You know how once upon a time you threw out old toys when you grew up or discarded old fashioned technology. Then a few years later you see the same thing in a museum or up for auction and realise that you are actually quite nostalgic about what you once considered rubbish.
Well … I went to look at the talk page of “Global warming” on wikipedia and was quite horrified to find this:
Rename article?
NewsAndEventsGuy, suggested it last year. Today the term global warming is almost never used, either in the literature or in the media. Therefore WP should reflect that.
Of course, the reason I go back there is to see the academics who fabricated that article squirming every way possible to avoid the pause. It’s fun to see what their latest excuse is for their denial of reality.
But when I saw they might get rid of the page altogether – I kind of realised I’d grown fond of that page and all the quirky non-science on it.
And it is so easy to just point someone at the page and say “look for the pause” – it doesn’t take a lot of effort to show people how biased Wikipedia is on the subject.
Fortunately, the con artist in chief who spent so much time fabricating the article doesn’t like the idea:
Disagree. Climate change covers the present period, too. Fiddling with the name is just pointless William M. Connalley (talk) 17:06, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
So, on reflection, if it puts connolley’s nose out of joint I wouldn’t be so sad to see it go. But we certainly need to keep a copy.
Does anyone know how to get a copy of all the talk comments?
There are 71 archives of the talk pages at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_warming
Scroll down until you see a small yellow box “Archives”
click on an archive …. eg number “1” – takes you for example. to –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_warming/Archive_1
Then (depending on your web browser)
Chose “Save Page As…” from the menu
Select “save as single file” “save as webarchive”
.mht .mhtml or similar type of file.
Do this for all 71 archive pages !
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It is possible to download a dump of the whole Wikipedia
as a compressed SQL Database, and trawl through the
multi-gigabyte file with some software package, but most
of those don’t give you access to “Talk” pages.
My suggestion, though tedious, is more useful, and offline
archive pages are searcheable, and you can copy/paste
to a notepad or Word document or Powerpoint & etc
Have Fun !
I went to start downloading the page itself and soon realised that it was a dog of an article all blotted poorly laid out with very little useful content.
What they never understood is that every good story needs good and bad characters – likewise, people aren’t interested in global warming unless it’s an issue – so giving them just one side put everyone off. So then they went to look for sites dealing with issues, found places like WUWT and that’s how we won.