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==Barnstars==
<p>You may email me directly via my site.
], in addition to your many other fine contributions. --] (]) 18:32, 10 July 2006 (UTC)]]

==De-stub ]==
I hesitate to do it on my own because the great amount of good work you've done on the ] article entitles you to great deference. The article is meaty enough, it seems to me, that it no longer qualifies as a stub. It's an excellent contribution to Wiki and stands on its own as a worthy example of a well-written, full fledged article on a very specialized topic/legal test. I'm confident no one can, with a straight face, argue it deserves stub status. Please consider excising the stub markup. ] 05:16, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

De-stubbed as requested! Thanks for the kind words, though I'd like to point out that the article as it stands includes contributions from Wikipedians ] and ], who worked separately on Daubert Motion before it was merged with Daubert Standard. ] 05:18, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

== Wired article ==
Thanks! Too bad Daniel couldn't figure out that I'm a guy.... - ] 16:45, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

==Good work==
I just wanted to commend you for the good work I've seen you doing since you got here just a short time ago. It is not going unnoticed. Keep it up! ] 07:27, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks ==
Thanks for the birthday wishes. ]&#8756;] 05:41, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

==]==
Salve, Jokestress! <br>I went and nominated ] as a FAC. I'd appreciate your vote at ]. ] 14:52, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC) P.S.: I was reading your handle all this time as two words "Joke Stress". I didn't think of it as being a feminine of "Jokester" until I saw your picture. Glad to know you.

== Interested in an L.A.-area Wiki meetup? ==

It appears as though L.A. has never had a Wiki meetup. Would you be
interested in attending such an event? If so, checkout ]

- ] 16:26, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)


'''It's official!'''
The first-ever L.A. Wiki Meetup will be occuring on July 25th, 2005.
Are you coming? Would you like to help host?
More details on the ]. Be sure to check back regularly for updates!
- ] 30 June 2005 10:40 (UTC)

== Thanks for the feedback! ==
You make a good point. I didn't think of that yet. I have now made two new external links to the moviepages on About Gay Movies. Scimilar to the links to the Internet Movie Database. Is that what you had in mind? ] 7 July 2005 23:45 (CET)
:Yep! See your talk page for more info. ] 7 July 2005 21:46 (UTC)

== ] ==

Jokestress,<br>Since you worked on the ] article, I wonder if I could get your support on my latest FAC, ]. ] 21:00, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

== ] ==

Hello. I just wanted to comment about something you just posted on ]. I'm really happy that you're such a bold editor and are so interested in improving Misplaced Pages, but you're stirring up a bit of a hornet's nest here, and I'd like to see if we can get things calmed down. You wrote:

:''I found a "mess" when I arrived. I am letting about 50 things stand in the intro while I go through point by point. I find many of these belabored objections above and below (like this 1995 quibble- check the original APA release date) to be "irrelevant," in the way other POV objections are deemed "irrelevant" by the editors who got this article to its present state. I am going to come here every day for the next eleven months until this thing is NPOV. ] 21:16, 17 July 2005 (UTC)''

This comment comes across very badly, and in these tense circumstances could be read as ''"I'm going to edit this article the way '''I''' want it to be, and to hell with what anyone else thinks."'' When you come into an article this highly developed and start telling people who have a lot of background in the field, and who have worked very hard on an article for a long time -- even if you disagree with the work they have done -- that they're wrong and practicing bad science, you're stepping on a lot of toes, and people are liable to take it personally.

