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Edits to Stalinism
Hi Sciencescholar. Thanks for adding information to the Stalinism article; however, some of your edits have problems. The main problem is that the Hacienda Publishing site doesn't seem to be a reliable source, as it is a personal blog without separate editorial control. I see that some of the articles on the site have been published elsewhere, and these article might be suitable sources, depending on where they were published. The other problem with some of your additions to the Stalinism article is that they don't seem relevant to the sections you have added them to; an idiosyncratic placing of Anarchism on the political spectrum doesn't, it seems to me, add anything to the discussion of the relationship between Anarchism and Stalinism, while a discussion of Social Democracy, in its pre-WWII forms, doesn't seem relevant to a section on post-WWII Democratic Socialism which, as the section itself makes clear, is separate from and opposed to Social Democracy.VoluntarySlave (talk) 19:53, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Good afternoon, VoluntarySlave. Ninety-five percent of the articles in Hacienda Publishing have been published in political as well as scientific journals. I have been a medical journal editor as well as an administrator for a website. Even though a few articles have not been published elsewhere, they are written in a scholarly manner and with proper references and citations. One of the latest articles posted there, Stalin's Mysterious Death, was published in Surgical Neurology International, a peer-reviewed, international medical journal. Although I see your concerns and, in fact, agree with them on principle I do not agree that they really apply to the two postings on Stalinism that you removed. The Anarchism post clarifies the position that they hold in the political spectrum and which is not at all clear in the present discussion. As far as the Social Democracy, I did not read anywhere in the discussion that it should apply only to post-WWII. Frankly, both of those paragraphs without my additions are very poorly written, incomplete, misleading and incomprehensible. I was not only adding information and references, but also trying to make them more rational, more clear, and readable.Sciencescholar (talk) 22:23, 22 January 2013 (UTC) I hope you reconsider your deletions for the betterment of Wikipedia. Please let me know if I need to re-post those additions. User:Sciencescholar 4:28 pm, 30 November 2011 Sciencescholar (talk) 21:26, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

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