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FUCK YOU
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{{Attempting_wikibreak|]| Swamped with research and teaching duties.|I}}

==masc vs defem==
I got the papers, thanks. I'll read them this weekend and it will probably be worth continuing this topic on the ] page. It occurs to me we may want separate articles for humans and animals or for behavioral vs anatomic differentiation. ] 8 July 2005 16:46 (UTC)

See ]. I read your papers, but have to say that this is not a term commonly used in discussions on ''human'' differentiation and it seems a misnomer to use it for prevention of female development when the common sense meaning is removal of female characteristics. I put full comment in ] so perhaps reply there about this topic specifically. ] 10:54, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

== Wikiproject game theory? ==

Hi there - Thanks for your comments on the matrices for game theory articles. I really appreciate your input. I have been sending out feelers for people interested in a wikiproject on game theory. Do you think you might be interested? --best, kevin <font color="#BBBBBB">·</font><font color="#666666">·</font>·<small>] | ]</small>·<font color="#666666">·</font><font color="#BBBBBB">·</font> 17:52, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Pete - I have started ]. Please join in! I need to do a bunch of work on it, but I think it will help us to focus on what needs to be done and (more importantly) encourage people to add to game theory articles. In "its a small world" news, a friend and I were reading one of your papers on signaling last week, very nice. --best, kevin <font color="#BBBBBB">·</font><font color="#666666">·</font>·<small>] | ]</small>·<font color="#666666">·</font><font color="#BBBBBB">·</font> 23:44, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

== re: nat seln ==

Basically, seemed to be confusing a ] with natural selection. For a start, it's just not relevent to that sentence, if nat seln affects the ability to reproduce it doesn't matter whether or not the offspring are fertile or not, and therefore basically, wrong. ]|] 19:19, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

== Bootstrappers ==

I should put it on there. Don't know why I didn't. (I don't have a copy :( ) BTW, the Bootstrappers were Watt, George Hurley, and Elliott Sharp. Kira wasn't involved. ] 05:20, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

Pete - Thanks for your kind words on my RfA, I really appreciate it! I am now an admin, I hope that doesn't mean you need to gouge my eyes out ;) I just remembered, I need to send you that paper about normative signaling too. Remind me, if I don't. --best, kevin <font color="#BBBBBB">·</font><font color="#666666">·</font>·<small>] | ]</small>·<font color="#666666">·</font><font color="#BBBBBB">·</font> 05:33, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh dear not at all! No offence taken. It would have been worse to have thought that people read it and ignored it writing me off as some kind of wally. I only found myself questioning why didn't you alter it for me?! :-) Anyhow, it's done now. Thank you dear fellow.
Celtmist 21-10-05

== Alakon ==

Pete - Thanks for pointing this out. I removed the book reference, I can't find it on Amazon, in university catelogues or on the web. I think his contributions are either hoaxes or vanity (more likely the second). I'm going to put his article ] up for deletion, since I can't find much reference to him on google. His addition to ] seems to be legit. I'll do some more looking. --best, kevin <font color="#BBBBBB">·</font><font color="#666666">·</font>·<small>] | ]</small>·<font color="#666666">·</font><font color="#BBBBBB">·</font> 00:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
:His contribution list is pretty short. I was able to verify his other major contribution ]. I think we ought to just chalk this up to vanity or something. Lets see how the AfD transpires. --best, kevin <font color="#BBBBBB">·</font><font color="#666666">·</font>·<small>] | ]</small>·<font color="#666666">·</font><font color="#BBBBBB">·</font> 01:13, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
::I disagree. Bloodgood Cutter absolutely wasn't vanity - it can't be. I have no connection to the man. I just found it a really interesting topic and wrote an article about it. I do have a connection to the publisher in the BHW case, though I have no financial stake and I believe my role to be well within the accepted norms at Misplaced Pages. I do agree with your judgement that the BHW page should be taken off the game theory page, at least until the actual book is published tomorrow (and to be unbiased I'll allow it to happen naturally and without my help).

Thanks for your nice message about brent henry waddington!! =) ] 04:29, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the barnstar award!!! and sorry for the delay in seeing your message =) ] 22:24, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
:Pete - There is such a tool, and its called ]. Only one active wikipedia has access to it, and he will only use it in extreme cases of abuse. Soon a few more (maybe 2 or 3) folks will get access. I left a message at ] about this incident and nobody seemed to care. I think we're on our own with this guy. Once the AfD is over I will leave him a polite warning, and I'll try to keep an eye on him. --best, kevin <font color="#BBBBBB">·</font><font color="#666666">·</font>·<small>] | ]</small>·<font color="#666666">·</font><font color="#BBBBBB">·</font> 04:53, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

