User talk:JzG

Note to admins reviewing any of my admin actions (expand to read).

I am often busy in that "real life" of which you may have read. Blocks are the most serious things we can do: they prevent users from interacting with Wikipedia. Block reviews are urgent. Unless I say otherwise in the block message on the user's talk page, I am happy for any uninvolved admin to unblock a user I have blocked, provided that there is good evidence that the problem that caused the block will not be repeated. All I ask is that you leave a courtesy note here and/or on WP:ANI, and that you are open to re-blocking if I believe the problem is not resolved - in other words, you can undo the block, but if I strongly feel that the issue is still live, you re-block and we take it to the admin boards. The same applies in spades to blocks with talk page access revoked. You are free to restore talk page access of a user for whom I have revoked it, unless it's been imposed or restored following debate on the admin boards. User:DGG also has my permission to undelete or unprotect any article I have deleted and/or salted, with the same request to leave a courtesy note, and I'll rarely complain if any uninvolved admin does this either, but there's usually much less urgency about an undeletion so I would prefer to discuss it first - or ask DGG, two heads are always better than one. I may well add others in time, DGG is just one person with whom I frequently interact whose judgment I trust implicitly. Any WP:BLP issue which requires you to undo an admin action of mine, go right ahead, but please post it immediately on WP:AN or WP:ANI for review. The usual definition of uninvolved applies: you're not currently in an argument with me, you're not part of the original dispute or an editor of the affected article... you know. Apply WP:CLUE. Guy (Help!) 20:55, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

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18 years, 10 months, and 25 days.

This user resists the POV pushing of lunatic charlatans.

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About me

JzG reacting to yet another drama

I am in my early fifties, British, have been married for over quarter of a century to the world's most tolerant woman, and have two adult children. I am an amateur baritone and professional nerd. I do not tolerate racism, or any kind of bigotry. I sometimes, to my chagrin, mention that I have been an admin for a long time: some people think this is me invoking admin status in order to subdue dissent, actually it's just me as a middle aged parent of young adults saying "oh no, not this shit again". I am British, I have the British sense of humour (correctly spelled) and I absolutely do not have an accent, since I went to a thousand-year-old school. Everything I do or say could be wrong. I try always to be open to that possibility. If you think I am wrong, please just talk to me nicely, and it can all be sorted out like grown-ups. Guy (Help!) 23:49, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Predatory open access publishing

These two publishers are on Beall's list, feel free to suggest others with DOI roots I can work on.

• DOI 10.4172: OMICS Group
  • esciencecentral.org
• DOI 10.4236: Scientific Research Publishing (mainly done)
  • scirp.org

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I have a large and disruptive building project starting, and I'll be doing a significant part of the work myself. Email me if there's anything urgent. Guy (Help!) 22:48, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

cryonics

cryonics restored

You reverted the below parenthetical as it being "link spam"

"At the extreme, some people are openly hostile to the idea of cryonics.[1] Because of the existence of such attitudes, scientists and cryonicists will sometimes avoid disclosing their personal or scientific interests in cryonics to the public, for concern that it may tarnish their professional reputations. (But not all, see [2])"

In discussions on the cryonics talk page, this reference was noted to be significant, having been mentioned in a number of reliable sources. It seems to me that the paragraph above, without a reference to the scientists open letter, is violating NPOV.

Full disclosure, I am signed up with Alcor (since 1985), and have participated in 20 suspensions, including two in which I acted as lead surgeon, putting cryonics patients on cardiac bypass.

Keith Henson (talk) 20:46, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

   Evidencebasedcryonics is not a reliable source and not a site to which we should link, it is being pushed by corpsicle activists. Guy (Help!) 06:36, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

References

url=http://www.evidencebasedcryonics.org/scientists-open-letter-on-cryonics/

Guy, re the web site not being reliable, it's been mentioned by a number of sites that are considered reliable. The people who signed it are well known scientists. If your objection is to the possibility of the signatures being faked, don't you think that the people claimed to have signed it would complain?

But that's not my main objection. You mention "I do not tolerate racism, or any kind of bigotry" and then call me a "corpsicle activists." "Corpsicle" is a quite derogatory term for a cryonics patient and adding "activist" doesn't help. Keith Henson (talk) 06:18, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Having given this due consideration, go away and take your promotional agenda with you. Guy (Help!) 19:26, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

"Corpsicle." That's a good one. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 21:36, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Old sci-fi term, I think. I encountered it in Golden Era sci-if anyway, describing people in suspended animation for long space journeys. Guy (Help!) 07:40, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

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FFS. No wonder people leave. My photo of my bike uploaded by me, all of which is blindingly obvious. Guy (Help!) 19:25, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

• What a fine bike! Bishonen | talk 07:45, 15 May 2016 (UTC).
• Wonderful pedantry too! -Roxy the dog™ woof 16:59, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

This has been eating away at me all day. How long will it be before the child outgrows the bike? -Roxy the dog™ woof 23:18, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Mike was about 11 when he became too strong for his Mum to control it. This picture has me steering, Pete (my younger son) on the back and a random girl who wanted a ride in the middle. It was taken during a race at Salt Aire, Mike had blagged a recumbent trike to ride. Guy (Help!) 12:03, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikibreak progressing nicely...

Foundations poured, stepped over the drains, which will be relaid shortly. Guy (Help!) 16:55, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

May 2016

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