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distance-weighted algorithm is in the presence of statistical measures for standard deviation (standard distance), variance, and potential error; variance is presented as semi-variance due to the geographical aspects of spatial information. My view is that this argument is dead, no further attention needs to be paid to the issues that JanWMerks raises, as this logic may be applied to all statistics, in that they may be abused. We do not need dispute resolution, I've already spent loads of time attempting to find consensus... Instead, I propose you do what I've done with the geostats article, and add so much relevant material, that the controversy section provided by Jan is relegated to an insignificant portion of the end of the article. I still need to do lots of work on the geostats article though...

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The most pressing need in handling these articles is to develop an RPG-specific ruleset on which topics warrant standalone articles, and which ones do not. At present there are some unsourced stubs that would be best included as a section or mention in broader articles; on the other hand some topics

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Hi Frederick. Thanks for the idea about Heim Theory. You are right about including more on the propulsion topic, as the link to Tajmar last year promises possibly major developments in propulsion and fundamental physics. So all this will have to be in there before considering the article for an award

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I am not sure whether it is appropriate to include my statement here, as I am not included in the list of participants. Please feel free to remove this response if it is out of line. I would like to be included as a participant, if possible; what stopped me is that I was not involved at all in the

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The section title states the period over which the described changes took place, to which I refer in the replacement text. The elimination of prisoner-of-war slavery did not take place in the 14th and 15th centuries; it occurred gradually over the entire period. By the 14th century the conversion

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I have been a RPG player and gamemaster in the past. While at present semi-retired in this capacity, I still follow the field with interest, and Knowledge (XXG) has been a valuable encyclopedic resource to me in that regard. I became involved in the current dispute when I noticed that some of the

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page several months ago, looking for useful information (Specifically, I wanted to implement kriging in a Fortran program to interpolate unordered elevation data). The page struck me as being chaotic and going off at a tangent; little specific information on the kriging technique was provided, but

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I am willing to accept mergers of the shorter and less-important RPG articles into lists and larger parent articles. I am willing and eager to see cruft cleaned up, with an axe if need be. I am not willing to put up with gun-to-the-head tactics of Gavin, especially in view of the fact that he is

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I understand and apologize for barging in like that--I wasn't sure what the procedure was. Typically in the wiki namespace, the actual page is for official stuff, and the discussion page is a free-for-all. Apparently in a mediation procedure it ain't so, which is confusing, but I'll keep that in

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Ive been pretty active with the geostats article, not so much lately however. The geostats article is constantly being revised by these guys, but the issues they raise are repeated over and over. Kriging is an aspect of geostats which is simply a type of interpolation, the only difference from the

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The meaning of French Spacing is easy to find here on Knowledge (XXG). It's not clear how such confusion would ever have started, given its clear definition here and in other sources. I've not found anyone who refers to double spacing as French spacing. There is a double spacing template that can

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How do you do. I spent quite some time cleaning up the references section of the synchronicity page: organizing the references alphabetically, providing the references with proper wikipedia citation notation, and fixing grammatical errors. Would you please explain why you undid my changes?

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Gavin is sincere in his efforts, objective in his complaints, and remains civil under pressure. On the other hand, he is unremittingly antagonistic, and his numerous assembly-line-style contributions are restricted to tagging and criticism, often ill-informed to boot. If he starts doing

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As someone who's worked on D&D and/or RPG articles before, I'm inviting you to participate in our goal to both improve articles that have been selected to be placed in the next Knowledge (XXG) DVD release, as well as nominate more to be selected for this project. Please see the

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repeatedly blanking major portions of the article that were relevant to the AfD discussion, which is what I said on the talk page. The edit summaries must of necessity be succinct; but even so, I consistently said "large portions of page" in these summaries, not "any edits".

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you asked for no edits to be done while the AfD discussion was going on. However, you also posted AfD notices to various users that included the phrase: "You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it". How do you explain this discrepancy?

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Hey Freedrick, thanks for your thoughts (most of it sounded about right on target to me), but Vassyana makes an excellent point - we could easily have a dozen people or more in there making a ton of comments, and the case could easily become unmanageable.

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is much appreciated. I’m in the process of searching for additional reference in both, Polish and English. The new findings are quite intriguing actually. For example, Google automatic translation from Spanish of the biography of Micaela Bastidas, wife of

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deserve to be more developed. The editors are frequently enthusiasts who write on idiosyncratically chosen topics. It would help their effort if there were project guidelines on when to write a separate article, when to make a list, and when to merge.

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Hello! I would like to keep the number of participants limited in the mediation case, to help keep the discussion focused and workable. Is there someone already involved in the mediation that you feel represents your interests and point of view?

