User talk:Boyd Reimer

Boyd Reimer (talk) 14:24, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Two heads are better than one. Boyd Reimer (talk) 13:01, 12 October 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) Thanks for the heads up on the vandalism on the Robin Long story. Also I'm in the process of writing an article on war resister Travis Bishop. Once it is completed, I would appreciate any editing/improving you could do on it. Thanks! --Jmbranum (talk) 05:20, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. Boyd Reimer (talk) 23:57, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I may add some more info and some pics to the article later. If you dont like any of the changes just revert, I wont mind and its quicker than discussion! FeydHuxtable (talk) 18:27, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Financial Transaction Tax
Boyd -- excellent start on this important topic! A few points it might be good to elaborate further ...
 * Keynes was concerned about using the tax not primarily as a revenue generator, but primarily as a way to tamp down bubbles or 'speculative froth'. There are several good examples of the use of the tax in the article, but little reference to the ability of such taxes to actually accomplish this goal. For example, did the Swedish initiative reduce 'speculative froth' or did it simply shrink the whole market without reducing froth?
 * Include more detail on the Tobin and Spahn tax proposals -- what precisely they are, and how precisely they are different.
 * In the same line, it was a housing bubble that caused the financial meltdown of 2008. There has been much subsequent talk in international fora as well as at the BIS about the need for counter-cyclical monetary and financial regulation. The idea of national financial transactions taxes that increas as bubbles form and grow, and drop or disappear when markets are healthy, has been actively discussed.
 * While this is a great article, I think you are really dealing with two distinctly different topics (and two distinct articles) -- national and international financial transaction taxes. The prospects for the former have greatly improved with the meltdown; the challenges with the latter remain as daunting as those for a global climate deal and for similar reasons -- the problem of free-riding nations. Consequently these two topics are subject to very different histories and likely future prospects.Brett epic (talk) 18:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Brett. You raised some good points. About your last point: This is a good discussion for all interested Wikipedia editors, so please see this link to carry on this discussion.  Thanks.


 * Boyd Reimer (talk) 19:39, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Volcker Rule
Glad to see you start this page. I offered some ways on the talk page there on how to flesh out the article and began to do a bit of work - tell me what you think. Nwlaw63 (talk) 20:53, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Message to all participants of the March 1, 2010 discussion on Tobin tax article
Greetings all participants of this discussion on the Tobin tax article (click here to see context):

Two heads are always better than one.

There is no rush, and need for emotions to be raised to a high level: I mentioned the G20 summit in June, but that is still over three months away. As I said, I will not rush into anything, and will even go so far as to use my sandbox for you to critique ---that is, if we decide to subdivide this article.

Without wanting to appear as if I am overemphasizing the point, it is consensus which governs Wikipedia. I actively sought this consensus by posting a message in the following Talk pages of the following Users in the following order. The order was chosen in terms of how many edits they have made to the Tobin tax article:

Benwm, CosmicCube, WWWords, last FeydHuxtable (clicking on each of these will show my posts in each of their Talk pages, inviting them to join the discussion on the Tobin tax article (click here to see context))

Please take note that out of the four that I contacted, I was aware that 3 of those 4 have had disagreements with me in the past. Therefore, my seeking them out is evidence that I am not guilty of Meatpuppetry.

Quite frankly I had never even heard of FeydHuxtable until he gave me a barnstar. The Tobin tax article was very disorganized before I first arrived at it December 21, 2009. (See the article before my first post on December 21, 2009 and compare that to the how it looked on January 5 here.... the "then" and "now".)  I like to believe that the reason FeydHuxtable gave me a barnstar was at least partly due to the fact that (in my opinion) it became decidedly more organized after I put time into it...all the way till January 5 when I got the barnstar..see the post where I got the barnstar.

The Talk:Tobin tax page is only for improving the Tobin tax article. If any of you want to dialogue with me about any other issues than that, please use this Talk page for that. Thank you.

Also, here is just a gentle reminder that this Wikipedia policy contains this quote about talk pages for articles (eg. the Tobin tax talk page) :

"'...bear in mind that talk pages exist for the purpose of discussing how to improve articles; they are not mere general discussion pages ....Wikipedians who wish to hold casual discussions with fellow Wikipedians can use the IRC channels, such as #wikipedia.'"

Peace

Two heads are always better than one.

