User talk:Bbb23/Archive 1
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Emanuel Feuermann
Hello Bbb23,
I apologize for the late reply, although it was out of chance that I saw your message even today.
Upon reading your comment on my talk page, the first thing I did was to review my edit of July 2008 and see if I had added any references at all in that edit, because in a number of occasions I added information and a source for that information without directly linking the two. I saw that I did add a book under the references section. The second thing I did was to look over my edit. I was very much surprised to see the evaluation section and I immediately thought "I couldn't have written this stuff! Something's very wrong.". Well it took me a while, but finally I figured out that almost all of it was already there.
In my edit, I only wrote most of what was then under the heading "Biography" and the first two paragraphs of the evaluation heading. All that material came from the book by Annette Morreau I added as a reference in that same edit.
However the comparison/difference/diff system of Wikipedia is not very helpful and it seems like I wrote all the material under the evaluation paragraph. If you look at the left side of the screen, you'll see what was already in the page before. That would be the whole evaluation section aside from the first two paragraphs and the cause of Feuermann's death. The cause I moved under the section "Biography", which I created and wrote up. I also created the section "Evaluation", where I kept all of the existing material and added my own at the top. You can also see this in the revision just before my edit. The article as it looked right after my edit, you can see here.
Perhaps I should have removed the existing material, as it is indeed fairly bold and there was no reference for it (still isn't). I just wasn't in the habit of removing other people's material, unless I could be certain it was untruthful, wrong, etc, it violated intellectual rights (plagiarism) or was slander to a living person. I know the WP rules actually say material should be removed in other cases also, including what seems to be the case here. If you want, you can remove that material and I think you probably should. As I've already said, the first two paragraphs I wrote myself (I recognize my writing style) and I am fairly certain that I took it from the book by Annette Morreau, as it overlaps with the biography information I wrote.
Finally, I'd like to remind you of what you probably saw at the top of my talk page. I am not really active in WP any more and rarely log in.
Best Regards,