== Categories in mathematics ==

As far as I know, Misplaced Pages has got some rules concering the categories. We do not put (except in exceptional cases) <nowiki>]</nowiki> and <nowiki>]</nowiki> in the same article, if X is a subset of Y. There is no need for an article to have "Calculus" and "Mathematics" category. Otherwise, we would have to put *everything* related to calculus in the math category. Mathematics has its concepts, and almost all of them can be categorised. The top categories must contain a small number of articles, the specific ones should contain more. Look at ] - we do not have even the article ] there; it's subcategorised; similiary ] should be too. It is one of the topics of cybernetics (read the template), so I reverted your changes. Regards, ] 17:50, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
:I think this is nonsense. You have cybernetics claiming ''ergodic theory'' as a subtopic??? Sorry, that's way over the top. Cyberneticians, whatever they are exactly, may have interests in ergodic theory and game theory, but there's no way workers in the latter fields think of themselves as specialized cyberneticians. Maybe game theory should go through other subcategories before getting to ], but it shouldn't be limited to one as obscure as cybernetics. --] 17:59, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
:Game theory is a subset is economics, in some sense, and a subset of mathematics, in some sense; but cybernetics? That's pretty nutbar. ] 18:09, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
OK, if you think that game theory shouldn't be a topic in cybernetics, then it should be removed from ] and ] article. Thanks, ] 18:16, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

== Heritability of stature ==

I've collected some papers on the heritability and genetics of stature, including those you referenced. I don't know when I'll get to it, but I do intend to significantly improve the article (I'm most interested in the biology, environment, and interactions thereof --the "why"; most people seem obsessed with the population heights and comparisons with little done elsewise), with this among the highest priorities. Any other suggestions are welcome (I have access to almost anything through my university). ] 09:06, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

== Talk: Allan Bloom "children of divorce" ==
I just read and responded to your several months old comment about children of divorce since I just read it tonight. You may be as busy as I, and not care to respond, or whatever, but I thought I'd mention I did have something to add to your question, which is an excellent question/point to bring up, even though i disagree with your shallow assessment. --] 07:48, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

== Best response correspondi ==

]
Hi Pete - I was taking a look at those best response correspondences you created for ]. I was thinking about cropping them a bit. For instance, I don't think we need the title on the top of this one because that information is repeated in the caption. Would you mind if I cropped them a bit and replaced the old ones? I think this will let us make the correspondences bigger and easier to see. --best, kevin <font color="#BBBBBB">·</font><font color="#666666">·</font>·<small>] | ]</small>·<font color="#666666">·</font><font color="#BBBBBB">·</font> 17:25, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

:As you can now see, I have uploaded a cropped version of the three stag hunt correspondences. I think their easier to see. If you ever decide to return to the book, I suggest you name it ''Trout''. It seems a good name for a game theory book :) --best, kevin <font color="#BBBBBB">·</font><font color="#666666">·</font>·<small>] | ]</small>·<font color="#666666">·</font><font color="#BBBBBB">·</font> 19:02, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

== edit counter ==

is this still not working for you or did you have the same problem other people also reported (which should be fixed now)? kate.

== ] ==
Your contributions to the page are much appreciated. Please reformat your citations to be consistent with the rest of the page. Best wishes. ] 17:04, 12 November 2005 (UTC)


== ] ==

I'm intrigued...how did mention of this venerable rocker spoil your evening? Or was it the awful joke that did it at ].
] 23:44, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

== Not -> Now ==

Pete - You are indeed correct, I will fix it. Thanks! --best, kevin <sub>└</sub>''<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub>''<sup>┐</sup> 01:45, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

== WP:SCH ==

<small>(a.k.a. "WhooPeey:SCHitt")</small><br>
In light of ], you might find ] to be of interest. I got both bored and disgusted with the debate and was inspired to write my own ] on the topic. &mdash; <b><i>]</i> <small>(<span class="plainlinks"></span>)</small></b> 19:09, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Something else you might find interesting: ]. I now have reason to believe said school is a hoax. &mdash; <b><i>]</i> <small>(<span class="plainlinks"></span>)</small></b> 21:21, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

==Please elaborate==
Can you please elaborate upon what you meant by ? ] 21:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

== The saga continues ==

] Next GW Bush will be calling... --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 22:12, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

== Your delete vote on ] ==

] I just rewrote the article from a nonsense version to a valid stub on the current baseball pitcher. Could you change your vote if you can. Thanks --] ]) 04:06, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

== Coarsening ==

Yeah I had noticed those edits. I haven't heard the term either, but I understand the motivation. When you think of most of the solution concepts as "equilibrium refinements", this usually means nash equilibrium refinements. And correlated equilibrium is not properly that, since its more general than nash equilibrium. I'm inclined to let it go, and after the christmas break I'll ask my econ friends if that's an econ phrase or not. --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 21:59, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks! ==

