User talk:MartinPoulter

Hi Martin

Here I am. Thanks for organising this. --HLuna70 (talk) 11:34, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Please take down your allegation

Please take down the allegation you made here. It is blatantly untrue. I have already tried to contact you by various means. (Edward Buckner) 109.148.152.127 (talk) 23:05, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What allegation?Jasper Deng (talk) 23:09, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The allegation that I have claimed to be mentally ill. Follow the link. This is an outrageous slur. 109.148.152.127 (talk) 23:21, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! For being welcoming to newcomers.

Hi Martin, thanks for the welcome cookies and for the helpful edits to the Onboarding page. They're greatly appreciated as all four of us (the iOParty team, robertpersaud and I) are all newcomers to Wikipedia. Have a great day! Brianrangell (talk) 16:57, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Martin! I too feel very warm about being greeted as a newcomer! It's great to start feeling part of the team and such original cookies inspire me! Irina Pertsel (talk) 04:23, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Martin listen very closely.

Now first of all, i'm adding this page and you're deleting it for ZERO good reasons. Why? well, first of all this page was here for almost 3 weeks and now you deside to delete it?

second, the content on the page and website is 100 times better than the crap there is on wikipedia, so consider this a favor.

Third, i know it's nofollow, but some people love to give value to others for no reason. Don't believe me? look at the website, it's not promotional and it's not selling anything. and if i won't post the link here, THOUSANDS of others will.

Now i'm going to post it again, because it's awesome material, WAY better than all the junk that the page links to on the matter of self-esteem.

Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.132.41.184 (talk) 20:20, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please continue this discussion at Talk:Self-esteem. MartinPoulter (talk) 12:24, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Thank you for your help in cleaning up the Social identity Wikipedia entry (as well as your general support of the work done within our course)! I was unaware that a shortcut existed to avoid duplicate references and will now be able to make use of it as I continue cleaning up the article/in future Wikipedia contributions. Tabularasasm (talk) 20:24, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Travis S. Tarrants

Hello we are writing about your comments on Travis S. Tarrants. We are working to improve his page. We are new to wikipedia so please be patient with us. Plus we are not computer experts. We do have more references to put on the page. We know the references we have put up so far are just websites but we have tried several times to make them more specific resources but have failed. Once we learn HOW to do them correctly there will be more references and they will be more specific. This is not a self promotion and has not been copied and pasted. We have gathered this information about Travis from websites or newspaper, radio and television interviews he has given. Again please be patient with us as we continue to improve and add to this site. Thank You99.14.209.19 (talk) 05:34, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I've no idea who this is. Did you send this message to the right person? MartinPoulter (talk) 08:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Social Psychology

Hi Martin. Any rationale for downgrading social psychology to a C rating? It seems like it's in better shape than most C articles I've seen. I'm going to put it back at a B, but let's discuss this on the talk page if you have specific criticisms or suggestions. Best regards, Jcbutler (talk) 13:52, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed the citation requests in the article. I'll look for some additional references in these areas. --Jcbutler (talk) 18:16, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for constructive criticism in psychology articles

Martin, I wanted thank you for all the effort you put in on the pages my students worked on. Through your feedback, they are learning that Wikipedia is indeed a collaborative activity. In addition to getting benefit from the substantive advice you've given them, they have been encouraged and motivated simply because someone has noticed their work and thought it important enough to comment on. Robertekraut (talk) 14:52, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article on Eleanor Maccoby

Firstly, many thanks for the notification of What You Can Do to Help at Wikipedia: WikiProject Psychology. I saw there was a request for an article on Eleanor Maccoby there, and I have now created one. However, as I admit on the talk page of the article, developmental psychology is not my field, so the article is a mess at present. Does any one Wikipedia: WikiProject Psychology know enough about Maccoby to expand the article? Many thanks, ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:24, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for your work in support of the project- it's much appreciated. I can't help with developmental articles myself: the Talk page of the Wikiproject is the right place for this request. Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 16:54, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks

Many thanks for putting up the tag to say that the article on Eleanor Maccoby is under the auspices of Wikipedia: WikiProject Psychology. Great news - I am also impressed by how quickly the WikiProject group put the stub and low importance tags there, too. I am aware that Maccoby's contributions are outside my main fields in psychology, so if you know of any Wikipedia: WikiProject psychology members who know about her, perhaps you could invite them to expand the article. Again, many thanks, ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:09, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you also for saying that All in the Mind is now under the auspices of Wikipedia: WikiProject Psychology. You seem to be a star and key player of that WikiProject group! ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:14, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gent Strazimiri

Hi, can you review The GA nominee --Vinie007 16:11, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, this isn't in my area. Best of luck with it, MartinPoulter (talk) 09:51, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good article review begun (Talk:Social identity/GA1)

Per the heading, I've begun the good article review at Talk:Social identity/GA1. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 03:05, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks! MartinPoulter (talk) 09:51, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

In response to your fb post - how does it make you feel? — Rod ^talk 20:50, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bristol Wiki Academy

Thanks for the (virtual) beer. How did the Bristol Wiki Academy go today? Sorry I couldn't be with you in person.— Rod ^talk 19:15, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Very well indeed thanks. A small but packed room: they only took their first steps in wiki-editing, but there was a lot of enthusiasm and understanding for the wider social significance of the Wikimedia projects. MartinPoulter (talk) 19:21, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Could you look into this?

Gerry Armstrong (activist) has posted a rather lengthy statement at the L Ron Hubbard talk page. I am trying to read through it all but am having a bit of hard time understanding with clarity what the issues are. Would you mind assisting Gerry since you took the lead on the recent FA review? The Resident Anthropologist (talk)•(contribs) 00:00, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

hey, coauthor!

Good to see you here. Cheers and thanks for getting us in CHEER some time back. Coauthoring's easier, here. -- Econterms (talk) 08:22, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...

Hi Martin: I've been meaning to write for days to thank you for the note you left on my talk page, letting me know that I'd mistaken Andy's comments to Snowman as being directed to me. I'd already read Andy's note, where he had cleared that up, but also appreciate your efforts to smooth things over. Dust has settled and we've all moved on. I hope things continue to go well with the project. MeegsC | Talk 02:01, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Question regarding confirmation bias

Hi Dr. Poulter, Thanks for your excellent work on the confirmation bias article. In a response to me you wrote "In order to reflect up-to-date sources, we can't just rely on Wason's original definition. The definition used by the article comes from a recent university-level textbook. Other sources explicitly mention assimilation and perseverance as phenomena arising from conf. bias"

I was wondering what source you talking about specifically (Risen and Gilovech, 2007?). Also if you know of any great up to date sources regarding the confirmation bias, I would love to read them.

Thanks, Jeff

P.S. I'm not sure if it was there prior or added following my inquiry but I noticed there is a brief line suggesting that some researchers use it only to refer to the seeking of confirmatory information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeffrotman (talk • contribs) 07:31, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Knowle West, Bristol

Hi Martin. I have nominated this for peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Knowle West, Bristol/archive1 as I would like to take it to WP:FAC. Any comments that would help achieve this will be most welcome. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:54, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Very useful day so far!

--RGForbes (talk) 13:04, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]