User talk:A Doon
Microreactors Hi A Doon I have a design for a microreactor that may be of interest to you for commercial exploitation. If you are interested, please leave your contact details: if not, I will post the design of the reactor on the microreactor page for your scrutiny but this, of course, will create prior art.
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Transactional Analysis[edit]
Hey there! I'm just trying to clarify Transactional analysis, as you suggested. However, it's generally best to either (ideally) make chages yourself, or if you're not able to, to make the point on the article talk page: in this case Talk:Transactional analysis. Otherwise we end up with conversations in the articles, which doesn't look like an encyclopedia. The Land 16:02, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
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Do not edit other people's comments, even for grammar. It is aggressively frowned upon. — goethean ॐ 22:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hello ADoon[edit]
goethan need not make such comments. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 this last one is important because goethan reverted out the work of A. H. Armstrong a PRE EMINENT scholar and famed translator of Plotinus note- for Harvard. goethan refers to A H Armstrong's quotes as "incoherent". goethan started a revert war to force original research onto Plotinus. If you wish to stop him from stalking your edits (yes he did this to me) please report him to user:MONGO. Also checkout this example of goethan's act of good faith tisk. goethan reverted my contributions from Plotinus and refused to even listen to reason. All the while not once himself quoting or confirming a single neoplatonic source. Look at the article where he reverted out the completely verifiable statement "Plotinus never mentions christians in any of his works". Which was really the truth the whole time, he and his buddies where insistent on stating otherwise. Good luck -report him. LoveMonkey 04:58, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- FYI...A. H. Armstrong died in 1997. It was your work that I reverted. — goethean ॐ 14:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Non-sense I posted his introduction to Ennead 2 tract 9. You goethan reverted it as incoherent and then as unsourced. Word for word. Note that Zeusnooes told you what it was. How many more people have to point this out to you? Do you really know anything about Neoplatonicism goethan or are just another browbeater supporting others original research which supports your agenda? No I can't say I expect you to do anything but dodge and ridicule not answer up to the obvious truth. LoveMonkey 16:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
As for you ADOON good luck not everyone here on wikipedia is like goethan. You now have a way to keep his rule quoting and then rule breaking hypocritical behaviour in check. God bless welcome and Good luck. Happy editing! LoveMonkey 16:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
goethean is a blight on the land with his agenda and hypocrisy in his edits on political article Peter Roskam and Tammy Duckworth. Try and try and Goethean and his buddies have bullied their agenda, irrespective of any opinions rule or logic. Their way or high way. Take a look on the discussions page for Roskam and Duckworth and see. This person is almost single handedly, is destroying Wikipedia.
Consider this, do you thing for, one moment, that the subjects of Goethean's and friends fine editing, unhappy with lack of NPOV and won't try to get the law change and have wikipedia shut down or at the very lest launch a legal action?
Goethean and friends are playing fast and lose with the rules and some very powerful people may not like the unfair treatment and these people may have the ways and means to stop it. This is just my humble observation with Wikipedia and my dealings with the hard working Goethean that he and his friends care little except for their agenda.207.67.145.250 21:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
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So I make one revert on an edit of yours, and you post a personal rant on my talk page? I see you never wasted time posting to Talk:Eskimo words for snow to discuss the article.
BTW, digging around for a user's physical name is a high offense on Wikimedia. I'm Prosfilaes, and I would appreciate you addressing me as such.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:16, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
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- "JalenFolf" - I added a single word: "propagandist" - to an article about what is almost inarguably one of the most significant pieces of propaganda the North Korean regime has ever produced. So, please, feel free to explain why that "wasn't constructive". (Or who you are.) Meantime, I'm reverting it back in -- it IS clear propaganda (I mean, seriously?) - so your reversion -- unexplained other than "it did not appear constructive" -- feels just a *wee* bit odd. (Especially in a WP article that reeks of bias, intention, and ulterior motives -- but I AM not (and DID not) hang my hat on that. I just put a word in - and it's not unreasonable, let along "not constructive". We're talking North Korea, here -- "propagandist" is hardly a stretch.) A Doon (talk) 22:01, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
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