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Article about PESWiki

I gather from what is written on your user page that you are centrally involved in that wiki. Perhaps there could be made an article about it for Wikipedia? __meco 10:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the owner of that site. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm a bit shy about posting at WikiPedia after the cold treatment I got when I first landed here. Meanwhile PESWiki is filling the void I had hoped to fill here. It covers cutting-edge, clean energy technology developments, including those too far outside the box to receive any mention at WikiPedia. Sterlingda 00:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The AfD

I'm writing to you in order to ask that you remove your comments about me (as opposed to the arguments for deletion), as well as the long "PESWiki is better than Wikipedia" rant, from the AfD page. You know, or should know, that such things do not belong in there, and they're certainly not helping your cause. It's not only me who wants the article deleted; several people have agreed with my statements. The main defenders of your article so far are an anonymous user, another one who just called digg "a reliable measure of notability", and a former vandal who believes that Wikipedia is a piece of shit and there's a cabal of admins working to censor it. I didn't mention this in the AfD. See my point? Stop muddling the process, don't repeat yourself, and don't throw around accusations thinking that you'll scare the one who has to close the AfD — you won't. —Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 20:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pablo. Don't put words in my mouth. I did not say "PESWiki is better than Wikipedia". I pointed out that PESWiki excels for some search terms. I didn't say so explicitly, but those search terms are not inconsequential. The point was to document that your assertion that PESWiki is "not notable" is not true. Your arguments for deletion were shown by me to be groundless in each particular. Why don't you acknowledge as much? Likewise, I could show that each of the other arguments are without merit. I honed in on you because you were the one who commenced to AfD, and you had the gall to respond to one of the supporters for non-deletion by asking how I had rebuffed your arguments, so I elaborated, point by point. I wouldn't repeat myself if you would make such ridiculous statements as "Such as?" in response to the user comment "PESWiki Founder makes some very valid points, which don't appear to have been taken into consideration". I stand by my assertion that Wikipedia would be better served without knee-jerk reactionaries such as yourself who make accusations that are groundless. Let me ask you. How much time did you take looking at PESWiki.com before posting the AfD? The answer to that question is found in the history of the page. Twelve minutes max. That is absolutely asinine that you would be able to render any kind good judgment in such a short period of time. Yet you carry yourself in your wording as if you are some big hot shot at Wikipedia. You should lose your privileges at Wikipedia, which is not well-served by the likes of you being free to throw your weight around.

If you want the text of the deleted article for a user subpage while you work to improve it, WP:DRV is probably the right place to ask. I saw your request on 1ne's page, and just figured I'd let you know. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 16:03, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Skateboard

Hi - I removed your edit about 'magnet trucks' from the skateboard page. If we included every innovation for skateboards the page would be very long indeed. I think the page needs to be simple and should feature the conventional components of a skateboard. As the 'magnet truck' has yet to hit the market, I think we should wait and see how it sells before we add another innovation. Hope you understand Steve-g 11:01, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Energy portal

Hi! As a contributor to WikiProject Energy development, I thought you might like to be aware of the opportunity to contribute to the new Energy Portal, now that there is one... No need to reply. Gralo 17:43, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Energy portal & future selected articles

Hi! Over the past couple of months I've been spending much more time than I should developing the Energy portal, and intend asking for a portal peer review within the next day or so.

The portal provides a showcase for energy-related articles on Wikipedia. One of the most prominent ways is via a the selected article that is currently changed every 6 weeks or so. It would be good to increase this turnover, and with three Wikiprojects dedicated to energy-related topics and a good number of articles already written, I'd like to suggest that members of each Wikiproject might like to use the 'selected article' to feature some of their best work.

With this in mind, I'd like to suggest that your Wikiproject bypasses the normal selected article nomination page and decides collectively which articles are worth featuring - or these may be self-evident from previous discussions - and add short 'introduction' to the selected article at the appropriate place on page Portal:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, which includes further information. Your personal involvement would be welcome!

Please make any comments on your Wikiproject talk page, my talk page, or on Portal talk:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, as appropriate. Gralo 15:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Deleted Sterling David Allan

I posted the following to those individuals who voted to delete the page here at Wikipedia about me.

I see you were one who voted for deletion of the page here at PESWiki about myself, saying that I am non-notable. The reason I am not noted in mainstream media is due to the maxim: "He who is one step ahead is a genius. He who is two steps ahead is a crackpot." Retrospective history will paint me favorably, though contemporaries often spurn.

