User:Pleasantville/User talk 2-23-07 to 8-8-07

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131.169.39.99 & Mathematica entry
Thanks for deleting my contribution to the Mathematica article. You are right, I should have posted some example code, so that everybody can test that version 6 is slower. If you agree, I will add something.


 * I think the documentation for the V6 capabilities for NIntegrate are at www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin6/content/NewGenerationNumericalIntegration/.


 * I am not an expert on what consitutes a "verifiable source" on Wikipedia, but the usual standard I've seen applied is that something must be published in the media to be considered as something with a "verifiable source." I disagree with that standard and have argued against it. I'm not sure how this is handled in terms of software and software bugs. I will inquire on the Mathematica talk page. --Pleasantville 19:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

List of science fiction editors
Sorry I got carried away editing there -- see Talk:List of science fiction editors

Enjoyed your Space Opera Renaissance collection, btw: http://www.sfsite.com/02b/sr242.htm

Cheers, Pete Tillman 19:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, there was that message suggesting that the list needed to be "cleaned up," so you did that. It's a list, not an essay, so I don't know what the person who put that note there in the first place had in mind. --Pleasantville 20:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

TNH
From User talk:Will Beback:

Why are you vandalizing the entries of my husband's colleages [sic] at Tor Book?

Please refrain from using words like "vandalizing" to describe the actions of an administrator in removing links to a website that hosts personal information about editors who wish to remain anonymous. This is perfectly in keeping with the Arbitration Committee's ruling on the issue. Of course, if the website stops hosting such material, there will be no need to remove links, and I will be delighted to help restore them. Musical Linguist 10:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I regard it as vandalism, following on Beback's threat to me of a few months ago to gut the entries of science fiction editors. Also, it came immediately on the heels of my request that Beback stop wikistalking me.


 * Beback should please stop wikistalking me and please keep his hands off the bios of science fiction editors. My general impression is that his whole interest in the subject of the bios of science fiction editors derives from following me around. He should please stop. Pleasantville 11:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you should please remove from your website personal details of people who wish to remain anonymous. I was stalked for a year (and I don't mean wiki-stalking) by someone who found out who I was and set up a website with accounts of his sexual fantasies about me, references to parts of my body, speculation about my menstrual cycle, my workplace details, what was then my parents' address and phone number, and also made calls to my parents' house (seriously affecting my mother's health), phoned and threatened the porters and the office girls at my workplace, sent me numerous pornographic and blackmailing messages, sent me stuff about new technology that could convert an existing photo of me into one of what I'd look like naked, threatened the same thing on my parents, constantly threatened to come and visit me, and sent me maps of the city I worked in, with my work building highlighted, saying that he had me surrounded and would start "slowly tightening the ring". He's now in police custody. Believe me, it was not a pleasant experience. Are you comfortable with the knowledge that in hosting stuff about the identity of editors here you are contributing to that kind of thing? Does what Will is doing (and I can't comment on that, as I haven't looked into it) seem as bad as that? Is he helping to bring fear and misery into the lives of other people? Perhaps you should take a day or two to think about that. Musical Linguist 11:18, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Beback needs to stop Wikistalking me. If Will is experiencing mortal terror because of people's reactions to his behavior, perhaps he should find another hobby. I am not Teresa, by the way.

I am unimpressed by your personal story. If you do a Google blog search on my name you will discover that an actual violent criminal is out to get my goat on the Internet. I figure into his conspiracy theories. Pleasantville 11:24, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I have no idea who you are, or who Teresa is. I came to this page as a result of discussion that I found elsewhere. Are you saying that it is completely out of your power to remove or to persuade the webmaster to remove content that violates the privacy of Wikipedians? Musical Linguist 11:29, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I have no editorial control whatsoever over the content of Making Light. And Beback should stop wikistalking me and stop making threats concerning what he can do to the entries of science fiction editors.

That having been said, it seems your quarrel should be with Google rather than Making Light. TNH's website does not publish his personal information anyway, but rather links to what anyone can find out via Google, at least as far as I could see.

Further, as someone who makes no secret of her identity on the Internet, I think the Wikipedia Admins' fetish for "privacy" foolish and disingenuous. But that's just my personal opinion. Pleasantville 11:34, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * See my essay for commentary on the whole contentious "attack sites" issue. *Dan T.* 12:25, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia New York Meet-Up
Howdy! Please come to the First Annual New York Wikipedian Central Park Picnic. R.S.V.P. @ Meetup/NYC --David Shankbone 20:07, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

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