Talk:Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus)
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[edit] Crypto-Dalby
Hello Dalby. Your status as an author and scholar in the field presents certain problems with Wikipedia policy. You chose to work on Wikipedia and I am glad you did and also I agree with your reasons totally. I am sure you are finding as have I this is an experience unparalled elsewhere. I am sure there are many unidentified authors on it too and from what I can see they sure need this experience.
Now, Wikipedia is not for publication of original research! So if you say something opinionated here without a ref it can immediately be called into question. If you say it in your own book(s) then no one can question it except your peers in a peer review of articles and books. And on Wikipedia we can say, "well, Dalby says ...." But if Dalby says it here then Dalby has to back it up and be scutinized by the general public and subject to merciless editing just like everyone else, and that is part of the Wikipedia experience which is so useful though painful. No pain no gain. I suppose you can back up Dalby online with Dalby offline.
What I am getting to in this roundabout way is that your point of view on Pseudo-Herodotus is not shared by everyone substantial. So, arbitrary unreferenced statements about the way things certainly are, are not for us at our level. I think not many people care to take on an identified author. Maybe fools step in where angels fear to tread. In any case I am changing your point of view to one I think is more balanced and I hope you will not take it amiss. Thanks.Dave (talk) 14:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
PS I think your sales would do better if you made yourself reviewable on Google Books. It certainly would be more convenient for us, but I have to say, if there is anything here or in Homer or other articles to which you have contributed that looks like salesmanship I will have to take it out.Dave (talk) 12:04, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
