Talk:New Scientist

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Contents 1 History of New Scientist 2 Australian and American editions. 3 Bm gub 4 Jeremy Webb breaking Wikipedia rules? 5 proposed merge 6 EMDRIVE?

[edit] History of New Scientist

Does anyone know why New Scientist is so titled? I was wondering if it was ever titled, simply, Scientist and then changed after a revamp/relaunch. To what does the New refer? Rob 10:19, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Australian and American editions.

Are the Australian and US editions significantly different in contents (other than advertisements)? The main advantage of these two editions is that they are printed locally and and not affected by the time delay and cost of shipping. When there was no Australian edition, Australia got its NS several weeks late.

Tabletop 07:30, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bm gub

Bm gub is a sock puppet for editor Jeremy Webb who has deleted an article on Ivor Catt and replaced it with lies and insults. Jeremy Webb has also conducted a hate campaign which has been documented against Electronics World authors, inclusing abusive emails which have resulted in complains to hism publishers (although they have never issued any reply or apology). See [[1]]. Bm gub's claim that there are only "3 comments" of controversy is a falsehood: if you follow the links, there are numerous articles and comments. The deletion of numerous links to controversy by sock puppets is in contravention of Wikipedia rules and precedes the claim by Bm gub sock puppet. SEE ALSO THE IVOR CATT DISCUSSION PAGE FOR VANDALISM AND ABUSIVENESS BY BM GUB! Photocopier 13:41, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jeremy Webb breaking Wikipedia rules?

Some edits claiming to be made by Jeremy Webb are in contradiction of the Wikipedia rules and have removed cited references. Photocopier 13:41, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Photocopier, your accusation of sockpuppetry is utterly unfounded (see WP:ICA) You have no evidence other than the fact that you disagree with two of my edits, which commonly occurs for reasons other than sockpuppetry. Bm gub 17:04, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] proposed merge

Proposing that article Jeremy Webb, editor, be merged here. Article is otherwise sub-sub-stub whose content was one or two bloggers writing about their disagreements with him. Bm gub 20:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Merge of Jeremy Webb completed, per one agreement and no objections on old page. I have left out the NN, POV "controversies" which used to make up that page; they consisted of links to one or two bloggers criticising NS editorial policy. This was totally inappropriate on a biography article; WP:BLP is explicit and firm on this point. I don't think they were notable enough or WP:RS enough for inclusion here either (per WP:UNDUE, WP:SPS) but I'll let other editors deal with it here. Bm gub 17:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EMDRIVE?

The Emdrive part is fairly out of place. It is a particular critisism of the magazine. If the exact disagreement is allowed, then the page becomes a disinterested page. Meaning I would get to alter it legally. Public defamation must be factually placed in context and the place was out of place here. No factual account was written making it technical defamation.

To correct technical defamation the technical reason must be stated for the failed magazine coverage. --207.69.140.32 (talk) 23:45, 22 December 2007 (UTC)