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Discretionary sanctions notification
This is merely a notification, not a reprimand. vzaak 23:29, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Terrence McKenna
Thank you for repairing my source edit errors in the article Terrence McKenna. I do my best not to make such error and when possible I continue in my source work by consulting the sources and providing pages etc. If you have the books in referenced please provide the full citations. There remain significant problems with the sources, many are primary, some are unpublished or self published and some seem not to meet RS. As consensus editing on the article continues I hope multiple editors can improve the article through good faith consensus building. Again thanks and sorry for my errors. - - MrBill3 (talk) 15:55, 1 February 2014 (UTC) Just as a follow up. The references have been formatted and tagged. I found one high quality reference and another editor has found a second. The one I found has been added to the article with a link to the chapter, the other is on the talk page. I invite you to work on the article with those references and what others you find. Best wishes. - - MrBill3 (talk) 21:35, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi MrBill3, Not a problem and thanks for the reference you have found. I will have a look and see if I can help improve the article more when I get a bit of spare time. I have already improved some of the references you flagged up. Thanks again Screamliner (talk) 09:01, 3 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Greetings Screamliner, I have added an additional comment on the talk page. Thank you for your contributions to the article. I think you are making substantial improvements. I just wanted to drop you a note re the WP process and let you know although there may be some contention, WP editing is a consensus process engaged in with good faith. I hope myself and other editors proceed with courtesy and respect contributing to your enjoyment of and encouraging your editing. - - MrBill3 (talk) 01:13, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I have access to ProQuest and may be able to email you material (For your own personal research, not to be distributed, to be destroyed upon completion of your research). I think this qualifies as fair use. I will post material I find in the Sources section on the talk page. - - MrBill3 (talk) 02:00, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi thank you for your kind words and yes that would be fantastic MrBill3, is there any way I can send you my e-mail address privately? If not I could post a temporary e-mail address here just for this purpose Screamliner (talk) 09:31, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

If you email me from User:MrBill3 (left side of page, tools menu, email this user link) I will get an email from the email address you used to register on WP. I can email you back at that email address or you can put the email address you want me to use in the body of the email message. Let me know which sources you are interested in. Your certainly welcome for the kudos, I think you are making great improvements to the article.

A few notes:

I think the material from the Schultes 1993 review needs to be paraphrased. A little overquoted there.

In general ASINs are discouraged. If you think adding the one for the CD version of Alien Dreamtime should be added back as verification of publication of the CD version. The idea behind discouraging ASINs is that it is a link to a single commercial website. Jimbo wrote in an email that he was against using ASINs. Relevant guideline can be found at WP:LINKSTOAVOID item 4. This also applies to GoogleBooks links, they should be used only if the text cited is available (free). In my opinion GoogleBooks links should be applied to and point to the page number(s).

There are still a ton of cites to McKenna's books, speaches and other works as references. I think most of the material can be found in secondary reliable sources to the citations should be changed to those. Policy WP:SECONDARY, essay WP:USINGPRIMARY. I am pretty sure with a little work all the sections but Thought can can be cleaned up. This will allow moving the tags at the top of the article to that section.

Speaking of the Thought section, boy that needs a ton of work. I think Jenkins (2009) covers much of the "Novelty Theory" and "Timewave Zero" material. It seems some of the books you have found cover "Archaic Revival" and touch upon "Stoned Ape". The section needs to be cut way down. I think the Watkins Objection has to go, where is it discussed? Sheliak and Watkins material is self published original research not encyclopedia material.

