User talk:DASonnenfeld/Archive 2

Ecological modernization

Hi. I was impressed by your contributions to that article, which is well referenced and informative. I thought perhaps Peter Dickens' work should appear in the Criticism section? What do you think? Itsmejudith (talk) 22:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Sociology Newsletter: III (December 2010)

Sociology Project • News • December 2010
Spreading the meme since August 2006
The Sociology WikiProject third newsletter is out! According to our April mini-census, we have 15 active members, 6 semi-active ones and 45 inactive. Out of those, 4 active, 3 semi-active and 1 inactive members have added themselves to corresponding categories since the mini-census. The next one is planned, roughly, for sometime next year. The membership list has been kept since 2004. On that note, nobody has ever studied WikiProjects from the sociological perspective... if you are interesting in researching Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Research and wiki-research-l listerv. Moving from research to teaching, did you know that many teachers and instructors are teaching classes with Wikipedia? This idea is getting support from the Wikimedia Foundation, and some really useful tools have been created recently. I have experience with that, having taught several undergad classes, so feel free to ask me questions on that! And as long as I am talking about professional issues, if any of you is going to any sociological conferences, do post that to our project - perhaps other members are going there too? In other news: the a automated to do listing reported in the April issue went down shortly afterwards, but seems to be on the path to reactivation. We still have an active tag and assess project, and comparing the numbers to the April report, we have identified about 350 more sociology-related articles (from 1,800 to 2,150) and assessed about 100 (from 1,300 to 1,400). We now have a listing of most popular sociology-related pages. It is updated on the 1st of every month, starting with August, and reports which of our sociology-tagged articles are most frequently read. Of course, GIGO holds true, so after looking at it right now and trying to determine what is our most popular article, my first action was to shake my head and remove Criminal Minds (which, perhaps not too surprisingly, outranks all sociology articles in period tested). Second item I noticed it this month's Industrial Revolution, beating Criminal Minds, that moved from close to 30th position in August/September, to 9th in October and 2nd in November. If you'd like to discuss this or any other trends, please visit WT:SOCIOLOGY! Finally, with the reactivation of Article Alerts, we are getting our own here. Bookmark that page so you can keep track of sociology related deletion debates, move debates, good and feature article discussions, and more. Our first task force (Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force) was created (1 June 2010). If you have basic or better graphic skills, our projects needs a dedicated barnstar (award) (currently the closest we can get is the Society Barnstar. As always, I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions.
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Re: categories

Hey, DA! Good to see you around again. I'm afraid I can't be of much help when it comes to categories; I can't say I understand them fully, or even really bother with them much. I would have suggested you submit a move request, but it seems like Nconwaymicelli has already done so. However, there is an oppose on the name-change ("The original title matches the article. This does not meet the Speedy criteria"), so a different type of request may need to be entered. I agree with your general premise, but like I said, when it comes to categories I remain willfully ignorant. :) If you start a formal request -- in which people weigh in, supporting/opposing and giving rationale -- then let me know. I'd gladly weigh in. María (habla conmigo) 12:35, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

This matter resolved, thanks. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 21:37, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Aw, not this silliness again, surely? Well, when it happened before, I didn't actually "freeze" anything -- I'm not an administrator, so I can't lock down articles and/or chastise other editors by blocking them when they done wrong. Rather, previously I asked an admin friend to take a look; she ended up locking the article down for a week, so discussions could take place, although mainly I believe it just chased the IPs off for a while. The locking was in direct response to multiple, unexplained reverts and nonsense additions from a party of anonymous IPs, who refused to discuss the article at large and instead engage in an edit war. If you think the "new" IPs' edits are inappropriate, attempt to alter and/or remove them -- with explanation on the talk page (which I see you've been doing) and also the IPs' talk pages where appropriate. If they continue, you can ask for an admin's guidance at the edit warring notice board. However, they won't simply lock the page down because someone is adding stuff we don't approve of, no matter how blatant their original research by synthesis happens to be. The admins need to establish that dispute resolution has already been attempted, and that real damage continues to be done. I'll keep my eye on the page, as I admittedly haven't done in a while, in case you need more help sifting through the cruft. María (habla conmigo) 13:20, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

The Wagner article is in need of some help

We're in a bit of a pickle in the Wagner discussion page. The issues concerns Social class (sociology) and the phrase supposedly common Germanic past and has now been dismissed by some editors as inconsequential.

At the end of the Wagner discussion page (under Edit War solution topic) there issome suggested courses of action that I was requested to list, from my point of view. Please help. Just take fast look. Thank you

• In his own era he furthermore provided the newly emerged middle class with a medium to transfer its familial and political conflicts into a myth of supposedly common Germanic past.

(In the introduction, removed as non consequential)

• Richard Wagner was born into a lower middle class family

(In the Biography chapter removed as non consequential)

User:Major Torp (talk) 15:20, 7  November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Torp, Sorry, I don't have anything to contribute to this discussion. It does seem rather a pickle... DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 22:11, 7 November 2011 (UTC)