User talk:Ernie A. Smith Ph.D.

February 2010

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Ebonics, you will be blocked from editing. SQGibbon (talk) 20:19, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as those you made to Category:Start-Class African diaspora articles. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. SQGibbon (talk) 20:20, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A note

Please stop copy/pasting inappropriate text into wikipedia articles. Look around, ask for help, but don't get bold with this style of editing. Materialscientist (talk) 03:27, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another couple of notes

While your contributions are welcome, please consider how your additions to the articles mesh in with the present text. Simply introducing pages upon pages of text without attempting to discuss these changes or attempting to achieve consensus is counterproductive. Please review WP:CONSENSUS for more information.

Another issue that I would like to bring to your attention is that of original research. If you are an expert in the field of linguistics, then it is essential that any contributions you make to related articles is properly sourced and, if it does include work you personally done, then that work must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal of repute.

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns about these, or any other, issues. Thanks, caknuck _° needs to be running more often 03:59, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ernie Smith writes: Pleease rescue me! The very essence of my thesis is that; as originally coined and officially defined by Dr. Robert Williams, the psychologist that coined the word 'Ebonics', the word Ebonics' does not refer to a dialect or vernacular of English. Under the Wikipedia section on 'Contributions' Wikipedia posited as a contribution of mine a sentence that says: "02:59, 23 February 2010 (hist | diff) m Ebonics ‎ (Ebonics is not a sysnonym for BE, AAVE, VBE, Non Standard English etc., Ebonics is genetically related to the Germanic language Family to which English belongs". This is either a typo of my own or a deliberate attempt by Wikipedia to present my position on Ebonics as oxymoronic bilge.

I notice that an accurate version of my position does appear in the next paragraph so I am at a loss to understand why the sentence that miscontrues my position has been entered.

Wikipedia sq Gibbons has threatened to block my edits if I continue to submit edits that sqGibbons views as prolix. Ask me if I care.

The term "Ebonics" and the appearance of a legal threat

Please see this. Thank you. -- Hoary (talk) 16:03, 23 February 2010 (UTC) In response to User Hoary's topic The term "Ebonics" and the appearance of a legal threat[reply]

Ernie Smith writes

I maintain that those who view and use the word Ebonics as being a synonym for BE, AAVE and other English language based appellations, are either totally ignorant of the origin and true meaning of the word Ebonics or they are fully aware of the origin and true meaning of the word Ebonics and elect to use word Ebonics as a synonym for BE, AAVE and other English language based appellations, with the intent to deceive. Since by definition to counterfeit is to: “try to deceive by pretense or dissembling.” the propagation of a false definition of the word ‘Ebonics’ as being a synonym for BE, AAVE other English language based appellations, with the intent to deceive, is larcenous counterfeiting. Given that by definition "to steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one’s own" and using a "created production without crediting the source" is plagiarism or literary theft, when use is made of the word Ebonics (an original idea and word coined by Dr. Robert Williams as a synonym for BE, AAVE and other English language based appellations, this deceptive pattern of practice is ‘plagiaristic’ dishonesty or ‘literary theft’ that violates national and international laws protecting ‘intellectual property’ rights. This kind of plagiarism or stealth of ‘intellectual property’ via literary theft and the intentional perversion of the truth should not be tolerated and the authors of articles and books as well as publishers of dictionaries including Wikipedia, progating counterfeit and plagiaristic definitions of the word Ebonics must be held accountable.

Kifano S., Smith E. A, (2005) Ebonics and Education in Context of Culture: Meeting Language and Cultural Needs of LEP African American Children Edited by J. Ramirez et. al. Buffalo Multilingual Matters Ltd. Smith E. A. (1974) The Evolution and Continuing Presence of the African Oral Tradition In Black Ameica. Irvine. University of California at Irvine Smith E.A. (1976) A Case for Bilingual and Bicultural Education for United States Slave Descendants of African Origin Department of Linguistics Seminar Papers Series No 39 Edited By A. Kaye and D. Sears California State University Fullerton, Fullerton Smith E.A. (1978) Historical Development of Ebonics In The Western Journal of Black Studies. Pullman Washington State University Press Smith E.A. (1993) Black Child In the Schools: Ebonics and its Implications for the Transformation of American Education In Bicultural Education Studies In Education Edited by A. Darder, Claremont, Claremont Graduate School Smith E. A., Crozier K. (1998) Ebonics Is Not Black English In The Western Journal of Black Studies. Pullman Washington State University Press Smith E.A. (1993) Cultural and Linguistic Factors in Worker Notification to Blue Collar and No-Collar African American Workers In American Journal of Industrial Medicine Edited by Philip J. Landrigan, Irving J. Seliokoff et. al. New York. Wiley-Liss Smith E.A (2001) Ebonics and Bilingual Education of the African American Child In Ebonics and Language Education of African Ancestry Students Edited by Clinton Crawford Brooklyn Sankofa World Publishers

Discussion at AN/I

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