Talk:Jerry Coyne

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[edit] Trouble with templates

We need warnings to stop users putting references above templates like {{evolution}} and {{raycomfort}}. Below is a section copied from Talk Kirk Cameron and the same can happen here. Proxima Centauri (talk) 07:39, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

[edit] There was something wrong with this page

When you pressed the edit button you found links given as references for quotes etc, they appeared between the <ref></ref>. When you didn't press the edit button but instead clicked to get to footnotes different footnotes came up which didn't appear between the <ref></ref> when the page was opened for editing. You can check this problem by clicking onto This old version of the page. Proxima Centauri (talk) 07:48, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

I've found out part of what was wrong, references that came above the {{raycomfort}} template didn't appear in the footnotes for some reason. I moved the {{raycomfort}} template higher up the page and the references now come right. Still the layout was worse afterwards and I had to work to improve that. Proxima Centauri (talk)

If the template contains random dpl it tends to muck these things up. Peter This is not my first temporal anomaly 08:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

The problem probably exists with other pages that have the {{raycomfort}} template, perhaps/probably with other templates too. Proxima Centauri (talk) 08:38, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

It is a problem with all pages with similar templates that include random lists of pages, yes. Peter This is not my first temporal anomaly 08:41, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

What should we do? Often the layout of a page is better with the template lower down and good faith editors will keep on trying to improve page layout by putting templates too low in the page. Proxima Centauri (talk) 08:50, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Preventing trouble

I put the text below onto this page and into Kirk Cameron, it warns editors but doesn't show on the page unless you press the edit button.  :-
<!--please don't put any referenced links above the {{evolution}} template as the computer can't handle those links. --> Proxima Centauri (talk) 07:44, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Jerry Coyne also thinks psychiatry is a medical pseudoscience scam. http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/is-medical-psychatry-a-scam/. Maybe worth a mention. Dirk Steele (talk) 12:31, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

It doesn't matter what Coyne thinks about psychiatry, that is not his field. Anyone who thinks psychiatry is a pseudoscience has clearly never studied it. Forests (talk) 12:40, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Many psychiatrists/psychologists think that psychiatry is a pseudoscience. Coyne talks enough about psychology. Why discount his views on psychiatry just because they do not accord with your views? Weird. Is this a normal RW ideal? Dirk Steele (talk) 12:46, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
"Many psychiatrists/psychologists think that psychiatry is a pseudoscience". Have you taken your meds recently Dirk? Forests (talk) 12:58, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
I am sure you don't want me to bore you with a list of names. But I could do. Start here for an update. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry And no... it is too early yet for my whiskey binge - give me a couple of hours though. Dirk Steele (talk) 13:10, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
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