thank you so much for the improvements. At the time, I was writing a paper on marginal utility and wasn't sure if I understood it completely, so I looked to wikipedia for some help... obviously I was dissapointed. Had this version of the article been there then, I'm sure it would've helped me a lot. —The preceding
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Xiaoxitu (
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Thanks. After I've done some more work on
that article, I plan to tackle the
Marginalism article. I may deal with some of the others later. —
SlamDiego 01:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)reply
By the way, if you could provide sources that would be great, otherwise the information is eventually going to be deleted by someone who doesn't like what it says.
Anarcho-capitalism 01:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)reply
The history section has lots of explicit referencing, so I assume that your concern is for the earlier section. I could put sourcing thereïn, but a problem would be that those same foes could reject any of the potential sources. —
SlamDiego 01:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Well, according to policy, as long as the sources are from books that are not self-published by the authors or from articles that were published in journals, they they can't reject them. If they delete sourced information, it's considered disruptive and vandalistic. If something is not sourced, according to policy, anyone is free to delete it. And believe me they will.
Anarcho-capitalism 01:47, 10 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Yeah, I don't deny your point. It's just that there's a limit to what can be done here. —
SlamDiego 02:05, 10 January 2007 (UTC)reply
iNic
If you want to persuade iNic to change his style, please find a more productive way of doing it. Wading in with template "final warnings" is heavy-handed in the extreme, especially when you are heavily involved in the article concerned. You could try dialogue or you could try
dispute resolution. That might actually work :-) Guy (
Help!) 10:54, 9 February 2007 (UTC)reply
It may be heavy-handed, but surely not in the extreme. ;-) In any event, as a practical matter I will consider dispute resolution, but he plainly was willing to damage the article simply to achieve some sort of personal triumph. —
SlamDiego 03:40, 10 February 2007 (UTC)reply
iNic deleted my edit to
St. Petersburg paradoxnot on the ground that the edit had been incorrect, but with the
demand that any such edit must simultaneously
be brief
have the full conceptual content of the lengthy discussion that had taken place on the talk page
In other words, he attempted to impose a transparently over-difficult (perhaps impossible) demand.
This came after he had failed in that discussion to show that the point in question could be dismissed as mistaken.