I am Rakesh Mohan Hallen. I am above 50 and taken up science communication as my vocation. I hold a doctrate degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India and have authored over a hundred articles in popular science magazines.
I like wikipedia and hypography science forums, they offer me an opportunity to futroo, an activity I cherish.Charlie 11:23, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Hallenrm, thanks for the note on my page and sorry I haven't answered earlier, haven't had time to edit lately. No problem reverting me on the energy article. I'm going to add a little more to the intro; the article really needs a simple, clear definition of physical work. --Sullevon 17:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
You wrote: I have been activly editing the energy page. I noticed your recent edits. However, I have some minor differences in opinion. In my opinion there is no need for detailed explanations, providing links to pages that have the required information should be sufficient.
In addition, I believe I have more experience than you regarding communicating this topic to the general reader.Charlie 03:12, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
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I really cannot understand you, all of a sudden after several months, you decide to pop up and carry out unneccesary edits. For example, what prompted you to edit out the first paragraph. The article on energy does not belong solely to physics (or physical science) as is abundantly clear in its contents. It is about a concept in science, which includes biology, geology meterology just to count a few. If you are solely obssessed with physics, please control your impulses.Charlie 08:22, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
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I have spent several months letting you and others sort out what you want to do with the energy article. Okay. However, it still needs lots of work. I did not write "physics," but "physical sciences," which of course are not the same thing, as you should very well know as a science writer, and (if not) as you'd discover if you merely read the wiki on physical sciences. The latter term is inclusive of physics and includes geology and meteorology. Apparently you didn't realize this. Also it includes chemistry, and other earth sciences like hydrology, oceanography, soil science, and so on. And planetary sciences and all of astronomy, of course. The term doesn't include the social sciences or political sciences, but in this case we don't want it to. The one place where energy is used in "joules" but which isn't covered by "physical sciences" would be certain "life sciences". It would have been so nice if you'd just suggested adding that, instead of just misusing the English language, which is what you are here doing, not I. As for whether my edits are "necessary" or not, that is not up to you to judge. We've been over that. If you insist on misusing or misunderstanding common English, making reflexive edits, and then following them with insulting comments on other editors' TALK pages, you're going to get yourself into trouble on Wikipedia. So this is another warning. This is your LAST warning from me. Stop it. SBHarris 23:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
User:Sbharris has asked me on my talk page at User talk:Bduke to try to help in the disagreement you are having on this article. I will try to help if you will allow me. This is an article that is not on my watch list so it is new to me. I ask you to reply on my talk page and the debate can go on there. It is getting late at night here and I am rather exhausted as last night was too hot to sleep well. I am therefore asking you and User:Sbharris to both try to state clearly on my talk page what you think the problem with this article is and why you are disagreeing. Could you please do that? I will try to help tomorrow or whenever I get your views. I really am not sure that you are far apart. There is often an artificial difference between how chemists and physicists think. Please try to remain civil to each other. --Bduke 11:24, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Your recent edit to Energy is very confusing. Consider:
You added the second sentence. The first is talking about internal energy (U). The second is talking about chemical potential which is related to the Gibbs Free Energy (G). There is therefore no "Thus" about it. Your sentence does not follow from the first and is actually talking about something completed different. The sentence after the Gibbs-Duhem equation "However, the change in internal energy can also be construed as the change in chemical potential energy" is true only if chemical potential energy is used in the sense of this article, i.e. as internal energy and not as the chemical potential which is different. Roughly, spontaneous process go with a decrease in chemical potential, but that can be with an increase in internal energy - i.e. an endothermic reaction. The point about the Gibbs-Duhem equation and the chemical potential does need to be mentioned somewhere, but not here and then more as a "do not confuse this use of chemical potential energy with the chemical potential". --Bduke 07:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, Rakesh. I am indeed interested in improving the energy article and I do think respecting the opinions of other editors is important. I did make considerable edits to the article to remove information that was (a) redundant, and/or came too early in the article (Wikipedia as very good guidelines about what should go in a lead); (b) vague, unsourced, or overly complicated; or (c) entirely devoid of concrete information. I also changed the Greek etymology which (a) did not go back to the real root word and (b) was not displaying properly on any computer I looked at it from. I look forward to discussing with you appropriate ways to improve this article through the consensus process, which I think is turning into a major challenge. Robert K S 10:39, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for already doing a lot! I note that there has been some editorial disagreement recently, so please be polite and work via consensus. Let's hope we can make it a GA! Thanks, Walkerma 04:30, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I am writing to ask you to consider using the talk pages more frequently. You are undertaking the large task of splitting and trimming articles related to energy, but other editors are also free to assist, and their contributions are as welcome as yours. In order to find a wider consensus on wording, layout, etc., it will be necessary to discuss your changes on the relevant talk pages.
