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things seem quieter
Just ask away. If too complicated, I'll tell you and defer it. DGG (talk) 15:07, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

not sockpuppet
I am not sockpuppet of anyone; I do not know this mathstatwoman. This is untrue and unfair. If you want me to go away, please help get rid of my page and discussion, and I will stop editing, but please do not say untrue things about me. I do not know how to leave Wikipedia. I was just trying to help, but do not like false accusations under my name. Thank you. Alfred Legrand (talk) 08:04, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Regarding above, see Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Alfred_Legrand. CM (talk) 18:34, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Request for rollback
Hi Pete, just to let you know I've processed your request and you should be able to use the tool now. If you want information on any aspects of it, please feel free to check out New admin school/Rollback. Take care! ~ Riana ⁂ 03:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oops - turned out Viridae did it at the same time I was going to - can't take any credit here :) Good luck with it. ~ Riana ⁂ 03:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppet ring
Based on the report you recently created at Suspected sock puppets/MathStatWoman, you may want to see the current discussion at WP:ANI. This is a little over my head, so hopefully we can get some advice and assistance from others more experienced with this kind of thing. — Satori Son 15:17, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

M.I.A. (band) AfD
Hi, M.I.A. (band) is being AfD'd. I have no idea about the notability of this band, but you're probably more qualified to comment than most. Mostlyharmless (talk) 05:12, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

that Conley guy
He's perked-up. Please see: User talk:Fram and offer your two-bits. Cheers, Jack Merridew 13:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like this is sorted for now. FYI, I'm still keeping an eye on User:Jon Hobynx. I'm also interested in finding a wikiproject or something to ask to do a clean-up on the various bios these accounts have diddled with. Ideas? Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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My Rfa
I wish to thank you for being supportive of my effort to regain my adminship. Though it was not successful, your support was still very much appreciated. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you!--MONGO 06:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks
I'm sorry you felt I am inexperienced to become an admin. I hope that by performing more edits on Wikipedia in the next few months that I could possibly change your mind by my next RfA, possibly around May 2008. In addition, if you have reviewed my edit history, you would have found that I have edited pages covering aviation, higher education, Hong Kong, San Francisco Bay Area, Florida, engineering, roads and highways, schools, and my latest project, getting WP:ROBO up and running actively. This includes participation in WP:FLA, WP:UNI, WP:HK, WP:SFBA, WP:ENGINEERING, and others. I hope by participating in more AfD discussions and NPP work that I can expand my work to even more categories so I may change your mind. - Jameson L. Tai  talk ♦ contribs 05:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Watchlist
Thanks! --Bradeos Graphon Βραδέως Γράφων (talk) 15:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Game theory FAR
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Jon Hobynx
is back. You stated a while ago that you believed this to be. I'll be posting a note at an/i soon and will drop a link back here. Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Jon's bagged and tagged. See: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/R:128.40.76.3 and add anything you can. Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:09, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

The Beatnigs
I undeleted it and sent it to AFD. --Coredesat 18:57, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

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Navy
Glad you enjoyed that. Another Navy quote is from Winston Churchill (paraphrased). After being criticized for jeaprodizing the traditions of the British Navy he said: "The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash." --Kevin Murray (talk) 19:19, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuching International Airport Flights
Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits. Readers looking for serious articles will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write (almost) whatever you want. αѕєηιηє t/c 06:16, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the silly template message, but I think that was intended to be used for edits to the mainspace. Pete.Hurd (talk) 06:39, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

please revist
Please revist the Afd for Articles for deletion/Andrew Jess Dannenberg. He seems to have a remarkable publication record, besides the paper giving rise to the discussion in the article. DGG (talk) 18:09, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, done, Pete.Hurd (talk) 03:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Edmonton meetup
Hello - I'm contacting you with this message because you have listed youself in Category:Wikipedians in Edmonton - if you are not actually in Edmonton, I apologize for bothering you; unfortunately, the sort of spamming I'm doing isn't conducive to reading everybody's userpages thoroughly. I am investigating the possibility of creating a Wikipedia meetup in Edmonton for sometime during the spring or summer of 2008. If you're interested, please visit Meetup/Edmonton, add yourself to the list of interested editors, and watchlist the page. Cheers, Sarcasticidealist (talk) 23:53, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

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Re: The Proletariat
No problem; I'd never heard of the band and couldn't find any information myself. After you posted sources it was pretty clear that the band was notable- this is why it's good to have people with knowledge of the subject around. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 16:59, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

What he said. :) Thanks for letting me know you provided references, I have no problem changing my decision in response. Terraxos (talk) 05:18, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

