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Peak oil edit

Hi Environment2100, thanks for the addition to Peak oil. A few of us are working on the page at the moment, to source out the entire article. Do you happen to have any source that discusses the issue you mentioned? If so, that would help us improve the article. Thanks, Plinkit (talk) 20:36, 23 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

The paragraph we're discussing is about what would happen if the price of oil shot up like it did in the 1970's. This might have a huge impact on the economy in a lot of different ways. If a country wanted to lessen the effect of this "price shock", what could it do? Well, if it has taxes which also raise the price of oil, it is a FACT that the taxes could be lowered. Now, I AGREE with you that it would be very painful for a government to lower the taxes, because they have probably reached a point where they count on that money in their annual budgets. But, someone put those statements there, and as far as I can tell they are FACTUALLY correct. If you have a way to argue that the facts as I laid out in the disscussion section are not accurate, please say so. However, I believe that the last version was a good compromise between what you are trying to say and what I am trying to say. I put your claim in the last version incase you didn't notice. I have tried compromising with you at least three times already, so please read carefully what I wrote on both the article and the talk page, and see if you can help me understand what you think is wrong with the statements. So far you are arguing that you want it to say what it already says. [GW]24.225.185.179 (talk) 07:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
I'm sorry Environment2100, but you are mistakenon the other hand goverment must compromise between the people who provide the material an the user. I showed two seperate articles that show there is discussion about lowering oil taxes even before the very high oil prices of the past two years. That prooves that some people in European governments believe it is an option (otherwise how could there be a discussion). The version I have proposed states both sides of the story, as Wikipedia demands.
As far as sources go, you have given several sources in French, which would be great for the French Wiki site, but you have to at least try to find English versions if you want to use them here. Also, this is very Franco-centric of you, as I happen to know of several other countries in Europe.
How can you argue that taxes can never go down? I cited three articles about European countries cutting taxes in the past few years. Cutting taxes seems to be getting popular, and if oil prices rise even more, the other article I mentioned (as well as the whole section this is coming from) show how damaging this can be to a country's economy unless there is a way to bring prices down. Believe me, if oil keeps going up the way it has been doing, European countries will be looking for a way to offset the pain of those prices on their people and industries, and one of those ways is indeed and UNDENIABLY lowering gas taxes. If you can find a source that contradicts anything I just said, please provide it.
Your arguments so far have been that "this is wrong", and "the French government hasn't done it, so it will never happen." These are not acceptable arguments, and if you do not have a source which supports your possition explicitly by tomorrow I will put the statements back in (with the new sources that I have already stated above). It will still represent your position, so I don't see what problem you can possibly have with the statements. If you remove the statements I will ask an administrator to look this over and consider your unconstructive edits.[GW]24.225.185.179 (talk) 05:57, 14 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

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December 2007 edit

  You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Predicting the timing of peak oil. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Jauerback (talk) 19:39, 18 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Good points edit

You make 5 extremely good points at Talk:Oil price increases since 2003‎. Thank you. NJGW (talk) 15:35, 9 January 2008 (UTC)Reply


1980s oil glut edit

Hi Environnement2100. I replaced EIA nominal graph and chronology on the 1980s oil glut with one with The Real and Nominal price of oil from 1971 to 2007. I just added link to 1980-1989_world_oil_market_chronology . (Halgin (talk) 02:45, 17 January 2008 (UTC)).Reply

I have not problem with having a time line or chronology in the article. (Halgin (talk) 00:22, 18 January 2008 (UTC))Reply

Predicting the timing of peak oil edit

The section you are restoring is not about the content of the page but about your assumption of my motives. The article talk page is for what words should be used in the article, not about what I did or didn't do and why. Discuss my actions on my talk page. Wikipedia:Talk#how_to_use_article_talk_pages:

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Further unconstructive edits will be considered disruptive and vandalism. NJGW (talk) 15:50, 27 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

You are correct: "Never edit someone's words to change their meaning." Well, I didn't edit your words, I only moved them to the appropriate forum. There is a big difference between moving and editing. As you can see above: Irrelevant discussions are subject to removal. NJGW (talk) 16:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)Reply
"I noticed you erased your user page in the same purpose" I have no idea what you're talking about here. Please provide the dif that shows this. NJGW (talk) 16:06, 27 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Energy law edit

