User talk:Butterfly00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I see you have not been properly welcomed to Wikipedia. Allow me to do so. Please also see the post beneath the welcome. Denni ^talk 22:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello Butterfly00! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Denni talk 22:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] N'Kisi

Nice job in tracking down references! I really like the one about bird intelligence in general. I have no dispute with you overall, but I am very conservative when it comes to telepathy. Absolutely no credible evidence exists concerning telepathy as given by the standard definition, and to apply the term to birds is stretching even father. I do not doubt something previously unnoticed by scientists is going on here; N'kisi's apparent skill at "knowing at distance" is pretty credible to me, but I very much hesitate to use the word "telepathy" for it, because that term comes with so much human baggage. Your phrase "Some scientists" very much needs to replaced with "A few scientists". Brian Josephson is a good physicist, but he is a physicist, not an animal behaviorist. It is not unlike asking a geologist for assistance with marital problems - suddenly one is out of one's depth. It would be more useful to have someone more closely related to the field of non-primate communications to quote. You have put a lot of work into this article - would you be interested in pursuing that? Denni ^talk 22:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)