User talk:Kalwagenheim

Amiri Baraka
Hi, thanks for editing this page on Wikipedia, however I've removed the edit again for three reasons:
 * Phrases such as "cast doubt on his intelligence" and "one wonders whether his self-professed Marxism stems from Karl or Groucho" (while I particularly admire the phrasing of the latter) are ad hominem attacks which aren't appropriate to an encyclopaedia entry which should be more neutral.
 * Wikipedia has particularly high standards for biographies of living people, and requires that material like this should be accurate and come from a reliable third party which is referred to by a footnote in the Wikipedia article. So if the New York Times said this, then you could quote what they say with a footnote giving the author, date, page number, etc.
 * If, on the other hand, this is your own analysis, then it doesn't belong in Wikipedia as it excludes original research - its information all needs to come from pre-existing reliable sources.

FWIW, I think at least part of the analysis is flawed anyway: "one and the same" is poetic license to express that he thinks the two people have similar policies/effects on society, not a sign that he think they're literally like Clark Kent and Superman. However, this isn't why I've removed the edit - my reasons for doing that are all in the bullet-point list. --Zeborah (talk) 00:50, 9 October 2009 (UTC)