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January 2012
Please do not add promotional external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Disarmament. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. bobrayner (talk) 20:51, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Reply: What are you talking about? WHat is a PROMOTIONAL LINK? BE EXPLICIT! BE CLEAR! This amounts to INUENDO. WHAT IS A "SOAP BOX"? Give an example?! The term "advertising" is used to refer to products. What product do you think I was selling? I haven't used Wikipedia to advertise any product? Every intellectual is PROMOTING SOMETHING. That is what intellectuals do, they promote ideas. These comments are vague and lack logic. Regards, JonathanMFeldman

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Wikipedia continues to engage in academic pseudo postering when it comes to the truth. It supports propaganda and nitpicking when it is given perfectly verifiable information.

RE: More bias from wikipedia
Actually, in my view, the article just wasn't thorough nor carefully researched. John "Tito" Gerassi is a fascinating subject and deserved quite a bit more effort than you expended on this submission.

More about his life and education would have been helpful; for an example, see: http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/alba_018/. Perhaps even some mention of his family and, in particular, just a bit more about his father; see for example: http://www.fernandogerassi.com/. Maybe something about the controversy that swirled around him in 2006: http://www.bloggernews.net/12336. Of course, a good starting point for your research might have been the detailed interview of Gerassi by Tony Monchinski. (It appears you do know of their association, having cited the work they did together as a reference without in fact having taken anything from the book for your article). The interview, in case you would like to review it, is at http://clogic.eserver.org/4-2/monchinski.html. I'm also a bit surprised that you made no reference to John Gerassi's 1966 truly wonderful "The Boys of Boise," written about the Boise Sex Scandal in 1955/56. Of course, if you had included a reference to The Boys of Boise then you would likely have come across the film made last year by Seth Randal called "The Fall of '55" which relied heavily on The Boys of Boise by Gerassi. Indeed a more complete bibliography or a bibliography at all would have likely been appropriate. The bare reference to just a few of his books, without even so much as a note about or quote from the reviews (mostly positive) those books received seemed to me to be insufficient. There are lots of reviews available online.

Your reference to Gerassi as an activist in the New Left seemed to me to be a bit simplistic without referring to his long history, work, and association with various important groups and organizations on the left. I think most people would have found his open support of FARC leader Granda and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in 2005 was just a little bit noteworthy. Even a nod to the many books he has written from a socialist (some might even say Marxist) perspective and his writings about socialist/communist leaders would have provided somewhat more insight for your reader.

Without question, I would have thought, since Gerassi passed away in 2012, what was written about his life after he died would help inform your reader. There is a truly remarkable obituary/memorium by Michel Contat in Le Monde. Albeit in French, it is nevertheless infused with great insight into Gerassi's life and views. (See http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2012/08/10/john-tito-gerassi-l-ami-americain-de-sartre-mort-a-81-ans_1744962_3382.html).

I am sorry you feel that you have not been treated fairly by me but these are just some examples of information and sources that would have, in my opinion, improved your article so that it was not so devoid of content, context and references that it tended in fact to mislead, rather than inform, the reader about the subject.

All the best. Snowysusan 01:40, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Look, I don't know who you are, but you come across as an arrogant know it all. This in my opinion is par for the course in Wikipedia, which seems to attract a certain type, form over substance. First of all, I wanted to at least give a very brief mention about whom Tito Gerassi was, so that readers could turn to the page for a reference. Second, I am working on a rather long 61 page single spaces already treatment of Gerassi for a book. So, why would I dump all my material in this blurb for free? This is nothing Gerassi would have done, so why should I? He would have thought it wierd in fact. Third, if you wanted to complement what I wrote, why not simply edit my piece and make changes? Instead, because I don't self-plagiarize, you go on and on about what I did not say. If you thought it was all that important to make these additions, you could have made them. Also, you could have written the first reference to him yourself, but you did not. Why not? Because I suspect you enjoy the role of a gatekeepper more than being a researcher. Now, I can not find any Wikipedia entry for John Gerassi. So, I hope you are satisfied. Regards, JonathanMFeldman (talk) 12:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)Jonathan Feldman


 * Your article on the holocaust is misleading. It contains misleading information. Who can I write to so that the inaccurate impression that is left by the article can be corrected?  How can you have an article about this topic and not cite:

Hannah Arendt or Zygmunt Bauman? This is not serious. Regards, JonathanMFeldman — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonathanMFeldman (talk • contribs)

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