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Image copyright problem with Image:Ashgrove in LA.JPG
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Tenda dos Milagres (novel)
Thank you for expanding the plot section to Tenda dos Milagres (novel). However, articles about fiction need to go beyond just a summary of the work, but need to explore the scholarly discussion of the work and verfiying this discussion with criticism. For more information, you should check out WP:MOS (novels), which outlines what information should be covered in articles about novels, Sadads (talk) 19:09, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Causa (causa limeña) (December 1)
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Author responds to editor's arbitrary censorship
I'm sure the editor who took down my article was well intentioned, but I believe misguided. While nothing I write for Wikipedia is perfect, I do a reasonably competent job. I happen to be a recognized specialist on Peruvian history and culture, with a PhD among my accomplishments and 45 years of classroom teaching at Cal State LA.

Lima has become a food tourism destination, and Peruvian restaurants have proliferated in the United States and across Europe. My cardiologist recently went to Peru only to eat, not to sight see.

Because Peruvian food is a cultural mix of Spanish, Andean, African and Chinese influences, there are few dishes that actually contain "Lima" in their name.

I not only consulted some Peruvian cookbooks to craft the article, I completed it while watching a native Peruvian cook go through all the steps for its creation.

I challenge the Wikipedia police to find a better encyclopaedia article on causa limeña in any published source.

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 * Hello Bill,


 * I declined your article over 3 years ago, and it was referred back to you for further work before it went live. This is not censorship. The article was deleted my an administrator in 2014 as blank.


 * I am not now as active on Wikipedia as I was back then. However the real reason I cannot reconsider the inclusion guidelines.


 * Any academic knows the importance of sourcing, at my university it was always drummed in to me how any published paper must be properly referenced. Your article was not declined as a copyright problem, so the most likely issue may have been sourcing. You may be an expert in your field, but your own expertise and research is not a reliable source. An article needs at least one source to be published. Wikipedia is not a journal so it is not the place to publish your research.


 * I'm guessing of course. As it was over 3 years ago I assessed your article and it is no longer available for reference I cannot be sure what the problem was. I'm 90% sure I would have pointed you to guidance on how it could be fixed.


 * Rankersbo (talk) 08:24, 15 January 2017 (UTC)


 * You took down my article as being unimportant, not for any flaws in presentation (which I could easily have fixed, as I own numerous published cookbooks that contain causa). That was a pretty poor judgment, as Peruvian cuisine was spreading all over the world.  Someone else has since done the article.  As for censorship, I guess we just disagree as to what constitutes it. Lastudies (talk) 22:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Author responds to take down of Ash Grove image
This is the second or third time the Wikipedia police have taken down this photo of the Ash Grove, despite the fact that its owner is none other than Ed Pearl, founder of the institution. He gave the photo to me with full permission to place it in the public domain. The photo was, to our knowledge, never copyrighted. Ed Pearl cannot recall if it was taken by him, by his brother or by some patron and friend of the Ash Grove. Again, the photographer is unknown and the photograph is in the public domain.

I wrote the article and uploaded the photo on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the music club. Wikipedia police promptly took down the whole article, alleging that the subject was "insignificant." Frankly, it took me more work to defend the article against that ignorant charge that it did to write the original. I am too old to fight the Wikipedia police. Bob Dylan did not think the club was insignificant. Why did you?

There are so many Wikipedia articles that are transparently self-serving and written by publicists hired to extol the virtues of a person or firm. Usually you can find online the corporate sites from which the Wikipedia text was cribbed. You might take down a few of those, rather than the work of legitimate scholars.

If you would like to verify my credentials, here is an encyclopedia in which about one-hundred of my entries appear under the chapters on El Salvador and Peru:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/latin-american-labor-organizations/oclc/15084105&referer=brief_results

https://books.google.com/books?id=a0S2AAAAIAAJ&q=Latin+American+labor+organizations+sheldon+maram&dq=Latin+American+labor+organizations+sheldon+maram&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV3NOD-L3RAhXor1QKHU88ClkQ6AEIKDAC

https://www.amazon.com/Latin-American-Organizations-Gerald-Greenfield/dp/0313228345/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484269923&sr=1-1&keywords=latin+american+labor+organizations

Here is the link to Ed Pearl's online copy of the photo:

http://www.ashgrovemusic.com/original.htm#build

I beg the police to reconsider. The deletion was petty and arbitrary.

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Bill Bollinger Latin American Studies Cal State LA


 * Bill if the photo was public domain it would probably be fine. But without any statement to that effect how is are your fellow editors to know where the photo came from.


 * Please note that your credentials are irrelevant here. Your word bears no more or less weight than any other editor. We must all "show our working." As an academic you should know the importance of sourcing, and that even senior experts are not exempt from quoting sources on their articles. Rankersbo (talk) 08:31, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Francisco de Miranda
Hey. I suggest you to read the book before saying that this is a fanciful work. Have you verified the primary sources cited by the author? You should consider that many Venezuelan books have not been digitized.

The discussion of its Jewish origin has recently had relevance in Venezuela. Although the book by Chocrón Cohen has generated controversy, research is still being done to draw conclusions. Chocrón Cohen did not say that Miranda was a Crypto-Jew, what he points out is that he was possibly a descendant of ex-Crypto-Jews (marranos).

The surnames Miranda and Espinosa are related to the Sephardic community. Curiously, many financiers of Francisco de Miranda carried their same surnames and were publicly Jewish.

Discussion about Miranda's jewish roots (quoting José Chocrón Cohen)

https://books.google.co.ve/books?id=19FZDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT20&lpg=PT20&dq="francisco+de+miranda"+"origen+judio"&source=bl&ots=WGCWTd09cH&sig=WadgkVVerHtXTPnu7RWcdUf5uoE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim5vOarODbAhWEjlkKHdUED8UQ6AEIUTAH#v=onepage&q="francisco%20de%20miranda"%20"origen%20judio"&f=false

About José Chocrón Cohen

'''He is one of the members of the board of directors of the Israelite Association of Venezuela. '''

University of Columbia (About Miranda's wife... a woman reputed to be of Jewish extraction)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nCUeXEJkI8kJ:penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Francisco_de_Miranda/ROBMIR/24*.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ve&client=opera

QuinteroP (talk) 18:40, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Causa (causa limeña)
Hello, Lastudies. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Causa (causa limeña), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 21:59, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Causa (causa limeña)


Hello, Lastudies. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Causa".

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! S0091 (talk) 21:52, 15 February 2021 (UTC)