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Defender of Wikipedia[edit]

For outstanding efforts in defending Wikipedia from vandalism, in particular the JFK article, I award you the Defender of Wiki Barnstar -Husnock

--Hey, thank you very much, Husnock. I have now noticed vandalism on several articles that seems to be part of a class assignment gone astray --JimWae 19:39, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)

history articles on wikipedia?[edit]

Hello Jim, I'm an historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including the writing of history on Wikipedia. We'd like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Joan Fragaszy

jfragasz_at_gmu.edu

Sounds interesting - I am going to be very busy the next month - and cannot plan exact times to chat - so let's start with e-mails --JimWae 18:34, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)

Hi Jim, if you're more available now, I'm still very interested in speaking with you about your work on Wikipedia. Feel free to drop me an email at jfragasz_at_gmu_dot_edu. - Joan, 8/22/05

re: history articles on Wikipedia[edit]

Hi Jim, if you'd like to email me when you have some time I'm still very interested in speaking with you. Thanks, Joan Fragaszy. jfragasz at gmu dot edu

September 11, 2001 attacks[edit]

Examination of public videos reveals evidence of substantially different facts. Consider the contents of this video:* New Video Documentary of WTC Collapse As you watch, note particularly the differences in fact between this video and the wikipedia article, that are verifiable by you by reviewing the sources yourself (ie renting, buying or downloading). We are being lied to. Maybe we want to believe the lies because the truth implies intent from within. -unsigned by anon IP

Wikipedia 10[edit]

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TUSC token 1f1747f8c6381b915c04cb28ced74777[edit]

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Existentialism[edit]

Thank you for your work on the existentialism article. After going through the definition issue for the "libertarianism" and "anarchism" pages, I understand how nerve-wracking establishing a definition for a term is when there's never been much general agreement on what the hell it actually means. Byelf2007 (talk) 18 April 2012

LED lamps[edit]

Before starting another editwar, we should discuss the point "Comparison to other lighting technologies". Did you own the G7 Power LED Light Bulb, 900 Lumen, Warm White, 9 Watt? This lamp is bad, it has an CRI of <75 in real. I have tested over 40 different LED-Lamps from all known brands (Pilips, Osram, Toshiba, Samsung, LG, Ledon, Megaman, Bioledex...) and know their quality. In my opinion the referenced lamps should be well known, proved models who are really representive for the possible quality of the LED technology. So why not use the winner of the US Department of Energy's L-Prize, holder of the EPA ENERGY STAR ? This lamp has moren REAL lumen, an good CRI and costs the same? In my opinion, we should change back the LED-Lamp to the Philips Ambient 12.5W.

Martin Heidegger[edit]

There is a discussion underway on the Martin Heidegger talk page that may be of interest to you.

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Punishment[edit]

Hello Jim. I was over at the Punishment page today. The impetus for this was something I was reading in a text book about the Philosophy of Punishment. Anyway, some of the text I was reading in the Punishment article did not seem kosher and the sources didn't support the assertions there. So I removed the text and left a message on the talk page. I have no idea if you are interested in this page anymore, or if you are still editing on Wikipedia. Can you believe it's been about 13 or 14 years since we edited this page together along with the ANI and ARBCOM that followed? Regards, ---Steve Quinn (talk) 19:21, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Steve, Good to see you are still at it. Your edit seems entirely justified. That section came from anon edit

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Punishment&diff=next&oldid=730010438 and it was entirely unclear how octopi stopping eating young octopi had anything to do with punishment.

I got too tired of fighting the same battles over & over & hardly ever edit anymore. JimWae (talk) 22:50, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I totally understand about getting too tired fighting the same battles over & over. It seems that things should get straightened out once and for all, but that doesn't happen. Also, I think I recently read that the number of editors is not increasing as Wikipedia expands, or something like that. As for me, I stopped editing on Wikipedia for quite awhile. Then somehow I started again a little bit at a time. Lately, I have been spending more time here. It is easy to catch the editing bug again. But I am going to have to pull back. There other things in life. And I will have to remember it is Octopi not Octopuses :>) --Steve Quinn (talk) 18:57, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's pretty amazing you found that edit by that IP back in 2016. ----Steve Quinn (talk) 19:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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