User talk:LouieCrew

Welcome![edit]

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Undid revision 597587733 by TheRedPenOfDoom (talk)[edit]

Twice I have added on line of documentation to the Wikipedia article on "Daniel Curzon" and twice "RedPenOfDoom" has removed it. When I click for information on "TheRedPenOfDoom" I receive the report that "User:TheRedPenOfDoom" "This page has been deleted...."

The one sentence that I am trying to add regard Curzon's novel "Something You Do In the Dark." My addition is: "Rictor Norton and Louie Crew called it "a convincing indictment of modern homophobic society." [3]

The reference points to:

Norton, Rictor and Louie Crew, co-editors of College English for a special issue on "The Homosexual Imagination" 36.3. (November 1974): 273

Earlier I left our names out and TheRedPenOfDoom said the addition was not referenced.

When I added the names and the reference, she or he removed them.

I am an emeritus professor at Rutgers. The College English issue is recognized by many critics for its pioneer gay scholarship. TIME MAGAZINE cited the special issue in a cover story on Leonard Matlovich ages ago. I don't understand why I cannot add this sentence. I am not promoting myself or my colleague Rictor Norton. I am offering one sentence of documentation to Wikipedia's article on Daniel Curzon.

LouieCrew (talk) 19:01, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Undid revision 597587733 by TheRedPenOfDoom (talk)[edit]

Twice I have added one line of documentation to the Wikipedia article on "Daniel Curzon" and twice "RedPenOfDoom" has removed it. When I click for information on "TheRedPenOfDoom" I receive the report "User:TheRedPenOfDoom .... This page has been deleted...."

The one sentence that I am trying to add regards Curzon's novel "Something You Do In the Dark." My addition is:

 "Rictor Norton and Louie Crew called it "a convincing indictment of modern homophobic society." [3]

The reference points to:

Norton, Rictor and Louie Crew, co-editors of College English for a special issue on "The Homosexual Imagination" 36.3. (November 1974): 273

Earlier I left our names out, and TheRedPenOfDoom said the addition was not referenced.

When I added the reference, TheRedPenOfDoom removed them.

I am an emeritus professor at Rutgers. The College English issue is recognized by many critics for its pioneer gay scholarship. TIME MAGAZINE cited the special issue in a cover story on Leonard Matlovich ages ago. I don't understand TheRedPenOfDoom will not allow me to add this sentence. I am not promoting myself or my colleague Rictor Norton. I am offering one sentence of documentation to Wikipedia's article on Daniel Curzon.

LouieCrew (talk) 19:16, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

conflict of interest in promoting your own publications[edit]

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Stop attempting to promote your own work by cramming it into references. It is not an acceptable practice.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:03, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]