User talk:Samivel

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Mediation
Please see Requests for mediation/Aesthetic Realism so that we may begin the mediation. -- Essjay ·    Talk 02:08, 15 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, please start mediation already. -Willmcw 19:30, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Who is Samivel?

 * (moved from Talk:Aesthetic Realism by Willmcw 19:34, 17 October 2005 (UTC))

Samivel, are you APerey? I ask because your editing styles are dramatically similar. (You know, a gazillion tiny edits in a row, changing commas and prepositions.) The style and manner of your attempts to discredit AR's critics are pretty similar, too. And significantly, you have edited *zero* other articles on Wikipedia besides this one, yet you seem to be very familiar with Wikipedia. And of course when you showed up APerey mysteriously disappeared. So I'm asking, are you APerey? I'm not stating that you are, I'm asking. Thanks, Michaelbluejay 17:46, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

I am Samivel
I am Samivel. I no longer want to use a name as close to my own in editing. However, I am advised that to prevent the accusation of sockpuppet I need to make it clear that the new username is me. When the capacity to merge the 3 names I've used, plus my IP, is available on Wiki I will do so. -- Arnold Perey 20 October 2005

Talk pages
Please do not edit or remove the talk page entries of other users. -Willmcw 00:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm not entirely sure what you were doing here:, but it appears as if you edited and/or deleted the comments of another editor. Also, as I've asked you before, please don't interpolate your comments into another editor's - it makes it very difficult to follow the original remark. Thanks, -Willmcw 20:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Mediation
Hi, Samivel. Yes, I am the new mediator, but that's no reason to panic. Essjay's taking a break from the mediation committee, apparently, so I was chosen by the chairman as his replacement for this case. Please add Requests for mediation/Aesthetic Realism to your watchlist, because information about the reassignment has been available there for longer than Michael Bluejay's message on the talk page. Andre ( talk ) 02:21, 2 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Received, and I have replied. Andre ( talk ) 02:54, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

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 * Hello again. How long have you being editing Wikipedia? You say you had a previous account, how long did you have it for? Do you know how things work here? Izehar 20:32, 5 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply, I too have a previous account. I left Wikipedia for a while and when I came back, I had forgotten the password. So I had to make a new account and be accused of sockpuppetry. If you don't want to be acused of sockpuppetry, you should leave a notice on WP:ANI telling the administrators that you have changed account and that you would like them to indefinetly block your old one so that you can't use it as a sockpuppet. Izehar 21:29, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Reverts
I saw you posted this question as an edit summary: The simple answer is "no," you cannot obtain permission for additional reverts. WP:3RR does not apply to simple vandalism but none of the edits that you've reverted count as vandalism. The best approach is to develop a consensus on the talk page that everyone can agree to. -Willmcw 00:11, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Do I have to apply for special permission to revert 12 times in 24 hours, since CDThieme, Michaelbluejay et al are beginning to take turns and each has 3 reverts?
 * This was a wry joke. Still, a case can be made that these are vandalism. --samivel 16:17, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


 * No, their edits have not been vandalism. See vandalism. Editors who cry "vandalism" in cases of POV disputes do not help their own cases. -Willmcw 22:08, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Archiving
When archiving, please do not remove active discussions. You've done that several times now. -Willmcw 17:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't realize. I am going to read all the guidelines to make sure I know all the rules. --samivel 20:48, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Margaret Mead
I hope by now you have thoroughly reviewed No original research and Neutral point of view. If you have not yet, or if your sense of them is shaky, please reread them carefully. Then, go to the Margaret Mead page. review the last five or ten edits and look at the bottom of the talk page. Any intervention you make will fall flat or backfire if you do not comply to NOR and NPOV fanatically. But if you do comply with them, I think we may need an intervention from you in the next few days, or weeks. Slrubenstein  |  Talk 21:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I am glad to see you are still active. From what I can tell, there has been little activiety on the Mead page.  However, based on the recent comment on the talk page, I imagine there will be more activity soon.  So please, just keep an eye on it.  Thanks, Slrubenstein   |  Talk 20:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Also, I agree with your interpretation that DF's critique in no way contradicts MM's central argument. However, I cannot say that in the article, nor can you, as it would violate NOR.  However, if we can find articles or book reviews that say so, we can quote and cite them.  Some time ago I used AnthroSource to see what has been published on mead-Freeman and it did seem that the overwhelming majority of articles questioned Freeman; some of them also placed the debate in a broader context.  My current situation is such that I will not be able to work on the article much, so I appreciate your keeping an eye on it.  In my experience, supporters of Freeman usually put in their own reasons for liking his arguments &mdash; which violates NOR and NPOV.  What they should be doingis quoting published articles.  And that would be the effective response, to quote published articles (which in some ways has more weight than the AAA resolution, not that I knock it) in order to educate readers as to how anthropologists really responded to the controversy. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 20:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

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Ruth Benedict
Hi - Great work on Ruth Benedict. You mention in the discussion page that Benedict's posthumous essay on synergy led to the word entering the language. Can you write more about that? Or, cite to it, and I'll try to dig it up? If she is the source of the word, then it should definitely be included in the synergy article. --LQ 15:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Timeline of Aesthetic Realism


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