Ethan Mitchell

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Ostension

Hello! Thank you for contributing the article about Ostension to WP. I found Ostensive definition when I categorised your page and I think that the two should be merged as they are pretty similar in terms of scope and content. I would make researching the term easier for a user. I have tagged your article to this effect. What do you think? Regards,  (aeropagitica)  23:31, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Consensus decision-making rewrite coming soon

howdy . you're getting this message because you have made a meaningful contribution to Consensus decision-making in the last couple of months. This note is to inform you that i have done a complete rewrite of the article, basically from the ground up, and will be installing the rewrite sometime after 22:00 mst (gmt -7)

i decided to undertake this rewrite because the current article had some notable shortcomings in my opinion, most notably:

• lack of references: whole sections of the current article are unreferenced
• section balance: the amount of detail on some sections was out of step with the detail level on other sections. for instance 'timing' is as large as 'key principles'
• run-on writing: some sections succumb to rambling, while other sections are quite concise to the point of being terse.

all of these problems are inevitable in a project written by a group of people with different areas of expertise and writing styles.

my rewrite is designed to address these issues. most notably i have aimed to make the article more concise -- put more content in less words as it were -- and to make sure that everything is effectively sourced. i have also pretty much completely re-sectioned the article in an attempt to flow from general down to specific.

i have given this notice to you as a 'heads up' that this change is coming. i realize that you have invested a lot of effort into the existing article and i want to make sure that you are ready to make the edits you feel are necessary once my rewrite goes 'live'.

i also intend to submit the new article for peer review shortly after posting it. i think that the feedback will help us all drive this piece forward, hopefully to at least ga status! -- frymaster 23:45, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Consensus decision-making quaker subsection

right, i've taken a stab at retooling the quaker model section of the article and am keen for any input. i am striving to keep the sections short, so one thing that may be considered in the future would be a seperate article on quaker consensus (although, i'm probably not the guy to write that one). -- frymaster 01:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Homeschooling and making friends

You're right in that there are no homeschoolers in Spain: I was so surprised when finding about the topic because here kids are enforced by law to attend school until 16. This way the general culture of the population is ensured and child labor is avoided. Parents who fail to send their children to school are punished by law.

Why are homeschooled children suposed to have more free time than schooled ones? Are they cleverer than average, or their parents choose to not teach them subjects they don't like/grasp? Is the difference between teaching 1 child versus 30 children so considerable (I wouldn't think so)?

My concern with friends is not if the children are able to develop long-term friendships out of school. I'm not worried about their future but about their day after day. Disregarding school friends because their friendship vanishes in the end is like not giving your kids any toy because when they grow up they won't play with them any more. The picture of a kid without friends with which to play hide-and-seek makes me feel quite sad. I know homeschooled children aren't crying all day or something, but it's because we all believe that we have a sufficient number of friends, sufficient money, etc. But more friends, more money, more free time, etc, is always good. Don't you think so? --euyyn 15:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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Reversions and page histories

Hi, please see Wikipedia:Oversight. utcursch | talk 02:50, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Admins can delete particular revisions of the page -- the log can be seen by others, and the deleted revisions can be seen by other admins. The oversight team can remove these versions permanently -- they won't be visible to anybody.

In case of Serge Schmemann, I deleted a few revisions that contained some personal/defamatory information (log), and asked Schmemann to contact the oversight team, if he wanted the revisions to be deleted permanently. utcursch | talk 03:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

April 2009

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December 2010

Reverted your edit in error. Please disregard my last message. I have undone my revert. I apologize for the confusion. --some jerk on the Internet (talk) 13:39, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks (countercurrent multiplier)

Mechanism describing a mechanism... It seems I was affected by my former physics teacher from 35 years ago (I just met him in Jerusalem). Each lesson started (in Hebrew) with: We have a system within a system, which uses the following equation... פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 16:59, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

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