User talk:Lrieber

Alternate accounts
Thanks for making the disclosure here. This is a very big deal, especially with regard to the way that your editing as Pawg is a central part of the turmoil that is roiling transhumanist/EA articles at the moment. This is mess. Pretty much only the thing saving your bacon is that you forthrightly disclosed what you were doing.

Would you please: a) At User:Pawg14 create an actual link to User:Lrieber so that others can easily come here to look at contribs etc.  Also you should make it more clear that you understand that Pawg14 was not a legitimate alternate account and add a very clear note that you will never edit from the Pawg14 account.  As it stands you leave it open that you may resume editing from that account.

b) Likewise, at User:Lrieber would you please create a link to User:Pawg14 and note that creating that account and editing from it was an error.

c) Finally, it ~appears~ that there is some kind of external coordination going on with regard to on-Wiki activities. Are you in discussions with other Wikipedia editors off-wiki?


 * Thanks Jytdog (talk) 22:07, 23 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry about this. I've done what you requested. Though I think it's worth mentioning that I hadn't used the Lrieber account in a long time and had forgotten I even had it, as I mentioned.


 * As for off-wiki discussions, there was the FB thread that I linked, though I didn't participate in that. I've been up-front about my involvement in EA. Many of the names of editors (like Eric Herboso) are people who I recognize, though I don't know them personally and have never discussed Wikipedia with them.


 * There's also this group: https://impact.hackpad.com/Improve-EA-Presence-on-Wikipedia-IofiuxpVgPe
 * Let me know if the link doesn't work. I've been involved loosely with them, but not for a long time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lrieber (talk • contribs) 22:47, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for replying, and cross-linking the accounts. that is super helpful.  Ditto for providing the links above.  Oy.  But that is pretty old.  I just cannot figure why the transhumanist articles in Wikipedia are going through such turmoil all the sudden. There is a bunch of article creation and deletion going on by different people.  It could just be random of course, but I wonder if there is some RW conflict going on now, within the cluster of people who live by these ideals.  Can you shed any light on that?  Thanks again. Jytdog (talk) 01:07, 24 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Lrieber, please let me know if I should contact you in some other way than through this talk page. I'm wondering if you can take a look at the Raising for Effective Giving article again, since you're the one who initially nominated it for deletion. I've done some extensive edits to the page since you last commented and it would be great if we could reach an agreement of sorts regarding whether and/or where it needs further improvement. Adrianrorheim (talk) 16:51, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks better, thanks, though the transparency section could maybe be better organized. Maybe just a summary instead of all that detail. I might fix that.Lrieber (talk) 00:01, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the cleanup help – the article looks much neater now. Adrianrorheim (talk) 00:49, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Controversial edits
Hi Lila, some of your recent edits are excellent—thank you for that. Unfortunately, these are mixed with other very questionable edits, involving overzealous removal of significant portions of existing articles. You should have sought consensus in the corresponding talk pages before proceeding to delete this material. Examples of such removals include your recent edits to GiveDirectly, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Deworm the World Initiative, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, Holden Karnofsky, Raising for Effective Giving and Wild Animal Suffering. Pablo Stafforini (talk) 15:44, 7 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I removed excessive use of primary sources/single sources. I wasn't defying the consensus of many editors who'd worked on these articles - all the material I removed was the work of Vipul, who takes a very nonstandard approach to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mirror for GiveWell - there's no need to copy huge amounts of info from GiveWell. Remember, Wikipedia is not comprehensive. Additionally, I removed non-reliable sources. Personal blogs and forum posts almost never have a place on Wikipedia.Lrieber (talk) 17:31, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the ISMB/ECCB editathon!
Hi Lrieber,

Welcome to the ISMB/ECCB Editathon! We hope you find this a useful session, let myself or know if you have any questions. Thank you again for your improvements to computational biology coverage on Wikipedia, and if you're not already a member of WikiProject Computational Biology we encourage you to sign up! Amkilpatrick (talk) 16:39, 23 July 2017 (UTC)