Talk:Peter M. Sacks

Cutting and pasting this foetry stuff all over the wiki is pushing it in terms of undue weight. I have reverted to anonymous IP's version, which gives it the weight it deserves: a mention in passing. If Sacks was not a professor at Harvard and a many-times published poet, then maybe this event would be a big deal, but it's not; of the presumably hundreds of articles on his work and life, all we have for foetry is a few mentions in the press. Stawiki (talk) 20:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. Let me guess. You're also "anonymous." As you probably know, this was a front page article in the Los Angeles Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. It also appeared internationally in at least 10 different countries' media outlets. It was and is an important story and the paragraph is balanced with Sack's statement and the Chronicle of H.E. perspective.

As for the cut and paste, I placed that excerpt here and here only. "All over the wiki" is a gross and inaccurate exaggeration.

Bluehole (talk) 22:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello Bluehole -- let me guess as well; you're Allan Cordle, the guy who ran foetry, and with a vested interest in promoting your work around wikipedia now that you've turned off the site. I suggest you back off and let other people decide how much of your prose they want to cut and paste from page to page; you've done this on at least three articles (the foetry.com article, where it belongs, and Jorie Graham's article as well.) Stawiki (talk) 19:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Good guess, bad spelling. I have no desire to "promote my work." Please see the 2nd para on this page. Bluehole (talk) 20:12, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Are you willing to compromise? I think the way to do this is the edit I first went to, which mentions the controversy and your foetry site without repeating information from this page. I think this is how we should handle this issue on both Sacks and Graham's pages. Stawiki (talk) 20:47, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure. Can you direct me to that edit again please? I do think it would be good to have the article and/or documents that Foetry obtained linked as references. What do you think?

This is the edit I suggested: [1]. I've made a similar edit to Graham's page. I suggest you put all your foetry material in the foetry.com article. Stawiki (talk) 21:00, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

The problem is that there is no reference to the Foetry article nor to the documents listed as references. Any ideas? Bluehole (talk) 21:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)