Talk:Dennis Rawlins
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[edit] Ban
The Wikipedia ban on autobiographies seems to have been ignored. Rawlins himself or a supporter seems to have written this favourable biography. It mostly consists of quotations from www.dioi.org, Rawlins's own site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.153.155.236 (talk) 12:51, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Kowal
Charles Kowal might be behind the material favourable to Dennis Rawlins. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.4.21 (talk) 10:47, 8 January 2008 (UTC) Actually, it is in Rawlins' own style, not that of Kowal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.158.197.57 (talk) 16:18, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Kowal (2)
Kowal seems to have awarded a medal to himself. See the Talk page of the Kowal article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.11.103 (talk) 14:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] E. Myles Standish
Myles Standish seems to have done the same thing, awarded a medal to himself. Standish and Kowal are both friends of hero Dennis Rawlins. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.11.103 (talk) 14:34, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Religious Intolerance
Despite different IP#s the previous entries are all from a single source which claims to use twenty IP#s and so can be called Holy Hydra. While operating in the net universe HH prefers the advantages of anonymity without the disadvantages. HH wants to be taken seriously as a thinker but has frustratingly not been able to cut it in the intellectual world which may be related to HH's rages at those who can. Posing as a Catholic of the medieval type HH has morphed into an atheist-cabal-sniffing career-wikivandal in defense of geocentrism and the Inquisition. HH has volunteered to tip off a Catholic exorcism-expert, to the temporary injection of Luther's anti-heliocentrism into the Galileo Wiki article. HH regularly vandalizes the preface of the Wiki bio of courageous scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins, accusing him of promoting "murdering the unborn and perversion", as well as repeatedly encouraging vandals-in-arms who inject into the Dawkins bio obscene tritenesses calling him a "whore" and an "ass-licking terrorist" who "sucks dick". HH has engaged in equally delicate vandalism firsthand.
The Wiki bio of Rawlins has occasionally been questioned but in all cases found accurate. Its neutrality has been improved here and there and more such assists are welcome. These do not include injecting into its preface paranoiac slanderous lies about some of the most brilliant and respected astronomers in the history of the field. In the bio's many links Rawlins's fallibility is more than adequately documented and his regrettable weakness for "over the top" writing is duly noted.
In the interests of free speech and of illustrating the vandal mind at work HH's remarks on this page will not be immediately deleted. HH's further wisdom is invited though it will not be replied to. HH has established a history of demonstrating the futility of such interaction. HH's punitive vendetta against Rawlins and DIO began when a DIO-citing comparison was made in the Aristarchus of Samos article between establishment threats against Aristarchus and Galileo. Rather than enter into the article HH's own claim that non-jailer, non-burner Luther was no better than the Inquisition on heliocentrism or HH's unorthodox opinion that relativity negates geomobility (echoing later-Cardinal J. H. Newman) HH emulated Inquisitional mentality by deleting the offending heresy instead. When there was no reaction HH performed a net book-burning by day-by-day-extirpating from the article all traces of reference to Rawlins or DIO or DIO-admirer B. L. van der Waerden, including material cited to Rawlins papers delivered by invitation to the American Astronomical Society and the British Museum. When even that got no reaction HH began vandalizing the Rawlins Wiki bio and that of any colleague HH could trash.
Targets of such dedicated treatment by HH seem to include anyone embarrassing to the Catholic church, such as Luther, Armada-repellers Queen Elizabeth and John Hawkins, Galileo, atheist Dawkins and colleagues, atheist Rawlins and colleagues (some of whom are religious). The list will go on and on.
A more useful list can provide some among HH's various IP#s, which come and go on and on.
81.149.223.218, 81.149.255.133, 81.158.197.57, 81.158.207.0, 86.134.94.122, 86.139.212.97, 86.141.242.167, 86.143.5.205, 86.145.11.103, 86.145.152.142, 86.150.99.135, 86.152.174.243, 86.153.155.236, 86.155.236.246, 87.194.4.21 (oldest), 217.41.51.240, 217.44.111.24. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.220.212.173 (talk) 02:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Citations
This article needs a clear distinction between Publications by Rawlins and third party references about him. Please see WP:CITE for some guidlines. For the moment I'll just rename the reference section.--Tikiwont (talk) 14:23, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Removed citations to his own website per WP:RS and perhaps WP:COI. Also removed the lengthy section on discovery of Neptune which belongs in that article and was mostly sourced to his own website. Seems much of the other material belongs on other pages (the polar stuff) rather than a biography. Much of the ancient astronomy and geography could be cut or severely shortened. If there are WP:COI problems by anons, the page should be semi-protected. This is an encyclopedia, not a puff piece for anyone. Vsmith (talk) 00:03, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Nadir
Last winter's attempt to eliminate the Rawlins biography is merely one more chapter in a persistent history that has grown out of his various cultist critics' difficulty in convincingly answering his investigations and exposés. Blocking public access to his writings is therefore seen as the cleverest remedy. The winter censor's elaborate thespian simulation of a geocentrist Catholic deserves applause. But the March sixth and tenth threats against Wikipedia personnel constitute a new nadir in campaigns to suppress Rawlins and Dio's valued and eminent journal and website, though it is a more than compensating gift to sociologists of institutional pathology to now have on the record the exact language by which such suppression and shunning have been pursued for years, "It is not wise to get near Rawlins." Who would sink so low as to threaten a 16 year old Wikipedia Commons Administrator, just in order to prevent readers from seeing a website? It couldn't possibly be that the thug was an opposition associate whose scientific fumbling was exposed by something linked to the website? No. Too weird. By the way, students of weird might be interested in a link in the biography that was broken on March tenth following the censor's rages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.220.212.138 (talk) 00:24, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
