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[edit] Article Priority
My only concern with the assessment is I think it would be difficult to justify the FairTax as important in the US. There is virtually no support in Congress for it, it's never been voted on in committee. It has had little, if any, effect on the tax system and it's not widely talked about or written about. Certainly much less so than a flat tax and even that doesn't get a whole lot of coverage. I would rate it at low priority, but that's certainly no offense to people working on it. It looks like a good article on a subject I'd never heard of. In other words I'd say we'd need more evidence of impact and importance to justify a mid priority. - Taxman Talk 20:57, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- I wanted to rework the priority assessment scale a bit. We want to look at the importance of an article from users, linkage, search factor, impact, etc. For example, Tax incidence may be a national term that effects everyone but not many people go looking for this article. Other articles such as Taxation in the United States are a much higher priority in my view but would currently be rated as "Mid". As far as the FairTax, it is the top tax reform plan in the U.S. and has almost 10 times as many sponsors as any Flat tax bill and has a NYTimes bestselling book. It is the fastest growing grassroots taxation movement with many people looking for information. The fact that it is a GA shows that this topic has interest and attention and therefore, I believe, not suitable for the lowest priority. However, I am biased with this one as it is my pet article. Morphh (talk) 21:23, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Didn't reallize that would show up in the worklist, I just thought that was the place set up for commenting on the rating. It being a GA doesn't actually demonstrate importance (we have FA's on incredibly arcane things), just that someone (you in this case) has done a great job moving the article forward along with others helping. You have a good point on some other factors that should be considered in rating the priority. The scale of national importance was an attempt to reduce systemic bias by having all US tax concepts rated as important. I think that's important because US (or any other one country's) tax topics only directly affect a fraction of the world's people so we have to be careful not to elevate them too much in priority. Objectively they aren't high priority to most people. Having a low priority rating isn't a bad thing of course. In the end the priority rating of one specific article isn't too critical, but how we go about deciding the scale is somewhat important. The problem with linkage and search factors as criteria is to some extent those mirror the biases of the internet in general, being heavily US dominated. Impact is certainly important, for example the 401(k) plan has influenced legislation in other countries, so that elevates it's priority a bit beyond being a one country issue. But the impact criteria is also where I see FairTax on the lower side. It hasn't had much observable impact yet. If it does in the future, then of course that would change things. Perhaps we could seek some input from other project members. - Taxman Talk 22:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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- I know what your saying with GA/FA, though to some degree, I think you can see (in general) that a stub article is probably of low importance as nobody has taken the time and interest - same thought for the GA/FA. However, I understand your point. I expressed my thoughts on the WikiProject talk in regard to systemic bias and priority. I think we have to be careful with lumping to many things into low priority. The FairTax is a large article with two sub-articles, good U.S. public interest, one of two major tax reform concepts (the one with the most sponsorship), growing movement, etc. Do you put this into the same priority as a stub with very little public interest (such as 1231 property or Rabbi trust)? I'm not suggesting it is Top or High priority.. I just don't think it is Low. I'm thinking we assess articles as if we lived in the specified country and not as if we lived in no country. If I lived in that country, what would the priority of that article be? Morphh (talk) 04:12, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] WikiProject Peer reviews
Looks like you've already installed the script – it would probably be easiest to run the script and paste the output somewhere on the wikiproject PR page, or on a subpage.
Alternatively, User:MartinBotII transcludes wikiProject peer reviews onto WP:PR automatically (more information about that here). When I semi-automatically review the articles, I also review those that are transcluded by MartinBotII. The output would then be pasted onto Wikipedia:Peer review/Automated/March 2007.
Good luck with your new WikiProject, AZ t 00:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- That's weird: there seems to be a whole range of different problems with the script being used on Firefox. I read into the topic a bit more and tried making some changes, and hopefully something will happen. If it still doesn't work, could you do me the favor of trying the method at User:AndyZ/PR#Anons/lazy users? AZ t 23:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Award
[edit] Adminship
BTW, I think you would make a great administrator, although an RFA wouldn't go smoothly until you have a lot of experience in areas such as AfD. —Quarl (talk) 2006-12-29 23:24Z
[edit] Thanks
Dunno if this is the place for it (I'm a newbie) but thanks for the copyedits to my Stossel edits. Except I don't like the comma after "apology". Unnecessary, I think. I understand from your comment that I need to bone up on proper usage of... ref and citation tags? Whazzat??? I wanted to make the last sentence of "Pesticides..." a footnote and in an edit I did to David_Horowitz there was a page number in a referenced pdf file that I wanted to preserve and had to keep inline because I didn't know how to make it a footnote either. Could probably understand the instructions if I could only find time to look at them... But the text was so bad, and there's only so much time. Andyvphil 13:54, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
I reverted your rewrite after my revert of Lawyer2b's rewrite of "non-existant" in the Stossel article. And I've explained myself on the discussion page. You wrote "Statement doesn't support the claim". That's because it is the instance, not the support. The support is Stossel's apology in the next paragraph. Andyvphil 13:45, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Request for ordinary income tax article
I notice there is no ordinary income tax article in Wikipedia, and it seems a large number of articles all assume income tax only refers to ordinary income tax. Perhaps the time has come to clarify this. Where do I make a request for the project?