I think you have some interesting points and could potentially make a good contribution to this article in a non-disruptive way, with a slight change of tack. Please pay particular attention to ] and try more to work toward consensus before making major edits. Remember to ] always. Cheers --] ] 21:47, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

:Hi, and welcome to the R&I page. I think I am basically echoing malathion's sentiment here, but let me say it anyway: You are obviously a well-spoken and -reasoned individual, and the attention you lavish on the R&I article is welcome. It is improving all the time, and I am confident that your contributions will benefit further. I have been on a much-needed holiday away from cyberspace for the last two weeks or so, and am only slowly getting through all the edits to the page; some of yours I liked very much. Please keep up your good work.
:This being said, I was also quite put off by some of your contributions. For example, I cannot understand how you can view your comments on the WSJ article as anything but heavily skewed:
::Though intended to outline "conclusions regarded as mainstream among researchers on intelligence," about half of the intelligence researchers asked to sign the statement prior to its publication as an op-ed piece refused to sign, citing numerous differences of opinion.
:The tenor in Gottfredson's article (I mean the one with the background and history of the WSJ statement) is clearly the exact opposite of what your description implies, so you are misrepresenting or supressing data (namely, the number of non-signees and the condition under which the statement was signed) to make it match your own POV. That's terribly bad style, in any context, including WP editing. For illustration, here is the ] version of your comment:
::Several intelligence researchers asked to sign the statement refused to do so, out of fear of being physically attacked.
:Like your comment, this is a true statement that can be infered from Gottfredson's article. But it would be a scandalously skewed representation of the truth, used to push a particular POV. I have learned to trust many of the other editors at R&I to not do such things, and would prefer to be able to put you on my own list of "trusted editors" as well. Best, ] 20:25, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
:(Added after looking at your user page): I understand that you are a fellow skeptic. Great. One of the pending tasks I have for the R&I-related pages is to give an overview of the "Skeptic viewpoint" on R&I research. This would cover the chapter in Shermer, the skepdic-entry, the special issue of Skeptic (from somewhen in the 90s, I don't have it anymore, alas!), and the Miele–Jensen book. (I belong to the Swedish "chapter", so I have been busy collecting viewpoints in the "local" publications.) I can see that we are finally getting the ] page I have been lobbying for for weeks, so that would be a good outlet for such an overwiew. Can you point me to any publications that would fall under the "Skeptic" umbrella that I have missed? ] 20:34, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

== Why are you reverting my changes? Why? What is the matter with you? ==

== Another Misplaced Pages Parody ==
A person just posted a link at the ] article about another Misplaced Pages parody: ]. I figure we should have a listing of these, but not sure where. ] ] 05:49, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

== L.A. Meetup Reminder ==

Don't forget! L.A's first Wiki meetup is TONIGHT at 7:30 at ]
in Downtown. Check out the ] for
details. See you there! (If you can't make it, come to the
]! - ] 21:59, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

== humor ==

Jokestress, I'm not making jabs at you. When I say "seriously," I mean that you/anyone might not believe me because it's acutally very unbelievable that a professor would be caught making such inconsistent statements. --] 06:13, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

:No problem. ;) --] 06:29, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

== WSJ ==

However, I do strongly disagree with your interpretations. I'm still hoping you'll respond to my point-by-point breakdown of the statement. --] 06:22, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

==]==
Hi Jokestress, I wanted to say nice work on a clear and balanced article. Best, ] ] 07:29, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
:Hi. Due to some merging and splitting, your lengthy Gottfredson footnote currently finds itself with a referer. Frankly, I am not quite sure where you think it is best (I would suspect the first appearance on ]), so I have left it alone on the ] page (though nothing points to it). I only want to make sure that you don't misconstrue its currently fatherless situation as malicious editing. (Remember that I really think the footnote is misguided, so ''personally'' I would love to see it gone. But I wouldn't want you to think that I would misuse a major clean-up process to let it disappear.) I encourage you to (1) either keep a close eye on the poor note lest it disappears by somebody else's well-meaning cleanup zeal, or (2) find a good "home" for it, like the first appearance of the "mainstream" claim on ]. Another possibility would be on the ] page. I hope to be able to convince you to eventually remove it using the orbital mind control lasers I have just installed. ] 11:40, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

== ] ==

Hey, Jokestress<br>I wonder if you would look at my newest FAC, Tom Brinkman. The voting page is at ]. ] 14:54, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

