. the Internet
While the Church issued an official statement (*) claiming that it was only taking legal action to combat hate speech, critics accused it of surpressing freedom of speech, and pointed out that under Church doctrine any opposition of Scientology comes from a hateful person (**) and can be considered hate speech.


 * The existing write-up is so POV I'd rather have some details on this statement: when was it issued, what exactly did it say?


 * This gets the point across, I think, but I'd like to look up the actual relevant Church doctrines to get it word-for-word, if possible.

Dr. Mabuse article
should probably include link to Propaganda re: their song.



Narbonic article
Taking Kevin and Kell as a model:


 * 1) About the strip
 * 2) Setting and characters
 * 3) Other significant characters
 * 4) Storyline
 * 5) External links
 * 6) Kevin and Kell comics online
 * 7) Other resources

To be done: Antonio Smith did appear once more after the first story arc; he identified the handwriting of Pip the Mutant Ur-Gerbil for the Dave Conspiracy (07/09/02). Done

Also, Dave's machine talent was revealed by Helen on 08/09/02 and 08/10/02.

References: Done
 * The Fly (the 80's movie)
 * Little Nemo In Slumberland
 * The Cold Equations
 * Slaughterhouse-Five
 * Flowers for Algernon

The Victorian Narbonic
Hapax Legomenon

Publication schedule
Originally, the strip was planned to run seven days a week, with all strips contributing to the ongoing storyline and the Sunday comic larger and in color. This schedule turned out to be draining, and it was quickly changed to the schedule it now keeps: storyline strips run Monday through Saturday, and Sunday may

Dave Barker
Dave Barker is a real person who has been written into the strip. He was first mentioned in the Sunday strip of August 27, 2000 where the Narbonic Labs gang gathered to respond to reader letters; Barker's letter accidentally upset Helen by guessing her age to be "late 30's" when she was really 26, and also bringing up the painful fact that she wasn't really "Dr." Narbon because she'd never finished her doctorate, only her master's. By the end of the strip, Helen was ragefully announcing "I'll kill him!  I'll kill MIT student Dave Barker!" and from there, her occasional plottings for revenge against "MIT student Dave Barker" became a running gag in the weekday strip.

Dave meets Dave in the unstuck in time arc

Language is a virus
This shouldn't be a redirect to "meme"; it should link to "meme" but it's hardly just that.

LZ77 (algorithm)
While the LZ77 algorithm works on past data, the LZ78 algorithm attempts to work on future data

I'm trying to figure out why someone would believe this is correct. Both algorithms try to look ahead and find the largest chunk of yet-unencoded data starting at the current position that can be encoded by reference to past data. The actual difference is that LZ77 maintains the sliding window, and any string within that sliding window is available to be referenced; LZ78 maintains the dictionary, to which entries are added at a much slower rate but can be accessed at a lower average cost.

Stolen Honor


-- now needs registration

Cilk
/Cilk cilk

spawn

sync

inlet

abort

''Cilk is a general-purpose programming language for multithreaded concurrent programming based on ANSI C. Cilk is especially effective for exploiting dynamic, highly asynchronous parallelism, which can be difficult to write in data-parallel or message-passing style.''

''Cilk is particularly effective for programming numerical algorithms, such as matrix factorization and N-body simulations, both dense and sparse. Cilk's runtime system employs a scheduler that allows the performance of programs to be estimated accurately.''

Three world-class chess programs have been programmed in Cilk: StarTech, *Socrates, and Cilkchess.

Cilk is a general-purpose programming language designed for parallel programming.

''"data-parallel" seems to mean that large data sets are processed in parallel by processors performing identical computations. See. Not a horribly useful point to explain what Cilk is.''

-- turn all explanations of the relation between C and Cilk into one paragraph

Cilk is a general-purpose programming language designed for parallel programming.

The major design principle behind Cilk is that the programmer should concentrate on exposing opportunities for parallelism

Advanced parallelism with Cilk
inlets

Swing Out Sister
Remove self-reference, include mention of "Breakout" (when/where/how big was it a hit?)

http://www.oldies.com/artist/view.cfm/id_3342.html <= top 10 in US, more hits in UK?

Learned helplessness
If that's Tony Robbins (and even if it isn't) get some more academic/credible references for the terminology. Theory originated with Martin Seligman

http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/discouragement/helplessness.html

Scientology
Resummarize Scientology controversy -- edit down Snow White and describe major points of controversy.
 * Probably not needed now, Modemac seems to have done it.

Fanon
Definition needs to be corrected; currently it reads as if saying "it's information that's perfectly true, only the creators don't know it yet."