Pete - Thanks for the barnstar. I'll hang it on my ]. :) I need to see about getting GT scheduled for the main page now. --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 17:32, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

== ] ==

See ] about ] - you're right, it's probably original research. We're giving the author some time to find sources, otherwise, it'll go up for AfD before too long. -- <font color="#668353">]</font> <font color="#ff4487">]</font> 00:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

:5 of these articles are up for deletion; two more were redirected. The links: ], ], ], ], ] -- <font color="#668353">]</font> <font color="#ff4487">]</font> 15:57, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

== Maintained ==

Pete - Feeling turgid today? I was impressed by the vocabulary on the TfD. :) There is an extensive system that they want you to use for putting your name into {{tl|Maintained}}. Its documented at ]. Its cumbersome, but I see the advantages (in particular it prevents others from adding you to other articles without you ever noticing). I would just do it for you, but it involves editing in your User space... --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 17:27, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

:I think you're probably right. I never expected that template to slow down any vandals. Does a vandal really check the talk page before adding "poop" to an article? I mostly hoped that it would lend a sense of credibility to those pages that ought to have it. Even more importantly, once the template gains wide use it would help us to identify articles that are likely to let vandalism slip by. --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 18:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

::Ooops. Sorry I misunderstood. I hadn't looked at the anon edits yet and I thought that you were being sarcastic. I always thought that argument was a bit silly. I was very cautious in the beginning, but it had nothing to do with any tag on any of the articles. I'm just cautious. I think that personality has much more to do with editing habits than anything. P.S. Did you see those two very good articles in ''Nature''? Finally some good press! --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 21:36, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

== Political compass ==

:User:Pete.Hurd -8.25 -6.92 Alberta Canada
:Man, I *did I ever* move to the right over the last 20-30y!

So glad I haven't so moved :-). Maybe you should drift west to BC (to the left coast), and avoid the conservative influences of Alberta. ] 02:41, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

:Heh, I was about to say that. ] 05:38, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

== Mainpage ==

Hi Pete! I hope that your holiday break was good and that your new year has gotten off to a good start. I wanted to be sure you saw my comment at ] regarding the main page summary. I have requested that ] appear on the mainpage and have provided a brief summary of it. Have you had a chance to look at it? Do you think any changes ought to be made? On another note, I would like to get ] up to featured article quality, but have been having a hard time thinking of what to do with it. Any ideas? --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 07:07, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

== IKEA ==

Thanks for the message! It made me laugh. I am at once horrified and fascinated by IKEA. I either find things there that I want desperately (sectional couch), or that make me want to run screaming for the hills (strange coffee table reminiscent of a wave, with storage underneath each crest). ]<sup>]</sup>/<small>]</small> 05:37, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
: <runs away screaming> ]<sup>]</sup>/<small>]</small> 07:32, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

== Vandalism ==

Yeah, I agree about the vandalism. I was amazed at the level of vandalism too. There is supposed to be a limit on the number of accounts that one IP can create, which should limit throw away account vandalism. But if someone has access to several IPs, this can end up being a lot of vandalism. --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 18:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

:I'm actually not sure how we compared. I know that ] is infamous for having an extreme amount of vandalism. Cheese... *sigh*. I think the general consensus is just revert it. People really don't want to protect or semi-protect the featured article, since it provides an introduction to our project for so many people. On the other hand, our featured article ends up vandalized a reasonable amount of time. It doesn't look like ] had anything important happen to it, although it does look like a lot of changes went into ]. So manybe something good came out of it. --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 21:15, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

== Merge categories? ==

Hi Pete, somehow I stumbled on your user page, and noticed your professional interest in ethology. I was wondering if you think if it's a good/bad idea to merge ] and ], or should the tags be removed. --] (]) 04:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

== More admins? ==

Hi Pete - I saw your comments on the vote about rollback privs. I think the "shortage of admin" problem is mostly that there are lots of pages that need administrative attention, but no one works on them. ] is one example. I worked on that one for a while, but it sucks. I for one think we would get more done if we could get rid of a few select administrators. It seems like to me that half of ] and ] is filled with stuff about a few problem folks. But, that's just me. --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 05:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Pete. Same thing. It's not that we ''need'' more admins. Adminship is just a few extra buttons that every user who we trust not to wreak havoc should have. Look at it this way - not having the extra buttons means somebody has to do stuff instead of you. ] | ] 23:16, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks from Lulu ==

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Since you mention it, I think this manages to be gracious without either being sappy or overly didactic. Hope so. All the best, ] 04:56, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
==]==
You are currently listed as both a Support vote and a Neutral vote on this RfA, perhaps you intended to use the comment section instead. You may want to give it a look. ] ] 18:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

==My RFA==
I just recently saw your vote at ]. Before you think of me as some hateful person, I would like for you to know the true, whole story based from me, and not from the blocked admin.

