A user with 59 edits. Account created on 5 June 2018.
8 August 2020
- 20:28 20:28, 8 August 2020 diff hist −4 Charles Wentworth Dilke Undid revision 971879494 by Zusammenbruch ( talk) Tag: Undo
- 20:28 20:28, 8 August 2020 diff hist +4 Charles Wentworth Dilke No edit summary
- 20:23 20:23, 8 August 2020 diff hist +484 Charles Wentworth Dilke Since his authorship of this important pamphlet has long been known, it should be on the Wikipedia page.
4 March 2020
- 20:53 20:53, 4 March 2020 diff hist −1,980 User talk:Zusammenbruch No edit summary
- 20:51 20:51, 4 March 2020 diff hist +911 User talk:Thenightaway →First warning: stop introducing mendacious summaries into the Iraq sanctions death article: new section
- 20:51 20:51, 4 March 2020 diff hist +813 User talk:Thenightaway No edit summary
- 20:43 20:43, 4 March 2020 diff hist +1 International sanctions against Iraq Undid revision 943613434 by neo-nazi Snooganssnoogans ( talk) Tag: Undo
2 March 2020
- 22:12 22:12, 2 March 2020 diff hist +74 International sanctions against Iraq It is by definition a weasel word to say "research has shown" when there is active debate over the research. There is by no means a consensus that the sanctions did not cause death; if anything, the consensus points in the opposite direction. It is purposefully dishonest to edit the article in this way, and it is known that US state security forces edit this page (https://reut.rs/3aekU78), which likely accounts for the extreme use of misleading language here.
29 February 2020
- 02:25 02:25, 29 February 2020 diff hist +3 Central place theory "created" is an appropriate verb for direct objects like works of art and institutions, not scientific theories
26 January 2020
- 23:11 23:11, 26 January 2020 diff hist +8 Gaetano Mosca Liberalism and democracy have historically been in tension; there is no need to flatter liberalism by acting like a deep suspicion of democracy is incosistent with it.
- 21:29 21:29, 26 January 2020 diff hist 0 Kobe Bryant "as well as" is ungrammatical, should be replaced by "along with"
16 January 2020
- 21:16 21:16, 16 January 2020 diff hist +1,514 User talk:Thenightaway →Edit warring: new section
- 21:15 21:15, 16 January 2020 diff hist +1,394 User talk:Thenightaway No edit summary
- 16:54 16:54, 16 January 2020 diff hist +216 International sanctions against Iraq Undid the revision. The links are obviously relevant; the burden of proof is on the person who says that they aren't. The article as written is wildly unbalanced and unbefitting of Wikipedia. The far-right, neo-nazi orientation of the existing content doesn't make it acceptable on Wikipedia. Tag: Undo
- 09:06 09:06, 16 January 2020 diff hist +32 International sanctions against Iraq No edit summary
- 09:05 09:05, 16 January 2020 diff hist +185 International sanctions against Iraq This is an incorrect summary of the data. It is still widely believed that sanctions had a major impact; it is not honest to cite one study that disagrees and summarize that as "research has shown". Be honest: one study has claimed. Also, there's some "original research" in here that doesn't belong -- the links that purport to document the decline in public health spending (which was ultimately the US' fault anyways as it stoked the war with Iran) don't actually show that they caused deaths
28 December 2019
- 22:42 22:42, 28 December 2019 diff hist −1 Thucydides The later historian is Canfora, not Canforna
19 December 2019
- 00:30 00:30, 19 December 2019 diff hist +939 Talk:Vyacheslav Molotov →Eliminating pointless, unverifiable abuse: new section
- 00:27 00:27, 19 December 2019 diff hist +8 Vyacheslav Molotov This sentence not only isn't supported with a citation but is also impossible to support: "Molotov, like Stalin, was pathologically mistrustful of others, and because of it, much crucial information disappeared". There is no psychological evaluation cited, and this would simply be abuse anyways since plenty of people have had unfavorable psychological diagnoses that probably aren't in their article.
27 October 2019
- 17:56 17:56, 27 October 2019 diff hist +6 m British Banking School It doesn't make sense to say, of a school of thought, "they were created in order to" -- shouldn't be plural, and the purpose was to get to the truth of the matter, not specifically to oppose another school. A minor edit, but bad writing like this irks me, so I fixed it.
8 October 2019
- 14:48 14:48, 8 October 2019 diff hist +29 Socialist Reich Party Lee's views have not found wide acceptance; barring direct citation of his primary sources, the article needs to be much more equivocal about the veracity of his claims
29 July 2019
- 20:10 20:10, 29 July 2019 diff hist +1,480 Talk:Labor theory of value No edit summary
28 July 2019
- 22:54 22:54, 28 July 2019 diff hist +92 Talk:Labor theory of value No edit summary
- 22:48 22:48, 28 July 2019 diff hist +642 Labor theory of value I found a source I had offhand which made the exact point I made earlier but which directly replies to Nitzan and Bichler (BR Hansen)
- 22:43 22:43, 28 July 2019 diff hist −228 Labor theory of value Clarified what Moseley says; the previous revision slightly mis-states his point and my original point could have been clearer.
