User:William M. Connolley

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To speak to another with consideration, to appear before him with decency and humility, is to honour him; as signs of fear to offend. To speak to him rashly, to do anything before him obscenely, slovenly, impudently is to dishonour. Leviathan, X.

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I have accounts on a couple of wiki's, including (recently) disinfopedia. All redirect to here. If you want to leave me a message, please do it on my talk page on the English wiki.

My first RFC: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/William_M._Connolley. I won it, good.

Now there is an RFA between me and Cortonin Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/William M. Connolley vs Cortonin ongoing (decision is being formed).

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I live in Coton and work at the British Antarctic Survey as a Climate modeller. I grew up in Berkhamsted. In a former life I was a mathematician at SEH.

• I am notable: William Connolley (one of 50) and thats official
• NEW! RealClimate blog (http://www.realclimate.org)
• http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk - my home page.
• http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/wmc/ - my work page
• http://mustelid.blogspot.com/ - my blog. Mostly science.

I've mostly edited climate related pages, which is where most of my wiki-relevant expertise is. I - the long-haired sandal-wearing weirdo-non-conformist - have been doing my best to staunchly defend (with logic, facts and reasoned arguments mostly) the orthodox line. This would have amused my father no end.

My watchlist has now reached 361 items (with Gravity, since you ask) which is the same number of points as are on a Go board. 2004/09/21: now exactly 500. I think I should prune it a bit. I did: its now over 500... 2004/12/04: 600 exactly. Now about 700.

Contents

1 Climate type stuff 2 Opinion 3 Working on privately but slowly (comments welcome but leave the text alone) 4 Workspace for refs on attribution of climate change and others 5 Notes to self: pages I intend to edit (ha ha, one day...) 6 Compliments / Endorsements 7 Epithets 8 Stolen things

Climate type stuff

User:William_M._Connolley/Wiki_pages_related_to_climate_change

A pile of meteorology related pages, not all of which exist: wind, katabatic wind, hadley cell, coriolis effect, Atmospheric circulation. All are in need of attention. Also High (atmospheric), Low (atmospheric), Thermal equator, Intertropical convergence zone, Scale (spatial), Mesoscale meterology, Synoptic scale meteorology, Convection

Looks like going down on VFD: /Global warming skeptic

Opinion

• User:William_M._Connolley/My_POV_on_climate_change
• User:William_M._Connolley/Case_sensitivity_of_page_names
• User:William_M._Connolley/Whats-wrong-with-wikipedia
• /Experts and wiki

Working on privately but slowly (comments welcome but leave the text alone)

• User:William M. Connolley/Dynamics of atmospheric circulation
• User:William M. Connolley/Trend estimation - this is now public - here only for ref
• User:William M. Connolley/Notes for Hobbes (fairly well redundant now)

Workspace for refs on attribution of climate change and others

• User:William M. Connolley/References on attribution
• User:William M. Connolley/Misc refs
• User:William M. Connolley/Climate workspace

Notes to self: pages I intend to edit (ha ha, one day...)

• Climate model - passable. Needs detail. nb: GCM exists.
• Sea ice - now OK
• Antarctic Circumpolar Wave - ditto, but less shameful!
• Antarctica/Climate - more work.
• British_Antarctic_Survey - will do for now.

Compliments / Endorsements

Naturally enough, I tend to end up talking more with people who I am trying to agree wordings with, which (on controversial pages) tends to be people who disagree with me. So its nice sometimes to have people who do agree with me. The recent RFC especially brought this out.

• a professional scientist who has adopted a couple of controversial topics - areas within his considerable expertice. He does a good job keeping the articles focused on the science ([1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/William_M._Connolley&diff=9470474&oldid=9469321) Vsmith)
• Keep up the good work WMC ([2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/William_M._Connolley&diff=9472451&oldid=9470474) G-Man)
• His knowledge of the science related to climate change is comprehensive... I would like to commend William for his excellent work on Wikipedia ([3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/William_M._Connolley&diff=9483274&oldid=9478200) Sunray)
• he's been struggling to present accurate and neutral text ([4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/William_M._Connolley&diff=9626173&oldid=9625938) Mel Etitis)
• WMC tries to keep articles readable and focused, and very much tries to keep nonsense out of them. I am very glad that someone does this necessary work ([5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/William_M._Connolley&diff=9635791&oldid=9627151) Stephan Schulz)
• always willing to discuss disputes, and makes concessions where he feels it is appropriate ([6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/William_M._Connolley&diff=9539867&oldid=9536718) Graft)

Epithets

I have been called:

• An eco terrorist (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Greenpeace&oldid=4205044)
• pushes POV... refuses to form consensus or accept compromise by User:Cortonin
• A zealot by multiply-banned User:JonGwynne
• Satanic (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=40e7c01e%40news.nwl.ac.uk&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dconnolley%2Bgroup:sci.environment.*%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3D40e7c01e%2540news.nwl.ac.uk%26rnum%3D2) - but that was on usenet where people are sometimes impolite...
• "confrontational" and "your manner of discourse is unbecoming of someone of your stature" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AGlobal_climate_change) - by User:Benapgar

The list is lengthening out nicely.

Stolen things

• Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25. User:Func
• There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, those who read binary and those who don't. (ditto)

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Feare of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, SUPERSTITION. And when the power imagined is truly such as we imagine, TRUE RELIGION. Leviathan, ch VI

To have done more hurt to a man than he can or is willing to expiate enclineth the doer to hate the sufferer. For he must expect revenge or forgiveness; both which are hateful. [Ch XI].