User talk:Politikundtheorie

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Wendy Brown (political scientist)
Hi. Thanks for your good faith edits to the Wendy Brown article but please try to remember all articles on Wikipedia should be comprehensible to as many editors as possible. We don't all hold PhDs nor are we all familiar with gender theory. Please remember not to include POV text OR synthetic text or original research and that text must be cited from what are considered to be reliable sources. Yours, Quis separabit?  22:01, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Quis separabit?. I did my best to reduce jargon and to make the content of the previous entries more comprehensible. If there are further issues with the content as it stands I would be more than happy to edit for further clarification and simplification of terminology in political theory and gender theory. Best, Politikundtheorie Politikundtheorie (talk) 15:02, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

June 7, 2017

Dear Quis separabit? ,

As you will see, I "undid" just one of your most recent edits to the page for Wendy Brown. This edit moved a long quote from a footnote into the main body of the article. I did this not out of malice of any kind. I simply do not think the quote belongs there. Here are a number of reasons:

1 The quote is from the magazine "The Nation" and was written as a kind of polemic for this (public and political) readership. It therefore does not have the same kind of status as Brown's numerous publications (in books and articles) that intervene into important debates in feminist theory. (This is, after all, an article on a political philosopher and section entitled "Thought and Overview of Work.")

If this is not convincing, I hope some of the following points might be, for the seem to be even more important considerations to me:

2 The quote is from 1990, five years before the book States of Injury (1995) was even published. It therefore should not be tacked on to the end of a section that is dedicated to Brown's 1995 book. This neither makes sense as a way of organizing the information in an academic article, nor does it make sense in an encyclopedic entry. Moreover, the citation and reference for this quotation does not have a link to the original magazine article, which means that it is impossible for someone to click on and read the piece to understand its context -- and most importantly, the ways that it does or does not correspond to the more developed positions articulated in States of Injury (1995).

3 The quote is best characterized less as an argument of her own than as an ad hominem and polemical attack on MacKinnon. This does not disqualify it as a possible Wikipedia entry, of course. But it would be better placed under a section on Debates or Interlocutors or something of the like. Now that I think about it, the quote would best fit under a "Criticism" section on MacKinnon's page. (I could place the quote there, where it would seem more fitting.

Thank you, Quis separabit?, for the Wiki welcome, for your previous suggestions, and for this edit. I hope that these are convincing reasons to either keep the quote in a footnote or, if it seems better, to delete it from the page altogether and place it elsewhere -- under debates in feminism or under the MacKinnon page.

Best, Politikundtheorie (talk) 11:40, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

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Part of your addition to Saba Mahmood has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:05, 13 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Please stop editing Saba Mahmood because the very quick look I had made it appear there is no policy-based reason for continuing to revert. I left a message at User talk:Ysgp. The next step would be to either request page protection at WP:RFPP or report the edit warring at WP:AN3. All editors involved in an edit war may be blocked. Johnuniq (talk) 02:30, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much your warning concerning the Saba Mahmood page but there is no policy-based reason for your censorship of the information. Your persistence in censoring relevant information and your misrepresentation of facts and policies suggest a personal interest in the issue, which is unethical. Ealbayrak (talk) 19:00, 3 April 2018 (UTC) EAlbayrak (talk)

Politikundtheorie (talk) 00:56, 6 April 2018 (UTC)