A user named ] was on Misplaced Pages some time ago and created sockpuppets to vandalize my previous RFA. Bieng ], you could probably imagine the reaction to this, as you saw. I never meant to offend anyone as I probably did with my statement, and I have apoligized many times for this already. Freestylefrappe just keeps holding it against me for some reason.

This IS NOT an attempt for you to try and change your vote, just a clarification on what really happened because the last thing I want is for another Wikipedian to think I'm some horrible person. ] <sup>]</sup><sup>]</sup> 04:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
:SWD316 just withdrew his nomination and left Misplaced Pages, thought you might like to know. ] 23:43, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

== Far-less ==

G'day Pete,

redirects to non-existent articles can be speedied, but ideally, yeah, they would have been deleted by the fellow who deleted the originally article in the first place (the "under authority") thing. I've deleted the redirect now. Thanks. ] (]) 15:24, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

== Fair use image removal ==

Sorry to edit your userpage, but I had to remove the image ] as it is used in Misplaced Pages under a ] rationale. Misplaced Pages's ] forbids the use of fair use images in user pages, so I have no choice but to take it out. ] 23:24, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

== Thank you ==

For your kind support of my Rfa, which passed. If you should ever have any complaints about my admin actions, please let me know. Also, should you ever need my help with anything, please do not hesitate to ask! Thanks again! All the best ''''']'']'']''''' 17:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
]

== genotype/phenotype series template? ==

I've noticed Samsara has been adding lots of "see also" interlinks among articles relating to genotype/phenotype interactions. This is nice to let readers see connected topics. There are now enough, that I wonder if it would be time to create a ] that would provide navigation for all these interrelated articles. I confess, I've never created such a template, and don't know all the fiddly details, but it seems like it would be nice. What do you think? ] 20:05, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

:Current discussion is on LotLE's talk. ] <sub><span style="text-decoration:none">]</span></sub> <sup><span style="position: relative; left: -36px; margin-right: -36px; text-decoration:none;">]</span></sup> 20:33, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

== Concerts ==

Gosh... I can't remember half the details you do about the concerts I've seen. But your list reminds me of one I saw at a club in 1986-7 or so that had the three currently premier punk trios: ], ], ]. The tree apparently had a tour together (don't know how many gigs or where): it was interesting that is was three bands, all punk bands with the same instruments, but such different takes on what a guitar/bass/drums could do. ] 04:33, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

== RFA ==

Hi, just wanted to thank you for voting on my RFA, which went through with a count of (58/0/1), far better than I'd expected. I intend to take things slowly and start using the extra abilities gradually, but if there's anything I can do just leave a message. Cheers, ] (]) 13:52, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

== Joke's RfA ==

Hi Pete, thanks for your support in my (successful) RfA! &ndash;] 16:02, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

== Wikibreak ==

Hi Pete, just to let you know that I'm going on wikibreak for a while. Bad timing, but I'm quite ill with a flu and can't afford the occasional late nights on WP. Cheers, ] <sub><span style="text-decoration:none">]</span></sub> <sup><span style="position: relative; left: -36px; margin-right: -36px; text-decoration:none;">]</span></sup> 12:34, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

== Human height ==

Pete - I went ahead and archived the talk page. I only copied the most recent discussion back to the talk page, since it looked like it was ongoing. If I missed one, you can just cut and paste it back. I think that non-admins (who have been around for more than a few days) are allowed to make page moves on most pages. But with all the changes going on recently, that might have changed... Either way, I'm happy to do it. Any excuse to get away from work :) --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 20:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

== Flood of new templates ==

Hi Pete,

These are the latest:
*]
*]
*]

This is what they look like:
{{phylo}}
{{speciation}}
{{origin of life}}

Please add any articles that I may have overlooked. The next template will be evolutionary ecology: ].

Cheers,

] <sub><span style="text-decoration:none">]</span></sub> <sup><span style="position: relative; left: -36px; margin-right: -36px; text-decoration:none;">]</span></sup> 04:28, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

== Vote on ] intro passage ==

As a contributing editor of the English wikipedia article on ], you are being invited to vote on two different versions of a controversial passage of the introduction. Please see details on the talk page, ].

