User talk:Ffdssa

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Hi! I have added a category to your Mechation because I thought that we have something in common - evolution. While you are focust on the present I am working on the past. But the connection from the past to the present, specifically the explanation, which it could provide, have made me think of many points you are describing. Specific AI. So it might be of interrest to you to speculate how the past shapes the present.

I would not like if someone would barge in on my work and therefore made a second copy for editing. So please let me know if it disturbes you, does not fit in or just erase it.

I guess you put Mechation on the Colloquium to get attention. You got it, double. While I tried to add something User:Abd relocated it - at the same time!--Martin Lenoar 00:06, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Why I moved the essay, and about your User page.
I moved the essay because, of course, it was completely out of place on the Colloquium, which is about "questions, comments or suggestions about Wikiversity," as it says at the top. Wikiversity itself isn't a place to generally discuss such very open-ended matters as your essay covers, but you can do this to a degree in your user space, and you might, indeed, be able to put together a course on Mechation. But it's tricky. You can work on the essay, or a whole project, in your user space, then, if it's ready -- get some advice on that! -- you can move it into Mainspace. Essays, though, don't really belong in mainspace, at least not at the top level, it's for "educational resources," i.e., class materials. But you could have a class on Mechation!, but as long as the essay is just your own ruminations, there might be difficulty with it. (An essay, though, could be underneath a class as a subpage, i.e., Mechation/Seminal essay by Ffdssa -- if it comes to that.)

Your user page is pretty much a copy of the essay. I suggest deleting all that and replacing it with a link to the essay. Use your user page to tell us something about yourself, if you like. For your convenience, here is what you would put on your user page to link to the essay: Mechation

If I can be of any assistance, please don't hesitate to ask. --Abd 21:32, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Mechation/Seminal essay by Ffdssa
Hi Ffdssa!

Your essay Mechation/Seminal essay by Ffdssa appears to be ready for learners! Would you like to have it announced on our Main Page News? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 21:02, 30 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Marshall,
 * Six years have passed! I did not answer your email because for six years I have been trying to get the word "mechation" into the mainstream with annual and semi-annual mailings of 3000-word descriptions/essays to The Guardian, Le Monde, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic. I received one reply from The Guardian about my "thought-provoking essay" and was advised it to send it to another department, to no avail. The idea of "mechation" was unable to break into the large readerships. I think it was approved by an editor of the New Yorker but later nixed by a higher-up.
 * So yes, six years later I am ready to try to make the idea move on your Main Page News (if it is still there!) ---RF Bell, Ffdssa Ffdssa (discuss • contribs) 18:53, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

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