User talk:Robert Tito/Archive 2

Added some fundamentals to the chemistry pages as it was not clear that contrary to physics chemistry deals only with the interactions between electrons or physical forces with electron(s).

Chemistry page

I added a sentence on the problem you requested. I had removed it because I consider that a description of bonding was probably best left to the "Bonding" section. Do you like it now? Pedro Silva 09:09, 10 November 2006 (CST)

bio

I received a masters in physical chemistry and biochemistry in 1982 from the free university of amsterdam and was awarded a doctorate at the leiden university in physical chemistry on a study on the dynamic behavior of partially charged polyelectrolytes in a bad solvent in the very diluted regime.

After that I did quite some research for privately held companies that didn't allow publication of the researches executed. Slowly moving away from chemictry toward process automation and interactions with databases I became more and more interested with the concept of active databasemanagement in laborotory situations - extending towards office automation and distributed computer problems.

Nowadays I lecture at the holland highschool (college) as well at the the hague highschool. Other projects involve knowledge management problems and semantics within computer sciences as well as cryptography problems.

Database question

Hi Rob,

On the notice board, you asked

In the Computer Science part only Relational Databases are mentioned, not flat file databases, record structure databases or Hierarchical databases. Is this on purpose?

Thanks for any answers, If not on purpose I can add these pages.

regards

Rob

Please see my answer on Talk:Database. --Larry Sanger 15:30, 12 November 2006 (CST)

Chemistry workgroup

I set up a preliminary Chemistry Workgroup and listed you there as an editor. Fred Salsbury 07:58, 21 November 2006 (CST)

Computer

See my answer on Talk:Computer; also, when signing messages, it's best to use 4 tildes (like this -> ~~~~ ), as that will turn into a link to your user page, and the date, which is the conentional signing form on the wiki. Thanks! JesseWeinstein 16:09, 24 November 2006 (CST)

Cut this...

You recently left a message on a user's page. Another citizen alerted me that that this user had "vandalized the main page". In my role as constable, I have temporarily protected the main page and blocked the alleged vandal's account. Please elucidate the reason you placed the message, so that we can resolve the problem. What was the vandalism? Thank you. Nancy Sculerati MD 19:24, 22 January 2007 (CST)

Noticed you'd left a nice awelcome to a new user but in the wrong place. They should go on users talk pages not the main user page. I made this mistake myself a few times at first (and I just noticed so has Larry Sanger and a few others)!! cheers David Tribe 21:27, 28 January 2007 (CST) Darn, missed again :) - thanks David. Robert Tito 21:30, 28 January 2007 (CST)

the Status and the nature of wiki's

I wonder what we want the nature and status of CZ to be: neutral in all its content or colored based upon culture, politics or personal opinions. So far the latter leads only to more biased reproductions of facts - nearly all mingled with personal opinions and trying to bring personal thoughts as being factual. As an example: whether or not anyone is for the death penalty. That is an opinion, not something accepted in many countries. In most if not all european countries talking about the capital punishment is allowed - sure why not, but impossible to implement due to constitutions. And rightfully so - any culture claiming to be of high moral value should ask that same question: does it show any high level of ethics to maintain the capital punishment or does it show the old rule of an eye for an eye. As Mahatma Ghandi said: an eye for an eye makes the world blind.

Cycles Research

Robert, thanks for the welcome. My interest in joining citizendium is cycles research which is an interdisciplinary field covering all manner of subjects - economics, biology, geology, astronomy, physics, history, etc etc. Therefore it doesn't sit neatly in the scheme of subjects unless added in its own right (which I generally find people object to). Any suggestions are welcome. I consider myself an expert in cycles research with a smattering of knowledge in many other fields. I would like to be an Author and Editor regarding cycles subjects. If this is possible then I will start making some contributions. RayTomes 22:45, 29 January 2007 (CST)

User:Jeff Cook

I believe that block was made in error -- he was a victim, not a vandal. Shanya Almafeta 21:59, 30 January 2007 (CST)

Vandalism

I don't know if the Vandalism is over yet. For some reason, your message on my discussion page is not showing.--Ruth Ifcher 22:30, 30 January 2007 (CST) I would suggest that Nancy protect her page for the evening, if the vandalism is upsetting her. But, remind her to unprotect it tomorrow.--Ruth Ifcher 22:40, 30 January 2007 (CST)

