User talk:Reid Welch

Original work
Reid,

First, Welcome to Wikipedia.

Second, I'm not so sure it's wise of you to put your poems and original work here on Wikipedia. Put simply, Wikipedia is not a place for poets and writers to dump their poetry and editorials. Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. Citing your own verse as a reference is highly dubious and goes against the way things are done around here. Second, the fact that you've added "&copy; Reid Welch" to some of these seems to suggest you need some familiarizing with Wikipedia's copyright policy. If you are not willing to put your work under a free license, please don't put it on Wikipedia.

Another important note for newcomers, on the talk page, don't forget to Sign your posts on talk pages. If you type in ~ it will come out looking something like: Reid Welch HH:SS DD Month YYYY, with the current time inserted.

Thanks – Andyluciano 16:50, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

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Hi Andy. I'm very green so I do appreciate your patience in explaining the protocols.

Is "original work" the same thing as this "original research" issue, which I am now trying to get a handle on?:

QUOTE: "What is original research? Original research is a term used on Wikipedia to refer to material added to articles by Wikipedia editors that has not been published already by a reputable source. In this context it means unpublished theories, data, statements, concepts, arguments, and ideas; or any new interpretation, analysis, or synthesis of published data, statements, concepts, or arguments that, in the words of Wikipedia's co-founder Jimbo Wales, would amount to a "novel narrative or historical interpretation"."

Perhaps the verses in question are "statement, concepts" or otherwise, by one interpretation of this vital guideline. Yet when I read it all and read the -reasons for- this guidline, there is not a clear correspondence.

I agree that if poets were to dump poetry all over the site that would be a problem. In these three instances of freshly-placed items: the material is not research, is not opinion, does not inflame or change the historical record. They are merely illustrative of a word or icon.

But! I know nothing of the real needs and do not wish to make difficulties by trying to change policy.

What I do request is for senior editors as well as yourself to give a quick look into this question and advise. I do, of course, not object to taking the items down right away if that is for the best.

I leave them up for the moment longer, at least, to ensure they will be seen in context by the Wikipedia seniors.

I have no problem in either entering the items to public domain (done now)nor do I mind stripping even my name from them for this purpose at hand.

Summary:

Let me know more please about the possible entry of small verse

versus the concept of "original research"

and how a verse entered by an author,

if fitting, and of good quality,

is any less bona-fide than if it were quoted by someone else.

Thanks, Andy. No attitude here, just curious to learn more. Not wishing to be a problem at all.

Reid Welch 19:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


 * The short answer is I saw your work and it looked a little bit "fishy" to me. It seemed a bit inconsistent with the policy.  But then, there are plenty of people much more well versed in Wikipedia policy than I.  It might be wise to ask an administrator what they think.  Additionally, sorry if I came off as a little harsh.  – Andyluciano 21:03, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Japan Black
The contributions to Japan Black didn't necessarily need to be completely removed. It does sound like you have as much experience with Japan Black as anybody, so we definitely welcome your contributions. If there are facts that most experts in the field appear to agree on... that are most likely published in trade documents...  then those contributions are welcomed.

If there are facts that you've discovered on your own, and aren't sure whether they can be found in published books, then it would be best to not add those. But, if you have read a lot of published literature about Japan Black, or even simply talked to many other people knowledgable about Japan Black, then any information that you've learned that appears to be widely corroborated by others knowledgable in the field, that information is very much welcomed. --Interiot 00:43, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

--- Thank you for this warmth but as I am pretty surely the only living person who has recreated the formula and made this -varnish- from the raw materials, all I could/can do is impart what I know.

The old textbooks I possess do not speak of this Japan Black at all, not in the sense of any asphaltum varnish.

The practical experience I gained was obtainable only by -the doing-.

The old users and makers never wrote about it, presumably to protect trade secrets.

That Ford kept detailed records, these only-known citable source for this material, was the basis for my trials.

That data came by way is from Trent Boggess's research, some of which was published to the Model T Ford club forum years ago, which afforded myself the ingredients list.

I was enabled to make the varnish again by a lot of hard work and toxic chemistry with boiling oils.

So, by strict interpretation of the Wiki rules, my knowlege, much of which is empirical and opinion, is not allowable.

BTW, errors exist in that primary article: the material is not a lacquer. It is a varnish. And when it is baked, the polymerization which ensues makes it a veritable enamel.

So? What to do? Nothing for now. I've soaked myself in plenty of hot water for today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#.22original_work.3F.22_objection

I grin and move on to other things. At one time it was vacuum tube audio of my own invention. Later it was thermins

http://www.thereminvox.com/article/articleview/21/1/22/

and the Model T.  Nowadays (aged 51) I like to write.

Thanks very much, again, for your interest and encouragement.

Reid Welch 01:07, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

====Reading the "Clara Rockmore" page I find error. I was the last outsider to come into Clara's personal life (1994). I was nearly the only person she would see or speak to during her last few years. As such, I got to know her rather well. Her quitting of the violin at about eighteen was not, so far as I recall, any result of childhood malnutrition. It was caused by overuse; a repetitive stress injury to her shoulder. She had committed a great sin in the eyes of Leopold Auer, who was livid with Clara. She had over-practiced, a trait which Auer railed against in his teachings to students. In Clara, Leopold Auer had invested practically his soul. He and adopted her to become the youngest-ever admitted student to the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1915). She was only four. And no such infant had ever been allowed to the Conservatory by the peerage there. Auer followed the blossoming Clara Rockmore when the girl emmigrated to the USA in 1922. Auer continued as a pedagouge to Clara. "He adored me. He took me everywhere (to introduce). I was his living doll!" *I have anecdotes, but not for here* Clara injured herself permanently. Auer was stunned. No, enraged: "How could you!". He died a year or two later in 1930.

His great hope had ruined herself and, by extension, ruined a fifteen year personal investment.

For Clara's salvation as an artist, it was most fortunate that Leon Theremin entered her life just about the time she was forced to lay the violin aside.

I met Clara Rockmore by sending a dozen roses to an old woman in NYC, a woman I did not know, but I knew I liked. I thought she might like some roses sent anonymously "from an admirer in Miami".

She hunted me down and adopted me as a friend and confidant. "You are different from the others. You are sensitive." By chance, too, I was keenly interested in the sound-potential of the theremin and was engrossed in recreating the elusive, original "Clara Rockmore theremin" sound. Her instrument was the only theremin that sounded as it did. By empirical research into the workings I did acheive a close semblance to her instrument's tone, incorporatable into basic, RCA theremins which I used to restore and so-modify for "Clara tone".

Mrs. Rockmore was an interesting person.

Nice poem
Hey man, that was a pretty cool poem, i sure got a kick from it! El Os  o  21:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Bourke
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