On the same question, I have had to convert two answers to comments, and ask another to back up his one line and a half answer.
@JasonPlank Please do that. Your answers are good. Usually a good answer on a question prevent the apparition of bad answers. It'll make my job easier.
Oh, the priv to approve tag wiki edits comes at 1.5k
IIRC, once you have the priv to edit posts w/o suggestion, you can approve suggested edits, but not view the list of suggested edits, so I thought that was why for a minute
Bertrand Russell once wrote that
...individual actions are based upon the beliefs of the person acting, and if the beliefs are unsupported by evidence, then such beliefs can lead to destructive actions.
Is there a moral or ethical obligation for scientific skeptics to defend (if not valori...
@Sklivvz Yeah, I know. The way Atwood described tag wikis, is that the information should be centered on the topic of the site, rather than the definition of the word. I supplied the list of supposed psuedoscientific medical claims, because that was very relevant information to the site.
on wikipedia anyway.
But I guess some of those claims might be actually true, so I can see how you would object. I just listed them because they are psuedosciences to look out for.
@MarkRogers Besides that, the review page is broken - it showed both changes against the empty tag wiki, but I would have expected to see the second change against the first, once I accepted it. So it was quite hard to see the final result.
I've heard numerous times that eating a high quantity of sugar will give you a "sugar high" or "sugar buzz"
The high one gets after consuming large amounts of sugar. Also called a "sugar rush." Sugar highs cause twitchiness, spasms, and hyper excitability. Sugar highs do not last very long, a...
New users with less than 10 reputation can only add one link per post. As we want to encourage users to cite their claims, this restriction can be counterproductive sometimes.
It would be nice if that part of the new user restrictions could be removed on Skeptics.
MikePMoffatt: Has anyone, either media or politician, discussed any ideas to eliminate the deficit? #elxn41 Borror0: @MikePMoffatt Flaherty implied that staring at it for long enough would make it go away. MikePMoffatt: @Borror0 Hey, don't knock it. I got rid of a girlfriend that way.
What is procedure for copyrighted images? e.g. This one. Is it ok to reproduce copyrighted material in an answer, or should it just be linked to?
Is offering a reference absolutely necessary, or is a logical answer enough?
is there a way this question (http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1048/is-communism-bad) can be improved ?
Bertrand Russell once wrote that
...individual actions are based upon the beliefs of the person acting, and if the beliefs are unsupported by evidence, then such beliefs can lead to destructive actions.
Is there a moral or ethical obligation for scientific skeptics to defend (if not valori...
I've heard numerous times that eating a high quantity of sugar will give you a "sugar high" or "sugar buzz"
The high one gets after consuming large amounts of sugar. Also called a "sugar rush." Sugar highs cause twitchiness, spasms, and hyper excitability. Sugar highs do not last very long, a...
New users with less than 10 reputation can only add one link per post. As we want to encourage users to cite their claims, this restriction can be counterproductive sometimes.
It would be nice if that part of the new user restrictions could be removed on Skeptics.
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