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Hi, the John Sterling (attorney, philanthropist) you created is the same person as John William Sterling. I have redirect your page. Thanks for your contributions. --Neo-Jay 05:20, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on Allan Berube! Very good job! I've done some wikifying and some cleanup, but wanted to drop you a note :) Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 05:27, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have to second that comment, the article looks quite good. I moved your notice about sources to the references section, since it deals specifically with references - and, we could probably combine the bibliography section with the references section, since they both refer to sources of information referenced, but overall, the article is a good description of Mr. Berube's life and work. Thanks, UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 13:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'm not really sure what the proper level of detail is on articles like these. It seems like the best thing for you to do might be to add Template:Request edit to the article talk page and let a more experienced editor decide. Dreamyshade (talk) 04:51, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thanks for adding to the article on Walt Whitman. The book you added, however, is not cited in a footnote anywhere in the article. As such, it should not be listed in the bibliography. That section is not just a collection of works relevant to Whitman (can you imagine how long that list would be?). Instead, it displays where information for this article was found. You may notice the huge list of citations. Also, it's worth noting a little policy on conflict of interest. If you are the author of this book, editors might just accuse you of adding it to lists to be self-promotional. Let me know if you need help with anything here on Wikipedia. --Midnightdreary (talk) 14:15, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Jnkatz1. You are welcome to join the discussion at WP:COIN#Jonathan Ned Katz. Though we usually discourage people from writing articles about themselves, if you are willing to make some improvements, the article on Jonathan Ned Katz may qualify to be kept. EdJohnston (talk) 13:49, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I found a source here that provides biographical and career information. I would like to use it to expand the Early life section and supplement the rest of the article. Please take a look and let me know if there is any biographical information that you do not want included, such as relatives' names. Feel free to respond here (this page is on my watchlist) or on my talk page. Thank you, momoricks (make my day) 02:36, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding a massive chunk of text in a separate subsection using your own work as the only source - and, certainly, calling it "the best" source - is a violation of policies on WP:COI. Please avoid conflict of interest by letting someone else add citations to your work, and I'd recommend avoiding the temptation of calling yourself the best source. --Midnightdreary (talk) 00:16, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You should judge an entry by the objectivity and scholarship represented in its contents, not by charging conflict of interest and eliminating the work of a recognized scholar who was written about the very subject of the entry.

As for my scholarship, Ed Folsom, one of the major Whitman scholars in the United States. reviewed my book Love Stories with the info on Griswold, and said:

Katz does offer the most fully contextualized study we so far have of Whitman's affections for males. Love Stories uses Whitman as a kind of leitmotif in an extended anecdotal history of what Katz calls "men's lust and love for men in the nineteenth century United States, with a glance across the Atlantic." The book will strike some readers as uncomfortably voyeuristic, but Katz's purpose is precisely to peer into sexual practices that have been silenced for so long and to tell some of the first documented "love stories" between men.

Folsom ended by saying:

Katz has simply dug deeper than anyone else to put the stories together in compelling, surprising, and satisfying ways. Whitman scholars will come away from this book much better informed about the range of sexual behaviors in the nineteenth century and with a far clearer sense of how Whitman's life and work responded to and helped create that rapidly changing sexual landscape.

Here is a link to the Folsom review:

http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1731&context=wwqr

You can also look up other rave reviews of my scholarship in Love Stories in the New York Times and elsewhere.

PLEASE RESTORE MY EDIT. It's adds important content and it's completely scholarly and objective in terms of what it says. Otherwise I will just give up on Wikipedia.

Your edits were not actually removed. Your comment here, however, does not undo the conflict of interest concern. Cheers, --Midnightdreary (talk) 17:23, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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This may be the book of his that is most of interest today. So someone needs to write about it in terms that present day users can understand. Please let me know when someone does this. Jonathan Ned Katz jnk123@mac.com

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