I have left a question at Talk:Energy(Physics) about the names of these articles. It appears to me that the content that is currently at Energy should merge with the content at Energy (disambiguation). Also, page names like Energy(Physics) need to have a space added and the word Physics set in lowercase to conform with the manual of style. CMummert · talk 13:52, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
My goal here is to get everyone to work together, so that they don't keep coming to ask others for help settling content disagreements. My request for you to discuss changes on talk pages was genuine; you do not seem to have made even one comment on any article talk page since a week ago. You should also make sure to read the edit warring guideline. The best way to avoid the appearance of edit warring is by discussing rather than reverting changes you don't agree with. CMummert · talk 18:06, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
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This is your first warning. I see that you're new to Wikipedia. Your actions, however, have caused a major disruption at the energy article. Never again convert any science article at Wikipedia to a disambig page or move any major science article as you did with your energy to energy (physics) move. In any event, I have volunteered to clean up the mess you have made. More than four people agree with me. You have reverted me twice now. If you continue in this direction, you will be banned from editing the energy article. We are presently forming a committee to decide on your actions. If you continue to cause problems at other science articles, you will then be banned from Wikipedia. Please work with us rather than against us. Wikipedia is a community project. Again, this is your first warning from me; hopefully it will be the last and we can write a nice energy article together. Thank you: --Sadi Carnot 00:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you disagree with the proposed deletion of the articles Energy (biology) etc. The correct way to express that is by removing the template (as it catually says.) indicating clearly in the edit sumarry e.g. by "DEPROD:..." For further information about this, please refer to above cited guideline. --Tikiwont 12:08, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
A few observations. As I understand Energy articles proposal straw poll addressed everything but Energy (biology), Energy (chemistry), Energy (earth science), etc. becomming part of the Energy overview since Sadi Carnot excluded that proposal from the discussion by posting "Basically yes, except for point (3); we'll have to see that bridge when we cross it." The Energy (chemistry) has no references. If you really want to keep Energy (chemistry), you will need to provide references. I suggest using in-line citations (footnotes) from whatever is the most respected Wikipedia reliable sources on the topic Energy (chemistry). There are a lot of people interested in the Energy article and significant unilateral actions on such an article usually are not well received. Laura Scudder seems to have a clear headed view on the matter. I place a post on her talk page to request her assistance. Also, check out Wikipedia:How to break up a page. -- Jreferee (Talk) 05:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
An article you created, Energy (chemistry), was nominated for deletion. Although your contributions are appreciated, an editor does not feel that Energy (chemistry) satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; an explaination for this is in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Energy (chemistry) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Energy (chemistry) during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- Jreferee (Talk) 23:33, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you moved my contributions in this subsection to chemical thermodynamics please explain your rationale for doping so.Hallenrm 03:03, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I’m sorry did you just call me “mindless”? Please, save the insults for someone not at Wikipedia and do us all a favor and leave Wikipedia. --Sadi Carnot 12:43, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
This is regarding your recent message on my talk page, asking me to leave; this is after your concerted effort in conspiring to get me banned. Let me inform you that I am a master of my own and do not take such suggestions from anybody. May I ask you what is your authority on the wikipedia to dole out such suggestions. It is as much uncivil as my terming one of your edits mindless ( Inever called you mindless in general), which it was because you did not apply your mind before carrying out your action which was just out of vengeance.Hallenrm 06:38, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Pages on the topic of homeopathy are currently under probation due to past editing problems. Please read the terms at Talk:Homeopathy/Article probation and be sure to comply. Cheers, — Scientizzle 18:19, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Please don't use justificacions like the one here [2], the fact that the article is tagged as not neutral does not mean that you can make not neutral edits to it. Notice also that it's tagged non-neutral because of the second paragraph of the lead, not because of the section that you were editing. --Enric Naval (talk) 13:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
See my comment here. You are disrupting the talk page to make a point about drug companies. Talk pages are not for WP:SOAPBOXing your favourite point of view about stuff. Please read WP:TALK wikipedia guideline on using talk pages
Please remember that the homeopathy pages are under probation. Consider this a formal warning: if you keep trying to use to soapbox, I'll have to ask that you are placed under a topic ban.
Notice that you won't be allowed to make on these pages things that you can calmly do on less-controversial pages. The fact that this happens shortly after the New Scientific reference addition is a bad thing. --Enric Naval (talk) 05:17, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on Talk:Homeopathy. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Enric Naval (talk) 12:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
It's nice that you suggest sources for specific content, but please don't accompany them with assumptions on how other editor's POV will prevent them from evaluating them on a neutral way, like you did on this comment. --Enric Naval (talk) 12:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
P.D.: Some good faith advice: notice that your suggestions will have a greater chance of being accepted if you present them on a neutral way. About the comment you made, next time please think of writting only the first sentence to introduce the source, and refraining from adding commentaries that are not strictly about improving the article with the source. That helps towards getting your suggestions accepted, collaborating constructively with other editors, having a good ambient on the talk page that helps on collaborating, etc. --Enric Naval (talk) 12:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
It's my opinion that your actions regarding Homeopathy are becoming disruptive. While you certainly differ in your opinions than some editors, I think the inappropriate nature of some of your edits is quite evident:
Asserting that other editors hold bias each time they revert your inappropriate edits does nothing to endear anyone. If you have a problem with any of my statements or actions, please take them up with me directly, dispensing with the melodramatic charges of bias, naturally. — Scientizzle 18:49, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
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Your work and conversations with editors in the area of Homeopathy is appreciated. Two months or so ago I actually went to one of the University of California's medical libraries and looked through the introductions on several critcal books on the subject. That experience convinced me that although established medical consensus finds the claims of homepathy fairly implausible, it certainly doesn't rule out its central arguments (e.g., the memory of highly diluted solutions) as realistic and imaginable possiblities. Such a mechanism of memory in a diluted solution, if it exists, would rest on the principles of friction, which come under the topic of triboelectricity. Which is something that everyone has had experienced, but suprisingly no physicist or scientist has really achieved a deep level of understanding (e.g., it's a macro-scopic phenomenon that remains unpredictable). At any rate, your work on the article on the History of energy that makes you a valuable contributor to wikipedia and many if not most credible editors with broad enough world views could certainly have had a similar confrontation with someone at Homeopathy. For the Homeopathy aritcle is at least an order of magnitude more difficult to understand than any college level homeopathy medical book I've seen. Firefly322 (talk) 01:17, 29 June 2008 (UTC) |
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