Talk:The Great Mother

Photograph of book cover: not correct
The photo of the book cover shows the author to be Böttcher (Helmuth M. Böttcher). While the title is correct, the subtitle as Zeugungsmythen der Frühgeschichte [Procreation myths of early history] is not. It was published by Econ (Econ Verlag of Dusseldorf and Wien, 1968), also incorrect. This clearly is another book by another author. Accordingly, the photo should be deleted. Elfelix (talk) 23:36, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Copyright problem
This article has been tagged as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) It will likely be deleted after one week unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Major contributions by contributors who have been verified to have violated copyright in multiple articles may be presumptively deleted in accordance with Copyright violations.

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 * See also . MER-C 15:03, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Copyright policing no problem, but here allegations over-broad
I wrote most of this article starting in 2015. I feel my integrity has become collateral damage.

The suspected editor (accused of copyright malfeasance and other copyright issues regarding various articles, including this one) did not write much of sustained substance here. If I remember rightly, over several years he'd pepper the article, make short passing comments here or there. The ones I scrutinized seemed ok. Many were tangental or ornamental to the issues discussed. I notice that most of his edits are in the single or double digits (often about grammar or deleting obvious error). The large one at 516 in 2014 (when the article was at 1/7 of its current size) involved a single paragraph about Camille Paglia with a reference that (I think) I checked out a few years ago and found ok.

(Note Bene. Per the Herbert Marcuse article: In making my own contribution there, I did notice that a prior entry regarding Alasdair MacIntyre's book was clearly incorrect. I then made my own contribution which happened to replace that incorrect text.)

To say that this entire Great Mother article is somehow suspect and to be put at risk, because of his moztly minor, short snatches of text, is overkill. Even if his edits were deleted wholesale (which I believe is not warranted), the entirely of the article would be only slightly touched, and it would remain standing in good stead. (FYI, I have received compliments about this article from a practicing psychoanalyst.)

Thank you for alerting me to these proceedings. Elfelix (talk) 05:07, 15 January 2021 (UTC)