Wikipedia seems like an outstanding idea - anyone can edit a page etc. - but this has obvious disadvantages: vandals seem to be prowling around almost everywhere. Even if you find a sufficiently obscure or technical article to edit, the chances are that there is someone out there who will probably either engage in an
edit war
or just vandalise the article for the fun of it. Other people to watch out for are those who try to promote their own (unofficial) ideas in insidious and devious ways (for example, by slipping in a few sly links at the bottom of articles which many people overlook). Also, it's good to be aware of reading someone's comments that may initially seem offensive, but their intention is just to help out (especially those whose first language is not English). It's very easy to fall into the trap of 'snapping' back at someone. With wikipedia, patience is the name of the game: it's in the nature of WP that good articles are created by lengthy discussions (over many moons) and these discussions are worthwhile in the long run - if anything, you will always learn something useful at WP - it is an encyclopedia after all ! Also, you may make 'edit friends' here. I have !
My main aims at Wikipedia...
I am mainly interested in contributing to the following categories:
Planck's relation between the energy and frequency of a photon can be derived using special relativity. Does this mean that light quantization is implicit in special relativity ?
Does the
principle of general covariance
?
As the reduction of the state vector is a time irreversible process (see Penrose, 'Emperor's New Mind'), must a TOE be time irreversible ?
, which was not formulated to account for the expansion of the universe - this was a consequence of general relativity; it also makes many other predictions which have been verified. What does this reveal about the scientific quality of current biological evolution 'theories' (apart from it's ad hocness, how much quantitative support exists for DE anyway) ? - I'm not suggesting that DE is totally false, just that it should be tested more rigorously and is probably only an approximation to a more comprehensive evolution theory (in the same way that Newtonian mechanics is an approximation of special relativity).
Some less well-known but important issues
Some political and current issues for consideration:
Should
secret societies be banned ? What exactly is freemasonry
hi. I am a Wikipedian. during creating the pages on Islam, i require to a good copy editor such as you. can you help me in the way.--m,sharaf (talk) 19:49, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
request to judge on being religious or philosophical
hi.it is really good to see here some one who is interested in Islamic and Jewish philosophy. lately we have discussion woth another users about accounting an argument religious or philosophical. I believe that this argument is philosophical and those who are familiar with Islamic philosophy acknowledged to it. I ask you to give your opinion about the subject. thanksm,sharaf