User talk:Arkuat/Archive 1

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Here are some links I find useful


 * Policy Library
 * Cite your sources
 * Verifiability
 * Wikiquette
 * Civility
 * Conflict resolution
 * Brilliant prose
 * Neutral point of view
 * Pages needing attention
 * Peer review
 * Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 * Village pump
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Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~.

Cheers, Sam [Spade] 05:12, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, Sam Spade. I remembered to put the link I had almost plagiarized under a '==References==' section after reading Cite your sources.

Arkuat 09:39, 2004 Jul 4 (UTC)

Barry Commoner
No article on Barry Commoner? Arkuat 22:55, 2004 Jul 16 (UTC)


 * Nope, but I'd be glad if your wrote one! Cheers, Sam [Spade] 21:05, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm probably going to rework 1950s and add Elias Hicks before I get around to Commoner. Arkuat 02:40, 2004 Jul 21 (UTC)

Page title / merging
When a page title is misspelled, you must not copy and paste it as that loses the edit history. The correct thing to do is move it using the "Move this page" option. Unfortunately it will now be more complicated to fix Epicurian paradox because the new page which you have created will now have to be deleted before the move can take place. -- Derek Ross | Talk 19:10, 2004 Jul 17 (UTC)

By the way, I'm sorry if I sounded rude. It wasn't intentional. I'm just not very good at communicating sometimes. Thanks for working on the Epicurian/Epicurean misspellings. They did need fixing and I'm glad that you decided to do something about it. Cheers -- Derek Ross | Talk 19:41, 2004 Jul 17 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining the "Move this page" option to me! You didn't sound rude at all. Arkuat 19:57, 2004 Jul 17 (UTC)

Re: History of Earth
Arkuat, I appreciate the praise. I have really enjoyed working on the article, although it’s certainly been a challenge. Interestingly, it was History of the world that helped stimulate me to write this article (see Talk:History of the world). I’ve always enjoyed “big picture”–type matters, which is why I like History of the world so much. To me, though covering human history wasn’t enough—I wanted something to tie the planet’s whole history together, to give a sense of the time scale involved, and to show how physics, astronomy, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and history all work together (and to a lesser extent, a bit of geology, anthropology, and so on). We’ve amassed so much knowledge and become so specialized that I think it has become quite easy to be unable to grasp the whole picture. Anyway I’m so glad you liked it. If you have anything to add or can improve its accuracy, please feel free to pitch in. &mdash; Knowledge Seeker &#2470; 09:09, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

history of biology project
My pleasure. Supposedly, I'm a historian of biology in training. I just haven't done much editing in that area, probably because other topics have been the focus of discussion on WP lately. I'm glad there will be someone else trying to organize history of science stuff. If you make a project banner for talk pages (to replace HistSci, where relevant), one of these might be a good image for it:
 * Image:HookeFlea01.jpg (especially if made into a transparent .gif)
 * Image:Drosm3.gif (already transparent)
 * Image:Darwin as monkey on La Petite Lune.jpg
 * Image:Vesalius Fabrica p190.jpg
 * Image:Haeckel Discomedusae 8.jpg (again, tranparency would be appropriate)

Happy editing--ragesoss 04:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)


 * What kind of articles should we create? I'm eager to help the project. I've made a biology portal and project on hungarian wiki. I'm the organizer of this topic on that wiki. Tell me what are your plans, and we can get into work... :) NCurse 10:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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history of biology
arkuat, I'd love to have your thoughts on history of biology overall. I've done all I think I can without some serious critiques and suggestions from other knowledgeable people. It's on peer review and WP:GAC.--ragesoss 06:26, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

"New" material on Astronomy lacking references
(copied over from User_talk:Dr. Submillimeter to provide context)

I brought this material over from the old Astrophysics article (still available in history). This material had not been referenced there either, but I didn't feel that the lack of references was reason for expunging this information entirely from Wikipedia, which is what happened when Astrophysics was replaced by a redirect to Astronomy --arkuat (talk) 00:05, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Professional astronomy experience
Do you have any professional astronomy experience? Given the discussion at Talk:Astrophysics, this would be useful to know. Dr. Submillimeter 08:28, 22 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you ought to consult References yourself. There, it says clearly that all material that is challenged or that is likely to be challenged needs a reference.  The material that I moved from the former Astrophysics page to Astronomy was neither challenged, nor is it likely to be challenged. As for the rest, I can't imagine how this could prove useful, since I am no longer pursuing the discussion at Talk:Astrophysics.  --arkuat (talk) 20:19, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Astronomy versus Astrophysics
Please join the discussion here. WilliamKF (talk) 16:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)