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June 2024
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself, at User:Ehalton/sandbox. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Air on White (talk) 21:15, 3 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Dear Air on White,
 * Thank you for your reply. I appreciate the reasons given why autobiographies are strongly discouraged. Though I did a little wikipedia editing years back, I'm not really familiar with posting formats and conventions, and appreciate your feedback.
 * I recently came across a P2Pf wiki page that someone, not me, set up at some point, on my book on John Stuart Stuart-Glennie, including references to other related works of mine (https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/From_the_Axial_Age_to_the_Moral_Revolution). That gave me the idea that I would like to have some biographical information on me also be available on wiki, for that and other work. So I would like to submit a revised abbreviated version, that I am copying below, limited to my intellectual work (My earlier draft version was broader). If you do not think this would be appropriate, please let me know. If you don't think it appropriate I won't attempt to publish it. If you do think it appropriate, I would also appreciate a suggestion of how to do that technically.
 * Gene Halton
 * Eugene Halton is an American sociologist and philosopher. He is professor emeritus in Sociology and American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Halton has written extensively on consumption and materialism, and the problematic nature of modern civilization and the civilizational mindset more generally. His recent works concern a new philosophy of history regarding the limitations of the civilizational mindset, and guideposts toward re-attuning contemporary civilization to what he has termed “sustainable wisdom.”[i][ii]
 * Halton’s first book, The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self (Cambridge University Press, 1981, coauthored with M. Csikszentmihalyi), is regarded as a keystone work in material culture studies[iii] and has been translated into Italian, German, Japanese, and Hungarian. It is based on his dissertation, and is a study of the household possessions of over 300 Chicagoans. He is also the author of Meaning and Modernity (1986), Bereft of Reason (1995), and The Great Brain Suck (2008), all published by The University of Chicago Press, and From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). This book rewrites the history of the axial age, the revolutionary period centered roughly around 600-500 BCE, bringing the unknown original theory of John Stuart Stuart-Glennie from 1873 to light, as well as another previously unknown and unexpected contributor, D. H. Lawrence.[iv] Halton is also coeditor of Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing (Peter Lang, 2019).
 * 1.       [i] Halton, E. Planet of the Degenerate Monkeys. In Planet of the Apes and Philosophy; Huss, J., Ed.; Open Court Press: Chicago, USA, 2013, pp. 279–292.
 * 2.       [ii] Halton, E. Indigenous Bodies, Civilized Selves, and the Escape from the Earth. In Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing. Narvaez, D., Arrows, F., Halton, E., Collier, B., Enderle, G., Eds.; Peter Lang Publishing: New York, USA 2019, pp. 47-73.
 * [iii] Michael Schudson. Review of The Meaning of Things. American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 88, No. 4 (Jan., 1983), pp. 799-801. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2779495
 * [iv] Bryan S. Turner, “John Stuart Stuart-Glennie versus Karl Jaspers: A Quixotic Quest?,” Existenz 13/2 (2018), 93-96. Eugene Halton (talk) 16:12, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Ehalton, thanks for responding. I believe the best approach is to create a draft and then have it reviewed by the Articles for Creation team. As of now, I do not have permissions to formally approve a draft. If I had to give one critique, I would say that wording like "keystone work" may seem promotional and stop the reviewer from approving your work, if you do not have substantial sourcing to back it up. I haven't checked your sourcing, but I would say that multiple reliable sources are required to assert such a claim as fact; otherwise, the claim must be attributed in text. Air on White (talk) 23:49, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Dear Air on White,
 * Thanks again for your suggestions. I will try to submit a draft for review by the Articles for Creation team. Re the reference to my book, The Meaning of Things, as a “keystone work,” I will probably attribute in text as you suggest with a direct quote from the author of the article using the term keystone in The American Journal of Sociology rather than paraphrase it. I will try to avoid any similar wordings not verifiable in text or multiple reliable published references.
 * Eugene Halton Eugene Halton (talk) 16:49, 6 June 2024 (UTC)