I have moved your comment to talk:Polyphenol where it belongs. Please use talk page for discussions, not main articles. I hope Nono64 (an editor who specializes in this topic) will reply shortly. You may wish to contact him directly. Materialscientist (talk) 23:50, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
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FYI - in the future, rather than putting a long discussion on the main article, just place a tag at the top of the article that is selected from this page (e.g. ((disputed))). Then go to the talk page of the article (the discussion tab at the top) and explain your concerns on the talk page. This will alert readers to a dispute over the accuracy of the article, and discussion of the article's content can occur in the appropriate place.
I'm sorry if you saw User:Materialscientist's edits as being hostile toward you - they weren't intended that way. S/he was only trying to put your comments in the appropriate venue... As you can see, the article has since been edited (at least somewhat) in accordance with your comments. If you see any further problems with the article, I'd recommend pasting ((disputed))
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This edit contain so much more than expressed in your edit summary, which was
Removed new term of "natural phenol" as replacement for "simple phenol", because convolutes issues of size/complexity, origin. See talk at "Natural Phenol" article. Prof D
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I noticed your talk page posts on Gram positive bacteria and Bergey's. Both pages which do molecular phylogeny justice compared to others, in my opinion. I am trying to improve bacteriology articles and so far I have created Bacterial taxonomy and Bacterial phyla and going through/adding missing taxa. Unfortunately, in my experience, the accepted molecular phylogeny of bacteria is under-represented in wikipedia as many articles have a strong medical focus (grouping by traits and not phylogeny) and there are a few editors who fervently push for Cavalier-Smith theories. Just today I found that Last universal ancestor has been given a Cavalier-Smith spin. The worst one is Template:Bacteria_classification. Therefore, we are aware of the issue, but it is quite problematic. --Squidonius (talk) 04:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Meduban, I lost my connection on IRC. I have contacted the decliner and will review your submission tonight. Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:30, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Great work on the Macromolecular Assembly you deserve real recognition for the article and it's research.More than just this virtual cookie but it's just here to show my appreciation for your work because sometimes it can seem not worth it and a Thankless task for sharing knowledge and sometimes more bother than it's worth but Thankyou. Wilbur2012(talk) 22:07, 20 July 2012 (UTC) |
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Thanks for the help! -Mabeenot (talk) 17:22, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Meduban,
I shall be happy to skype with you. More via email. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 19:44, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Meduban. This message is being sent to inform you that a discussion is taking place at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 22:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Not too clear, is it? Put ((cn)) next to the offending text. This produces[citation needed]. Please avoid putting comments in the articles directly. Your use of the talk page is complementry to the ((cn)). Thanks for your contribution! Jim1138 (talk) 22:04, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
You keep saying that people are reverting your edits without discussion. First, people are discussing them, in two places now, so that's just false at this point. More importantly, as you have been told at least three times already, you do not have a right to have your version prevail. Everyone is welcome to edit, but if anyone disagrees, they can revert. Your edits are clearly contentious, and at least three editors have reverted you. Editors have a perfect right to keep the status quo ante until someone has proved there a good reason to change. Therefore, you are the one breaking protocol by restoring your version before the discussion has concluded. You need to stop or you will end up blocked from editing. What you are doing is not helpful, constructive, or in any other way likely to improve the article. I assume your intention is to improve the article. If it is, then you will take my advice and stop being disruptive. -Rrius (talk) 22:29, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Your recent editing history at Marco Rubio shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
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Please revert your last edit to this article and engage editors on the article talk page. I well understand that you have have posted to various noticeboards regarding this situation, but to continue to insist on your version of this article while discussion is ongoing will not serve you well. The content you removed was sourced and cited properly. Please self-revert immediately. Tiderolls 00:09, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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Request reason:
