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[edit] Image:W don cornwell.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:W don cornwell.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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[edit] Proposed deletion of Absent referent

An article that you created, Absent referent, has been proposed for deletion, for the following reason:

Subject may not be notable enough to merit an article; see notability guidelines.

Wikipedia has certain standards for inclusion that all articles must meet. Certain types of article must establish the notability of their subject by asserting its importance or significance. Additionally, since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, content inappropriate for an encyclopedia, or content that would be more suited to somewhere else (such as a directory or social networking website) is not acceptable. See What Wikipedia is not for the relevant policy.

You are welcome to improve the article to meet these standards and remove the deletion notice. You may also remove the notice if you disagree with the deletion; note that in this case, the article may be discussed further at Articles for deletion. Thank you – Gurch 00:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)


An article that you created, Absent referent, has been listed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Absent referent. The reason for the listing is explained there. Discussion will now take place on that page to determine whether the article is deleted. You are welcome to participate in the discussion; however, please do not remove the deletion notice from Absent referent while the discussion is in progress. Thank you – – Gurch 05:00, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Absent referent survived the Afd!! Yay!! --Bhuston 16:56, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reverts

My revert was self explanatory.-Bharatveer 12:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contract law

Hi Bhuston, thanks for the warning. You're right about style, etc. But the page was slightly all over the place already. Maybe you agree though that the biggest style problem is the lack of proper referencing and structure? You're right, I did delete some stuff. Was it things you'd written? The validity of contracts is really just renamed 'contractual formation'. I think that's more correct, because validity encompasses the third section of the article, now: 'setting a contract aside'. And so you saw a lot of repetition. What I never would delete are good references, because these make law. I'm basically going straight from a textbook, by Ewan McKendrick (now down the bottom of the page) and I think the first thing to do is get the categories right. User:Wikidea

Don't you think you need to begin by responding to some, or perhaps at least one of the comments I put on the page? There are quite a few. Or the comment above here? Do you always accuse people of vandalism? You've just reverted, for the third time, a whole host of new and valuable additions. User:Wikidea
Answered on Talk:Contract Bhuston 16:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Persuasion

Try not to get carried away. Most academics regard techniques of persuasion (such as what I am "doing to you" with this message :-) as distinct from "mind control" techniques such as brainwashing, thought reform and deprogramming.

Readers turn to an encyclopedia both to explore similarites and to learn about distinctions. --Uncle Ed 18:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Answered on Talk:Mind control --Bhuston 18:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] test

test --Bill Huston | Talk 10:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Bill Huston User talk:Bhuston <--- Why doesn't this work right?

[edit] Image:Imclogo.gif and User:Bhuston/Userbox/indymedia

The image is tagged with {{logo}}. As such, it may not be used on User:Bhuston/Userbox/indymedia. Whether it is in fact in the public domain is, at this point, irrelevant. We do not permit non-free license tagged images outside of the main article namespace. If you want to use this image, then determine what the source of the image is and contact that source to determine if they have released their rights. We can not do this based on assertions of our users; we must have a verifiable means of determining the release of rights from the image. Somebody created the image. Who? How to contact them so we can verify? Did they release their rights and if so where is the proof? I am reverting your reinsertion of the image. Please do not re-insert the image again without doing as suggested above or similar. Using this image on that page, when you know what the policy is, is vandalism. I'm happy to help you work through this, but re-inserting the image in violation of our policies is not an acceptable route to go. Thanks, --Durin 20:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Durin, you said, "I am reverting your reinsertion of the image. Please do not re-insert the image again". Just to point out, I don't think I reverted your removal, and the edit history does not show this. I've been around here long enough to understand the gravity of copyvios. So unless you used your super-admin-powers to modify the edit history, I would ask you to retract your assertion that I reverted. Accusations of vandalism are quite serious, and I would like you to set the record correct. --Bill Huston (talk) 10:38, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
  • My apologies. You are absolutely correct. Lost in the shuffle, I removed an instance of the image [1], received your message [2] and then removed another instance of the same image from your userspace [3]. When I first received your message, I did not know to exactly which page you were referring. When I found the second page, I made the (false) presumption that you had reverted the removal of the fair use image. Consider the record set straight, and I apologize for the error. --Durin 13:30, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marijuana

I spend a fair amount of my wikipedia time removing the inaccuracy that cannabis is exclusively marijuana; please dont get in the way. Keep in mind that this is not an American but an international encyclopedia (I am not American myself). Also remember that the governments of the world do consider cannabis to be a drug and for the most part an illegal drug. That may not be nice but we are both old enough to know that we have to live with it, SqueakBox 03:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I can appreciate your hard work, but a couple of points. I never said "cannabis is exclusively marijuana", I said "cannabis is a plant genus". I said that "cannabis (drug)" is quite awkward, and may not be ideal according to Wikipedia naming conventions. I called for a discussion, and am quite astounded by the arrogance and cavallier attitudes of you and others who a) removed the merge tag, b) were hostile to a DISCUSSION of the issue, etc. Much of what Wikipedia is has to do with discussion, persusaion, and consensus building. I was met with "I am opposed to debate", and "please don't get in the way". Thanks for pointing out that "marijuana" is a predominantly American term. If I might point that Wikipedia does not belong to you, and you should be open to a discussion, and not meet other Wikipedia members with overt hostility. --Bill Huston (talk) 14:32, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Well I didnt remove the merge tag and I did engage in debate with you, making my reasons very clear, and hopefully persuaded you (a) that cannabis is considered a drug and (b) that marijuana is an exclusively US term for some but not all of what cannabis users consume when they take this plant as a drug. You seem to be the one who is narked not me, SqueakBox 17:25, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV dispute, argument maps

Hi Bill,

You probably remember some animated logical dancing on my part over the saga of This argument map. You even accused me of being a logician I recall!

