User talk:Dacoutts

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Malthusian Selection

David, have you read Wikipedia:No original research? Can you provide any external verification for Malthusian Selection? -- stillnotelf has a talk page 05:47, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Australian Humanist, assuming it is this magazine, does not appear to be peer reviewed. You really need to find some verification of these topics (The ones listed below as well) not written by you before we can include it in Wikipedia. I'll give you a few days, but I am willing to go through the deletion nominations if you can't find any support. They're really rather well written, but we just can't allow original research in our encyclopedia. -- stillnotelf has a talk page 15:41, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You have the wrong magazine - it's this one Australian Humanist. This magazine IS subject to editorial scrutiny other than that of the author - just ask She can be contacted here: [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~humanist/contactus/contactus.html HSV contact page I have no editiorial control of the magazine whatsoever. Thanks for the compliment on my writing. Dacoutts

Orginal Research all OVER the place!

The complaint about Malthusian Selection cam be expanded to Exponentialist, Heliovore, Nanosphere, Differential replication, Couttsian Growth Model, and possibly others I missed in digging through the contrib logs.

All articles are referenced to one or two articles written by the wikipedia author (User:David Coutts and User:Dacoutts are clearly the same individual, even to the point of Dacoutts editing the user page of David Coutts) and neither published in book form or in peer-reviewed journals (i.e. not subject to editorial scrutiny other than that of the author).

Please note that Wikipedia is not a tool of self-promotion - no matter how novel or interesting the content may be. I find the idea of the Heliovore and the Nanosphere charming, but this is still not the place for publishing original research. If your ideas find adherents in the "world at large", they may very well write published papers and Wikipedia articles, with the backing of the peer review process - not just the Web. I would suggest that the Nanosphere, and Heliovore concepts - as well as implications and explorations of the ideas, might find a "publishing home" in some of the Nanotechnology and Transhumanist journals - I'd suggest looking at the World Transhumanist Association for leads on possible places for publication.

Be warned that that Wikipedians people have no qualms about the use of "Article to be deleted" tags on articles - and while it requires a debate and vote of administrators to "ok" such a deletion - original research is one thing that will get an article expunged. Beowulf314159 14:24, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Heck - get Heliovores and the Nanosphere published or mentioned in a peer-review article and I'd put up a Wikipedia article myself :) - Beowulf314159 17:40, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'll follow up with the suggestions regarding Nanotechnology and Transhumanist journals. Beowulf, Thanks for the comments on Heliovore and Nanosphere. Dacoutts

There was nothing sinister about Dacoutts editing the David Coutts page - I simply forgot my user name. I'm not sure I agree with referring "Differential reproduction" to "Darwinism", whoever did that. Not the same thing at all, and I DID provide references (which appear to have been deleted). I also note that someone has now marked the 6 Billion entry for deletion, which I did not add. That seemes a little harsh.Dacoutts