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:HELLO friends. Warm welcome. Please use my talk page to inform me about any posts that you may want me to see, just keep the issues where they belong. I try to be as clear and concise as possible on all issues, and am trying to familiarize myself with WP:CIVIL and other Wiki policies and guidelines. I also want to keep focus only on building a good encyclopedia.

The thing I have learned on Wikipedia is that your peace of mind is more important than....whatever. Take it easy..... and you can enjoy.

The electricity supply in my area is rather erratic. Please excuse if I unexpectedly disappear from some activities in which I am involved.

I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons.

–Jimmy Wales ^[1]^[2]^[3]

Jimmy Wales (2006-05-16). ""Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information"". WikiEN-l electronic mailing list archive. Retrieved 2006-06-11.

In Thought du Jour Harold Geneen has stated:^[4]

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The lesser violetear (Colibri cyanotus) is a medium-sized, metallic-green species hummingbird commonly found from Costa Rica south to the Andes and Argentina and east to Venezuela. It commonly inhabits the canopy and borders of subtropical and lower temperate forest, secondary woodland and scrub, and clearings and gardens. It is recorded mostly between altitudes of 1,500 and 3,000 metres (4,900 and 9,800 ft), although it is sometimes found down to 900 metres (3,000 ft). The lesser violetear is a medium-sized hummingbird with an average length around 9.7 to 12 centimetres (3.8 to 4.7 in) and a body mass of 4.8 to 5.6 grams (0.17 to 0.20 oz). Its bill is black and mostly straight with only a slight downward curve. This lesser violetear of the subspecies C. c. cabanidis was photographed in the Mount Totumas cloud forest in Chiriquí Province, Panama.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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^ Jimmy Wales (2006-05-16). ""Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information"". WikiEN-l electronic mailing list archive. Retrieved 2006-06-11.
^ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046732.html
^ Wales, Jimbo. "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales at wikia.com Mon Dec 6 18:35:38 UTC 2004". Retrieved 2011-02-22. Delirium wrote: Well, I'd expand the ban on "original research" slightly further than just that. An article that makes no new low-level claims, but nonethless synthesizes work in a non-standard way, is effectively original research that I think we ought not to publish. This comes up most often in history, where there is a tendency by some Wikipedians to produce novel narratives and historical interpretations with citation to primary sources to back up their interpretation of events. Even if their citations are accurate, Wikipedia's poorly equipped to judge whether their particular synthesis of the available information is a reasonable one. [Jimbo Wales writes] I agree completely. I think in part this is just a symptom of an unfortunate tendency of disrespect for history as a professional discipline. Some who completely understand why Wikipedia ought not create novel theories of physics by citing the results of experiments and so on and synthesizing them into something new, may fail to see how the same thing applies to history. --Jimbo
^ Harold Geneen in his "Thought du Jour", cited by Michael Kesterton in The Globe and Mail on February 20, 2006 at page A14 in the Section of Social Studies, sub-section A daily miscellany of information.
^ "Manned Space Chronology: Apollo_11". spaceline.org. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
^ "Apollo Anniversary: Moon Landing "Inspired World"". nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved 2008-02-06.

[1] Jimmy Wales (2006-05-16). ""Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information"". WikiEN-l electronic mailing list archive. Retrieved 2006-06-11.

[2] ttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046732.html

[3] Wales, Jimbo. "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales at wikia.com Mon Dec 6 18:35:38 UTC 2004". Retrieved 2011-02-22. Delirium wrote: Well, I'd expand the ban on "original research" slightly further than just that. An article that makes no new low-level claims, but nonethless synthesizes work in a non-standard way, is effectively original research that I think we ought not to publish. This comes up most often in history, where there is a tendency by some Wikipedians to produce novel narratives and historical interpretations with citation to primary sources to back up their interpretation of events. Even if their citations are accurate, Wikipedia's poorly equipped to judge whether their particular synthesis of the available information is a reasonable one. [Jimbo Wales writes] I agree completely. I think in part this is just a symptom of an unfortunate tendency of disrespect for history as a professional discipline. Some who completely understand why Wikipedia ought not create novel theories of physics by citing the results of experiments and so on and synthesizing them into something new, may fail to see how the same thing applies to history. --Jimbo

[long-4] Harold Geneen in his "Thought du Jour", cited by Michael Kesterton in The Globe and Mail on February 20, 2006 at page A14 in the Section of Social Studies, sub-section A daily miscellany of information.

[5] "Manned Space Chronology: Apollo_11". spaceline.org. Retrieved 2008-02-06.

[6] "Apollo Anniversary: Moon Landing "Inspired World"". nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved 2008-02-06.

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