I would ask that if you are engaging in this matter, please do not simply take the word of an individual within wikipedia as to the nature of this conflict. Go to the relevant article talk pages, and then to the NPOVN pages linked from there. (I believe you have the wrong end of the stick, for lack of information.) As background, I am a res faculty member at a university; I write content in the sciences, and do not understand your wiki system/processes extremely well (nor have I time to). My editing is primarily in my areas of my science specializations. My editing of this biographical article began simply because I found that the short version of this Section made factual errors as to spouse and other names, etc., and then went on report so briefly on Mr Rubio's wife and on immigration stories that it omitted substantial published facts, both from the articles it cited, and in general. Note, I am not partisan in this (not a Floridian, and not politically active). I only want wiki to be an accurate, reliable, unbiased source of information. The expansion of this biographical Section's content aimed to correct facts and expand the spouse and immigration stories so as to be accurate to source material. My additions were reverted to the original without comment by another (Reversion A1, by party other than me). I found this contrary to practice in my areas of editing, and disrespectful insofar as no reasons were given. I then went into talk, and went to great detail to explain what I had written, and why, and then returned the expanded text to circulation (Reversion B1, by me). This change from me was again reverted without any engagement with issues, or response to things raised in talk (Reversion A2, by party other than me). This back and forth then continued, where in latest form I suggested just deleting the brief inaccurate section until the factual and apparent bias issues could be addressed. Notably, here, and whatever contributors "Nomo..." and "Rrius" are calling this, the points are: (1) The matter at hand is about a living individual, where my claim -- as an adult, professional academic -- is that the current text in place is inaccurate and biased. Per Wiki policy, it MUST be change or removed. (2) I have repeatedly stated and defended the substance of the changes (to correct and make accurate), whereas those reverting have essentially done so repeatedly, without discussion except to focus on wiki editing process violations, and not on the substance of the problems with the text. (3) Note, the reversions were begun by another/others, and I was simply responding, so in a "repetitive moves in chess" sense, they are one move ahead of me, and their reverting of the new content seemingly should have been stopped. (In fairness, it should not matter if several are taking turns reverting. The question is whether the text is accurate or not, and how to get to accuracy.) (4) When it became clear that we were not making progress -- the talk points I made were not being responded to, and the reversion to the inaccurate continued -- I took the step to enter this into the NPOVN process, etc. That is, though I am less senoir in working within and understanding your wiki process, I tried working within the system (while they simply reverted to the inaccurate biography, and remained disengaged from addressing the substantial questions raised). (5) Bottom line, I think: The section should remain out until the subtantial issues of its accuracy and bias are addressed by NPOVN or another route, and **I should be unblocked in the meantime.** (You are stopping my chemistry work for goodness sake!) (6) Finally, since I am blocked from communicating, I would ask you do an urgent consult with Calliopejen [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Calliopejen1 ], who is a senior editor familiar with me and my position, continuing wiki questions, and character. Fundamentally, I believe you have the wrong end of the stick on this, should look to wiki policy on allowing flawed biography text to remain in place for living individuals, and should consider my status and contributions before allowing this to stand. Otherwise you are clearly siding with those who would use wiki rules to justify their lack of engagement, and so to maintain biased wikipedia content for a living person. Prof D. Meduban (talk) 01:24, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Amazing that such a request, bordering on TLDR territory, is so easy to review and write such a short response too. Tide rolls has it right and I need not add any more to this classic example of a justified block for edit warring. — Daniel Case (talk) 03:14, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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Well, the usual prescribed response to such an impasse is either the third opinion process or a request for comment, although those usually are for very specific issues. For broader issues you might want to consider mediation. Daniel Case (talk) 17:54, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for creating this article. Please "inline" its references, that is, indicate which ones are used for certain sentences, in any way convenient - I'll fix the formatting. This is important - after next edits it will be impossible to tell what was referenced and to which sources, and what is personal opinion or vandalism added by forthcoming editors. Regards. Materialscientist (talk) 22:29, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I have removed your response to my criticisms of your edits. It is wholly inappropriate to intersperse your comments within mine. It is also completely unfair to expect me to fix it, so I'm letting you know. The whole reason I numbered that list was so you could respond to each point by number. Doing what you did makes the whole thing unreadable, so if you want your responses registered, please do it without disrupting what I said. -Rrius (talk) 15:30, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Meduban! It looks as though at this point most of your questions to me have become moot, to use a legal term.... It looks like your MA article has made it to mainspace, and now you know that in the future you don't need to go through AFC to post new articles. As a general matter, I want to affirm what other editors have been telling you about the Marc Rubio article. Wikipedia has certain established processes that have proven over time to yield good results on the whole. Though in any particular instance they may seem unfair, these process rules apply to all articles and all editors. You cannot change an article over objections of other editors through edit warring. If you believe the people who maintain the Marc Rubio page are biased, you can do a WP:RFC to get broader input from a wider range of editors. Good luck, Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:55, 27 July 2012 (UTC)