Yours sincerely,

] <sub><span style="text-decoration:none">]</span></sub> <sup><span style="position: relative; left: -36px; margin-right: -36px; text-decoration:none;">]</span></sup> 01:40, 19 February 2006 (UTC)


== jesus and santa ==

you have the patience of jesus, mother theresa, santa, and ghandi. just keep stressing to them that the text should clarify cause and effect as much as possible and should also highlight whatever facilitates the elucidation of such. btw, samsara has been making some seriously incorrect statements and he's too easily scared by the freelance "scholastics". i lost him already but you could maybe try to give him some advise/support. best ] 06:38, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

== ] is Science Collab of the Week ==

{{SCOTWvoter}}

] <sub><span style="text-decoration:none">]</span></sub> <sup><span style="position: relative; left: -36px; margin-right: -36px; text-decoration:none;">]</span></sup> 11:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

== My RFA ==

Thank you for supporting me in my successful ]. The admin tools will definitely be useful for dealing with vandalism more swiftly. Please drop a note on my ] page, should you have questions about any of my actions. --] (<small>] | ]</small>) 02:29, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

== Scientific peer review ==

Hi, you might be interested in an new project here on Misplaced Pages aiming at peer review of articles concerning science, ]. ] 19:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)


==European Starling==
Thanks for the caption for the European Starling. I spent an hour trying to ID that bird. ] 19:45, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

== Request for Arbitration ==

I have filed a request for Arbitration with regard to ] ].] 06:20, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

== E-mail ==

Did you get my e-mail? ] 04:04, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

== Comments on ] AFD ==

Your points are well taken, my vote has been changed. I won't say that your kick-A Black Flag T-shirt had anything to do with it. ] 23:22, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

==]==
Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: ]. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, ]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ].

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --] 18:09, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

== Stastical GT and Marco ==

Hi Pete - Sorry it took me so long to respond. I've been on vacation, a much needed one! I have voted on the AfD. I take a pretty limited view of PN, and since it looks like the user who created it was acting in good faith, its probably better that it not just "disappear".

Re:Marco, I didn't realize that his POV war was based on Sober's work. Sober is certainly very well regarded, but not because the stuff he says is widely regarded as correct. I will actually know more in 10 weeks or so about his stuff on causation in evolutionary biology. Next time I see him, I'll have to mention that he sparked this controversy. I'm sure he'll be amused. --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 19:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Arbcom accepted the case, now we get to repeat everything we already said in a different format! I'm glad its there, but Arbcom can be very tiring.

== Best response function ==

Hi pete - I hope all is going well. I was curious what program you used to generate those best response figures. I want to generate some to illustrate smoothed ]/smoothed best response (both for wikipedia and my disertation). thanks! --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 23:40, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

:If you wouldn't mind sending me the LaTeX source, that would be great. The best I can do is Mathematica... and those graphics suh-uck. I don't know much about LaTeX graphics, so it might not be able to do what I need. But there is no time to learn like the present :) Thanks again. --best, kevin <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 00:45, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

==Thank you==
Thank you for your vote of confidence in my recent request for bureaucratship. Even though it didn't pass, I greatly appreciate your support and hope I will continue to have your respect. Thank you! ] <small>(])</small> 22:55, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

==Kin selection==
Help! The ] article really needs someone with a good background to make sure its somewhat accurate. I have been trying to make it readable and informative, but I haven't taken a single biology course since HS. Could you please take a look? Thanks -] 02:06, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

== Sorry ==

I'm sorry if you think I'm too new to be an adminship but I've been being a Wikipedian since December, 2003. I just didn't have an account. I know all about Misplaced Pages. I have interviewed many Wikipedians and have even made friends with a few. I WAS a perfect adminship nominee. An old nominee, ] 17:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

== CJ ==

We have replied to your conserns on the talk page - but I just wanted to let you know that this WikiSupremeCourt is not in any way currently supported by CJ - and another user opened a straw poll on the matter in interests of fairness, which so far all users have opposed. I have also rewrote the page per your and others conserns. Overall we promote civility, and we do not in any way brutally enforce it - we work through friendliness :) I hope this assists you. ]/<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">]</span> 20:45, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

== Question ==

When you said <nowiki>'</nowiki>''"However, this isn't the place to criticise a third-party", point well taken,''<nowiki>'</nowiki> were you replying to my question about the Editor Review or was it something else? ] 02:11, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

== Game Tree ==

Crap... I really should have written down the source when I referenced it. It was... er... some book? I think it was a text book, but I don't remember which. I need to go find it again, which could take a while. I think it was in my Discrete Math text... but I could be wrong. ] 20:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

== ] ==

Thanks for the comments on the article. I've added a few dates and two references, but must head back to writing papers. I've noted your GA nomination of various game theory topics and will keep them at the back of my mind, hopefully to review at my next wikipedia bout. Cheers, ] (] • ]) 11:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

== Natural selection ==

I am starting to loose track - can you check Marcosantazena's most recent (and extensive) changes and see if any need to be reverted? ] | ] 10:38, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
:In response to a request to work on this I wrote at ] page: I was already planning on a major writing drive this weekend on the sandbox version I am writing. Maybe it is time to get that one to an acceptable version. I want to make some graphics to explian the issue in simple terms. So, lets work together at that page this weekend, and see if we have a reasonable version by the end of it. We can than continue to work on the sandbox version, and replace whenever here is a substantial better version. ] 14:12, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
::Come over and have alook at the new NatSel page ]. It is still in progress, but I think it is getting shape. Btw, good letter in science! ] 03:38, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