Consider the following sampling:

I launched and headed the effort to draft Ron Paul for President in 2004. Now, this time around, he is the most popular candidate on the web.
My family of energy websites are considered as the best, most up-to-date collection worldwide of cutting-edge, outside-the-box energy technologies -- many of which hold promise to lead the world out of fossil-fuel-dependence in the coming years.
- Our coverage routinely shows up in the top three in Google searches, often even ahead of Wikipedia. [1]
- The traffic that the sites receive (35,000 page views/day) is adequate to bring in sufficient revenue for the project to be self-sustaining.
I founded the New Energy Congress, whose Top 100 Energy Technologies listing is reviewed seriously (non-publicly) by academicians, VCs, researchers, governments, and industry experts per the phone calls I get regarding it.
The American Study Group that I founded fresh out of the University grew to around 4,000 members in the Rocky Mountain West, several hundred participants of which were excommunicated from the Mormon church for "apostasy" due to extreme beliefs in around 1992-1995.
I founded Remnant Saints Inter-Continental Congress whose purpose is to establish a world governance document based on the principles of freedom as enshrined in the Constitution of the United States -- a conservative answer to the liberal / socialist-leaning U.N. Though on hold due to lack of funding, the project is very forward-looking and continues to stir productive thought.
My dad is an atomic clock physicist formerly with NIST in Boulder, whose "Allan Variance" to this day is at the heart of international timekeeping, which is one of the underpinnings of modern civilization. [2] He built a solar home that integrates 7 different major principles. My mother is a gifted herbal and natural healing practitioner. That is the immediate heritage upon which I have built.

I realize that Wikipedia does not typically highlight envelope-pushing, but waits for things to become well-accepted before giving them coverage. Hence the nemesis relationship between myself and Wikipedia, due to the axiom: "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident." Wikipedia typically only covers things when they fall into the third classification; while I focus on things while they are yet in the first stage. That is my specialty, and when those things that are now ridiculed matured to where they are accepted as self-evident, my role in history will be appreciated, and not spurned.

Meanwhile, I can understand why Wikipedia and the Media in general keep their distance. And you can see why there is an antagonistic relationship between myself and the groupies at Wikipedia. They have no guts, no spirit of adventure, but prefer to go with the mainstream flow. I find that shallow and unfulfilling. That is why I founded PESWiki, to give leading edge energy technologies a place to be featured, without narrow-minded Wikipedia hacks mercilessly deleting them as soon as they poke up their heads. PESWiki is now approaching 20 million page views. [3] We long ago surpassed Wikipedia in vision in the area of emerging energy technologies.

Non-notable? No.

Bleeding edge? Yes.

That is why you routinely delete my stuff when I venture to post it here.

No need to respond. -- Sterlingda 00:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- - - -

After posting that to those who voted to delete the page about myself, I thought of a concluding statement: "You are so busy clucking around with the turkeys in your coop, that you have no context or frame of reference to either appreciate or even comprehend the occasional eagles who soar overhead. But I promise you, the view and freedom from up here are fantastic."

I'll not be appending that to their talk pages, but I post it here, as it is more likely to be appreciated and not seen as just a derisive statement. -- Sterlingda

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Given your recent statements on your PESN blog that you are working with/for Rossi's Leonardo Corporation (the supposed manufacturers of the Energy Catalyzer), can I ask that the next time you participate in an AfD or other discussion connected with the E-Cat, you declare an interest? This is an entirely reasonable requirement for Wikipedia contributors, and not informing others of your connection with the subject is unlikely to reflect well on your credibility. AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:40, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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	Dear Sterlingda, thank you for all your contributions to Wikipedia, especially your recent contributions to David W. Allan. Keep up the good work! You are making a difference here! With regards, Anupam^Talk 02:38, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Remedy

I'm going to contact IEEE to see if we can have permission to post the page as it is, copying the names of the recipients and the text explaining why they received the award.

I'm guessing they will give permission.

If not, we could just give the intro and link to their page.

The advantage of listing is I did in the first draft is that we can link to scientists who are listed at Wikipedia.

-- Sterlingda (talk) 04:50, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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David W. Allan

I've seen the discussion surrounding the "stripping" of this article. I'm an experienced Wikipedia editor and would like to take a shot at expanding it from its present sketchy state. Please let me know if this interests you. Lou Sander (talk) 14:09, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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