==phylogeny==
hi Andrea -- the nodal information, taxonomy and dates in the graph are drawn from Misplaced Pages articles (i.e. the articles on the (sub)species mentioned). the percentage is based on the previous graph it was replacing. the 2% number is widely quoted, e.g. in books by Cavalli-Sforza, but probably any Biology textbook. Is there anything in particular that you dispute? Especially the things based on WP articles may be questionable of course. ] <small>]</small> 06:28, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
:alright, sorry, in this case my reply was beside the point. The separation of three branches of human population (imperfectly labelled "Africans, Europeans, Asians") is a result of ] research of the last decade. the "blown up" version of that part of the graph is on ] (and the links in the image description page). The representation in this image is geographical, and most of the ''migration'' was done by the "Asians" (while most of the ''variety'' is subsumed under "Africans", only shown as two stubby arrows in that image, because they never migrated out of Africa). The decision to show exactly three branches of 'races' may be pov, since finer granularity would be possible. ] has ''six'' groups (Americans, Oceanians and Asians are all subsumed under "Asian" in my graph, since they are more closely related than the rest). I wonder about the absence of Australians in that image, and I don't know whether they would qualify as "Africans" or as "Asians" in the grouping of three, or as a seventh branch in the Rosenberg clusters. Since they branched off some 70,000 years ago, I suppose they would qualify as "Africans" genetically. ] <small>]</small> 07:12, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

== Main page of Race and intelligence ==

Jokestress, could you please re-read the thread that you just commented on, about the Pioneer fund etc. I hope you agree that I have given Ultramarine several different ways of getting his viewpoint on the main page, none of which he seemed to accept. I hope you feel my pain in seeing what was supposed a helpful cleanup turn into so much vitriol. I am not a big fan of Ultramarine's tone, but ''your'' comments so far have always been benevolent. It pains me to see my contribution described as a conspiracy to remove material from the main page. To wit, please see my edits from 13:12, 13:50, 14:09, 14:30, 14:58, all of which are different, concrete suggestions to put that material ''on'' the main page. As you might imagine, it is quite painful to invest a lot of work in menial editing jobs, just to be attacked by first Ultramarine and then even you. I urge you to re-read the thread and possible rethink your assessment of my motivation. ] 17:01, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
:Thanks for your kind words. Could you also please read my reply to you on the thread in question, about renaming ]? I ''fear'' we are about to do something that you don't agree with (frankly, I don't understand and I don't care, but I have a nagging feeling that a name change would alienate you further, and I don't want that. If these pages are biased then we very much need to keep you as a contributor). But if you agree with Ultramarine then we will just rename the page. ] 06:19, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks ==
Thanks for the kind words. ] 20:35, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

== some topics we haven't covered ==

good work filling in all those related articles. there still a few topics that i'm aware of that haven't made it into an article. i thought you might be interested in them:

for ], we haven't covered all of what Jensen calls "AD HOC THEORIES OF THE WHITE-BLACK IQ DIFFERENCE" . i have a copy of the book if we need to verify some detail

the ] article doesn't have any real discussion of malleability, which is logically distinct from heritability. this, of course, is also of interest to the ] article. some paticular studies that might even need their own article:
* ]
* ] - the most successful
* ] (?)
* of course ]

ttyl --] 18:00, August 8, 2005 (UTC)


i can appreciate busy; it's becomming a way of life. would it be a help if we started a yahoo group or something like that to make paper requests and store PDFs? --] 19:22, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

== Raymond Cattell ==

Jokestress,

I am in email contact as of today with Raymond Cattell's daughter Devon. I asked her for permission to use a photo of her dad and she said she would have to check with her sibling and get back to me. I think if we tone down the ISARPOV edits, at least temporarily, we might stand a better chance of receiving that photo permission. ] 00:07, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

==Back Again==
Jokestress, <br>I never thanked you for supporting my ] FAC nomination. I'm grateful and pleased to note it was successful. I've got another FAC now, the next congresswoman from Ohio, ]. The FAC page is ]. I hope to get it featured by ], the day she will be sworn in. I'd appreciate your support. ] 17:14, August 23, 2005 (UTC) (P.S. If you are worried about the "fair use" of her picture, when she's sworn, we'll be able to replace it with a nice U.S. government public domain photo.)

