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I've waited all my life to be called eccentric! Which parts do you agree with?[[User:Sambiam|Sambiam]]
I've waited all my life to be called eccentric! Which parts do you agree with?[[User:Sambiam|Sambiam]]
:Pretty much most.[[User:Brenden|brenden]] 13:20, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
:Pretty much most.[[User:Brenden|brenden]] 13:20, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
== Participate in [[Cold fusion]]? ==
[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Cold_fusion&diff=prev&oldid=998343]. From your comment, you might have sufficient knowledge to participate in improving the article. You are ignorant of the literature in the field. If you are willing to learn, to read scientific papers, and are capable of understanding them and the issues, your participation could be useful. Game?
I don't have SkipCaptcha, and until then, it's tedious to add sources. I might do it without the http prefix, anyone could then fix them. (I used this trick on Wikipedia to add legitimate links where the meta blacklist was still active. Users can just copy and paste the text into their browser address bar, most browsers will fill in the http: etc.)
As to the other wiki, I never "left," though I found participation tedious. I was sick the last week and had some time and did a bit. The flies descended in droves. I was just promoted to ordinary user, and further promotions to blocked are likely. Some there cannot tolerate dissent, not real and knowledgeable dissent. That wiki cannot realize its stated mission, which is, with the active community there, impractical, pure idealism with no muscle. Nice thought. Useless. The decision might be reversed, it was before, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm actually relieved. Look what it took to get one simple change done, correcting an error about "electrodes." Look at the other suggested corrections, sitting on the Talk page with no opposition, but if I actually make the changes, it's very clear: I'll be reverted without comment, and then if I write about it, I'll be whacked for "wall of text." The site purpose, as stated on the Main page, is a dead letter. There is no room for constructive discussion. Unless....
Oh, by the way. The content you restored was from that other wiki, largely, plagiarized. Conservative, on the talk page, requested that original text be supplied. That's what I'd done. I can source anything I say there; if not, I'd happily consent to removal. Only one thing there I might have trouble sourcing, the statement about skepticism about certain commercial ventures among cold fusion researchers. I know the researchers, by invitation, I'm on the private mailing list that connects them. But the statements aren't generally public, and the researchers mostly stay out of controversy, they just publish in scientific journals and conference papers. It's true, though. Rossi, in particular, has a ''horrible'' reputation, even though many researchers think there is a real Nickel hydride effect -- from publications of such by scientific researchers. A real effect and a commercial application might be many decades apart. --[[User:Abd|Abd]] 14:00, 5 August 2012 (EDT)