User talk:Huckfinne

Hi! Please do not reposted deleted material. Thanks. - Lucky 6.9 00:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

If you don't like where I put something, fine. Don't just delete information that you don't like. Contribute to the commons by improving what others have done.

Curb
The official HBO website capitalizes the "Your". So your move was incorrect. Secondly you moved the page by cutting the old page and pasting it into the new page. This is the wrong way to move pages on wikipedia, because the discussion page and the edit history of the page get lost and it screws up people who have the page on their watchlist. Qutezuce 05:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

USS Houston periscope photo
Where did you get the photo? I am a submarine officer who is trying to get the submarine force to use a wiki. If there is someone submarine out there who believes in wikis, I want to know them. --Huckfinne 00:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you like it! I got that picture and a lot of other great pictures from The Valiant Shield home page.  That was the only one through a periscope though. The U.S. govt is a great source for photos to illustrate our articles because, by law, works of the U.S. govt (including employees and military people while on duty) are in the public domain.  That is one reason our military articles usually have good pictures.
 * You might want to check out WikiProject Military history and WikiProject Ships to see if you can find some more like-minded people. Good luck, Johntex\talk 00:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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patents and innovation
hi - i removed your tag on the association for molecular pathology case, and responded to your comment, saying that Talk and wiki are no place for personal opinions. This is -- I am curious why you think that, if you care to tell me. Jytdog (talk) 03:40, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

"which rendered most diagnostic claims unpatentable, which will make it difficult for Myriad's business model to work going forward - difficult for R&D driven business and investors, potentially bad for patients" from the third paragraph of that section is clearly not NPOV. It has wikipedia endorsing the incorrect assertion that lack of intellectual monopoly is bad for R&D driven business and potentially patients. This just isn't true. My opinion, that intellectual monopoly does not promote innovation, is actually a pretty well established fact, but, since it runs contrary to the conventional wisdom, I'm willing to be softer about it in terms of wikipedia. You statement "This is -- I am curious why you think that, if you care to tell me." suggests that you don't agree with me. Our not agreeing helps prove my point regarding NPOV. Thus, I request that you restore my NPOV tag. Perhaps someone else can comment?Huckfinne (talk) 06:45, 1 December 2012 (UTC)


 * oh i am sorry that is what needs to go over in the talk section -- i was asking here about your personal opinion about patents and innovation.  I will copy that text up there into talk and respond there to the issues about the article.   I asked about your opinion here,  because in talk you wrote " I don't have the time to go into all the arguments right now, (I will) but the gist of my point is my, contrary to popular consensus, assertation that intellectual monopoly is a net slower down of innovation due to its prevention of others' innovation. "   Your personal opinion doesn't belong on the talk page, nor does original research, and I have no idea what your opinion is or why you think it.. but since you made it sound like it was somewhat well thought out, I wanted to ask here. Jytdog (talk) 22:19, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

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Is there a way to appeal wholesale deletion or provide supervisory feedback to editors doing so?
Greetings Huckfinne:

Is there a way to appeal wholesale deletion or provide supervisory feedback to editors doing so (for example our common experience with RHaworth)

It looks like you have more experience and have done much more to improve Wikipedia than I have and so I thought you may have some insight for me.

I agree with your comments, wholesale deletion seems really rude and a way to shut down contributions. I also did a lot of work and provided full citations and illustrations to an article that was summarily deleted by RHaworth.

GEGranato (talk) 19:42, 15 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I don't know. I just pointed it out to him and my draft was restore.  Maybe find another senior editor to ask. — Huckfinne (talk) 01:48, 16 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Interesting. In fact my restoration of draft:history of local and regional anesthesia was highly uncharacteristick for me: I usually just email the text and leave the author to repost without the copyvio stuff. Points to note: Gregory has a declared CoI and we do not like such contributions. Anesthesia is a subject of worldwide interest. I doubt whether the notability of Gregory's database even stretches as far as Montana or Wyoming for example.
 * Gregory, our present coverage of the subject of highway runoff seems to be limited to this one, short paragraph. Write a decent article on the subject in general and include in it a brief mention of, and link to your database. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 14:17, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

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Health Education England
I have no connection to HEE. My editing mostly derives from coverage in the Health Service Journal. I dont see any obvious evidence that HEE people have been editing the article.Rathfelder (talk) 22:18, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for answering. Not sure if you know much about Dr. Day's case. I do not know him personally and only know his case from the media. I can understand his thinking that HEE would edit wikipedia to his disadvantage. His life has been turned upside down in a very kafkaesque fashion. So much so that it seems that his own solicitors were and the BMA were in on it. May I suggest responding to him on Twitter telling him you aren't connected to HEE? Huckfinne (talk) 22:22, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Certainly. But I'm afraid this does not raise my opinion of him. Rathfelder (talk) 09:17, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

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