Talk:Victor Margolin

Margolin and future edits
Not sure if Margolin wrote pun books, that was preexisting here on Wikipedia, without citation. To my understanding he did work as a designer early in his career, but it was harder to find citations for this. If anyone knows more about this, please do contribute. I think this article would be much improved with more development written (with RS citations) on Margolin's theories, ideas and research findings. Jooojay (talk) 12:30, 15 March 2021 (UTC)


 * I wrote to you on your talk page about this, and your recent edit. Margolin never trained as a designer and never claimed the pun books (written by Robert Margolin). Designergene (talk) 14:57, 15 March 2021 (UTC)


 * You have sprinkled many 'better source needed' through the Career section again, after my very good faith efforts to improve it. I really don't understand how factual comments need 'better sources'. For example, "flagging Margolin's intent of "countering Simon's model of seamless rationalism"[7]" is a factual record of what Margolin wrote in his book to indicate his intent re Simon. "proposing a 'social model' of design practice, in contradistinction to the dominant 'market model'.[11]" is what Margolin & Margolin indicate in their article was their intent. "In 2002 he published a book on the museum, Culture is Everywhere, with the photographer Patty Carroll.[14]" is a simple statement of fact: the book was published, authored by Margolin and Caroll and the citation records the book publication details. It would seem that just about every statement in this and almost all Wikipedia entries need better sources, according to you. Please reconsider, so we can move forward with improving the article. Designergene (talk) 15:05, 1 April 2021 (UTC)


 * The better source needed tags were literally added to every tag that was a primary source, in hopes of finding better sources that are not self published/primary because he is a notable person and those better citations exist. Not sure what the confusion is about? Jooojay (talk) 10:56, 6 April 2021 (UTC)