== Natural Selection May 8==

I am concerned with Marcos mucking this up some more, though I think there is an injunction against him now. I will protect the page if necessary - but do not want to do so if there is more work you want to do on it. Please let me know when it is in what you consider a satisfactory state. ] | ] 12:21, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

== Your fans ==

My pleasure. Let me know if you need any help regarding those articles! --''best, kevin'' <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 02:08, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

:Well, actually this is a problem. "Merge and delete" is not a possible closure, because it is incompatible with the GFDL. If any text written by someone else is merged by you (say), then the orignal authorship information has to be preserved and publically excessible. Since deleted edits are hidden to all but administrators, if the original article is deleted there is no way for most people to know who the original author was. I would say you should contact the closing admin and get her to either decide "merge and redirect" or "delete". In the former anyone can do that, she'll have to do it in the later. --''best, kevin'' <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 19:35, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

== New NatSel version ready ==

Pete, I think the new version is close to getting finished. Would you mind to have a look at it and shoot us down? ] ] <sup>]</sup> 15:23, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

== Gone live with new Natural selection version ==

I just copied the newly developed version of the ] page to the main space after it was clear that most editors supported the new version over the current version. ] <sup>]</sup> 20:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

== Congratulations! ==

Guess I have to say congratulations. Furthermore, the article has been reviewd by a bunch of biologists, and generally positive (except you know who). So, take it easy with reading it, it was more to let you know what the latest version was.] <sup>]</sup> 00:38, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

== The operation of Hamilton's Rule in humans ==

Hi Pete

I am writing a paper (for journal submission) on the operation of Hamilton's Rule in humans, and have asked the question below on the HR discussion page. As you seem to be very knowledgeable in this field, I was wondering if you might give your view?

It is unethical to manipulate genetic relatedness in humans. Furthermore, without exception, all studies of HR in humans to this date suffer one common drawback: the evidence is entirely observational, and it is therefore in no case possible to exclude categorically all confounding variables (interaction time, reciprocity etc.), so as to make an unequivocal test of the claim that human altruistic behaviour is modulated by the genetic relatedness, when other factors are held constant.
In the light of this, what would constitue unequiocal evidence for the operation of Hamilton's Rule in humans ? ] 08:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

==Human behavioral ecology==
*Hi Pete. Don't know if you're aware of the ] page. If not, I thought it might interest you. It's pretty skimpy. Maybe you'd be willing to add something to it. ] 21:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

== Bored of being a papa? ==

Hey Pete - Congrats on the new kid! I hope all is going well. If you get bored of being a papa, I thought I would let you know I'm starting to work on ]. I'm toying around with a bunch of things so I'm keeping it in my userspace right now: ]. Feel free to chime in and add stuff there. I think this will be tough to write, but a worthwhile endeavor. Talk to you later! --''best, kevin'' <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 07:01, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

== Kim's RfA ==

There is something to what you say (although the case has not been closed, it is fairly clear it will go against Marcosantezana, and rightfully so). On the other hand, you and I have managed to work on ] with Marcosantezana without having to go to arbitration. Time will tell how well she responds to editors changing ''her'' version of ].

She is not unlike many new PhDs. She has a naive views of things, and full of the arrogance of youth. I went through the same stage, thinking that pop/quant genetics ''ala'' Kempthorne was the only way to look at things. I presume she will calm down a little and realize she doesn't have a monopoly on the truth. Good luck with your research -- I'm doing the same until summer school starts after the 4th of July. ] 16:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

You might want to go back and look at ]. I've made several changes. I had hoped to avoid modifying the introduction, but felt I needed to say something, so that definitely needs a look-see. Unfortunately, I see everything through "agricultural eyes" and not as much through correlation/regression. ] 18:12, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I was hoping you would see, read , and comment on my entries at the bottom of ].
] 18:56, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

== Vandalism ==

Sorry about my edit to the admin vote for KimvdLinde. It was not intentional, my connection dropped while I was editing. ] 22:47, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

== ] ==

I have foolishly tried to start a discussion on ] concerning the definition of ''natural selection''. If you have time, I'd like you to contribute -- or to tell me I'm a complete whack-o. Thanks. ] 17:46, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks! ==

Thanks Pete, I was surprissed how easy it actually wnet. How are you? -- ] <sup>]</sup> 05:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
:And before I forget, thanks for supporting me!
:Yes, I know the stories from the people around me. I know, I will be carefull. I won't be the most sweeping aroun her admin you can imagine, but will do my share in vadal blocking, speedies and afd's. -- ] <sup>]</sup> 06:26, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

