User talk:15

Mark Bradford help (again)

Hello again, 15. I'm not sure if you recall, but you helped me with an edit request for Mark Bradford a while back. Yesterday I posted a new request with some proposed additions, and edited the article directly to fix some final (uncontroversial) chronology issues and to fill in some missing citations where there were tags. I declared my COI in the edit summary, all in accordance with the guidelines. The edits were reverted almost immediately with the explanation "Reverted edits made by a COI editor in violation of policy", but I struggle to see which policy was violated... If you have a moment, would appreciate you taking a look at the changes and restoring them if you see fit. Thanks for all of your help, Stewart for HW (talk) 17:27, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

@Stewart for HW, done. 15 (talk) 22:27, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with this! Much appreciated. If you do have the time to check out my latest request, that would be great as well, but either way, thank you again for your continued assistance. Stewart for HW (talk) 18:41, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

State of Exception/Carl Schmitt

Thank you for your edit to State of exception. I described Schmitt as a Nazi for two reasons. Firstly, as the article's only example is the Reichstag Fire, I felt it implies that the idea is basically a stalking horse for the Nazis' takeover of power. Secondly, Schmitt's page makes frequent reference to his support for the Nazis (twice in the lead section, a section on the Enabling Act, and mentions that he justified the Night of the Long Knives and refused denazification). In this context, not mentioning that he was a Nazi seemed misleading, even if he wasn’t a member when he invented the idea.

If you feel that I’ve misunderstood this, would you consider editing the pages to give a clearer view? Thanks for your time. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 04:42, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi CohenTheBohemian, I think it should be included, it certainly makes sense to talk about the role the state of exception played in Nazi philosophy and in the justification it provided for authoritarianism in the 1920s and 30s. It should be included in more detail though, I think just having Nazi philosopher in the lead without any other context might be read as us trying to devalue the concept with guilt by association. 15 (talk) 18:21, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I do agree with your last point; my issue is that at the moment it looks like Wikipedia is doing the reverse by whitewashing a Nazi. Is there a wikiproject page or somewhere to ask an expert to add some of that context? CohenTheBohemian (talk) 02:06, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy is probably the most related project. I also found this (p. 1013), this could be used. (I will try to find the time to properly read it in the next days and add it, but I make no promises.) 15 (talk) 15:20, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help. I'll post a message there and have a look at the article myself. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 06:15, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

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Kaplan Inc

I noticed you removed citations that were sourced on the Kaplan article. I kindly ask you to reconsider. All of the sources were independent. If you didn't think the content was worthy, that's another story. But the sourcing meets Wikipedia guidelines, in my view. If you still disagree, would you be amenable to working this out on the article's talk page? I appreciate your response.HopeIsAGoodThing1000 (talk) 22:10, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello, there is no indication that the awards removed here are in any way notable. Ratemyapprenticeship.co.uk student satisfaction awards and the like are not relevant. I mentioned sourcing because if the awards were picked up on by some outside source, e.g. if The Guardian or the London Times reported on Kaplan receiving the award, there would be a stronger case for including it.

Do you have a wp:conflict of interest w.r.t. Kaplan Inc.? 15 (talk) 13:10, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

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