User talk:Plato/archive August 2004

Red faction
Plato (or Nick, don't know what you prefer), thanks for voluntarily blanking "Red Faction". If you want your subpage deleted so that the history is gone (and so its link turns red), I'm happy to do that for you -- I don't know if you would like that. Let me know, and here's hoping the good side of Plato wins out. Best wishes, Jwrosenzweig 23:24, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Empire_of_Atlantium

 * Plato, you may wish to contribute to Wiki's NPOV standard by voting to eliminate the separate page on the Atlantium micronation, a nation which has not proved to be a power like a Sealand or a Hutt River Province, and thus not deserving a separate article, at least IMHO.


 * You can vote for (or against) deletion here: Votes_for_deletion/Empire_of_Atlantium. And please don't forget to include yourself in the tally at the top of the page. --IndigoGenius 21:19, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for welcome
LOL, I'm not new, actually, but thanks anyway for the welcome. Happy edits! -- Spleeman 02:31, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Positive diagnosis of censorship on this page and proposed cure for censors
One of my previous question has been deleted, en bloc with evidence. More than HALF of my text in Wiki has been deleted without a trace under the "personal attack" banner, doctrine, fallacy or whatever. So there is an interesting case for disfunctioning in my censors, that merits medical attention. Quoting from a famous textbook treating censorship as an institutional disease:


 * There is a serious problem of "institutional impotence" for many bodies -- with many others operating under prison-like constraints, if only conceptually. Of course some form of "conceptual masturbation" -- perhaps characteristic of many conferences -- may provide a short-term satisfactory substitute. Or, as Dave Barry humorously indicates: "To the rest of America, making policy is a form of institutional masturbation; to Washingtonians, it is productive work. They love to make policy."


 * At the other extreme, a rare form of erectile dysfunction is the permanent erection (priapism). By comparison, the concern has been expressed, notably by Cynthia Mahmood, that US policies with regard to terrorism could lead to a world where the United States is in a permanent state of "military arousal", perpetually fighting an ill-defined and elusive enemy. This could then be suitably named as "priapic warfare". Given US military admiration for Roman imperial endeavours, this suggests a line for further research (see Amly Richlin. The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humour, 1983)


 * Non-sexually related spontaneous erections happen often, especially in young men. These may perhaps be compared to the momentary enthusiastic responses of the young to social challenges. Premature ejaculation is often confused with erectile dysfunction. It is a condition in which the entire process of arousal, erection, ejaculation, and climax occur very rapidly, leaving the partner unsatisfied. This might usefully be compared to premature human responses to the challenges of the planet.

Rest assured, my office is still open for more individual medical and psychological attention for the diseased censors here. Sincerely, irismeister 11:33, 2004 Aug 19 (UTC)

RE: Proposed institutional treatment for Wikicensors who see personal attacks wherever they can't argue using aristotelic or boolean logic :O)