User talk:Tarcieri

Singularity Rewrite

While much of your re-write is very well done, I have to ask who you're writing for.

Yes, much of the opening was general and then moved in to refine it's concepts. From general, to specific. This was done for a reason. Wikipedia is meant to be general reference and educational tool.

Does your re-write make perfect sense to a colleague who shares your views? Yes, it does - and it's handy that you both have a concise formation of your idea to fall back on.

Does your re-write make perfect sense to a high-school freshman? Did the article do so before? If the answers are 'No', and 'Yes' - then your edit is failure.

Correctness and clarity are crucial to Wikipedia. So is accessibility by all target audiences. - Beowulf314159 12:38, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

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Well done!

Congratulations for your work on the Kurt Cobain article! --Greedy 23:09, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on the Kurt Cobain article

I think together we did a good job cleaning up the Addiction and Death section and boiling it down to citeable facts. Tarcieri 00:53, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it looks great! I have to admit, I spent a lot of time on the dispute and after death sections, and hadn't really paid much attention to the timeline leading up to his death, which is easily one of the more significant elements of the article. Many thanks!! -- ChrisB 05:22, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Shadows of the Mind

Wow! I was wondering if this book was read by enough people for someone to get around to writing an article about it. I have had it on my user page for some time now as an article to write when I was feeling inspired, but you have beaten me to it. I am curious as to what your thoughts on the book are (assuming you have read it). Remy B 08:24, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I have yet to see a logically solid argument to refute Penrose's core "does not terminate" diagonal-slash argument, although not without want of trying. I really want to be able to read an argument to refute the idea of a non-computational-mind (if it is actually true in the end) that strikes me as valid and without gaps or vagueitys (sp?) like Penrose's argument did. I just read over the first rebuttal link you added to the article and was fairly unimpressed. The "Extra Hints" part seemed flawed, perhaps even circular reasoning, although I would have to be careful to word my explanation correctly because it is notoriously easy to convey the wrong message with this sort of thing. I have read Consciousness Explained and while I agree with a lot of it, it didnt argue the computational point as rigorously as Penrose did in Shadows of the Mind. The thing I found most frustrating about Consciousness Explained was that at the end I didnt really feel that consciousness was explained, rather than discussed. Daniel Dennett is a great writer though, I am currently reading his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea. I may try to describe my reservations about that "Extra Hints" concept some time. Remy B 09:03, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

CTMU

Thanks for your comment at the AfD. You might want to left-justify and attach a bold recommendation (e.g. Keep or Delete), as is customary—I'd hate to see your input overlooked! Tim Smith 04:11, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, the article was deleted. You might want to add your opinion to the deletion review. Tim Smith 04:39, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

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List of famous people responsible for a death

Since you seem to be the major ocntributor to this article, could I just say that it was not one of your better ideas. Sorry. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to have an article like this without problems. Since there is no encyclopaedic topic "famous people responsible for a death", a list in support of that concept is in any case likely to be deleted as arbitrary, but in this case the inclusion of names without context is positively inviting trouble. I'm sure that was not what you had in mind. Sorry about the wasted effort, but I'm afraid that opinion seems to be pretty firmly opposed to the idea of this list. Cheers, Guy (Help!) 14:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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Proposed move of Novelty theory to Timewave zero

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Comparison of Colorado ski resorts

I wanted to complement you on this article. It looks great. I'd like to help out; out of curiosity, where are you getting your source info? Shadowjams (talk) 04:38, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm just taking it verbatim from the infoboxes on the pages from each of the linked resorts. If you spot any errors or inaccuracies feel free to correct them Tarcieri (talk) 04:39, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

November 2010

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Jimmy Wales. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write practically anything you want. Please don't do that. Jimbo Wales (talk) 06:39, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

The pic was a copyvio as well, please don't upload those in general. Thanks. Killiondude (talk) 06:46, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

A little joke edit every now and then never hurt nobody :) Tarcieri (talk) 06:51, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

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Parralox

Hi Tarcieri. I'm afraid that I deleted Parralox, as it was exactly the same as the version that was deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Parralox. There needs to be some evidence that the concerns raised at that discussion have been addressed before Parralox can have an article. Namely, you need to show that Parralox passes one of the criteria at WP:BAND. If you want, I can move the deleted article to your userspace so that you can work on it; if you are satisfied that you have addressed the concerns in the deletion discussion then you can ask me and I'll take a look at it. Let me know if you have any questions about any of this. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 10:19, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Guilty until proven innocent, with a mandatory death sentence, huh? Do you guys ever stop to consider why participation in Wikipedia is declining? I used to use Wikipedia as my #1 go to source about music, but I guess I will use Last.fm from now on, because they actually bother to document bands I care about. Tarcieri (talk) 05:27, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

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