RfA comment
Hi, Pete.Hurd, Of all the votes on my RfA I thought yours was the oddest but perhaps not surprising for someone in the field of psychology. I updated your Wikipedia entry that day and enjoyed looking at your work but didn't notice that you had interacted with Jimmy Wales or had dealings with MIT yourself, but things do get lost in a million users here. Anyway, hi from another user who saw Swans. I only saw them once. At First Avenue's 7th Street Entry. I don't know them or who it was for sure but think it was probably Algis Kizys who came out the Entry's stage door afterwards when he shook my hand as I walked home. His forearm was stronger than that little black door and in my recollection he looked taller than the door too. We all survived with smiles to boot. Best wishes. -Susanlesch (talk) 21:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
 * P.S. Looking at his bio I hope it was Kizys because I bought a signed test pressing of Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 6 at his sale on eBay a few years ago. -Susanlesch (talk) 23:00, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
 * How sad to try to understand a comment and not be deemed worth the time for a reply. Or did I misunderstand? -Susanlesch (talk) 20:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Huh? You asked a question? (FWIW, I don't uinderstand "but didn't notice that you had interacted with Jimmy Wales or had dealings with MIT yourself" of what that was supposed to relate to). Are you trying to make some point I ought to respond to? Pete.Hurd (talk) 21:39, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello again. I was responding to your comment and vote on my RfA. And trying to be understanding of it. I know sometimes that asking a direct question is the best way to receive a reply, but thought there was enough shared interest in music that you would understand. That's all right. Maybe I should have asked what you liked about Hüsker Dü? Regarding Mr. Wales and MIT, you brought them up, echoing someone else, in your comment on my RfA. I didn't see in your materials or article that you had dealt with them so I wondered why you brought them up. No problem, people can say whatever they like in RfAs. Hope this helps. -Susanlesch (talk) 21:47, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Any relation?
Any relation to Peter Hurd?

Smallbones (talk) 14:30, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks
Thank you for your comments on my RFA. Even though it failed with 28 supports, 42 opposes, and 15 neutrals, I am grateful for the suggestions and advice I have received and I do hope to improve as a Wikipedian. If you ever need my help in any endeavor, feel free to drop me a line. -- Shark face  217  20:01, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Sexual selection
Hi, Pete. Could you see Talk:Evolution and maybe make some remarks? Graft | talk 21:44, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Gladly... done. Cheers, Pete.Hurd (talk) 23:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
The Haldane's dilemma article is terrible, it reads as if some creationist wrote it. I haven't looked around but I take it that this is a problem in open-edited encyclopaedia? --I am not a dog (talk) 12:05, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

And also
You discuss the relationship between evolutionarily stable strategies and Nash equilibria. If I were teaching basic evolutionary game theory to undergraduate biologists, then I wouldn't mention it at all, as it would likely confuse them more than it is useful. Those that are really into it can read it by themselves. I am not a dog (talk) 12:49, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

My Recent Rfa
Although you opposed me in my recent RFA I will still say thanks as from your comments and the other users comments that opposed me I have made a todo list for before my next RFA. I hope I will have resolved all of the issues before then and I hope that you would be able to support me in the future. If you would like to reply to this message or have any more suggestions for me then please message me on my talk page as I will not be checking back here. Thanks again.  ·Add§hore·  T alk /C ont 16:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:PROF revision suggestion
I am trying to "test the waters" to see if there is enough interest in revising WP:PROF to better reflect the arguments that are actually used in practice in academic-related AfDs. I've put a note about it at Wikipedia talk:Notability (academics) with a somewhat more detailed explanation. There is also a link there to a possible draft of a revised version of WP:PROF, which is located in my sandbox, User:Nsk92/Sandbox3. Since you have participated in academic-related AfDs in the past, I'd like to hear your input about this idea, both in general and in terms of specifics. If you have some comments, please post them at Wikipedia talk:Notability (academics). You are also welcome to edit User:Nsk92/Sandbox3 in the meantime. Thanks, Nsk92 (talk) 20:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks so much for your support in myRfA, which closed successfully this morning. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 16:52, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Signaling
Hi Pete. I hope all is well. It's summer, and so I have time to waste on wikipedia. I started Sir Philip Sidney game. I plan to add the following stuff over the next few weeks: (1) empirical studies of cost, (2) extensions to continuous signals, goods, and need and (3) Bergstrom and Lachmann's criticisms about evolvability. Anyway, let me know what you think. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 15:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Bayesian game high importance
Hey-I upgraded Bayesian game to high importance. It seems like an essential part of game theory to me. But I see (noticed after the fact) that you set it "mid", so if you disagree I might concede the point. Cretog8 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 03:30, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Dr. Lance de Masi
I just posted a comment at this AfD debate. I tried to interpret what you said and hopefully I didn't muddle it up too badly. Please have look. Cheers!  TN ‑ X - Man  03:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Jessika Folkerts
Hi Professor Hurd. I closed the AfD before looking at some of your posts about User:Jessika Folkerts, but I looked at them afterwards, and I am well aware that the Peter L. Hurd article is not self-promotion. You may rest assured that I am keeping an eye on this case, and that I can see where the real policy violations are. Happy editing! -- SCZenz (talk) 14:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