==Let us smile==

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| Dear Pete, thanks for your support during my ]. I really appreciate it. Don't worry, we're not depriving ] of a gastroenterologist! Let me know if I can help with anything administrative. Cheers -- ] <small>]</small> 08:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
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==Pinafore==
Quite right; thanks for pointing that out. Tend to consider most of my stuff reasonably inconsequential here, & in tems of that particular article basic & trivial edits, though I agree that does not make them 'minor'...will endeavour to be more careful in what I mark as such ] 19:11, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

== Celtic foot ==

Couldn't find a PubMed citation, but I think you knew that. Strikes me as regurgitation of an OR article once published. Looks like the AfD opinion is likewise. I'd let that process conclude, see what the consensus is, and move from there. I'll voice something on AfD after I read a bit more. Cheers -- ] <small>]</small> 15:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== race science ==

i just forgot about it. i'd still vote for deletion. --] 03:17, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

== Re: Phyllis Jackson ==

In response to
:Well, thanks for your research, Pete! It's been interesting watching this whole thing go on while I've been stuck at home sick. Sorry it seems to have been a waste of your time. - ] 23:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

::Thanks for the offer of papers - I've managed to get hold of one of them (see discussion on the delete page) which I read through and think is not relevent to the article at all. I think I'll give the two "the foot" papers a miss as I think its pretty much established that the article is going to go anyway and besides, Charlesknight has read them (poor sod!) take care ] 11:35, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks for voting in my RfA! ==

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Hi there! Thank you for voting on my recent ], which did not succeed by a vote of 3/14/3. Not to worry, though; I am far from disappointed. The vast majority of the votes, even those in opposition, were quite positive. To be honest, I was not expecting it to succeed, and nominated myself on a ] spur-of-the-moment decision. Apparently, I'm not quite as experienced as I thought I was--I was sure I registered in February rather than April--but never fear! ] said it best: "Besides, you don't need to be a sysop to write good articles." I'll just continue doing what I'm doing, and perhaps I'll see you again in three months' time. -- ] (]) -- 03:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)</div>

== RfA thanks ==

<small>I've got so many of these to do, I'm just on autopilot now...</small>

]

] (] • ]) 21:24, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

== My RfA ==

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]<font color=midnightblue>Hi, I would like to express my gratitude for your participation at my recent ]. The final vote was <b>68/21/3</b> and resulted in me becoming an admin!

For those of you who supported my RfA, I highly appreciate your kind words and your trust in me. For those who opposed - many of you expressed valid concerns regarding my activity here; I will make an effort in addressing them as time goes on while at the same time using my admin tools appropriately. So, ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], etc.! If you need any help, feel free to ].
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<small>PS: I took the company car (pictured left) out for a spin, and well... it's not quite ].</small> --] 23:28, 13 July 2006 (UTC)</font></div>

==Celtic toes again==
Re: Yep, that's Britton, back again. Last week he had some other sock puppets, EnglishStone and LaPiedraInglesa, who were blocked. He continues to try to pester ]. Loads of fun! Thank for pointing out this new sock. - ] 00:42, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
:Re: I'm not really sure. It's obviously a formality, but i just put in a checkuser request to confirm that they are the same person. I know he was in contact with ] for a while, ]; Jesse didn't seem too sympathetic to his predicament, and might have some advice. Let me know if you want me to do anything. - ] 01:00, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

:Its all happening again nooooo!! Seriously though I'll keep my eyes peeled for more sock puppets. BTW there is still some Phyllis Jackson stuff on the ] page - has it been cleared, or was it just missed? ] 09:48, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

::Re: It looks like IrishGuy . (I'd already gone to bed so I didn't get your message until just now. Thanks for putting that together, orphaned or not!) - ] 15:23, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


::Oops! thanks ] 16:21, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

==Sock Central==
Hi, Pete.Hurd - Since I've been dealing with some problem sockpuppets lately, and since there are multiple editors interested in the BrittonLaRoche debacle, I put together a ] that can be used to discuss sock issues. If you want, you can leave messages there - hopefully that'll be a good way for comments/questions/sightings to be seen by everyone involved. - ] 15:38, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

== You're welcome, etc. ==

* No problem
* Well. Although the dissertation has me a bit down. It'll pick up though, I'm sure.
* Its on the list now. I've never dealt with ] before, so I may not be of much help. It wasn't clear what the violation of the sock puppet policy was on first reading. Has he attempted to create a false consensus somewhere?
* How are things with you? --''best, kevin'' <b>]<b>]]<b>]</b> 16:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

