User talk:Thewolf37

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[edit] Copyright issue with Stephen D. Mumford

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Stephen D. Mumford, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.population-security.org/31-BIO.html. As a copyright violation, Stephen D. Mumford appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Stephen D. Mumford has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

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Thanks for pointing me to the copyright issue - I rewrote the article and included a link to more detailed biographical info in the reference section. --Thewolf37 19:43, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gunnar Heinsohn article

Hello! I've noticed that you have been one of latest contributors to the Heinsohn entry and i think it still needs some overhaul/extension, in particular there is no mentioning of the controversial nature of his research. Personally i'd suggest maybe just adding a criticism paragraph, the german wikipedia article on Heinsohn might provide a good guideline. Anyhow I didn`t want to start making modifications without your input first,therefore i've just tagged the article for now. Please let me know what you think.--Kmhkmh 16:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi! I got your note - I'd suggest to leave the article tagged for now until you`ve got a chance to rewrite. Unfortunately i have no English sources regarding Heinsohn, but as i mentiod the german entry and also its discussion page there have quite some sources (such as quotes by other scholars about Heihnsohn) and summaries available. regards--Kmhkmh 03:05, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I checked the discussion page of the german wikipedia article on G. Heinsohn. To me, it seems to be a lot of hot air produced by people who know next to nothing about the work they discuss (no matter if they opt pro or contra Heinsohn). I always love it when the discussion page of an article is much longer than the article itself. That could suggest that even the disputants themselves feel incompetent to make contributions to the article based on knowledge about the matters discussed - they still seem to feel capable enough to initiate editwars based on things like deletions rather than contributions, though. Do we really need this on wikipedia?
I did include the references to rejections of Heinsohn´s interpretation of the witch-hunts I found on that page into the article (see footnotes . You will notice that the article consists mainly of references. My purpose in writing the article was to start to make references to work by and about Heinsohn available on wikipedia because his "youth bulge" theory and his interpretation of european demography has recently received some attention on the web, usually being discussed alongside with points of view put forward by Mark Steyn ("America Alone") and Walter Laqueur ("The Last Days of Europe"). No qualms about the fact that Heinsohn´s views are quite controversial and off the mainstream of social sciences. No wonder, Heinsohn tends to pick topics that are intensely value-laden, emotionally charged and surrounded by prejudice and often conflicting interests (interest, money, birth control and demography, sacrifice, genocide). So I agree with you that the best bet for the wikipedia article would be to include references to any rejections, refutations, criticisms of Heinsohn´s points of views that are available, which I have tried to do to the best of my ability. As far as keeping the article tagged or not - I basically don´t care if it´s tagged or not, and I will rewrite it in more detail as soon as I have time. --Thewolf37 16:41, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Please see my comments posted yesterday by mistake on Kmhkmh Talk concerning the revision of the Heinsohn article. Like so many others before him, such as Velikovsky, Reich, and Fomenko, he has allowed himself to be seduced by the perceived beauty of his own fantasy and become immune to criticism. Despite the protestations of the anonymous editor in Romania (89.122.../86.106...), the fact of the matter is that most of Heinsohn's support and criticism comes from Velikovskians. Phaedrus7 19:23, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
As far as I can see, you are correct that Heinsohn´s chronological work has not received any support from historians and that even in circles of Velikovskyan and other chronological revisionists, responses have been mixed and there has not been much agreement. I also agree that these responses should be included in the article, and I explicitly included that while his work is being discussed in velikovskyan circles, it is being rejected my mainstream historians. This was with the intention of presenting an accurate picture of the reception of Heinsohn´s work. I appreciate the additional references to the discussion of Heinsohn´s ideas and to the fact that he never answered to these criticisms. I have no basis for judging Heinsohn´s chronological claims since I am not a historian. Thus, I have no basis to judge if your interpretation that he "has allowed himself to be seduced by the perceived beauty of his own fantasy" has anything to do with Heinsohn´s argument. If you choose to believe so, so be it. I, for one, prefer specific counterarguments to such general statements of belief, which only serve to deteriorate the quality of content-based discussion. --Thewolf37 (talk) 23:57, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
As for your question "why does the English version not mention the biographical details mentioned in the German version, such as Gunnar's father's service in the Kriegsmarine?", I did not include that information because I could not verify a reliable source for it. If you want that information in there, just verify it and add it to the article, referencing a reliable source. --Thewolf37 (talk) 00:08, 20 November 2007 (UTC)