User talk:67.61.89.32

February 2020
Hello, I'm Angus1986. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to SpaceX Merlin have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the help desk. Thanks. Angus1986 (talk) 16:27, 16 February 2020 (UTC)


 * "...did not appear constructive" (???)  Pointing out, as I did, the well-known (since at least the 1960's) combustion chemistry facts about the Merlin engine are only 'not constructive' if you happen to want to continue to hide the simple (well, I admit that combustion chemistry isn't all that simple - I spent a career learning it) facts.  Since only rah-rah-spacex facts are allowed on that page, I assume that the Merlin Engine page is essentially "managed" or "guarded" by SpaceX-o-philes and musk-o-philes; noobs like me simply fall prey to deletion/banning due to our inexperience at so-managing a page.  Negative facts are simply disputed out of existence, as the facts/references I provided were.  I also realize that wikipedia has its own "true believers" (in the "invisible hand of wikipedia," if you will) who don't question issues such as I ran into trying to add facts to that page.  Too bad.
 * BTW: If you're ever interested in the actual facts, you can find them, for instance, here: https://www.essoar.org/pdfjs/10.1002/essoar.10509138.9 67.61.89.32 (talk) 01:14, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The "actual facts" are that you were blocked for edit warring--two years ago. Do you really think that that editor is still checking this page, two years after a warning? Drmies (talk) 01:19, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

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Happy editing! RexxS (talk) 16:30, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

April 2020
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. VQuakr (talk) 21:57, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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VQuakr (talk) 21:57, 20 April 2020 (UTC) I understand scholarly style. I attempted to upload images but was unable to (prevented by wikipedia), and so added links to the images on my website. I was not attempting to spam. Should I upload images to some service like dropbox and link there? Thank You Very Much, 67.61.89.32 (talk) 22:02, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. Those still wouldn't be usable on Wikipedia, since they are original research. VQuakr (talk) 22:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

VQuakr (talk) 21:57, 20 April 2020 (UTC) Thanks again for the reply, but no, these plots are not original research - any more than other plots of the JHU data (and other data sources) which are already present in the article. Many plots are shown without being original research. Is this not true? 67.61.89.32 (talk) 22:13, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

VQuakr (talk) - oh, and I'm still pretty new to this - VQuakr - are you a 'Wikipedia representative' (not sure that's the right phrase), or an editing/contributing person like me? Thank You, 67.61.89.32 (talk) 22:16, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Like most of the people you may interact with here, I am an editor. Wikimedia employees acting in their formal capacity usually put a (WMF) in their user name. If you would like to upload graphs I believe you just need to create an account and wait a bit, but the correlation coefficients and text analysis on the web site you linked are clearly original research. VQuakr (talk) 22:37, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

VQuakr (talk) Thank you. Once before I was interacting with someone on a different Wikipedia article who seemed to not like my contribution, and someone else (I presume a Wiki associate of some sort, but now I'm not sure) pointed out that my contribution was helpful. I was just trying to understand where I stand in this current interaction. I have been a publishing scientist my whole life and I would not consider clicking on the spreadsheet to "add trend-line and correlation coefficients" original research! No more so than changing the plot type or axis from lin to log, as have some of the plots on the page under discussion. I referenced everything which was done in the plots, mostly to internal Wikipedia articles, to demonstrate the non-originality of this. However, I also realize that covid19 is a contentious page and I sought some clarification on Wikipedia policy. 67.61.89.32 (talk) 23:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * You can fairly assume everyone is an editor here lacking clear indication otherwise. Granted, our definition of "original research" differs from what one would think of if using the term in an academic setting. I linked WP:NOR to provide the local definition. Changing a the scale of a graph and basic arithmetic are not considered OR; adding a trend line along might be marginal. Your site also has a bunch of prose commentary and interpretation, though, which definitely is OR. VQuakr (talk) 23:19, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Gas Generator original research notice
Hi! I'm writing to let you know that I've requested some outside review of our dispute over SpaceX_Merlin at the No original research noticeboard. You can go directly to the notice here. Themillofkeytone (talk) 23:14, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is 67.61.89.32. Thank you. Guy Macon (talk) 07:10, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


 * And the new thread is at 67.61.89.32 again. --Guy Macon (talk) 23:40, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Restoring your contested material yet again


Here you have continued to restore the disputed material at SpaceX Merlin, after having the rules on WP:Original research patiently explained to you at Talk:SpaceX Merlin. Can you say why we shouldn't block you for disruption? This dispute has already been at WP:ANI where you have failed to respond. EdJohnston (talk) 00:42, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for Disruptive editing. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. You are continuing to revert at SpaceX Merlin after many warnings. You were reported at WP:ANI on 11 Sept. for adding original research but did not choose to respond. Your prior appearance at ANI was here on 6 September. EdJohnston (talk) 18:18, 15 September 2020 (UTC)