== Infoboxes ==
Wiki formatting must be simple, in order to produce a roughly uniform appearance across articles. Infoboxes are fine as long as they are used across the project generally and kept simple and used universally (a good example is the species taxoboxes). However, ] is a '''really bad''' implementation of an infobox, produced by {{user|Bunzil}} (who has less than 100 edits and hasn't even written his own userpage yet), though no doubt with best of intentions. I mean, who really wants to know whether someone is right or left handed? (this is utterly bewildering), let alone including every PhD student in a little box. &mdash; ]|] 20:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

== ] ==
I just took a look at the article and the talk page. I do think that the article would benefit from some more referencing of even those things that seem perfectly obvious, but I didn't see anything that struck me as really problematic. I didn't find anything at ] that doesn't seem to have been resolved sensibly. Can you clarify whether or not there is an ongoing problem? ] 17:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
:Hi Pete, your paragraph that you rewrote is well referenced and should be included. I agree with you that it appears that the deletions that ] made were ]y based on the appropriate deletion of the OR on physics and human height. I'm guessing he'll tire of it, but I've got the page on my watchlist. Cheers -- ] <small>]</small> 05:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

==Psychology Wiki==
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Hi Prof. Hurd,

I noticed that you are are a Professor in Psychology, and thought you might be interested in this project which I am involved in, .

I won't say too much, as I'd like you to judge it for yourself, but you should find that it is different from Misplaced Pages, because approximately 90% of our contributors so far are psychologists, academics, or students and trainees.

Its hosted by a company called ], which was founded by ] and ]. There are Google Ads on the site, but we dont make money from the project, they're just to pay for the bandwidth, storage and technical support that Wikia give us.

Have a look and see what you think

] 02:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

PS I am fairly certain that I also emailed one of your students, Steve, this evening. Its a small world!

== Question concerning RFA ==

Hi, there. Not to sound confrontational, but I have a question about your neutral comment on ]. You say that I have little editorial contributions to articles and less than one thousand mainspace edits, but just for clarification I'd like to ask how the number of mainspace edits one has is a factor in determining whether they are a candidate for sysopping, as I always believed that a sysop's duties are more based on their Misplaced Pages-space edits (as that is usually the general shift when a user is given sysop powers, from what I've observed). Thanks. <font color="DarkGreen">]</font><sup>]</sup> 06:48, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

== ]'s ] ==

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== ] ==

Ha ha ha !!! Those were the funniest diffs I've seen in a while! I'll tell my girlfriend that my receding hairline is due to my evolutionary superiority (and fashion sense...). I'll also keep an eye on our binary friend. Cheers, hope all is well -- ] <small>]</small> 06:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

== Odhiambo Siangla ==

Hi. You may want to comment on ]. ] 17:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

== Goldom's RFA thanks ==

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| Thank you for your support on my ], which closed successfully this morning with a result of (53/2/1). I've spent the day trying out the new tools, and trying not to mess things up too badly :). I was quite thrilled with all the support, both from the people I see around every day, as well as many users who I didn't know from before, yet wrote such wonderful things about me. I look forward to helping to serve all of you, and the project. Let me know if there's anything I can help you with. -] ] ] 04:37, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
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== Hi ==

--] 15:36, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

== Spidey's theme ==

Spidey's theme = Mingus + Brubeck, see ]

Cheers, ] 06:14, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

== comment? ==

Hi Pete Hurd, would you be willing to comment on an RFC? ]. I'll be interested to see if Misplaced Pages can handle this kind of ongoing editorial dispute, as otherwise it seems to me unproductive enough to warrant my leaving the project.--] 20:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

== My RfA, your oppose ==

Hi, Im not here to hound you into changing your vote, rather I would like to hear any specific comments you have about my comments on ''Polls are evil'' and why you feel I am wrong. I am worried I havn't explained my opinion fully or listened to the other points of view and would be grateful if you could help. I have invited other users to take part in this discussiom on my RfA talk page and would be delighted if you can join in. Thanks --'''Errant''' <small>]<sup>(])</sup>(])</small> 21:18, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

==Scientific notability guideline==
Hey, I noticed that we have notability guidelines on everything from ] to ], but none on scientific concepts, theories, and terms. I started putting some intitial ideas together at ] and am looking for contributions and feedback now. If this essay can gather some steam we could move it into the WP space and make it an active proposal. There are lots of particulars in debates about scientific topics such as peer-review, citations, impact factor, etc., that editors should be made aware of before they offer an opinion based on the "Google test", and I think it would be a good way to collect all of this in one spot. Let me know if you're interested. Cheers, ] 10:31, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

==Game Theory Wiki==

I left a message at the Game theory Wikiproject that may be of interest to you: ]. ] 23:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

== Re Mikhail Lebedev deletion. ==

It's funny that you mention that. I had noticed that too in the contributions category. It would seem extremely odd that someone would propose to have an article deleted and then become it's biggest champion for retention, even to point to putting all else aside. I'll post my comments on that page soon. Take care and thanks for the message. --] 19:29, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

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