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in particular), and came to the conclusion that the reason the article is so wretched is because it is under continuous attack by a father-and-son team of cranks, who disrupt any constructive work with their own unsubstantiated agenda.

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Actually, whether the idea is sound has nothing to do with article rating: you could have a good article on Bigfoot. But your line of argument is so well supported, objective, and logical, it is its own best comment. ;-)

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articles I consulted were subject to heated discussion and machine-gun AfD onslaught. I investigated, found that some editors names were constantly resurfacing in the context of this dispute, and became involved myself.

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easily be used, that French Spacing originally redirected to. I would suggest you use that template, instead of continuing to break the correct definition and template in favour of an incorrect version.

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not doing any improvement work himself. Improving these articles takes time and loving effort from many conscientious editors. It should not be done under this sort of aggressive pressure.

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Thanks for bringing the terms to my attention. I am working currently with Polish sources, which are more accurate regarding Poland, but obviously - in Polish. Now, in Polish, the word

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Too late did I see your notice about the AfD campaign. Glad to see the result was 'keep': Tajmar might deserve an entry even without he possibly revolutionary gravito-magnetic work. --

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article. It has no Polish equivalent, and any time you can spend towards translating in any capacity would be much-appreciated. I would be more than happy to help any way that I can.

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of any sort. I am a bit busy at the moment, so probably cannot do this myself soon - maybe around Easter would be the soonest. So if others want to try before then, well and good. --

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I complained on the talk page and waited a long time for the article to improve. I revisited the article periodically, read the talk page and related user talk pages closely (

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family were exiled at the time of his gruesome execution by the Spaniards, after the failed assault on Cuzco. Here’s a quote from the paper by Claire Brewster

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or free tenant (wolny kmieć) terminology. A peasant, by definition, is a farmer who does not own his land, but is settled on his lord's land in exchange for

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This would indicate that whether his daughter (wife of Sebastián Berzeviczy) was illegitimate, or she might have been his niece. Apparently, some women from

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Thank you for endorsing one or more summaries in the RFC. Please note that two proposals have been put forward on how we can move on after the RFC:

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to Knowledge (XXG)! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I don't know if you've been around in a while, but I'd like to point out to you the success we've had with the D&D GA-drive so far:

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No problem. The data in the infobox actually referred to the form of molybdopterin "without" molybdenum (molybdopterin is actually a

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Here's the text you are referring to--I transplanted it here after it was (justifiably) nuked from the RfM, for reference's sake.

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is NOT a good article candidate. It is just a crackpot idea based on rubbish and nonsense and garbage and trash. . . .

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to your user or talk page to make your position clear to people who visit your page :) - Thanks to Neurolysis for the template

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constructive work on improving these articles, rather than just shooting them down wholesale, I'll be honored to work with him.

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from captive slavery into hereditary serfdom was essentially complete, not only in Poland but over most of Christian Europe.

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In order to give bona-fide editors like you more breathing space, I recommend that this matter be given due process under

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Knowledge (XXG):Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009 April 23#Category:Knowledge (XXG) users who oppose Flagged Revisions

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edits. I did not object to your tagging, and as a matter of fact I did a minor edit myself. The issue I had was with

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The category associated with the no flagged revisions userbox you have placed on your user page is up for deletion at

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labor (pańszczyzna). A farmer who owns his land and is free to migrate is not a peasant. I suggest you start from

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article or its discussion. My involvement with the current dispute and Gavin took place in other articles, such as

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will be able to guide us in the steps that need to be taken to stop the disruptive behavior. My ultimate goal is

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P.S. Specifically, I added a short paragraph and a link in the Examples section. The reversion was done by

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As I am a RPG player myself, I find it difficult to disentangle in-universe content from an external view.

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If you're interested in coming around to check out what we've been up to, you are welcome as always. :)

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I noticed you voted oppose in the flag revs straw pole and would like to ask if you would mind adding

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Don't think I've ever edited this one - although have removed some OR and self promo links from the

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atoms). There has actually been some controversy as to whether the compound should be called

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page. No expertise in the field, so I've not done much - but agree that there has been much

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regarding him as an alternative to mediation, and would like your opinion on the matter.

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states: “Of the union three children were born: Hipólito, Mariano and Fernando…”

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prior to that. I think she was right, in that the material you added belongs in

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information, rather than a forum for personal opinions. I am less respectful of

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In general terms, what is the best way to handle the content in this topic area?

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If you could, could you email me your email so I can forward you the copies of

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at all, and I'm not a chemist myself, so I will actually ask the folks over at

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Given your high fluency in Polish, I am reaching out to you in regards to the

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What are some good things about the people you disagree with in this case?

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I asked that no major blanking be done while the AfD is in progress, not

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to have a look at the article and improve it if necessary. Best wishes,

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