Kaiju Big Battel
listed for tone and technical cleanup

Big Bad Beetleborgs
spelling, wikilinks, organization, links to original series

Bead sort
What it's not good for (like sorting where the largest number is large, since the numbers are represented in unary)

[|Rape]

 * Revise custodial rape section to clarify that it includes rape of persons under custody whether they are being "protected" or punished.
 * Shift discussion of prison rape in "rape as punishment" section to custodial rape section and replace with notation in punishment section.
 * Note opposing viewpoint that it is male-on-male prison rape that is not taken seriously, incl. for the reason that rape of males is not taken as seriously as it should.
 * Note that many commentators spoke jokingly or seriously of John Wayne Bobbitt receiving his just rewards for crimes he had been accused of, but acquitted of. (or is that too far off-topic?)

Jason Lee (actor)
Note drug problems (at odds with his membership in Scientology)

Dianetics Today
Remove POV fork material. If there is any attempt to restore it, AfD the article.

Plot
Needs to be split into main article and disambiguation or disambiguation and satellite articles. (Check WhatLinksHere to see which is the most frequent usage.)

List of mythological allusions
Qualifications: should be a reference which an average educated speaker will understand the meaning of even if they don't know the story behind it.


 * Achilles' heel
 * Sword of Damocles
 * Trojan horse

Getter Robo
Getter Robo - 1974


 * Professor Saotome
 * Michiru (daughter)
 * Musashi

Getter Robo G - next year?

Sequels: Neo Getter Robo, Shin Getter Robo?

Original series useful background info

Create redirects for Getta Robo, Getter Robo G, Getta Robo G, Starvengers etc.

George Franklin, Sr.
also needs redirect at George Franklin Sr. http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1222356.htm

http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/sat19.htm

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9111452?hook=474089

Jeremy Perkins
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/JeremyPerkins/

Psycho-babble
Check Talk:Psycho-babble on or after October 15, 2005 Done. Still needs a lot of de-personal-essay-ing.

Popular psychology
Should L. Ron Hubbard be listed as "popular psychology"? Item placed October 10, 2005

Template:Public watchlist
Left message March 2 suggesting modification to take a parameter. Also needs instructions on usage.

Play around with cosmetics of template: /watchlist template

Special characters problem
' (apostrophe typed at keyboard)

now, C&P from Gamaliel version of Stolen Honor page:

Mark Nevins, a spokeman for the Kerry presidential campaign, stated: "This group is the poor, distant cousin of the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush. It?s comprised of people with questionable backgrounds whose sole mission in life is to smear John Kerry."

According to conservative commentator Deroy Murdock: "It presents POWs who argue that John Kerry's fallacious spring 1971 claims that U.S. atrocities occurred on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command' amplified their agony under America's North Vietnamese enemies."

The production company's website states that "Stolen Honor investigates how John Kerry?s actions during the Vietnam era impacted the treatment of American soldiers and POWs. Using John Kerry?s own words, the documentary juxtaposes John Kerry?s actions with the words of veterans who were still in Vietnam when John Kerry was leading the anti-war movement."

''aha! Preview shows that apostrophes do become ?s!''

Topbanana's Reports
User:Topbanana/Reports/This page contains a link that might be mis-punctuated

To do

 * "Sanctions have one of three rationales: punitive, preventative, or rehabilitative."  I realized that I omitted a fairly important fourth rationale, although I don't have a catchy one-word name for it.  The above three rationales are all defined by the effect the sanction is supposed to have on the putative wrong-doer.  The fourth rationale for applying a sanction is for the effect it will have on people or situations other than the person who supposedly earned a sanction.


 * I mentioned that the stigmatizing topic-bans pronounced upon multiple editors who have shown no interest in editing the topic for a year or more make no sense from the standpoint of prevention or rehabilitation. However, it could easily be explained from the fourth rationale:  the Arbitration Committee might have wanted to "send a message" warning off any future editors from getting involved in the Scientology articles (I'd certainly warn any editors away from touching them, at this point.)  Or perhaps the Committee wanted to pre-emptively defuse the inevitable accusations of favoritism/bias by showing that it could punish both sides "equally" regardless of whether punishments were earned by both sides equally.


 * This would go a long way towards explaining the statements offered by more than one Committee member, that topic-banning "did no harm" if the editor so banned had already stopped editing in that topic -- if you are primarily thinking about how a punishment will look, or what "message" it will send, and you overlook issues such as reputation and trust, then I suppose it might indeed look like