User talk:Martygoodman

Hello, Marty!

Welcome to Wikipedia! What took the hell you so long?!?!?

Let me know if anybody tries to bully you around and I'll help set things right. There are 4,003,476 different policies and guidelines here, many of them contradictory. The key thing is to maintain NEUTRAL POINT OF VIEW at all times and to be sure that you footnote your work rather than making zany, undocumented assertions. Walk with jesus and life will be good.

xoxo,

Tim Davenport /// Carrite (talk) 23:52, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Quackery
Hello,. I had to revert your edit to the article because it was unreferenced and could then be considered original research (WP:OR). It may be that the information you added was valid, but if so it needs to be accompanied by a reliable source (WP:RS) which makes this constatation. Care must also be taken to avoid doing custom synthesis (WP:SYNTH), it must be clear that those are the conclusions of the source that is referenced. Thank you, — Paleo  Neonate  — 19:02, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the source. —  Paleo  Neonate  — 19:45, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

January 2019
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to English-language press of the Communist Party USA. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. &#x2230; Bellezzasolo &#x2721;  Discuss  15:55, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

I am very unacquainted with both HTML editing and with Wikipedia's provisions for dialog when a message like the one you just sent me is sent. This is the only way I currently know how to reply to it.

Your message puzzled me. You have a page listing most communist publications. Many have active clickable links to where one can view and/or download the listed publication, and the site is often Marxists.org when a link is provided.

I merely was attempting to add similar links to the many already present, where one can (for free, with no fee or obligations of any kind... not even personal data being collected to sell to others!) to the SAME web site (Marxists.org, the oldest and largest site on the web offering for free access via viewing and downloading to a huge number of socialist and communist periodicals... a major resource for scholars and historians) to some of the listed publications where the link had not been provided.

This is why your reply puzzled me. Perhaps the problem was I did not know how to construct a clickable (hypertext / hot button) link via an edit of a Wikipedia page. If that was the problem, I'd like to be referred to instructions on how I can do this.

---marty

PS Note that over the last ten years I personally have scanned several hundred thousand pages of such periodicals, and given the scans to Marxists.org, so that they can be best made freely available to all. I am likely the largest single individual contributor to the available English language, published in the USA socialist and communist periodicals available on Marxists.org, by the way. It's a personal mission... my gift to scholars, researchers, and leftists.

Martin H. Goodman MD Director, Riazanov Library digital archive project Board of Directors Holt Labor Library of San Francisco informally (but closely) associated with Marxists.org Marxists Internet Archive