Some more of my maps have been tagged as violating the NPOV policy and I thought that you would be a good person to notify. I am canvassing your thoughts on these images:

Image:Anonymous Lefty excluded middle.png, Image:False dichotomy public transport.png and Image:John Quiggin enumerative induction.png. Thanks for any consideration. Regarding the excluded middle, see also some comments I solicited on this article talk page - Grumpyyoungman01 11:56, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia New York Meet-Up

Howdy! Please come to the First Annual New York Wikipedian Central Park Picnic. R.S.V.P. @ Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC --David Shankbone 21:27, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Onechectomy

I saw you are in the Animal Rights WP and was wondering if you are against Declawing animals or Onychectomy? The userbox is located at {{User:PatPeter/User nocatdeclaw}}

User:PatPeter/User nocatdeclaw

So just copy the title as you are viewing and put it with the {{ }} and w/o the [[ ]] to your userpage. -PatPeter 18:36, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week

WikiProject Pharmacology is currently organizing a new Collaboration of the Week program, designed to bring drug and medication related articles up to featured status. We're currently soliciting nominations and/or voting on nominations for the first WP:RxCOTW, to begin on September 5, 2007. Please stop by the Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week page to participate! Thanks! Dr. Cash 17:46, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of people who have taken psychedelic drugs

I am sorry for my belated reply, for I have been a bit busy the last few days.

I have a minimal involvement in this matter, but perhaps a bit of research might help here, since what has occurred is a bit complex. I will present a timeline below.

  • Kwertii starts the page in June of 2005.
  • In July 2007, Cerejota moved the page to a different title, in which I later deleted the resulting redirect after the deletion of the article.
  • On 06:35, 24 July 2007, Corpx tags the article for deletion.
  • Just two minutes later (06:37, 24 July 2007), Krimpet deletes the article, with the reasoning "indiscriminate BLP nightmare". I believe that since the article had been deleted so swiftly, Corpx did not create the nomination page.
  • A day later (06:22, 25 July 2007), Madsci recreated the article, apparently unaware of the deletion prior. Note that this is not vandalism, although it may seem so when reading the history.
  • WWGB nominates the article for speedy deletion with the reason "pointless list, could go on forever"; User:Butseriouslyfolks declines and advises to take the article to AfD.
  • WWGB tags the article and nominates it for deletion.
  • During the AfD, Corpx nominates for speedy deletion because of G4; Natalie Erin declines as G4 doesn't apply.
  • The wub speedy closes the AfD and snow deletes the article.
  • A month later, a courtesy restore, userfy and delete by The wub.

If you feel that the article was not given the proper attention, please discuss with Krimpet or The wub first before going to deletion review. Singularity 21:12, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week

Aspirin has been selected as this week's Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week! Please help us bring this article up to featured standards during the week. The goal is to nominate this at WP:FAC on September 10, 2007.

Also, please visitWP:RxCOTW to support other articles for the next COTW. Articles that have been nominated thus far include Doxorubicin, Paracetamol (in the lead with 4 support votes so far), Muscle relaxant, Ethanol, and Bufotenin.

In other news:

  • The Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology main page has been updated and overhauled, to make it easier to find things, as well as to highlight other goals and announcements for the project.
  • Fvasconcellos notes that discussion is ongoing regarding the current wording of MEDMOS on including dosage information in drug articles. All input is welcome.

Dr. Cash 00:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Pharmacology Update

Here's a brief update in some of the recent developments of WikiProject Pharmacology!

  • Aspirin has just completed its two week run as the first Collaboration of the Week! Many thanks to those editors that contributed; the article got a lot of good work accomplished, and in particular, much work was done in fixing up the history section. It's still not quite "done" yet (is a wikipedia article really ever done?), but after two weeks I think it's more important to push onwards with the development of the new collaboration of the week program. I will be fixing up Aspirin in the next few days and possibly nominating it for either GA or FA status.
  • Please remember that Wikipedia is not a forum for discussing or dispensing medical advice amongst users. Specifically, talk pages of articles should only be used to discuss improving the actual article in question. To help alleviate this situation, the template {{talkheader}} may be added to the top of talk pages, reminding users of the purpose of such pages. Additionally, unsigned comments and comments by anonymous users that are inappropriate may be removed from talk pages without being considered vandalism.

You are receiving this message because you are listed as one of the participants of WikiProject Pharmacology.

Dr. Cash 05:03, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:User categories for discussion on -isms

Hi. A user category that you are in has been proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:User categories for discussion. You are welcome to comment. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:04, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Pharmacology Update

Here are a few updates in the realm of WikiProject Pharmacology:

  • The Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week has been changed to Collaboration of the Month, based on current participation levels. It is also more likely that articles collaborated on for one month are more likely to achieve featured quality than articles worked on for only a week or two.

Dr. Cash 22:06, 31 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Wskg.gif

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