Speedydelete template

Why did you delete the speedy delete template? We ultimately could use one so that people can tag pages and categories and all constables would have to do is check a category every once in a while. -- ZachPruckowski 22:50, 30 January 2007 (CST)

I, too, thought this was strange. Shanya Almafeta 22:51, 30 January 2007 (CST)

I guess it could have looked like I was asking for a delete with a page with the word delete in it. Heat of the moment with vandalism flying, it happens :-) I'll just remake it when I get a chance, no big deal -- ZachPruckowski 22:53, 30 January 2007 (CST)

Oh, the vandals had been using that template? That explains a lot. my bad then. Obviously I missed that. -- ZachPruckowski 22:58, 30 January 2007 (CST)

No, I was using that template to attempt to mark for the constables pages that had been created by the vandals. I was blanking and reverting as fast as I could, and leaving that in pages that (obviously) had no business being on Citizendium. The vandals never used that. Shanya Almafeta 23:00, 30 January 2007 (CST)

OK, then I'll remake it on that page then. -- ZachPruckowski 23:32, 30 January 2007 (CST)

Would it be beneficial if I made the Speedydelete template record who put it down? That way you could tell if a vandal was dropping it or if a counter-vandal was? --ZachPruckowski 23:51, 30 January 2007 (CST)

Sadly, it appears harder to force that than I'd like. -- ZachPruckowski 00:07, 31 January 2007 (CST)

The template code is here. But I'm in the middle of messing with it at the moment. -- ZachPruckowski 00:25, 31 January 2007 (CST)

I need to do my homework. As it now stands, I can't get it to identify the user who laid down the template automatically. I'll work on it tomorrow, but it's quarter to 2 in the morning, and I have 90 minutes of homework to do. -- ZachPruckowski 00:45, 31 January 2007 (CST)

Re protection

I get a drop down menu on Wintel XP Tell me a file to protect and Ill give it a go David Tribe 03:22, 31 January 2007 (CST)

kick-A** Dutchman

Thank you, Great Warrior. Nancy Sculerati MD 06:53, 31 January 2007 (CST)

Thanks

Thanks very much for helping when my user page was vandalised yesterday. One small quibble, though. After my user page was moved to an offensive title, someone restored the old content at the correct page, and then you deleted the page at the offensive title. However, this destroyed the edit history of that page (since the page you deleted was actually the original user page, just moved to a different location). Now, in this instance, it's not really a problem, because there's nothing of importance in the history. In other cases, though, it might be a problem, so I suggest making a general practice of moving the page back rather than deleting it. Cheers, Nat Krause 13:50, 31 January 2007 (CST)

No problem. I appreciate the need for alacrity.—Nat Krause 14:04, 1 February 2007 (CST)

Astronomy high priority items

The reason ESA, NASA, etc are not listed is because I am far from done! James F. Perry 15:48, 31 January 2007 (CST)

Warning on blocking Users

Hi Rob,

The only problem I can think of, is that perhaps you blocked this user and did not "uncheck" the box, "Prevent account creation." If you leave this checked, anyone with the same IP address, can not set up a new account, like Jeff Cook. How do you fix this? Perhaps, you have to unblock him and then reblock him, with "prevent account creation" unchecked. My best guess... --Ruth Ifcher 21:28, 31 January 2007 (CST) Addenda: It looks like you may have done this with all your blocks. You do not want to do this to a User who created an account with a badly formed name, say. If you do not uncheck "Prevent account creation," all these new Users are banned undefinitely.See the list of blocked IP addresses and Usernames. All you blocks prevent account creation.

http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist

--Ruth Ifcher 21:38, 31 January 2007 (CST)

I hope you find a solution. You have done this to multiple users, with poorly formed User Names. If you can't undo it, perhaps you should contact a developer. --Ruth Ifcher 21:56, 31 January 2007 (CST)

recruitment letter

could you help us with this? http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki/Citizendium_Pilot:Recruitment_Letter#Version_2_for_Biological_.2F_Health_Sciences -Tom Kelly (Talk) 23:49, 31 January 2007 (CST)