Trevor Sinclair

Hi. This depends upon which article you intend to edit; the Eastern carpenter bee or the Carpenter bee. The UGA website you refer to explicitly deals with the former, and it would be a perfectly acceptable and useful contribution to that article. It would, however, be completely misleading to insert it into the latter article, as many of the Old World carpenter bees, especially those in Africa, are extremely valuable pollinators. Just because we have one species in the US that doesn't live up to its billing doesn't mean the same applies across the board to ALL species of carpenter bee. Further, just because it is a pest does not mean it is not also beneficial; paper wasps and yellowjackets are extremely beneficial, as are house centipedes, yet they are all considered pests. Dyanega (talk) 23:40, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

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Bloop

I wonder if you'd be interested in helping a fellow rationalist with the article Bloop. It seems one scientist is at fault for the problem, he told the press that it's probably biological, although it was far too loud for that. I wrote you this message because you seemed to be interested in anti-cryptozoology. Chrisrus (talk) 03:37, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

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New Rational Skepticism WikiProject member asking for look at Theosophy entry

Since you are an active participant in the Rational Skepticism WikiProject, would you mind looking over the Wikipedia entry on Theosophy to see if you find any concerns?

I've been ordered to fix the page so that it accords with my understanding of the NPOV policy. I'm happy to do that but I have a lot of work at my job.

Now I've been told that I must make the changes by April 30th or the NPOV tag will be removed. I simply can't learn how to use Wikipedia as a newcomer, become familiar with all the sources, and make the edits if I must do it all by April 30th.

Would you look over the Theosophy page? Also, can you recommend anything? Thanks much,Factseducado (talk) 14:52, 27 April 2012 (UTC)