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Vining and Fusang[edit]

Your comments on Vining are what we call original research - ie they are you own opinion and thus don't belong on Wikipedia. If you can find academic sources discussing Vining we might be able to use what those sources say. Dougweller (talk) 10:44, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

---Vining and Fusang --- response by Ezraskid July 28, 2014

Actually my comments are references to a source of the highest merit, as personal inspection of the text in question will show you. Vining's work no more requires substantiation by reference to contemporary pedants than does Seebohm's English Village or Oxford Reformers. He IS an expert. The proof of Vining's expertise is his book. Your questioning of it merely reveals that you are not familiar with it. Your idea that a contemporary pedantic reference would confer on it a status it lacks reveals a fundamental unfamiliarity (or forgetfulness) of basic elements of historiography. Stuff like this makes me think it a waste of time to contribute to Wikipedia.

April 2016[edit]

Hello, I'm Donner60. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Brooks Adams, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 03:06, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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More original research and editorial comment[edit]

Please read WP:VERIFY and WP:RS. Your edits at Thor Heyerdahl and Kokopelli were reverted by me as original research. Another editor had to remove some violations of our WP:NPOV policy recently.[1] Doug Weller talk 15:03, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

January 2017[edit]

Hello, I'm Alcherin. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Fortunate Son, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Please note that the verifiability policy mandates that unsourced material that has been challenged, such as by a "fact" tag, or by its removal, may not be added back without a reliable, published source being cited for the content, using an inline citation. The cited source must clearly support the material as presented in the article, and the burden is on the person wishing to keep in the disputed material. So if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so, following these requirements! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Alcherin (talk) 23:53, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

February 2017[edit]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at Day of Deceit. You've been warned by others besides myself about adding unsourced material, removing sourced material, etc. If you haven't read WP:VERIFY and WP:NOR you need to do it before editing again. Personal comment is simply not allowed. I've also removed some original research added by another editor last year. Also see WP:NPOV. Doug Weller talk 10:43, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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February 2020[edit]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at Harry Elmer Barnes. Jayjg ^(talk) 20:48, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

March 2020[edit]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did at Harry Elmer Barnes. Final warning. See also Wikipedia:No Nazis Ixocactus (talk) 02:00, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article on Harry Elmer Barnes as it stands is a travesty and a disgrace. Instead of addressing its subject even-handedly it has been turned into a venue for propagation of fanatical partisan attack on the basis, principally, of Barnes' association with another scholar and without any admission of the genuinely controversial questions involved in the discussion -- all of which are ruled out of discussion in advance and replaced with slanders and special pleading. This is evident to any competent unbiased open-minded scholarly observer. Efforts to enforce it and prevent correction are what's "Nazi" here.

2000 of the 4500 words in this article on Harry Elmer Barnes are devoted to the attack on him by one partisan author, Lipstadt, who is cited 68 times. Her partisan colleague Dawidowitz is cited 16 times also. All this in relation to a controversy that is, except in the view of partisan fanatics like these, entirely peripheral to Barnes' scholarship and carrer. The grotesque imbalance of this is obvious and damning, and persons such as Ixocactus, who ignore this flagrantly grotesque situation and attack an effort to restore a decent balance as "nazi" are self-condemned as rabid partisan fanatic enforcers of their own hate-filled one-sided dogma. On the face of it, they are enemies of balanced scholarship. The current state of this article proves it. This sort of thing disgraces, demeans, and will ultimately ruin wikipedia -- except as a source of propaganda for the Official Lie, which is plainly what they have in mind.

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Doug Weller talk 13:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Historian Klaus Kostermaier, writing on the Vedic History, reminds us: "Tacitus, the classical Roman writer, claimed to have described past events and personalities in his works sine ira et studio, free from hostility and bias. This motto has guided serious historians through the ages, and it became their highest ambition to write history 'objectively', distancing themselves from opinions held by interested parties."

The failure of the wikipedia article on Harry Elmer Barnes (among others) to live up to this basic tenet of reasonable discourse is flagrant. The fundamental disavowal of this tenet by defenders of this (and other) travesty is equally flagrant. A review of the range and quality of my contributions to Wikipedia will amply evidence that blocking me as a contributor is wikipedia's loss, and disgrace. The persondoing this blocking appears in this as an enforcer of political dogma and a defender of behavior that is vicious and an attack on reason. The case is obvious, as I state above. Shame on you. I shake your dust off my feet.