Talk:David Thorstad

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I'm gonna try and recreate this page. The discussion for its deletion doesn't seem to be available, so I can't speak (or rather type) to the arguments for or against the original pages existence. I'm going to work on building its references, but be patient with my use of the wiki mark up which isn't perfect. I'd like to mention that my interest is more toward his early Trotskyist activism than to his later pederast activity. --Dudeman5685 (talk) 16:45, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was blanked and redirected by another editor due to a lack of sources. I suggest you hurry to add references to the article, even if poorly formatted, otherwise it's likely to be deleted again. Will Beback talk 17:45, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Legal??[edit]

How crimes like that can be legal in the US? And the apology of those things? Is it legal to be an apologist for nazism in the US? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.91.51.235 (talk) 14:46, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I share a name with (Redacted) [this subject]-- help[edit]

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

So ... I'm a postdoc at Oxford named David Thorstad. This guy (https://www.dthorstad.com/), not the (Redacted) [subject of this article].

I'm on a mission to clean up my internet presence and this (Redacted) [person] is still the #1 spot on google when you search for my name (because of his wikipedia page), complete with a picture and description.

I've taken all of the rest of the front page of google for my name, but I really don't know what to do about this. It's getting pretty awkward. People realize their mistake quickly enough, but there are some associations you can't unsee.

I know you can't delete the article, but is there anything you could do to either add a disambiguation or maybe not have google pop out a separate box with this man's charming face and details when people search for my name? They're getting the information from Wikipedia.

I don't understand Wikipedia very well but I would appreciate any help you can provide. I'll check back here and you can also email me: david.thorstad@philosophy.ox.ac.uk. Thanks for any help you can provide. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oneguy2008 (talk • contribs)

Oneguy2008: one point before I go any further. Our WP:BLP policy does not allow you to speak about living people in the terms you used in this request. I appreciate that this person's views may evoke strong feelings, but the policy applies to all living (and recently deceased) people, so please observe it. I have redacted the offending parts of your request, and inserted a few bits of paraphrasing in square brackets to preserve the gist of what you were saying.

So, I can understand your predicament here, but as things stand right now there's not much we can do. We don't have any control about how Google gather their information (note that the picture they use does not come from us, just the text), and even if the article were to be renamed to something like 'David Thorstad (Historian)' it's likely that Google would continue to use it. Our MOS does not call for the disambiguation of the title unless there is another Wikipedia article about someone of the same name; if someone decided to write an article about you, a case could be made for renaming this one, but as a junior post-doctoral research fellow it's pretty hard to imagine that you'd currently pass the notability criteria for academics, so writing an article about you doesn't look like a realistic solution.

You could consider contacting Google to explain the situation to them (good luck with that...), but there isn't really anything I can think of to help you at this end. GirthSummit _(blether) 16:38, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]