User talk:Guy Macon

A Wikipedia Content Dispute.

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"Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem." --WP:TIGER

Only 993088555 articles left until our billionth article!

We are only 993088555 articles away from our 1,000,000,000th article --Guy Macon

Quotable quote

"... anyone who volunteers at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard can never be a clerk, administrator, or any other office that involves an election -- those who are unhappy with the result at DRN have a tendency to hold a grudge" -- Guy Macon

I think that merits a spot on your User page. Kudos. --Lexein (talk) 04:00, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Negative Power Factor

After a long period of silence, Wtshymanski is back at Talk:Power factor and has picked up the stick again on his IEEE spec that conrtradicts itself [1]. You threatened to take action if he did, so now is your big chance. I B Wright (talk) 19:25, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

User:Wtshymanski should be treated like anyone else who has a WP:FRINGE pseudoscientific theory that he cannot let go of. Please be very careful not to treat him worse than an adamant believer in perpetual motion or phrenology would be treated. His penultimate comment was on 24 August 2013‎, at which time several editors advised him to drop the WP:STICK. He dropped it until today (14 November 2013) at which point he posted a grand total of sixteen words. That's so far from being disruptive that I would give him a barnstar if not for the fact that in the past he has assumed that my honest attempts to tell him he did something right were sarcasm.

Meanwhile, Wtshymanski has been doing some fine work on articles where his fringe engineering theories don't interfere. Look at these edits for example, comparing the page before and after Wtshymanski edited it. That was some very good work. Now look at these edits to another page; again, a real improvement.

I am watching for any resumption of the former disruptive behavior, but one talk comment every month or two is not disruptive. The goal here is to encourage Wtshymanski's productive editing while discouraging him from getting into raging battles in those areas where his theories go against the scientific consensus. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:59, 14 November 2013 (UTC)