- 22:39 22:39, 28 July 2019 diff hist +977 Talk:Labor theory of value No edit summary
- 17:15 17:15, 28 July 2019 diff hist −100 Pao-yu Ching Deleted the meaningless phrase "left" (it is sufficient to say that she is a Maoist) and cleaned up a lot of very basic grammar/spelling mistakes. De-italicized article names, which just receive quotation marks in English-language scholarly references. Finally, I deleted "she is notable for saying that socialism was defeated rather than failed" since that is not a very unique perspective among MLMs. I made it clearer that her original contribution is a close analysis of revisionism
- 17:07 17:07, 28 July 2019 diff hist 0 Pao-yu Ching moved footnotes outside of periods, as this is generally more common on Wikipedia and in scholarly work, even if some journals put them inside periods
- 04:16 04:16, 28 July 2019 diff hist −2,028 Labor theory of value I removed contentious language suggesting that the theory is "wrong", rather than, like all science, disputed/debated. I also don't know that this very lengthy section citing fairly obscure authors (I have written a thesis on this topic and read very widely and never encountered these authors) should be in here. I would press for full deletion, but for now, I simply removed the massive blockquote and the very informal/personalistic conclusion.
- 04:11 04:11, 28 July 2019 diff hist +189 Labor theory of value Added relevant counter-arguments to Keen which were missing and deleted some unsourced claims. Fixed some awful grammar, too. Notably, I deleted this "However Keen argues that the usefulness (use-value) of the machine does not necessarily depreciate at the same rate - why a machine wearing out should mean it isn't useful is unclear". It's by definition true that if a machine wears out, it is no longer usable. That's just what the words mean. This argument is too nonsensical to have been rebutted
- 03:56 03:56, 28 July 2019 diff hist +1,067 Labor theory of value "Some studies" is too vague. I tagged this with citations needed and fixed a number of grammatical mistakes. I also added material clarifying that Bichler and Nitzan accidentally stumble onto precisely Marx's point, that prices reflect cost prices plus the average rate of profit, not values.
20 July 2019
- 21:23 21:23, 20 July 2019 diff hist −28 Ágnes Heller Fixed the mistaken capitalization of the "d" in "democratic centralism", fixed a category error (the party "adhered to democratic centralism"; it did not "believe in it", which is a personal relationship to ideas), and removed the parenthetical explanation "total allegiance to the party" since that is not a reasonable restatement of the meaning of that idea
15 July 2019
- 17:51 17:51, 15 July 2019 diff hist −1 m Labor theory of value Fixed punctuation
- 17:49 17:49, 15 July 2019 diff hist +71 Labor theory of value No edit summary
- 17:45 17:45, 15 July 2019 diff hist +641 Labor theory of value No edit summary
- 17:38 17:38, 15 July 2019 diff hist +374 Labor theory of value Added two more up-to-date resources that are well-regarded in the literature
- 17:33 17:33, 15 July 2019 diff hist +146 Labor theory of value Fixed another period and put the Rubin book in the further reading
- 17:30 17:30, 15 July 2019 diff hist 0 m Labor theory of value Moved a period that I misplaced
- 17:28 17:28, 15 July 2019 diff hist +753 Labor theory of value OK, fine, I will now add sources showing that criticisms above are tendentious and unscientific and should not appear in Wikipedia; it's bad practice for the burden of proof to be on a dead man. Pilkington own work fails to establish that Marx needs use-values to be individually determined--it's his responsibility to adduce evidence. Again, why not just fill the page on "God" with creationist nonsense and then demand it remain in the article and that someone footnote every single reply? Tag: Undo
- 07:05 07:05, 15 July 2019 diff hist +1 Labor theory of value In my last set of edits, I made clearer that certain arguments on here are non-sequiturs; they really should be deleted, but I accept that the existing discourse is so poor that this is what the discourse says. It's as if we had a page on "god" that said "but god must exist because scientists still don't know how to cure cancer" -- it might bamboozle the uninformed (which is precisely whom Wikipedia should speak to) because it simply sounds "scientific"
- 06:56 06:56, 15 July 2019 diff hist +538 Labor theory of value No edit summary
8 July 2019
- 04:48 04:48, 8 July 2019 diff hist +1,226 Talk:De dicto and de re →Bad writing: new section
6 July 2019
- 23:33 23:33, 6 July 2019 diff hist −1 Arthur (TV series) changed "inferred" to "implied" -- common mistake
- 02:00 02:00, 6 July 2019 diff hist +4 m Friedrich Carl von Savigny title of book needs italics
15 June 2019
- 18:52 18:52, 15 June 2019 diff hist −4 Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003 No edit summary
- 18:52 18:52, 15 June 2019 diff hist +26 m Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003 Since covers of other artists (besides YLT) are identified on this page, I thought the Sandy Denny cover should be ID'd as such.
