Talk:Stephen B. Levine

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 05:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Stephen Levine (psychiatrist) → Stephen B. Levine — Using his middle initial better diambiguates him from another author/healer with the same name — Jokestress (talk) 15:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

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Discussion

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 * At this point, I am abstaining from !voting. However, shouldn't the other S. Levine article be dabbed as (poet) not (author), since they are both authors? DigitalC (talk) 06:42, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * They are both authors and both healers (in different senses), but I believe one who does poetry is better known for his therapeutic work than his poetry. That's what made this a little complicated. What would be ideal is finding out his middle initial. Jokestress (talk) 18:27, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Unless this Stephen Levine was known by Stephen B. Levine, I don't believe this dab is appropriate. JPG-GR (talk) 00:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That's how he is credited on all his books and articles (i.e. this.) Jokestress (talk) 00:21, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Silent Reversion and Talk Page Reversion?
@Dronebogus About your improper removal of my contribution to the article and question to you, the person who reverted my edit, from the talk page

1. "I don’t know what this is about but this is the wrong forum" - WP:Talk_page_guidelines disagrees with you and places the obligation on you when your reversion is called into question: "Discuss edits: The talk page is particularly useful to talk about edits. If one of your edits has been reverted, and you change it back again, it is good practice to leave an explanation on the talk page and a note in the edit summary that you have done so. The talk page is also the place to ask about another editor's changes. If someone questions one of your edits, make sure you reply with a full, helpful rationale.

2. Per the above, I will be undoing your reversion with the rationale that 1. I have already explained in the prior comment on this talk page, and 2. you have failed to meet a simple request for justification after I made an edit to bring the wording of the article closer to the provided sources and further away from WP:Libel, which is not something I would quite invoke here, but which I believe merits mention. If you seek to revert again, I would encourage you to seek a single other user's opinion or perhaps do your due diligence of responding to my question of your edit which you purged from the talk page. 49.186.63.35 (talk) 03:37, 27 April 2023 (UTC)


 * You were mostly complaining about me and making off-topic remarks. Ny talk page would have been more appropriate. As for the actual, now-rephrased question “expert opinion” is a loaded term in general speech, basically meaning “I/you/they/he/she/it is authoritative beyond reasonable doubt”, which as the article implies Levine had been subject to. It’s puffery, basically. We know what his field of expertise is from the first sentence. Dronebogus (talk) 07:13, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Plus are you really suggesting someone who compares transgender medical care to Nazi medical experiments and has advocated for overturning a ban on the widely condemned and completely ineffective practice of conversion therapy should uncritically be labeled an “expert” on transgender studies, just because he’s in the field? Dronebogus (talk) 07:23, 27 April 2023 (UTC)