User talk:Richwil

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I saw your recent edit to the intro to QM article. Thanks. You might want to take a look at some of my comments on the Discussion page for that article. I've been stumped in trying to edit parts of it that another contributor wrote because I can't figure out what the intended meaning might have been. I don't feel like scrapping what is in some of the later sections because I don't have anything ready to put in their place. Right now I am stuck on Heisenberg's matrix mechanics. Most of the popularizations I've seen have been unsatisfactory. I have been looking for the tables of data he was really working from in the hope that I can make the "magic" a little clearer. Telling a reader that pq is not equal to qp without mentioning that p and q are matrices just isn't being helpful. I think I've got enough info to go over that part of the paper once more, but until I get past it (and my compulsive hammering away at something that could probably be cleared up in a few hours if I had Heisenberg's notebook or data tables), I probably won't do much with the rest of the article.

I really think it is important to give young readers the clearest and most concrete way into difficult subjects that can be managed. Fudge factors and magic wand waving seem totally unhelpful to me. Anyway, I'm glad for any help you can provide in clearing up the muddy writing. Thanks. P0M (talk) 07:36, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Patrick - well, you know the saying about QM... if you think you understand it then you don't ;) QM is obscure (and widely abused Sokal) so it's no surprise we have difficulty trying to explain it.Richwil (talk) 10:05, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Heisenberg can write about the obscurity of QM without being a bad writer. Bad writers can write about what is not problematical and make it obscure. The problems I see with the writing is that I can't figure out what the writer was trying to say. When other people write about the same subject the information is clear and they make it clear where the problems are. Feinman is a good example of nice writing. He can elucidate the nature of the paradoxical findings.
 * I've recently figured out what was going on with the matrices. In that case most of the people who have written about it have tried to make things too simple. The worst case instance is where somebody just says something like, "In QM, xy is not equal to yx." They leave it at that, not even explaining that matrices are involved. P0M (talk) 17:49, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Nice Irvine DFMO edit
How did you get info on DFMO in cancer prevention on the DFMO page so fast? That was a nice edit. I wrote a post about this on my website, if you care to check it out. --Dr.michael.benjamin (talk) 04:53, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Michael - it came up on news-medical.net as a surprising and potent new use. Thanks. My primary interests are ageing and Alzheimer's rather than cancer - if you hear of any opportunities for a mature, final year PhD theoretical molecular biologist, do let me know :) Richwil (talk) 10:05, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Fleetwood Mac
I have reverted your edit at Fleetwood Mac. As the note explains, the article is written in British English, and band names are plural nouns in British English, and most forms of English other than American English. Saying "No it isn't" doesn't really change that. Hidden notes are there for a reason, not just to be ignored, and it would be better to use the discussion page if you're not sure. Cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 16:37, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Both singular and plural forms are used but in my view, as an Englishman, a band name is a collective noun referring to a singular entity in the same way that a company name is singular. I like to be flexible and can see that "Editors" and "The Beatles" fit the plural whereas "Iron Butterfly" and "Pilot" do not. "Fleetwood Mac" seems to me in the latter category. The Grauniad assertion that "bands take a plural verb" is moot and clashes with their other claim that "Company names are always singular" and they muddy the waters with: "Nouns such as committee, family, government, jury and squad take a singular verb or pronoun when thought of as a single unit, but a plural verb or pronoun when thought of as a collection of individuals...".Richwil (talk) 16:19, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Minor edits
Please don't mark edits minor when they aren't. Adding a citation needed or dubious does not qualify has a minor edit. Please read Minor Edit for more information. Note the point "Adding or removing visible tags or other templates in an article". Citation needed and dubious are tags. Therefore, they don't qualify. -- Everyone Dies In the End  (talk) 01:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that - i shall be more careful. Surely the proposition that everyone dies in the end is a tautology? (smiles) My serious point would be that we could do with more investment in healthier old age. 46.208.100.52 (talk) 11:29, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Medical editing
Hi Richwil, I undid one of your recent changes at Alzheimer's disease. Wp:MEDRS calls for secondary sources such as review articles. You cited recent primary research, and in a mouse model at that. There is a vast and rapidly growing literature on AD. We can't arbitrarily choose.whIch bits to use. LeadSongDog come howl!  14:17, 17 January 2014 (UTC) I disagree and have stated my objection to your reversion on the talk page of the article.Richwil (talk) 14:25, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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