User talk:Doctor Faust

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Welcome, Doctor Faust!

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• Wikipedia:Five pillars
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• Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

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Best of luck, and have fun! – ClockworkSoul 20:57, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Genocode

Please stop adding the term unless you can back it's prevalence up with good references. Thanks, Vsmith 02:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

• Do you have anything to cite regarding the "genocode" line you keep adding to genetic code? – ClockworkSoul 02:42, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert a single page more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. – ClockworkSoul 02:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Please try to stick to the facts and remain civil. Attacking other editors hardly helps bring others around to your (apparently) minority position. Thanks. DMacks 21:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I would appreciate it if you would specify my alleged "attack" on an editor. The idea that anything I have written could be construed as uncivil or an "attack" is laughable. I will continue to express my opinions. If anyone does not appreciate this, I think I can live with it. And by the way, the idea that truth can be determined by majority opinion is a concept made popular in Germany in the 1930's.Doctor Faust 21:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

You wrote (to and about ClockworkSoul):

he is on a power trip. His ego apparently can not tolerate the possibility that there may be something about this subject of which he was unaware.

Which is hardly a constructive tone or level of debate on an academic subject. And now you seem headed towards Godwinizing yourself here. Feel free to argue with facts. OTOH, WP actually does make desicions about content and inclusion at least in part by consensus. Note that "whether to include" is entirely unrelated to that, so your concerns about "truth by majority" are not at issue here. DMacks 22:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

DMacks: LOL Doctor Faust 00:37, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Your email

Hello, Doctor Faust.

I'm writing you here to let you know that I've received your email. Because its purpose was to discuss page content, I've decided that it's more appropriate to reply to open the conversation up to the entire community and to discuss your citations on the talk page for Genetic Code. You can view and respond to my reply there. – ClockworkSoul 12:44, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi - email received, but I see Clockwork has already adequately addressed the issue. Glad that you survived that long time ago fiasco - remember those who didn't. Cheers, Vsmith 13:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I hope that you check your Wikipedia messages eventually... I'm not keen on receiving abusive emails from impatient users. I'm sure that you understand. – ClockworkSoul 13:11, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Contrary to what ClockworkSoul alleges, to anyone with a normal-sized ego, my email was not abusive...sarcastic, yes, abusive, no. But of course ClockworkSoul's relatve youth may contribute to his thin skin. Doctor Faust 21:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

• Faust, I'm still receiving your emails, and I'm really left somewhat surprised that you seem so wounded over such a minor point. As you've so kindly pointed out, I am a mere thirty-one years of age. I can only assume that this is the reason why I've never before met a person so willing to engage me on so trivial an issue. I would have thought was that a person as intelligent and passionate as yourself would have far better things to do than to draft and email wry provocations to other editors, but as much as I would love to assist you by presenting myself as your willing casus belli, I really don't have the time to spare exchanging thinly veiled barbs with you. If you have a case to make regarding the addition of "genocode", please do so on the genetic code talk page. However, if I be be so presumptuous as to offer advice to one who has made it quite clear that he thinks himself my chronological and intellectual superior, you would do best to avoid making further ad hominem attacks: they only serve to weaken your position. Without sarcasm, I wish you the best of luck. – ClockworkSoul 00:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)