Thank you. Have Gun, Will Travel 03:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Template protections
- Morphh wrote
- Seems like Semi-protection would be better suited with problem templates getting full protection. Morphh (talk) 19:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately semi-protection is worthless against determined vandals, because they will simply create an account (or more likely, several) and wait a few days until it can edit semi-protected pages. I have no intention of protecting all, or even most templates – only the most-used ones. Semi-protection for less used (but still very common) templates might be appropriate and indeed many such templates are semi-protected already, but I will leave that issue for others to decide – Gurch 20:13, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] On coming back
Glad to see my presence is so valued. But as it stands, I'm going to limit myself to 1 or 2 articles at a time. Right now, my focus is on Petroleum, and I haven't even gotten much out of that, as I'm just so swamped with other things. I'll gladly check up on the FairTax talk page now and again, but don't expect me to do much. It's a big article, and there's a lot of social inertia on such a topic. I chose Petroleum because a) it's important b) the article's far below quality for such an important topic, and c) there's no arguement about it! It's really a new feeling - I've basically restructured a lot of it, and no one has said a word about it. As long as it looks better than it did before, i can do basically whatever I want.
but i digress - i have too much to do to keep up w/ FairTax. Sorry, but that's the way it is. although it's good to see that someone noticed i was gone... --Trevdna 00:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] USCOTW
I have noted that you helped to update the USCOTW while I was away. You should put your name up on the collaboration page. If you edit a bit more, your name will be put in a category of users who often participate in the USCOTW. You need to learn how to archive previous USCOTWs. I did not update it because there were too few users working on it, I felt like shutting down the collaboration altogether. Why did you wait until January to update the collaboration? (Iuio 00:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC))
- I noticed that you put yourself in the maintenance list. Although I have no real problem about this, it is best if you were listed in the category of users who often participate in the USCOTW. Also, here is a template for you to put on your user page. Most of the participants have one. (Iuio 00:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC))
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- Thank you for updating the USCOTW in my absence. You need to update USCOTWHIST with the infomation of previous USCOTWs. I'm afraid that I don't have the time to do this as I have been very busy lately. I became the main maintenance member after the departure of the original maintenance crew. I am leaving Wikipedia for a while to write a Wikibook at Wikibooks. I leave you in chardge of the project while I'm gone. (Iuio 06:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC))
[edit] Tax Foundation page
Hello,
I realize you've made many edits to the Tax Foundation article, but I think you're being overly defensive about your previous work by reversing ALL my edits to the page. Here are the reasons why the current structure is not correct:
1. In the "criticism" section, the language about "family tax burdens" is factually incorrect. The Tax Foundation does NOT publish any annual study of family tax burdens. The annual study in question is its "Tax Freedom Day" study that is release each April. That studies does not use families as the unit of analysis. It's an economy-wide average, which you can read for yourself at: http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/93.html.
2. The "criticism" section lists only the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) as a critic of the Tax Foundation's "Tax Freedom Day" study. But this is clearly misleading. There are many, many groups that are critical of the concept of "Tax Freedom Day," not just the CBPP. In fact, think tanks in dozens of countries around the world calculate their own "Tax Freedom Day" studies, all of which are criticised by various groups for the same basic reasons the CBPP criticises the Tax Foundation's study. It is not the Tax Foundation per se as an organization that the CBPP and others criticise, it is the annual "Tax Freedom Day" study. The correct place to list the extensive criticisms of the concept of "Tax Freedom Day" is not on the Tax Foundation page, but on the Tax Freedom Day page where they are all collected in one location.
For these reasons, I think my edits of the page are logical and fair. Please email me if you want to discuss, rather than simply reversing my edits outright. anonymousman5000@gmail.com. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.49.242.98 (talk) 02:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC).