Boyd Reimer (talk) 01:05, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

"Robin Hood" Tax
Hello

I see you are interested in financial transaction taxes and have authored numerous articles. I believe the RHT article here is in need of improvement. I would be interested in your feedback and guidance on the edits I will be making in the near future.

Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beganlocal (talk • contribs) 22:40, 28 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your contributions. I will help as my time allows, but unfortunately I cannot guarantee that my time will allow extensive help. If you need to defend your article from unconstructive edits, please familiarize yourself with the "Key Wikipedia policies and guidelines" accessed from the blue box at the top of this page. - Peace, Boyd Reimer (talk) 10:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Robin hood tax to Robin Hood tax
Hi. I've left a note on Talk:Robin hood tax regarding the page move. Thanks! -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 11:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

thanks
Just a quick note of thanks for the recent deletion alert. i logged in much too late, but thanks anyway. You gave a nice quantitative argument against deletion, even though it should not have been needed.

You might be interested in WP:BIAS. A dramatic example of the systematic demographic bias (and other biases) in the English-language wikipedia is the deletion of the list of Iraqi academics being systematically assassinated. i saw the deletion proposal much too late, the one person against deletion made a syntax error so that keep wasn't in bold, and the mood of most of the people participating was that the president of Baghdad University, the head of the Baghdad Center for Human Rights, and the person who had been president of the Union of Arab Geologists and from 1996 to 2002 had been vice president of the International Union of Geological Sciences, plus several hundred other Iraqi academics, are "otherwise non-notable people who died in a particular event". Compare this to the 4000 or so United States academics who were not subject to a systematic assassination program, but all have individual en.wikipedia entries. Imagine that just a dozen US academics were subject to an assassination program. Would they be entitled to a "list of" entry? Boud (talk) 10:06, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

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David Edward Coombs page
Boyd,

A page was created on me when I started my law practice. I contributed information and a picture to that page. It was recently tagged as needing additional resources, written like a resume, and indicating a conflict of interest. Can you help by either fixing the issues that are noted, or by having an administrator remove the page for me?

The reason that I am contacting you is that you created the Bradley Manning page. As you may know, I have been retained to represent him in his case. I appreciate your assistance.

Best, David —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.9.182.77 (talk) 19:52, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Greetings "David",


 * Actually I never did create the Bradley Manning page.


 * Please [click here] to find out more about the beginnings of the "Bradley Manning / Brad Manning" page.


 * And click here to go to the talk page of the original creator of the "Brad Manning" page, McCart42. To leave a message with that User, you may click the statement at the top of that user's page (which says "Feel free to leave me a message!")


 * Unfortunately, I'm a very busy person and can't guarantee the degree to which I will help. Nevertheless, in the coming days, I will try to see how much time I can invest in helping you navigate through the Wikipedia policies and guidelines in your particular situation.


 * In the meantime, you may want to familiarize yourself with the page on Conflict of interest. Also see "Key Wikipedia Policies and guidelines": See the blue bar at the top of this page; On the right side of the bar click on the word "show."


 * Sincerely, Boyd Reimer (talk) 00:59, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Superior Orders page
Boyd,

I see you've been active in adding more information on the Jeremy Hinzman case to the Superior Orders page. Not sure you saw my comment on the talk page that the inclusion of Hinzman's case and Ehren Watada's case is inappropriate to the discussion of superior orders (basically, it's apples and oranges). I'd like to hear your response to my concerns. Thanks! Hzoi (talk) 18:10, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * p.s. I'd also like to hear your response to my comments on the Talk:Jeremy Hinzman page re: the broadening of the definition of conscientious objection. Hzoi (talk) 18:20, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

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 * I agree it should be deleted. In the future, before I start an article, I'll put it my sandbox and get others to screen it. Sorry for the trouble I have caused anyone.- Sincerely, Boyd Reimer (talk) 09:32, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

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Your edits at 2023 Canadian wildfires and Wildfire
Hi there, I wanted to provide more explanation as to why I reverted your recent edits.

On Wikipedia, we have a policy (WP:DUE) that says we should provide due weight to various viewpoints. By creating a separate section for a single news story about a fringe belief, we put more attention on the topic than is due. That's why I removed your addition at 2023 Canadian wildfires and replaced it with a single sentence about the arson accusations. I reverted your edit at Wildfire because of WP:DUE concerns as well, but also because it generally did not fit into the scope of the article, which is about the worldwide, general concept of wildfires.

Thanks for your contributions, and let me know if you have any questions or issues. Wracking talk! 21:56, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

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