User talk:Anthony lowstedt

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I assume you are the Dr. Anthony Lowstedt, the professor who has written on the situation in Israel-Palestine. I should warn you that it may be best to edit pseudonymously since there is an anti-elitism at Wikipedia that may work against you. Also there are rules about conflict of interest which only apply if you seem like you have a conflict of interest but if you edit pseudonymously you side step those issues, especially if you never try to place your own work front and center or advocate for it in an obviously self-interested way. Wikipedia is first and foremost a community of editors who edit articles on topics they are interested in -- thus most have some type of conflict of interest in one way or another. Also, while I agree with you recent comments to the talk page of the Allegations of Israeli apartheid, one must realize that politics here on Wikipedia are brutal. Mandela's words on the subject may better fit in his article or in the articles on Arafat or one of the many dealing with the Palestinians or even in the human rights in Israel article, and so on since he doesn't mention specifically apartheid, which in the case of the AoIa is the bar that people have set for it. --Deodar 22:09, 29 October 2006 (UTC)


 * This is exactly what I was talking about . Jayjg removed it as self-promotion but really that isn't an appropriate reason to remove it, a researcher named Martin Kramer - see his talk page -- is well known for covertly adding links to his articles all throughout Wikipedia's arab studies pages.  The problem with your book is that it is somewhat obscure.  It isn't cited much -- your name only pulls up 300 or so Google hits and even less through Google Scholar -- nor was your book published through Amazon or elsewhere.  Your peer-reviewed academic papers are relevant though since they meet RS guidelines.  --Deodar 02:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)