User talk:Efficacious

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Hi Efficacious. Just to let you know, the reasons you cited for deletion may well be valid reasons, but they are excluded from deletion of the "speedy" variety. See WP:NOTCSD. Thanks, Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 20:58, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paul. Thought that looked too easy. I missed the *Non*-criteria in WP:NOTCSD. :) Efficacious (talk) 23:35, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2010

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Hai. Thank you. Halo, Please make sure you read the guidelines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons before you make any changes to the page. Thanks Ldp linux (talk) 20:23, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Response at User_talk:Ldp_linux. Efficacious (talk) 22:20, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, articles should not be moved, as you did to Ching Hai, without good reason. They need to have a name that is both accurate and intuitive. We have some guidelines in place to help with this. Generally, a page should only be moved to a new title if the current name doesn't follow these guidelines. Also, if a page move is being discussed, consensus needs to be reached before anybody moves the page. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Hi Efficacious, I highly admire the work that you are involved in expanding our community-based Wikipedia. But I strongly urge you to take caution in relying solely on the poorly sourced article that lack original research before making any changes. And please do keep in mind that we are writing about a living person who is truly dedicated to the cause of the humanity! Thanks! Ldp linux (talk) 05:45, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well there's really no answer to that gibberish. Efficacious (talk) 05:51, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy there!

Hello! I've noticed your contributions to the Supreme Master Ching Hai page. Thanks for correcting my inaccuracies, it's hard to be 100% accurate and unbiased sometimes haha. Anyways, I was just wondering... Are you affiliated with Ching Hai in any way? I'm just curious a little because I've noticed your uncannily large amount of contributions to the article. Happypatatoes (talk) 04:03, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, just got interested based on media hype and the previously significant bias and inaccuracies in the article. Efficacious (talk) 06:10, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Patenting of the telephone

Hi Efficacious: two of your edits to Invention of the telephone needed to be reverted due to inaccuracies. In one of your edits, you wrote:

"The modern telephone is the culmination of work done by many individuals. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to successfully patent the telephone, an "apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically"."

Kindly note that a patent caveat is not a patent application. The statement that Bell was the 'first to patent the telephone' is indeed correct and completely factual, as there can only be one 'first' in a patent process. Additionally, there are no other known inventors who 'unsuccessfully' tried to patent the telephone –i.e. they filed a patent application for a telephone that was rejected by a patent office prior to Bell's application in February 1976. Adding the word 'successfully' to the article will thus distort the paragraph and leave it open to misinterpretation.

In the other reverted edit, you mentioned a myth long promoted by Antonio Meucci supporters, that he lacked the funds to renew his patent caveat. That falsehood was previously removed from the Meucci article for several reasons. Meucci supporters can't claim poverty when testimony clearly shows that Meucci was funded with $20 by his backers to obtain a patent, but he instead chose to spend only $10 of it for a patent caveat instead of spending $15 for a full patent application (not the $250 claimed by numerous supporters). During the period from when Meucci filed his teletrofono patent caveat, up to when Bell received his telephone patent, Meucci also filed four more patent applications plus one additional patent caveat application ––its hard for his supporters to claim he couldn't spend $15 on that patent application when he actually spent at a minimum $150 on other patents. For more information on this, see the talk section: Antonio Meucci –Expense of the patent as a reason for not obtaining it. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 15:20, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Turducken

My edit shouldn't be considered vandalism since it was sourced: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3baqyANDM3A

71.22.151.202 (talk) 04:15, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They weren't referenced and there was mini vandalism in the addition; now corrected. Efficacious (talk) 07:19, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

January 2011

Hi there and happy new year to you. I understand you wanted to further discuss the changes for Ching Hai page, specifically the section on western press. can you please elaborate what aspect of the change caused you to view it as notable and relevant, but it however caused you to revert it, preferring to discuss it on your talk page. thanks in advance! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.174.114.174 (talk) 22:55, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thor

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