User talk:SmithBlue

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MINIMAL editing activity occuring

WIki-life is very reduced at preent - hopwe to have time again in near-medium term. Please feel free to leave a message - I'll get round to it eventually. SmithBlue (talk) 04:27, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Central Jersey

I'm done with trying to deal with the belligerent editor haunting Central Jersey. Let me know when the rule of law returns. --Pat (talk) 02:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry. I thought you were the replacement Wiki editor in dispute resolution. I already filed the required report and summoned an impartial editor. That editor got nowhere, left with his apologies, and then you showed up talking about collaboration, etc. I understand that you were just passing through. I've fought the battle for months, even invoked Wiki help, but it is time to give it a rest.--Pat (talk) 01:27, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

'Gatto' Recommendation

I read The Underground History of American Education (Fortunately it was available online, as I couldn't find a print copy)during my 3rd period class, where I was a T.A. for a class of 11th and 12th graders who had failed the math portion of the WASL at least twice. Needless to say, I saw parallels. Eerie, eerie parallels. Thanks-I always knew that my mother's explanations that school prepared me for work by teaching us to follow directions while numbing our minds with dull worksheets didn't quite gel.LeeRamsey (talk) 05:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Terry Hicks on David Hicks

• Thanks for the note but I think that you will find I noticed that within seconds of making the error and promptly righted it. Paste (talk) 16:26, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Australian English

Hi SB. You changed "authorise" to "authorize" in the Hicks article, ostensibly to reflect Australian English, but "authorise" (and recognise, and so on) is Australian usage. Sources[1][2] note -ise as a principally British variant, with American sources using -ize[3]. See also, for example, the following Australian Competition & Consumer Commission article using -ise: ACCC proposes to authorise recruitment industry code. --Brendan [ contribs ] 00:58, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

editorial intervention requested on OPV/AIDS or polio-aids debate

Hi, the editors are not letting me post my link on the OPV/AIDS debate. I have written in defense of that link. I hope you can help since you seem to understand the theory better than most.

I thank the respected editors for their prompt response. I want to point out something: - if you see my movie - you will see that it is already BASED on all the published material and sources - from Nature, Science, etc. that you have added to your quite impressive (for people not involved in the debate directly) entry on polio-aids. Polio-aids, if true, has immense implications for human life and safety, speaking from the point of view of our species. Hence it is important, that the editors ascertain whether I have TRULY broken the rules. If my video, is only a visual representation, of what has been already discussed in print in your article, then what is the harm in including it. I chose the visual representation of communication because there have been so many cranky theory of aids origin, not to mention the billion dollar lawsuits that some might face, if polio aids is true, that I felt that a visual representation of already published scientific article was important, especially since Wiki itself suffers from a paucity of images. Yes, over the years, my research in Congo led to to believe that there was more truth to polio aids then the scientific mainstream journals (which presented only a politically correct version) represented - and which lay people thought to be the unvarnished truth. But this is not about my point of view. In your article, you have quoted several scientific sources discussing polio - aids, albeit, cautiously, some dismissive, some supportive. What if somebody put up a visual image of all of this debate. Wouldn't have count as an Wiki entry - being simply a DIFFERENT mode of communication, in order to make dense scientific ideas accessible in a more democratic fashion, free of jargon, using the power of the audio-video medium, which many feel - to be the language of the future? Just as Wiki is the encyclopaedia of the future. Thus, given the important of the topic, I humbly request the editors to SEE my movie. It will, if nothing else, inform your various debates on this page. It is only 1 hour or so, in 8 parts. I put it up for free on youtube, because of the importance of the topic.

http://www.youtube.com/fluxsid

is the link of my investigative movie, largely shot in NE Congo - called Private Congo Investigations If you can locate the paper published at the Royal Society conference by Daniel Low-Beer you will see that the paper is based upon my work, and I am thanked accordingly. I am a scientist trained at Oxford, and have been researching the origin of AIDS for several years. A rough cut of my film - made over several years - in North East Congo - is up on youtube. In it, among other things, light is shed on the contamination that Dr. Albert Sabin had found in Koprowski's Leopoldville vaccination campaign which started in Aug 1958, approx. one year before the world's first HIV positive blood sample found from the same city. Several interviews with Dr. Koprowski himself are also in the video which have never been seen before - including instances of him not remembering the dates of his own world's 1st mass vaccination campaign, and his post - dating the date to after the 1959 sample. Dr. Leonard Hayflick, a very famous scientist, who was head of Dr. Koprowski's Wistar Lab, is also seen making points relevant to the idea that chimp cells were used secretly for purposes of securing a patent. And finally, visuals of Assistants at Lindi back in the 50s, talk about what was done, and about chimp kidneys being sent to the USA. All of this is relevant to OPV/AIDS and the origin of AIDS. You have only to see my move. But somebody keeps removing my link - I am new to Wiki, but please try and let my link remain, as it sheds light on the entire discussion here and more

Fluxsingh (talk) 17:54, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:21, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Wp blah

The less time I spend here the happier I am. Good luck to you all and get out as soon as you can. Go dancing. Or play music. Meditate. SmithBlue (talk) 05:18, 9 February 2016 (UTC)