RfA Review
Hello. I've noticed that you have a completed set of responses to the RfA Review question phase at User:Pete.Hurd/RfA review, but they don't seem to be included on the list of responses here. If you've completed your responses, please can you head to RfA Review/Question/Responses and add a link to them at the bottom of the list so that they get included in the research. We have a closing date of midnight UTC on 1st July, so please add your link before this date. Once again, thank you for taking the time to participate in the Question Phase of RfA Review.Gazimoff Write Read 15:33, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

email
Thanks for getting in touch. Feel free to revert any of his edits as it's clear they are unwelcome. -- Rodhull andemu  22:29, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. At least we know now that anyone trying to reintroduce that content is very likely going to be a sockpuppet. Makes things easier. Cheers! -- Rodhull andemu  23:53, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Michael Potts: AfD dialogue
Please revisit Michael Potts article (of which I am the principal author). Contrary to an assertion by one commenter that Google News only offers one link to "michael potts" +"rocky mountain institute," I have provided a link showing that in fact, there are eight links. For example, I have just added to the article, under External Links, a Denver Post interview with Michael Potts on March 31, 2007, in which he speaks about his personal and business philosophies. Thank you for your time. I do appreciate your help in strengthening this article.Jhutson64 (talk) 15:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks for the notice. Pete.Hurd (talk) 16:22, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Little help?
Hey. you don't know me, but I was skimming deletion comments and I noticed that you have a PhD in biology. I don't, but I've attempted to rescue Richard A. Houghten from deletion and in the process created a Combinatorial biology article. I'd like to think that I've got my head about me but since I just got around to correcting a large misconception in an article I should know lots more about (see here), I'm looking for another set of eyes on those two articles. If you have 5 minutes, could you take a look at them and see if there is anything obviously amiss. Thanks for any help you can render! Protonk (talk) 14:37, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:PROF revision draft - revisited
I am trying to restart the process of revising WP:PROF and have posted further comments at Wikipedia talk:Notability (academics). Please take another look there and see if you have further comments. Of course, you are welcome to edit the draft itself too:User:Nsk92/Sandbox3. Thanks a lot, Nsk92 (talk) 15:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Message to To Enric_Naval, Nsk92, ThuranX, Cast, L0b0t, Pete,Hurd, Annette46, Artene50 and, T-rex about cooperation to improve the AI-Wiki-page
As you well know, the AI-Wiki-page is once more deleted, this time by Bjweeks on a request from Hoary. I have written to them at their talkpages about cooperation to achieve an AI-Wiki-page that has general Wiki-consent, before publishing it again. Copies of these messages are on my talk page. Take a look at them. As AI is the largest anarchist-network in the world, it of course should have a Wiki-page. I invite you all to contribute to a better AI-Wiki-page for later publishing. This time so good that it will not be deleted by anyone.

(Anna Quist (talk) 22:30, 28 July 2008 (UTC))

RfA
Hitler's images from that day:   

Just one more: (I can pull more if you wish)

I'm not hiding anything here, but do you think adding these links would be helpful? — BQZip01 — talk 06:47, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * "do you think adding these links would be helpful?" No. The question isn't "how bad did the vandalism get?", but more "were you blocked for 3RR for good reason?" and "can you convince your fellow wikipedians that you have learned far more from the episode than not to break 3RR?". The latter two aren't addressed by answering the former.  Make sense? Pete.Hurd (talk) 06:52, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I was indeed blocked for a good reason, but my intent was to stop what I thought was vandalism (at the time). After 3 months with discussion with this particular user, and an RfC, the bus stopped rolling and he got off Wikipedia. While I don't see that necessarily as a positive, it was an example of a user hellbent on righting a perceived wrong when in fact the entire article was well-referenced. Given that context, I still believe his actions to be in bad faith. As such, I still categorize them as vandalism, but that is only in retrospect. — BQZip01 —  talk 12:51, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