Well enough already. In the future most of this type of discussion belongs on the talk page of the article. Again thanks for your contributions. You have provided some excellent references and done some good editing. The article is much stronger now and the support for the content is getting good. McKenna was an important figure and he has been written about fairly extensively by a variety of authors. As an RN I find that Jean Watson discussed him in Postmodern Nursing and Beyond particularly intriguing. Best wishes. - - MrBill3 (talk) 05:02, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks again for the help and advice MrBill3. I couldn't find the link but you can e-mail me at screamwiki@runbox.com I am going to have a go at re-working the Stoned Ape section over the next few days so if you've anything related to that or food of the gods in general that would be excellent, although I've got quite a few good sources to go on. I have done quite a bit more editing on the article today. In my view the only sections now which are still in need a lot of work are the 'Stoned Ape' section and 'Novelty Theory and Timewave Zero' section, 'early life' section needs a bit of work too. I've got quite a lot of information regarding novelty theory in the John Major Jenkins book and also in the Mavericks of the Mind book but it is a big task so I'll have to see about doing that section, maybe some other editors will chip in as well. Anyway thanks again Screamliner (talk) 18:00, 5 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Glad to be a help. You must be quite the McKenna scholar by now. Great work on the article. I am going to remove all three tags and have stated so on the talk page. I have also notified vzaak and TRPoD, they will likely have some input (some clarification and context of mainstream scientific consensus and the status of McKenna's ideas as fringe, which are appropriate, and those two editors are good at providing such as well as insistent upon it). I will email you some of the material when I get a chance, RL and various computers and all that. I am going to pull the Watkins Objection to the talk page. When I get a chance I will do a detailed discussion of the sources I have tagged on the talk page and an attempt at consensus on what should stay or go...
 * Great work the article again. I hope you are enjoying editing and will continue to do so. There may be some pushback on this article and in the future on other articles you and I may be in positions of contention, as ever AGF and best wishes. - - (talk) 07:52, 8 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi MrBill3 sorry only just seen this message I did just ask you about one of your tagged sources in the talk page. Anyway thanks again yes it's been an enjoyable experience. I agree some well sourced criticism would be beneficial - I have added a bit myself today. I'm going to have a little break from editing, but I will get the page numbers for true hallucinations done in time and I may even have a go at the novelty theory section in the future. All the best and look forward to the e-mails thanks Screamliner (talk) 12:41, 8 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello - it's Matthew Watkins here, just wanted to correct your section on what TM called the "Watkins Objection" (the article is locked, so I can't change it myself). I did my PhD at the University of Kent at Canterbury, NOT Cambridge (I think McKenna himself got that wrong somewhere in print). I started looking at the Timewave in '95 or '96, not '94, and that was *after* I completed my PhD. The description of my "objection" isn't entirely accurate, but five years after 2012 I don't think anyone's that interested! I can clarify if you like [mwatkins@maths.ex.ac.uk]

129.12.212.56 (talk) 11:00, 28 June 2017 (UTC) MW
 * Hi Matthew User:129.12.212.56 thanks for getting in touch. WP is only bult on information from published reliable sources, so even if you sent me the correct info by e-mail it would not be able to be included in the article, so i have just removed the potentially problematic information from the article. Thanks Screamliner (talk) 13:20, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Encouraging you to edit
Good to see you editing. I think you are a good editor and I encourage you to edit other articles. You have developed some real skills in WP editing and you write well. I hope you find other subjects interesting and contribute to them. - - MrBill3 (talk) 20:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much MrBill3 and thanks for your support. Screamliner (talk) 12:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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 * You have received the above alert because of your controversial edits to and around the page David Icke. Bishonen &#124; talk 13:41, 26 May 2018 (UTC).


 * (And the same with this one, of course. Bishonen &#124; talk 14:06, 26 May 2018 (UTC).)

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 * zzz I was the one using the talk page and attempting to reach consensus you did not even engaging on the talk page even when asked to, so your threat/warning seems misplaced. I reverted one edit which appeared to be blatant vandalism, and the other which is potentially in violation of WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, and WP:RSUW, where a talk page discussion started by me, in an attept to reach consensus on the very issue is currently ongoing! And as per WP:BLP "the possibility of harm to living subjects must always be considered when exercising editorial judgment...The burden of evidence rests with the editor who adds or restores material." So it was perfectly justifiable for me to revert the contentious edit on the topic directly been discussed at Talk:David_Icke Screamliner (talk) 20:05, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * Note: Screamliner, an uninvolved admin will be along to assess your unblock request. But the 3RR rule is a bright line, and you had been warned. The history isn't very easy to read, so I'll supply the four reverts inside 24 hours that you made in my opinion:, , , (the last is a partial revert of Izewhiz's edit here.) Bishonen &#124; talk 18:01, 27 May 2018 (UTC).

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Philip Cross How is this at all suitable, or relevant to post on my page? Thanks Screamliner (talk) 11:50, 26 April 2020 (UTC)


 * It's relevant because most of your contributions are to Icke's article. I note that you haven't addressed the question, would you please do so now? Thanks. Doug Weller  talk 17:32, 6 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Doug Weller  I haven't counted all my wikipedia edits per page but I think if you did you would find I have made more edits to the Terence Mckenna article overall, which was the first page I made any serious contributions to. There wasn't a question asked, it was a statment as far as I can tell, so I didn't presume an answer was required. If you are asking if I have conflict of interests in regards to David Icke, the answer is no, and I really hope anyone seriously looking at the content of my edits in an unbiased fashion would see that. Thanks Screamliner (talk) 20:41, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Doug Weller  talk 18:56, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Doug Weller No problem. Screamliner (talk) 20:03, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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