User talk:Ensrifraff

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Unwarranted VFD Recommendation
'''I don't know what the heck you're thinking, but you DO NOT recommend a page (Stephen Bronner) for deletion (VFD) when it just unanimously survived the process two weeks ago. That's abuse, and I will be reporting you. Do not try it again. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 06:36, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)'''

Responding to your comment on my talk page:
 * He passes the professor test, and when you proposed VfD you should have taken a look at the entry's page to post your rationale for the recommendation. Then you would have seen, because the "this page's entry" thing automatically would have redirected you to the archive of the last VfD discussion.  Sure he was one of my favourite professors, but it was because he's probably one of the few who aren't mediocre, and his impact on political theory has been immense. I'd advise you to keep away from VfD until you know what you're doing around here. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 06:24, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

P.S. This is what you should have looked at first, easily linked from the talk page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stephen_Bronner/delete Only novices don't look at talk pages before rashly recommending VfD. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 06:28, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Burgundavia (&#9992; take a flight?) 06:12, May 10, 2005 (UTC)

Small beer?
The pundits on Small beer have reverted your addition of the African sorghum beer. If you feel strongly about this point, now is the time to make your voide heard.

Atlant 17:15, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

WorldNetDaily Edits
I've reverted your WorldNetDaily edits. If you truly think they were a valid contribution to the article, please bring that up on the talk page for the article. Thank you.

Kc8ukw 20:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as Famous for being famous) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Mhking 02:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Marcus Fiesel nominated for deletion
Since you worked on the Marcus Fiesel article, I thought you might want to know someone has called for its deletion. If this concerns you, please contribute to the deletion discussion. Thanks! Rosemary Amey 16:29, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

ABA
I moved the tag from the article onto the talk page where it's supposed to go. WLU 21:52, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Incidentally, you might be better off putting in a Request for Comments than a request for mediation. WLU 22:12, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Request for Mediation
This message delivered: 16:16, 6 June 2007 (UTC).

Notability of Rett Devil
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ABA
I do think that a more detailed source than "Everything I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from my Behavioral Therapist" is needed.

It is my understanding that you can cite webpages provided you give the proper attribution in the citations. The kind of citation they want is a ref tag with a bibliography-style reference or citation.

What I perceive you as trying to do is cite sources where people tell their stories directly. This is called anecdotal reporting and the problem is that the way Wikipedia is set up, people can claim that this is not a "reliable, third-party source".

The problem is that in order to minimize the objectification of autistic persons, autistics have been self-reporting directly to the public and eliminating the use of third-party sources -- for instance, here, Amanda Baggs herself -- not a doctor or other outside person speaking for her -- spoke directly to CNN in an interview. The only intermediary was the reporter. Although this is actually secondary source -- Amanda being primary source, the reporter secondary -- I believe Amanda's interview would be allowed as a Wikipedia source because CNN is an established news outlet.

Amanda writing for herself on her website is primary source and Wikipedia doesn't want to see that, at least until Amanda becomes "notable". As the son of an historian and a journalist, I had trouble getting my head around the fact that Wikipedia doesn't want primary sources, but I see their reasons. What I do know is that sometimes you can get away with quoting such a source as "anecdotal".

In this case, you could say "there exists a certain amount of anecdotal evidence to support the contention that aversive ABA is non-helpful in training autistic persons to simulate non-autistic behavior". Or something like "Many autistics, and parents of autistics, report that ABA was non-helpful or even harmful when used in the prescribed manner including strong aversives", and cite something more detailed or comprehensive such as http://users.1st.net/cibra/ and activists like Jean Bowden (google this; "Jean Bowden" autism) You could cite newspaper articles talking about civil actions filed by parents whose children were reportedly harmed by aversive ABA. But make sure they were named as using ABA.

Here is a magazine article from 1965 showing what Lovaas did to autistic children. Might be helpful: http://www.geocities.com/autistry/Lovaas1965.html

There is a special way to reference websites in citation (ref tag) format. Again, this is anecdotal reportage, and it would be good if you could find a therapist or someone who teaches autistic children, who reported in a notable source like Time or The Wall Street Journal or some peer-reviewed scholarly journal on autism, talking about his experience using aversive ABA with autistics and concluding that it doesn't work or is harmful, or that there are better ways. --Bluejay Young 01:42, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Discuss
Rather than having to communicate with multiple editors on the ABA page, how about we discuss on the basis of policy and edits. When I edit, I do so on the basis of policy, and my objections to your inclusions are mostly on the basis of policy and wording. If you have specific problems, talk to me and the other user. It's not an edit war, we're actually making progress towards a potential final verison. What are your specific problems with the page as it stands? WLU 02:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Requests for mediation/Applied behavior analysis
Hello Ensrifraff,

Firstly, my apologies for the delay in progress on this case, as explained at Requests for mediation/Applied behavior analysis.

I am writing to you because, as a party to this case, your input is required before mediation can begin, to do with an offer by an experienced non-Committee member to mediate. Please see the Parties' agreement to MarkGallagher's offer section and provide your input, so that this case can progress. Voting will remain open for seven days, and further elaboration is provided at that link.


 * For the Mediation Committee,  Daniel  07:09, 11 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Hello Ensrifraff, glad to see you're back and active. If you would be able to complete the above, that'd be great. Cheers,  Daniel  01:39, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

NPA
With regards to your last point in this diff:

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. WLU 19:46, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Mediation at Applied behavior analysis
G'day Ensrifraff,

it's been a while since anybody heard from you at Requests for mediation/Applied behavior analysis. If you're still happy to go ahead, please indicate on that page, and I would appreciate your input here. Cheers, fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 12:40, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of David Ayoub
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AfD nomination of Dick (insult)
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Help on Zulu Wikipedia
Hi! I've seen that you can speak Zulu and I want to ask you for help on that Wikipedia. Nowadays it's without people working there and, if you help me translating some phrases, we can improve that Wikipedia. Could you help me there, please? --Jeneme (talk) 08:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Abubakar Tariq Nadama
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AfD nomination of Abubakar Tariq Nadama
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University of Massachusetts WikiProject
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Proposed deletion of Yousef Abu-Taleb


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