Hi, you are right about cutting out the cruft, but I added back in {{See also|Energy policy of the European Union}} for ease of navigation. Bearian (talk) 22:16, 7 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

Oh, you are correct in cutting out any and all text about policy, but I thought that links to policy might be appropriate. Since I agree the article needs to remain focused, perhaps it is better to err on the side of leaving out lots of mentions to policy. I'm not certain that I agree with you completely, but I'll leave it be. Bearian (talk) 19:31, 8 November 2009 (UTC)Reply


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Theory edit

Hi, as there were no comments to my little inquiry on the talk page, and as I assume you don't mind, I have removed that phrase in Theory again. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 09:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Please verify statements before you make them edit

When you say that Hubbert didn't talk about Logistic curves, you show that you are not familiar with the topic. Please read this to start out with. Hubbert originally did apply the logistic curve, but decided to use a Gaussian curve later. Modern scholarly articles refer to a logistic curve as well as a Gaussian curve. They also don't agree with what you are saying on the peak oil talk page. For example, you totally ignored the overall conclusion of the Testing Hubbert article. And also it's well known that there are methods to boost production of a given well for a period of time, but this does not change the aggregate of the field production curve much--except that it can lower the overall recover amount. I think you may be reading too many blogs. 69.127.18.249 (talk) 20:40, 13 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

How is it you don't see a logrithmic function here:  ?
And why are you substituting in the word "Asymmetrical" in the undo? That's using a false edit summary to insert you're POV. The fact is that the curve is "roughly symmetrical" and is discussed using that term. If you continue to put misinformation into the articles I'm going to ask you to leave. 69.127.56.28 (talk) 00:26, 16 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
What makes you think this is plagiarism? It seems that it is copied from Wikipedia, not some other website. If you know where it came from, you should have linked to that page in your original edit summary. 69.127.56.159 (talk) 07:35, 18 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
This edit of yours is clearly a mistake. I think you owe Jagged an apology. 69.127.56.159 (talk) 07:46, 18 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Leonard Hofstadter‎ edit

I have again reverted your addition to Leonard Hofstadter‎. My earlier removal was not a mistake as you suggested in your edit summary.[1] The content was removed because it does not demonstrate any verifiable, relevant link between Leonard Hofstadter‎ and Robert Hofstadter or Douglas Hofstadter. Simply having the same last name is not sufficient justification for including the content in the article. Without demonstrated relevance, eg a citation confirming that Leonard was named after Robert Hofstadter, the content you added is nothing more than a trivial coincidence. For the record, Leonard also shares the same name as Richard Hofstadter, Albert Hofstadter and his first name is shared with Leonard Nimoy, who has actually been mentioned in The Big Bang Theory. However, none of those people are mentioned in the article. If you still believe that these individuals are worthy of mention, by all means raise the matter at Talk:Leonard Hofstadter‎, but do not add the uncited content, which appears to be original research to the article again. Thank you. --AussieLegend (talk) 16:08, 23 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Please stop edit-warring over inclusion of this content. The relevance to the article is disputed and therefore it needs to be discussed. As the editor proposing inclusion of this content, the burden is on you to justify inclusion, which you have not yet done. Above I invited you to discuss the matter on the article's talk page, which you should do now. Where the addition of content is disputed, as is the case here, we follow a process known as the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. Having had your content reverted it is time to discuss. Simply continuing to restore the content will not ensure it's existence in the article and may result in you being blocked from editing. As for the comments you made on my talk page, especially "it sure tells a lot about your IQ, but not much else.",[2] this is perilously close to being a personal attack and I would ask you to cease that course of action. Thank you. --AussieLegend (talk) 15:25, 24 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Since you apparently don't wish to, I have opened a discussion at Talk:Leonard Hofstadter#Robert & Douglas Hofstadter. --AussieLegend (talk) 16:16, 24 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

December 2010 edit

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January 2011 edit

Please respect the procedures we follow at Wikipedia. The content that you added at Sheldon Cooper was reverted because the source is not reliable. I have opened another discussion, this time at Talk:Sheldon Cooper#Nobel Prize. Please participate in that as per WP:BRD or provide a reliable source for your claim. --AussieLegend (talk) 23:31, 31 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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