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About my contributions to the G.A. Wells article

No hard feelings. I felt your comments were on the level, and, as I explained in all seriousness, I feel that I have been influenced by R. Joseph Hoffmann's attitude. He is a prima donna in this field, knows Wells better than anybody else in the English-American world, and finds anybody who's not up to his level of expertise unworthy of his attention. But he is not at the level of Wells when it comes to in-depth knowledge of German scholarship. In spite of Hoffmann's offputing attitude, I felt, now that Wells is 86, it would be fair to present a pretty accurate image of his work to the public, which has remained largely ignorant of his complex work.

Instead of posting my additions piecemeal, gradually, as I tried to do from Oct. 7 to Oct. 31, I think it is preferable to develop my version of the article completely, until it is a completed product, and only then post it as a complete article.

This way, I shall avoid being exposed to recurring attacks and corrections requiring lengthy defenses on the TALK page, a process that I find exhausting and detrimental to the spirit of free engagement with the subject. This way I shall avoid the hurly-burly of the gradual process of Wikipedia editing.

Also, most important, whatever the reception it receives from your team, I shall be able to save a clean copy of my final complete version, before it is tampered with by unsatisfied readers.
Skipping the torturous revision of each of my gradual contributions will be a huge gain in time and peace of mind, for me and everybody else.

This is why I withdrew all my written contributions since Oct. 7, which are strictly my additions, since I wish to reserve all those additions from Oct. 7 to Oct. 31, 2012 to incorporate them in the complete text of the full version I am planning to finalize. I noticed that you have already used some of my writing for the revision of the lead paragraph, whereas I had been cautious to restored all the original text of Oct. 7, as I found it before I added anything.

This clean copy, the original of my final posting, will be available for the experts in this field, who I know will be much less interested in the popularizing editing done by your team to package a Wikipedia article for consumption by the general public, who is not interested in all the fine details of a scholarly presentation.
Saving this final version is valuable to a small crowd of better informed scholars, which will thus survive, whatever fate my posting text meets with at the hands of all those volunteer editors.

This whole process of completion and finalization will take quite a while, since I intent to involve a few experts in the project. I recognize that the idea of trying to post an in-depth scholarly article on Wikipedia is rather suspect. However I have read some Wikipedia articles in areas where I am knowledgeable which were pretty up to snuff. Others were lamentable, larded with errors, and I can understand Hoffmann's reaction. --ROO BOOKAROO (talk) 18:59, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Good luck on your drafting; I hope the final version is an excellent article. No doubt that there are many articles on Wikipedia that are not excellent. The crowd-sourcing approach is great at producing tremendous breadth of coverage -- a traditional encyclopedia might not have an article on Wells at all -- but achieving quality is difficult.

With regard to the text you already added and then removed, I hope you understand that all content you place on Wikipedia is "CC-BY-SA" licensed as part of the site's terms of use. This means anyone can re-use it at any time, as long as the history is preserved showing that you contributed it in an earlier revision. So some bits you wrote previously may be revived (by me or someone else) and put back into the article. The good news is that this allows for the article to be incrementally better sooner, without you having to tend it personally. --RL0919 (talk) 21:56, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Sleeper Agent

On July 27, 2011 you finalized an edit war on this entry. I am curious why? not why it was incorrect or nonsensical but why would you care about such a stupid subject? and then to escalate it? how did you even know it was revised? and given it was written to pass all the 'automated' filters why were you declared the winner? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Detemad (talk • contribs) 06:09, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

I saw your edit to a discussion about Wikipedia bureaucrats,[1] in which you specifically said "See sleeper agents." This led me to look at the article on sleeper agents, where I saw your previous contribution to it, which I reverted. I don't know what you mean by "escalate" or "declared the winner". --RL0919 (talk) 16:33, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

TFD Infobox settlement

You have been involved with Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 September 13. Would like your feedback at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 December 18#Template:USA City infobox NVanMinh (talk) 14:53, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Non-free cereal box cover

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Template:Non-free cereal box cover listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Non-free cereal box cover. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Non-free cereal box cover redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sfan00 IMG (talk) 19:59, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Nice article on Ayn Rand influences!

I was actually just thinking of writing this exact article, just the other day, no joke! Given Ayn Rand's philosophy, I was planning on titling it "List of Individuals influenced by Ayn Rand", but other than that, I had the exact same idea just a few days ago and was beginning to write it as I stumbled upon your article. Way to beat me to it! Nice work! It feels like one of those cosmic coincidences where one person beats the other to the patent office just a few days prior. Lenschulwitz (talk) 03:44, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, glad you liked it. There are still no dates or brief descriptions for most folks on the list (I only did non-living ones initially), so there is still plenty of opportunity to contribute. :-) --RL0919 (talk) 04:36, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I most definitely will. There are a couple doozies the article is missing. For one, Howard Roark himself (aka Steve Jobs). ;) Lenschulwitz (talk) 09:11, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Template:Empty section

{{Empty section}} is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 May 1; I thought you might want to know because you were responsible for closing the DRV on it in 2011. Nyttend (talk) 20:31, 2 May 2013 (UTC)