- Thanks for the info - you should have posted such on the talk page. Large blanking by anonymous IP addresses tend to get more aggressive responses. You had changed some other things such as reference type and general summary style format that conflicted with normal Wikipedia guidelines. It would have been better to make corrections to the text and summarize the criticism. It is not normal practice to just say.. go here. It is better to have a brief summary of the criticism and then say.. for more details go here. Morphh (talk) 03:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tax
hi there
well i have found some more information for the Virtual Tax article that im trying to spead to all the members of the Wiki tax project. anyways here it is. Virtual taxes are suspected to be charged inside membership fees for games. i cannot find a source for this to verify maybe someone will have better luck. i will keep looking though. Paypal charges a fee that can be considered a tax everytime a transation is processed. thats all i got for now i will look for more for you all. I know i created the article but i want to leave the editing to the professionals but if you need any extra help i can do so just ask Maverick423 20:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "What Links Here" results
Hi, Morphh - the results are in! Note that I only counted wikilinks from actual articles, not from talk space, wikipedia space, etc. I figured that was what you'd be most interested in. Let me know if that's not correct. Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 21:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- Perfect - Thanks!!! Do you want me to copy it from your userspace into the project space or do you plan to leave it there? Morphh (talk) 22:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kurzweil and nanotech
Hi Morph, Do you know of any references to articles about Kurzweil's idea of using nanotech to solve the global warming problem that he mentions in the recent C-SPAN interview; or Las Vegas' solar energy project? And, thanks for the note on placement of footnotes. Bob - uriel8 (talk) 16:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- You may be able to find what your looking for in Nanotech Could Give Global Warming a Big Chill, where Kurzweil discusses this topic. Morphh (talk) 19:23, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the reference. I just happened to come back to your talk page. (If you put stuff on my talk page, I'll see it sooner 'cause I watch it.) Bob - uriel8 (talk) 04:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Income tax vandalism on 15 February 2007 et seq.
Just for the record, I notice that this seemed to start at IP70.188.138.214 here: [1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Famspear (talk • contribs) 05:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC). Oops forgot to sign Famspear 05:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yes - I noticed that and reported it to the vandal page when he was blocked last. I had posted a warning on that talk page but it looks like the IP changed. Working on blocking the new IP. Morphh (talk) 05:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- The IP 64.38.60.236 was just blocked for 24hrs. Good luck - I'm going to bed. Zzzzz Morphh (talk) 05:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Requesting some info
hey morph how ya been
well ill cut to the chase. we have recently found some information about the damages on a city by a storm. however the problem is the cash damage is about 160 years old so by this time it would be alot higher. The damage was $100,000, in the year 1848. if its possable can you please help us get the total $ in damage in todays dollars? thanks much =) Maverick423 14:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Ps: leave the awnser in my talk page if youd like
thanks so much for your help =) Maverick423 15:23, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you!
Thank you for awarding me the Barnstar award. I'm happy that someone appreciates the work I've done on articles related to Transhumanism rather than just the Transhumanism article itself. :) --Loremaster 16:07, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies
Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 21:30, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter
The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 21:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] A super job on the WikiProject Taxation
Dear Editor Morphh: You're doing a super job on this project! I know I have been only minimally involved myself, and I hope the energy you've been exhibiting all these weeks on this project will just somehow "rub off" on me! Yours, Famspear 04:19, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks! I appreciate the feedback. :-) Morphh (talk) 12:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Fair Tax
Just so you know, I'm not a Libertarian anymore, I need to change that. I'm not really affiliated with any political party. I like freedom and the constitution.
Anyways, this fair tax idea will evolve into what I described. Banks are already making people swipe their ID cards through a machine (at least mine does, I don't swipe though) and retail outlets are all having people swipe their own credit cards now. When we switch to a National Sales Tax it WILL be attached to your National ID card (REAL ID Act.
I'm sorry that this is happening, but it is. You can either go along thinking everything will be okay or you can wake up and realize that in the near future we will be forced to defend ourselves against our Government and start getting ready.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/browne/browne52.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory65.html
Why Revolution is the only viable solution
Though I didn't really mention a replacement in that post I think we're ready for a direct democracy, which would be simple using the internet to allow people to vote and collaborate on policy. That way everyone will represent themselves, removing the consolidation of power that breeds corruption. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jeff419 (talk • contribs) 06:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Fair Tax FA
Good luck with the FAC. I've added my tuppence. Thank you for the comments on business rates. I'm hoping to get it more WP:style compliant soon - I was rather chucking stuff in at the end. Winklethorpe 21:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] FairTax JHMM13
Oh, wow! Odd..I didn't even see that link on the first read through. Nevermind on the request then. Great article! JHMM13 03:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ID
I am just asking for a source which supports your position. Please. Guettarda 19:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not that vested in the topic. I should probably just drop out of the conversation but it seems the topic needs some conversation since so many people feel it is POV. I really feel out of place with the whole conversation but it just appears to be the correct way to write it. Morphh (talk) 19:27, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Any chance we could focus on one thing at a time? Whether we use big words or simple English is a style issue. Before we figure out how to phrase things, we need to figure out what we are going to say. Getting upset about phrasing while the article is still protected is counterproductive. Guettarda 05:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] FairTax
To be perfectly honest, I do not intend to formally support or oppose (which is why I labelled my concerns with "comment" rather than a formal oppose or support. I would probably not have opposed over them.) because the article is on a topic I have to wrestle with far too much to understand, and I never support an article without giving an actual thorough read. (although my superficial look from reading about a quarter of it points for solid, well-sourced writing) Circeus 19:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair Tax FA
Congratulations on getting FairTax to FA - an excellent job. Winklethorpe 09:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
