User talk:Robertsch55

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Tibor Scitovsky
Hi Robert. I think you did a great job in elaborating Tibor's writing on the quality of consumption. The article now rounds out well and you've provided links to other similar economists (Veblen, Galbraith etc.), and all this helps motivate a learner broaden his understand of the issue. Thanks, AppleJuggler 06:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism vs. NPOV
I've responded to the concerns you raised on Talk:Edwin Cannan. I've deferred to your judgment on this matter and invited you to make corrections as appropriate. However, since you seem to be a new editor here I thought I should mention here that it's not a good idea to use the term "vandalism" lightly, as it has a very specific meaning on Wikipedia (see Vandalism). It is perfectly appropriate to question an editor's biases and those of his sources but the Vandalism policy explicitly states that straying from a neutral point of view is not vandalism. Inappropriately labelling editors' contributions as vandalism is itself a breach of etiquette. Please remember to assume good faith. —Psychonaut 01:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

A wiki article
Welcome. I looked at the articles you have contributed to. Amazing volume and depth. Your self description comes as no surprise. I share your great admiration for Popper. More recently through Wiki I've come to appreciate Hans Albert, who would have the perfect temperament for editing Wiki articles. It looks like you are doing much editing. I hope you pace yourself, so it always remains fun. Please forgive me if much of what follows is well known to you or does not apply. I prefer erring on the side of caution. Concerning the above article: I hope you consider adding to it along the lines you've suggested. You bring something up on that Talk page that I believe is prudent to address on this page. Note that above and below the Edit summary (in the Edit mode) are the following:
 * Do not copy text from other websites without permission. It will be deleted.
 * Content that violates any copyright will be deleted.
 * You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL*. [links for relevant terms not included here].

A very good scholarly practice, as I'm sure you know, is to reference within an article (not merely generically at the end as an External link or Reference). This is especially the case for distinctive phrasing that seems to come from another source. Those ought be referenced with quotes or indenting or paraphrase. You might be able to make a quick fix. In other circumstances, if you start an article & want to get material up fast, you might consider making it stub or an econ-stub article with this at the bottom:


 * econ-stub,

first with very minimal content but links to sources, building on it gradually. An example is Household production function I hope that you take this communication in the sympathetic sense intended, or even shorter. P.S. In case you are not yet familiar with creation of Redirects:  If you Search for your article as T.W. H(etc.), then click on the Redirected from hypertext, and go into Edit mode, you'll see how to do Redirects. Best wishes, Thomasmeeks 14:38, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for kind words and good advice. Cheers Robertsch55 16:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Reply
Hi Robertsch, I wish you a great day. PeaceNT 15:37, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

UKR
That are you thinking about Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky ? --Miwanya 18:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Yr articles on the history of economics...
...are much appreciated! (I've gone thru the biographical articles listed on your page, adding birth & death year categories, btw). Best, Dsp13 (talk) 12:27, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Richard Cantillon
It's been a while since I've edited anything on Wikipedia (at least, with serious intentions of returning), but I think that I would be interested in getting the article on Richard Cantillon to featured article status. I am currently compiling a great deal of research on him, and I think that I can seriously begin to write a draft to the article starting in January (I will have to completely read Essai in January, so serious editing will probably begin in February). I have some experience with writing featured articles, but it's been about a year since I left. This would be my first article on economics (I quit Wikipedia to focus on economics, actually). I saw that this was one of the articles you've been looking to work on. Well, although I can't promise you anything (I'm wary of returning to Wikipedia, because editing on this website is rather time consuming), hopefully we can work together to take the article to featured article status. JonCatalán(Talk) 05:31, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Richard Cantillon
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Copyright problem: Trygve Haavelmo
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CCI
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Dear VernoWhitney, I originally decided to stay away from Wikipedia, because the work I had done was actually done in good faith. I understand that you came to a different conclusion, but being branded as a criminal didn't feel very nice. That being said, with the little time I have currently at my disposal I will try to help clean up where I can. I just have one urgent question: you may or may not have noticed that the majority of my contributions are actually bibliographies of the authors concerned. This is relevant information for many users, and quite honestly it seems rather far-fetched to consider this as copyrighted information. If I'm wrong, can you explain? Can you also tell me what it takes for a person to be removed from the ongoing investigations list? Thank you very much, Robertsch55 (talk) 20:32, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Very reasonable questions above, R, to which I hope that a satisfactory answer has been provided (and if not, I'm prepared to pursue them). As to specifics, I am familiar with 1 article on your user that you started. That was largely recovered thanks to quick work and a series of edits by another contributor (not me) before the earlier version was lost. It was very similar to that version deleted.  So, what was deleted can hardly have been too problematic if its successor survived. My impression is that Admins know how to recover deleted articles.
 * I had an experience that was disheartening and possibly not so dissimilar to your own. A WP article I started on a book was deleted, to my surprise and mystification.  At first I thought that it had been moved in toto to a WP page for the author.  But I soon concluded that it was too truncated to have been mine.  The deleter returned a slightly edited version (with good advice on including 2 3rd-party sources). My "crime" was paraphrasing & greatly condensing material from several cited pages.  The Admin never said that I violated any WP standard, but that was the implication.  I'm not sure that the returned version was better, but it was certainly not much different.
 * I am pleased that almost all of the articles on your user page are now intact. I hope that VW above was able to assist you or direct to others who could do so as to bibliographies. It could save much time. Best wishes no matter. P.S. I'm saddened by the recent loss of Mark Blaug, who I see hailed from precincts near your home base, but happy that others remain in the precincts of WP to make more accessible what should be, and can become, the common knowledge of our WP world. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 18:57, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Encouragement
Hello, R. On the above, for now let me only express encouragement & hope as to a satisfactory outcome within WP policy and guidelines. A lot more needs to done in the areas you have been working on. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 14:12, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

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