User contributions for Vfrickey
A user with 3,570 edits. Account created on 11 December 2003.
19 June 2020
- 14:5214:52, 19 June 2020 diff hist +1,535 Compressed natural gas →Drawbacks: Reference edited with ProveIt added the Environmental Defense Fund's assessment that methane as a motor fuel significantly adds to climate change both through exhaust emissions and because unburned methane from leaks in its production and distribution system is "more than 100 times more potent at trapping energy than carbon dioxide (CO2)", Tag: ProveIt edit
16 June 2020
- 19:3919:39, 16 June 2020 diff hist +626 Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Crozier is recommended to be reinstated: mentioned Crozier's rights to a disciplinary hearing in this incident, and some of the issues that are likely not to be disclosed to the public at this time.
- 19:2519:25, 16 June 2020 diff hist +186 Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Opinion removed from timeline: extended my remarks on the possibly advisory nature of a request (under a P4 heading) that a communication be treated as being of a personal nature.
- 19:1119:11, 16 June 2020 diff hist +2 m Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Conferred with chain of command: corrected error "Modly's" to "Crozier's"
- 19:0719:07, 16 June 2020 diff hist 0 m Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Conferred with chain of command: corrected typo "pf" ----> "of"
- 19:0419:04, 16 June 2020 diff hist +1,893 Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Conferred with chain of command: explained the principle of unity of command and its possible application in this incident.
- 17:2017:20, 16 June 2020 diff hist +828 Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Under "Timeline, April, Changed "However, this is not true" to "However, this account was disputed by writers for the Washington Post: noted that the whole last sentence needs major rework to be WP:DUE
- 16:5616:56, 16 June 2020 diff hist −1 m Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Opinion removed from timeline: fixed bad link to Washington Post article
- 16:5316:53, 16 June 2020 diff hist +2,344 Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Opinion removed from timeline: quoted a Washington Post article used elsewhere in our article which covers the controversial nature of Captain Crozier's email from several perspectives
- 16:2916:29, 16 June 2020 diff hist −370 Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Under "Timeline, April, Changed "However, this is not true" to "However, this account was disputed by writers for the Washington Post: changed HTML to show what ars technica is quoting as their secondary source.
- 16:1916:19, 16 June 2020 diff hist +2,805 Talk:COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →Under "Timeline, April, Changed "However, this is not true" to "However, this account was disputed by writers for the Washington Post: new section
- 15:3315:33, 16 June 2020 diff hist +46 COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt →April: Resolved a WP:NPOV issue by changing "However, this is not true" to "However, this account was disputed by writers for the Washington Post", removing wikivoice from an editorial controversy over whether Captain Crozier had leaked a dispute between himself and his superiors over disposition of infected sailors outside of US Navy official channels. We can say "this is disputed by writers from the Washington Post". We can't take their side in that controversy with the US Navy.
6 June 2020
- 12:3012:30, 6 June 2020 diff hist +296 User talk:Vfrickey →Forecasting nuclear proliferation: Noted that I've commented on [User:DavidMCEddy|DavidMCEddy]]'s slide presentation.
- 03:4803:48, 6 June 2020 diff hist +455 User talk:Vfrickey →Forecasting nuclear proliferation: Thanked DavidMCEddy and stated source of my information for my local time zone as Windows settings downloaded from Microsoft.
- 02:5302:53, 6 June 2020 diff hist +615 User talk:Vfrickey →Forecasting nuclear proliferation: Answered Mr. McEddy, agreeing to review his work, subject to caveats regarding my amateur standing as a researcher in nuclear proliferation.
31 May 2020
- 06:2406:24, 31 May 2020 diff hist +83 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →Heart-shaped areolas: Signed my last contribution to the thread.
- 06:1906:19, 31 May 2020 diff hist +631 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →Heart-shaped areolas: revising and extending my comments in light of the Web site linked to by User:Lambiam and referring OP to our article Body Modification
- 05:5205:52, 31 May 2020 diff hist +659 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →Heart-shaped areolas: observed that surgical remodelling of existing aureolae to re-contour them to heart-shaped would involve noticeable scarring, and speculating on the possibility of bleaching the aureolae or laser ablation to leave only a heart-shaped residuum.
30 May 2020
- 20:4320:43, 30 May 2020 diff hist +591 Talk:The Ginger Man →Where's the "Plot" Section?: new section
- 19:0719:07, 30 May 2020 diff hist +629 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →Flag of Louisiana: Thanked <span style="color:#009">Jayron</span> for the info regarding Tulane University's actual mascot (someone wearing a pelican suit)
28 May 2020
- 00:2800:28, 28 May 2020 diff hist −1 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →Flag of Louisiana: fixed broken link to Tulane University's athletic program Web page.
- 00:2200:22, 28 May 2020 diff hist +338 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →Flag of Louisiana: Noted that Tulane's athletic programs have gone back from a pelican to the traditional "Angry Green Wave" as a mascot.
- 00:0600:06, 28 May 2020 diff hist +205 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →Flag of Louisiana: contributed that the Eastern Brown Pelican is Louisiana's state bird
25 May 2020
- 01:5801:58, 25 May 2020 diff hist +446 Talk:The Foundation for a Better Life Pointed out the lack of WP:VERIFIABLE sources for a wall of text speculating about the evil motives behind this foundation's ads. Reiminded prople what WP:BLP says about that.
