User talk:Chrisclaire88

Hi Chrisclaire, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for your contributions so far, and I hope you stick around. In just a minute I'll drop a load of links on your page that contains some useful information, but since you're already familiar with Wikitext, a lot of it is likely redundant. We're trying to build a neutral encyclopedia containing articles about notable topics. Since I've noticed your interest so far in philosophers, I thought I'd point out the two most useful guidelines for writing articles about philosophers - WP:ACADEMIC sets the general academic inclusion guideline, but since it is written more for sciencey folks, it doesn't always work too well for philosophers. Many philosophers who don't meet WP:ACADEMIC do meet WP:AUTHOR - essentially, any philosopher who has written a book that has received a number of full length reviews in reliable sources such as academic journas qualifies for inclusion under WP:AUTHOR. Please feel free to reach out to me, either on my own talk page or through email. Best wishes, Kevin Gorman (talk) 02:08, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

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Chrisclaire88, good luck, and have fun. – Kevin Gorman (talk) 02:09, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Brian Leiter
Hey, I saw your recent edits at Brian Leiter. One of them was reverted by an IP who instructed you to dig through the archives to (ostensibly) find out why the Globe article quote couldn't be included. Obviously a burden shift. I don't care much for those. The archives appear to have been wiped presumably for privacy reasons, but there was some information here. I don't know if this represents the totality of the discussion or if there is more elsewhere. It appears that there were some suggestions of impropriety on the part of IPs that were possibly linked to the article's subject, who I guess worked/works at U of Chicago. It should be no surprise that the IP who reverted you is a U of Chicago IP. So, there appears to be a conflict of interest. I glanced through the text but I wasn't looking too deep. I see some objections to the Globe by a U of Chicago IP. Anyhow, that's all I got. I was just passing through. But if you need more eyes, I'll keep 'em peeled. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:26, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know, the addition has been reverted again - I have added a section to the talk page to discuss this. Perhaps you could add your input there to gain consensus before editing the article further.  Lineslarge (talk) 21:42, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, both. I'm going to stay out of this for a while for a variety of reasons.  But I do encourage you to edit or revert reversions as you see fit. I would have no objections to that at all.  The page does need lots of work.  See Kevn Gorman's comments on the talk page.  Chrisclaire88 (talk) 22:06, 22 February 2014 (UTC)