==Thanks for your vote==
Thanks very much for your vote of support on my ] article. I'm pleased to say it is today's featured article of the day. ] 16:55, September 6, 2005 (UTC)


==Race==
Thanks for your comments. I, er, agree... ]

==Barnstar==
]This ] is a recognition of your many contributions to Misplaced Pages, especially to ] and related articles.<br> -] 10:17, September 7, 2005 (UTC)


special edits!]]
:Hello Jokestress, If I were you I would be wary of an award from user Willmcw, he and his friends seemingly do nothing but POV push, they certainly don't make sense and aren't coherent. ]] 19:58, 12 September 2005 (UTC)


Sometimes, there is nothing more magical on Misplaced Pages than to see a little ] suddenly sprinkled with references. Thanks for making my day. :-) --] 06:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
::Assume good faith is a wise initial policy when there is an absence of information, however, when there is historical evidence of user(s)' untoward behavior then following it becomes unwise. It has been my experience that the citing of "assume good faith" is almost exclusively used to shut the other person up in a debate and/or to lessen the chance they will realize the vastness of the charades. People should be encouraged to think (outside the box) as opposed to assume anyway. A few months is a rather long time... ]] 00:12, 13 September 2005 (UTC)


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Congrats on the barnstar!<br>I'm back at it again with my ] article, nominated as a FAC. He's Ohio's lieutenant governor and already at ] are votes opposing. I know I am a pest, but I find when I don't go out and ask folks such as yourself for their votes, my FAC's invariably are defeated. So I'd be grateful if you'd put your two cents worth in. Ave! ] 18:09, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
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Smile upon the troubled pilgrims whom you pass and meet;<br>
==Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego ] on ] 2005==
Frowns are thorns, and smiles are blossoms, oft for weary feet.<br>
Hello, Jimbo Wales will be in San Diego to attend ] and has agreed to come by and visit with the San Diego wikipedians. If you are interested, you will find more info on . ]\<sup>]</sup> 00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
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==Ask and You Shall Receive==
O'er his task waits wealth or glory; he who smiles achieves.<br>
Salve, Jokestress! <br>Hope this message finds you well. I didn't thank you for your kind words in your last message. I've been a bit snarky lately and I've ignored most people. That's my problem, not yours and I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner. Your note suggested I lay off the Buckeye politicians. I'm working on ], head of CBS in the 60's, which I hope to soon put up as a FAC. I need a fresh set of eyes to run through my prose and would be most grateful if you could do it. I'm so familiar with it I fear I'm not seeing problems or areas that need work. Again, thank you for your kindnesses. ] 14:20, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Though you meet with loss and sorrow in the passing years,<br>
Smile a little, smile a little... even through your tears!<br>


'']''
== Race and intelligence ==


Have a beautiful day, dear Jokestress! :)
Maybe you'd like to take a look at . I think my points around it are well enough made on the talk page; but I'd hate to let the hereditarian reductionists POV-ize the article even more than it already is. ] 16:23, 5 November 2005 (UTC)


]<br>17:11, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey Jokestress, I wanted to make sure you saw the "interdisciplinary field" description is being discussed again, if you want to weigh in. --] ] 09:19, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
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== Hoodia ==


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== Thank you for your contributions - a great coincidence ==
== Robert Perloff ==


Dear Jokestress: last night I was looking at the Misplaced Pages page for Devra Kleiman. Devra was a very dear friend of my wife. They worked together at the Smithsonian - National Zoo. I happened to take a look at the history of edits and saw your name as the originator of the page back in 2013. When I saw your name there I looked at your user page and I said to myself, that sounds familiar. It seems similar to the person who started the Misplaced Pages page for my wife's mother, Margot Gayle. I went to her page and sure enough, your name shows up as the person who initiated that page as well (in 2008, a few weeks after she died at the age of 100).
Some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article ] may not be sufficiently well-known to merit articles of their own. The Misplaced Pages community ], and encourages them to become ]. By ], each user is entitled to a ] in which they can describe themselves, and this article's content may be incorporated into that page. However, to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia proper, a subject must be notable. We encourage you to write or improve articles on notable subjects.


