User talk:Timatoms

Performativity
Hi,

I'm just leaving a message to explain why I removed your addition to the performativity article. Across most of Wikipedia, articles rely on secondary sources to determine inclusion and weight. In other words, the article isn't a place to include just anybody's work on performativity but rather those people whose work has been subsequently covered/used/explained in some depth by secondary sources. There are exceptions when someone is so notable that they have their own Wikipedia article because it's already a given that e.g. Derrida and Austin have been covered in depth. As I'm sure you can understand, Wikipedia is an attractive place for scholars to include mention of themselves to try to boost visibility (see WP:PROMO or WP:REFSPAM). Adding external links to bio pages and such is another form of this kind of promotion. I'm not at all saying that's what you're doing here, nor am I casting judgment on this person's work, by the way -- these are just the policies that make Wikipedia something other than a free-for-all. What I would suggest is to look for other reliable secondary sources that have covered their work and cite those instead. What does make sense to me independent of secondary sources is to add her book to the Further Reading section -- it seems like something people might want to take a look at if they're interested in the subject, certainly. --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 04:13, 17 November 2014 (UTC)--&mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk  \\ 04:13, 17 November 2014 (UTC)