23 May 2020
- 01:2801:28, 23 May 2020 diff hist +1,286 Talk:Fluorodeoxyglucose (18F) →Avoidance of contact: Compared the unsourced statement "In practice, patients who have been injected with 18F-FDG are told to avoid the close vicinity of especially radiation-sensitive persons such as infants, children and pregnant women, for at least 12 hours (7 half-lives, or decay to 1/128th the initial radioactive dose)." with an FDA-approved and medically-reviewed statement in Drugs.com which makes no such statements about isolating F-18 FDG patients for 12 hours.
20 May 2020
- 06:4806:48, 20 May 2020 diff hist 0 m Tricresyl phosphate →Metabolims: changed section heading to the correct spelling "Metabolism"
12 May 2020
- 01:5601:56, 12 May 2020 diff hist −30 m Human torpedo →After 1945: fixed my bad link to that article's URL
- 01:5401:54, 12 May 2020 diff hist +60 m Human torpedo →After 1945: added URL to our article on the CE3F swimmer vehicle and placed references to it in this article in the past tense.
1 May 2020
- 03:2703:27, 1 May 2020 diff hist +467 Talk:Mikhail Blagosklonny Mentioned that the ''Retraction Watch'' article information belongs in the section "Editorial activities" of our article, where it lends depth and perspective to what's said there..
- 03:1003:10, 1 May 2020 diff hist −480 Mikhail Blagosklonny Removed part of my last edit citing a Retraction Watch article; on reflection, WP:BLP compels us to be sure statements about living persons are not WP:UNDUE.
- 02:5002:50, 1 May 2020 diff hist +808 Mikhail Blagosklonny →Career: Retraction Watch and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center cited to clarify Blagosklonny's relationship with Roswell Park.
- 02:3902:39, 1 May 2020 diff hist +191 Talk:Mikhail Blagosklonny Thanked Nomoskedasticity for their help in determining if the Retraction Watch article was usable as WP:RS in this article.
30 April 2020
- 10:5110:51, 30 April 2020 diff hist +786 Talk:Mikhail Blagosklonny →RS on BLP page: mentioned an article in <i>Retraction Watch</i> mentioning Mikhail Blagoskonny, some of his activities, and his current tenure (or lack thereof) with Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Given WP:BLP. I've asked other editors for their views on the weight to place on the <i>Retraction Watch</i> article before citing it.
28 April 2020
- 21:2921:29, 28 April 2020 diff hist +348 Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents →Edit warring by JzG: addressed the disproportionate nature of the proposed sanction on the OP, for acts which aren't just tangential to the issue at hand, they're entirely unrelated.
21 April 2020
- 01:0701:07, 21 April 2020 diff hist +379 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →how do i find email address of the owner for netflix , i need too send an personnal email: suggested Tweeting a public complaint to the company's Twitter site.
- 01:0201:02, 21 April 2020 diff hist +38 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →how do i find email address of the owner for netflix , i need too send an personnal email: changed "political activism" to the more specific term "boycott"
- 00:5900:59, 21 April 2020 diff hist +884 Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous →how do i find email address of the owner for netflix , i need too send an personnal email: answered OP's question by referring to the vast isolation of CEOs from the Email stream from dissatisfied customers.
19 April 2020
- 19:3719:37, 19 April 2020 diff hist −12 m Talk:Joe Biden/GA3 added indent to last line, corrected typos.
- 19:0719:07, 19 April 2020 diff hist +1,815 Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard →NPOV in possibly contentious labels, X vs far-X etc: answered Mr X re: the idea that there's an objective standard by which we can determine what is "far-right" or "far-left"
- 18:1618:16, 19 April 2020 diff hist +1,169 Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard →Joe Biden: Asked "How is this not canvassing?" and noted several WP:NPOV issues with the article Joe Biden as it stands.
- 17:3317:33, 19 April 2020 diff hist +13 m Talk:Joe Biden/GA3 →GA Reassessment: added indent
- 17:3117:31, 19 April 2020 diff hist +760 Talk:Joe Biden/GA3 →GA Reassessment: Voted "Remove GA", stated why.
- 17:1817:18, 19 April 2020 diff hist +772 Talk:Joe Biden →Discussion.: voted yes, to report Tara Reade's allegations in every bit as much detail as Christine Blasey Ford's accusations were reported in Brett Kavanaugh.
- 17:0517:05, 19 April 2020 diff hist +211 Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard →NPOV in possibly contentious labels, X vs far-X etc: Asked Guy who "Jones" is, why is Jones a WP:RS, and to what "crazy shit" he's refrerring.
- 16:5716:57, 19 April 2020 diff hist +1,321 Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard →"China virus" and "Wuhan virus": gave my opinion on the issue
- 16:3016:30, 19 April 2020 diff hist +648 Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard →NPOV in possibly contentious labels, X vs far-X etc: voiced SUPPORT, stated why. Asked Guy to stop violating WP:WIAPA
- 16:0616:06, 19 April 2020 diff hist +820 Talk:Leronlimab →Too Many Primary Sources Cited for PRO 140, WP:PROMO and WP:PRIMARY Issues: new section
18 April 2020
- 01:1601:16, 18 April 2020 diff hist −139 m Talk:List of American spies →"Post-Cold War spies - Spied on Iran for America" - WP:BLP Issues: clarified my explanation for leaving Shahram Amiri on the list.
- 01:1201:12, 18 April 2020 diff hist −83 List of American spies →Spied on Iran for America: Removed all but one member of that list because Iran's accusations of espionage weren't widely regarded to be substantiated, so these people are entitled to protection under WP:BLP
- 01:0901:09, 18 April 2020 diff hist +2,972 Talk:List of American spies →"Post-Cold War spies - Spied on Iran for America" - WP:BLP Issues: new section