It is a great tribute to your dedication to documenting the careers and lives of women who have made great contributions to society: in the former case to conservation biology in the latter case to historic preservation. Thank you for your service. ] (]) 20:20, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
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Talk archive

Barnstars

I to award this barnstar to you in appreciation of the great cleanup you have done to hoodia, in addition to your many other fine contributions. --Ed (Edgar181) 18:32, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
A special barnstar for these special edits!

Sometimes, there is nothing more magical on Misplaced Pages than to see a little article suddenly sprinkled with references. Thanks for making my day. :-) --HappyCamper 06:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Smile a little, smile a little, all along the road;
Every life must have its burden, every heart its load.
Why sit down in gloom and darkness with your grief to sup?
As you drink Fate's bitter tonic, smile across the cup.

Smile upon the troubled pilgrims whom you pass and meet;
Frowns are thorns, and smiles are blossoms, oft for weary feet.
Do not make the way seem harder by a sullen face;
Smile a little, smile a little, brighten up the place.

Smile upon your undone labour; not for one who grieves
O'er his task waits wealth or glory; he who smiles achieves.
Though you meet with loss and sorrow in the passing years,
Smile a little, smile a little... even through your tears!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Have a beautiful day, dear Jokestress! :)

Phaedriel
17:11, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Jokestress, you are a one-woman article-creating machine! Thanks for your remarkable effort, and congrats on getting them finished up! – Quadell 20:32, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For contributing large numbers of articles and additions to articles, for giving Misplaced Pages's pychology and sexuality articles a scientific and objective foundation, and for showing level-headedness when in editing disputes. Awarded by Richard Cavell (talk) 00:47, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
The Articles for Creation Barnstar
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The Disambiguator's Barnstar

Thanks for all your hard work on disambiguation pages, it's appreciated. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 20:31, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
Just wanted to say i think you are really cool and keep up the good work x RafikiSykes (talk) 02:54, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
Hey Andrea (Jokestress)! I would really like to thank you for your years of dedication and hard work here on improving Misplaced Pages and being one of the finest and best contributors it has ever had ;) I really don't know what more better thing to award you than this awesome barnstar! A true Wikipedian like you is always a real asset to the project :) Good luck and all the best for your work in life and on Misplaced Pages! TheGeneralUser (talk) 15:07, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
You are awesome Mathnarg (talk) 06:46, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
Nice work updating Tam O'Shaughnessy. Bearian (talk) 14:02, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for the new Jump, Jive an' Wail article, and improving Misplaced Pages's coverage of notable songs. Northamerica1000 10:52, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy
Andrea, I want to thank you so much for your help with Karen Russell's class at the University of Georgia last November. I saw in the comments section of her blog post that you added back in or asked people to add back in some public relations students' entries that had been deleted, and you offered to provide additional help. I thought it was very generous of you to offer this assistance and wanted to say thanks! TiffanyGallicano (talk) 01:57, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions - a great coincidence

Dear Jokestress: last night I was looking at the Misplaced Pages page for Devra Kleiman. Devra was a very dear friend of my wife. They worked together at the Smithsonian - National Zoo. I happened to take a look at the history of edits and saw your name as the originator of the page back in 2013. When I saw your name there I looked at your user page and I said to myself, that sounds familiar. It seems similar to the person who started the Misplaced Pages page for my wife's mother, Margot Gayle. I went to her page and sure enough, your name shows up as the person who initiated that page as well (in 2008, a few weeks after she died at the age of 100).

It is a great tribute to your dedication to documenting the careers and lives of women who have made great contributions to society: in the former case to conservation biology in the latter case to historic preservation. Thank you for your service. Fhnewell (talk) 20:20, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

"Face Shrine" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Face Shrine has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 December 30 § Face Shrine until a consensus is reached. QuicoleJR (talk) 21:53, 30 December 2024 (UTC)