WP:PROF revision draft - move to proceed with the replacement
I would like to try to give another try and make a motion to proceed with the preplacement of the WP:PROF guideline by the revised version. I made a post to the talk page of WP:PROF to that effect and I'd appreciate if you comment there, one way or the other. Thanks, Nsk92 (talk) 15:02, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Hi. I noticed that you voted in the nomination for deletion of the article Inflammatory diseases of unknown etiology. As I don't know you or your motives for voting as you did, and not to insult you or your intelligence, I felt that a misunderstanding occurred during the vote, causing many editors to vote for deletion based on the merits of a strawman argument. Please revisit the AfD (at the embedded link above) to gain a clearer understanding of my issue with this vote and either uphold or revise your vote -- I am not writing to you to demand that you retract -- rather, I feel that some votes may have been swayed by what may no longer apply to the article, and because most of those who voted merely reiterated the nominator's premise, perhaps a review will produce a fairer outcome. Thank you.  DRosenbach  ( Talk 20:10, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Nobel winners
Hello--Mind if I copy your comment from here to here, or do you want to add a comment yourself? (Of course, I've just finished reassessing the winners, but O well.) I'm not at all sure I agree, but you're making points nobody else did. C RETOG 8(t/c) 16:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

ANI
What happened to the image discussion? Corvus cornix talk  06:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks... I was actually wondering if I'd stopped making sense there awhile ago. Cheers Pete.Hurd (talk) 04:00, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Nice work on purple glove syndrome
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robert trumpler
hi. i completely agree with your keep decision based on the new references. however, the National Academy of Sciences biography link still seems to be dead. (this was the only source when i nominated the article for deletion) thanks :) xxx Jessi1989 (talk) 19:23, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * hey, thanks for the quick reply. really the point of my message though was that that link is dead for me. is it dead for you too? it seems like it could be an important link so i haven't removed it because maybe there is a typo or something. actually maybe it's just dead for me though because i'd be surprised if no one else had looked at it throughout the whole afd. xxx Jessi1989 (talk) 20:29, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Can you lend a hand?
I got your name from the Hatsu Akiko deletion debate -- and thanks for closing it. I'm one of the people who voted to keep the article, and if you check my User Page, also a biologist, with my doctorate from City University of New York back in 1969. But that's not what I'm here about.

Right now, I'm in the middle of an argument/debate with an editor who seems not to know very much about research, assembling a bibliography, or writing for Wiki. There are two places -- one is Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea and the other is shōjō‎. There's an opportunity here, I think, to help educate this person about research, and I'd like to ask you to visit Ponyo or shōjō and add your thoughts. So, if you have time, can you visit and comment? No, it doesn't have much to do with Japanese anime or folklore, but with how we do research and assemble a bibliography in any field. Thanks! Timothy Perper (talk) 23:47, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

"Outside Views" typo
Pete.Hurd: There's a typo in your contribution to the "Outside Views" section on my Talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Esterson

You wrote Esterson (1989). This should read (1998).

The article in question is here: http://www.esterson.org/Masson_and_Freuds_seduction_theory.htm

If your interested, a more comprehensive article on the seduction theory and Freud's later accounts of the episode is here: http://www.esterson.org/Mythologizing_psychoanalytic_history.htm

Amended posting on Jeffrey Masson page
Pete.Hurd: I have posted amended paragraphs on the Jeffrey Masson page. My reasons are given on my Talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Esterson#Esterson.27s_reply Esterson (talk) 11:31, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Opinion requested
Pete.Hurd: Could you give your opinion on a difference of views on a posting at the Mileva Maric discussion page? Esterson (talk) 12:11, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

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request
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saboteuse
Hi Pete,

Back in 2006 you commented in the talk page of Sexual Selection on newly contributed text on a "female sabotage" hypothesis explaining female preferences for ornamented males. I just spotted it now, and am baffled to be honest why it's still there. Regardless of the merits of this idea, it really has had zero uptake in the field, so it might be a bit rich put it on apparently equal standing with the likes of Darwin, Fisher, and Zahavi. The subsequent paragraph, summarising another paper by the same author, comes apropos of nothing. Why didn't you take action? Evlshout (talk) 04:29, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Freedom versus license
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Final discussion for Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
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Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip  03:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Australian Capital Territory Debating Union
Hi,

You may or may not remember but back October 2007 you were involved in some discussions about the notability of the above article. The subject has now come up again, and I have just refereed to one of your comments in the new discussion. As a matter of good manners I thought I should make you aware. Codf1977 (talk) 20:14, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

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 * Lifestyles' is Polvo's second studio album. It was produced by Bob Weston and released on Merge Records in 1993.  Early versions featured red tigers in the yellow color

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