User talk:Sluffs

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Checking In
Hi Sluffs. I hope you saw my response to your question on my talk page. How goes your project? I made a "suggested" edit to your chord reference. If you like it, maybe you'd like to apply it elsewhere. If you did not like it, please feel free to undo it (that was the addition of the tag). Anyhow, if I can be of any help, please do not hesitate to contact me. --Jomegat (talk) 19:18, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

New chords and scales
I gave an answer to your comment at my user talk :o) --Mjchael (talk) 12:41, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Article "Imports" from WP
Hi, could you either request the imports at WB:RFI, so that the edit history is maintained, or create a backlink to the original source please (e.g., add a comment with the permanent URL to WP). This helps meet the GFDL licensing criteria. Thanks. Unusual? Quite TalkQu 11:28, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Harmonics
Hi Sluffs, Nice editing on the Harmonics chapter. I like your explanation better than what I had written on the talk page. Mine seemed to go on and on and on and on, while yours was concise and to the point. Also, using the term partial instead of harmonic clarified things pretty well without confusion. Thanks! --Jomegat (talk) 01:15, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Import
Sorry I missed this request, but you can find the imported page at Sikhism/Sri Guru Angad Dev Ji. -- Adrignola talk contribs 20:36, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The imports you requested into the Hinduism book are also complete now as well. -- Adrignola talk contribs 00:45, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

WCI 2011 : Accelerating Wikibooks : Would like to discuss!
Hello!

I will be delivering a Talk at the Wikimedia Conference India 2011 on the topic of "Accelerating Wikibooks".

Over the next few days, I aim to make the proposal more and more wholesome and relevant. I'd like to discuss with you about the proposal and hope you can recommend me a few names on Wikibooks with whom I can discuss this.

I'd be very happy if you could discuss the proposal at User:Thewinster/Accelerating_Wikibooks

--Thewinster (discuss • contribs) 08:20, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Summary of the proposal
This is not a summary of the final talk, only a tentative guideline.


 * Create Roadmaps for a book
 * Define Learning Outcomes
 * Annotate and Discuss new content available from around the web.
 * Minor tweaks and fixes which concentrate on crowdsourcing.
 * Identifying Small Contribution that advance a book and designing good UIs and triggers according to B.J. Fogg's Behavior Change Model, 8 Step Design Process. The paper can be found here at Persuasive Design : Eight Step Process by B. J. Fogg

Guitar
Thank you for your work with this book especially with checking out the various external links. It is important that external links are verified and that expired links are removed.--ЗAНИA talk 22:04, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Colonies in Space
Hi Sluffs, I replied to your comment here: Talk:Colonizing_Outer_Space, just wanted to let you know.

Status Update - Back at Wikibooks and never to return to Wikipedia
I just spent a few years on Wikipedia. I will never ever edit Wikipedia again due to the "we're not a democracy" statement from Admin. Lets hope this is not the case here. I'm glad to be back and lets finish the book on Guitar. Time to install Sibelius. lol

Quite disappointed but there's plenty to do here. Busy, busy, busy.

Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 09:21, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Spam problems at Guitar
Based on the edits where you've removed links, I've added what look like the four worst offending sites to the spam blacklist - which prevents any links being added. If you identify further problematic sites please leave me a message on my talk page and I will blacklist them too. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 21:44, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm intending to do quite a bit of work on the Guitar Book. I actually may do some detailed song analysis. "Wish You Were Here" as it appears on the album has either a capo at the first fret or Gilmour tuned up a semitone. Johnny B Goode is in B flat - Berry said in his biography that his pianist Johnny Johnson was the reason he ended playing in what he termed "piano keys". Might do a bit using the riffs from "Profoundly Blue" by Charlie Christian - I spent months playing to the record and can still play perfectly the first 32 bars. Christian was a clever guitarist - he does this triplet thing around a D chord - holds down the A note at the 5th fret of the high e string while sliding the F at the 6th fret of the B string to F# on the seventh fret - the A note is continuously sounded - absolutely brilliant triplet. Muddy Waters "Rollin' Stone" has some unusual riffs - he does this double string hammer-on/hammer-off that is a suspended fourth of the E major chord. I wish more guitarists would play along to records. Simple tab is quite useless in a lot of respects and I'm glad to see them removed.

Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 22:09, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Oh well. Back to the guitar book.
lol. Oh I see. No escape. I think I'll just go blogging. lol. Ro Thorpe, at a certain site hey, very interesting. It was set up guys. Disruptive - what rubbish - progressive. Take the Boston Tea Party - was that a disruptive or progressive action. All depends on whose side you're on. Politics - can't get away from it.

Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 00:29, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Ancient History
Hello, I just noticed on Ancient History. Are you thinking of it as just a contents page? Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 19:20, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

I was following the format of the contents page of the Guitar wikibookː

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guitar

However if you feel as though the text is essential revert the edit.

cheers

Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 23:22, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Mostly *Much Needed* Changes in "US History/Great Depression and New Deal"
"Pittsburgh Poet" here. (Still mostly accurate, though I haven't written anything recently.) Thank you for correcting the vandalism done to the pages. However, I have one cavil.

For your edit of the third (18:36), you replace my "being paid for all at once" (inexact, I admit) with the phrase "paying the full purchase price at point of sale."

I've tried to simplify the language so that people with little knowledge of economic or specialized jargon could more easily read this monster. Can one or two words slide in to explain the phrase "point of sale," which may be confusing to less sophisticated readers? Could you suggest any? Thank you. Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 20:55, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

I believe in universal intelligence. I have never subscribed to the IQ theories that suggest that people are born with different levels of intelligence. Nurture is simply a case of taught values which includes every parent's belief that what they are doing for their children is correct. I never subscribed to the idea that the world's knowledge being freely available online would lead to a dramatic increase in study. Long before the internet there were charity shops selling books cheaper than a kilo of potatoes but many parents naturally want their children to follow their example. So if the parents ended their education at sixteen they quite rightly think that is the age to end their children's education. I do not view readers as sophisticated or not sophisticated and it was only by accident that I discovered a world of knowledge that I had been denied access to as a child. The accident was a holiday in Turkey when I was twenty-eight years old and we went to visit a place called Ephesus that was listed in our guide. When we arrived a Muslim tour guide handed me a bit of paper that said something about St.Paul and I stood in the vast amphitheatre and I thought "wow this is history". I went home to the UK and got out a box of school and college books that had not seen the light for a decade because as stated earlier my parents finished school at sixteen so after that age I was expected to go to work just as they did. Though at eighteen I did return to college for two years since I had left school at fifteen a year earlier than normal without a single exam result. So sorry but I can only be me - which is a man who now views adulthood as no excuse for not continuing to educate yourself throughout one's life. Personally I wish they would extend the leaving age for schoolchildren in the UK to eighteen encouraging all to pursue further studies as a life-time hobby. The writing skills that I display here have involved decades of study and unlike people who have had parents who taught them well my education is something I fought for alone. This is not a judgement of parenting since being a parent means that you have to put work first for the sake of your children. The belief that a stranger called a teacher can give your child a better education than the education you can give them yourself as a parent who has continued studying is a false belief. I love to edit Wikibooks because I can write about my hobbies without judgement and continue my education unhindered by preconceptions of what constitutes an education and at what age society thinks you should end your education.

If you want revert the edit for less sophisticated readers go ahead - after all I was one of those unsophisticated readers.

--Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 01:19, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Notification
Hello. Instead of deleting all of the text of the page, could you please add a delete template? The page, thus, goes into this category, where an administrator can quickly delete the page (It helps organize all the pages that are needed to be deleted into one category, instead of an admin having to fish through piles of pages for harmful content). Thank you for your efforts to help get rid of garbage on Wikibooks! --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 22:21, 21 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Will do so in the future. Thanks for pointing out how to flag spam.

Sluffs (discuss • contribs) 10:33, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

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