- 18:06 18:06, 15 June 2019 diff hist −481 Criticisms of the labour theory of value I deleted the second paragraph because it sets up a "critique" from which the conclusion does not follow. It introduces intimidating-sounding jargon but fails to directly show the relevance to the point.
- 16:20 16:20, 15 June 2019 diff hist −6 m Labor theory of value deleted "scarcity value" since that's not a real term and it's extra confusing in this context
14 June 2019
- 19:07 19:07, 14 June 2019 diff hist +439 Talk:Labor theory of value →This page needs some serious work: new section
- 19:00 19:00, 14 June 2019 diff hist −4,465 User:Phil from somewhere/Oppressors–oppressed distinction Deleted irrelevant "see also" links and an entirely too-long quote from Minogue.
A user with 59 edits. Account created on 5 June 2018.
8 August 2020
- 20:28 20:28, 8 August 2020 diff hist −4 Charles Wentworth Dilke Undid revision 971879494 by Zusammenbruch ( talk) Tag: Undo
- 20:28 20:28, 8 August 2020 diff hist +4 Charles Wentworth Dilke No edit summary
- 20:23 20:23, 8 August 2020 diff hist +484 Charles Wentworth Dilke Since his authorship of this important pamphlet has long been known, it should be on the Wikipedia page.
4 March 2020
- 20:53 20:53, 4 March 2020 diff hist −1,980 User talk:Zusammenbruch No edit summary
- 20:51 20:51, 4 March 2020 diff hist +911 User talk:Thenightaway →First warning: stop introducing mendacious summaries into the Iraq sanctions death article: new section
- 20:51 20:51, 4 March 2020 diff hist +813 User talk:Thenightaway No edit summary
- 20:43 20:43, 4 March 2020 diff hist +1 International sanctions against Iraq Undid revision 943613434 by neo-nazi Snooganssnoogans ( talk) Tag: Undo
2 March 2020
- 22:12 22:12, 2 March 2020 diff hist +74 International sanctions against Iraq It is by definition a weasel word to say "research has shown" when there is active debate over the research. There is by no means a consensus that the sanctions did not cause death; if anything, the consensus points in the opposite direction. It is purposefully dishonest to edit the article in this way, and it is known that US state security forces edit this page (https://reut.rs/3aekU78), which likely accounts for the extreme use of misleading language here.
29 February 2020
- 02:25 02:25, 29 February 2020 diff hist +3 Central place theory "created" is an appropriate verb for direct objects like works of art and institutions, not scientific theories
26 January 2020
- 23:11 23:11, 26 January 2020 diff hist +8 Gaetano Mosca Liberalism and democracy have historically been in tension; there is no need to flatter liberalism by acting like a deep suspicion of democracy is incosistent with it.
- 21:29 21:29, 26 January 2020 diff hist 0 Kobe Bryant "as well as" is ungrammatical, should be replaced by "along with"
16 January 2020
- 21:16 21:16, 16 January 2020 diff hist +1,514 User talk:Thenightaway →Edit warring: new section
- 21:15 21:15, 16 January 2020 diff hist +1,394 User talk:Thenightaway No edit summary
- 16:54 16:54, 16 January 2020 diff hist +216 International sanctions against Iraq Undid the revision. The links are obviously relevant; the burden of proof is on the person who says that they aren't. The article as written is wildly unbalanced and unbefitting of Wikipedia. The far-right, neo-nazi orientation of the existing content doesn't make it acceptable on Wikipedia. Tag: Undo
- 09:06 09:06, 16 January 2020 diff hist +32 International sanctions against Iraq No edit summary
- 09:05 09:05, 16 January 2020 diff hist +185 International sanctions against Iraq This is an incorrect summary of the data. It is still widely believed that sanctions had a major impact; it is not honest to cite one study that disagrees and summarize that as "research has shown". Be honest: one study has claimed. Also, there's some "original research" in here that doesn't belong -- the links that purport to document the decline in public health spending (which was ultimately the US' fault anyways as it stoked the war with Iran) don't actually show that they caused deaths
28 December 2019
- 22:42 22:42, 28 December 2019 diff hist −1 Thucydides The later historian is Canfora, not Canforna
19 December 2019
- 00:30 00:30, 19 December 2019 diff hist +939 Talk:Vyacheslav Molotov →Eliminating pointless, unverifiable abuse: new section
- 00:27 00:27, 19 December 2019 diff hist +8 Vyacheslav Molotov This sentence not only isn't supported with a citation but is also impossible to support: "Molotov, like Stalin, was pathologically mistrustful of others, and because of it, much crucial information disappeared". There is no psychological evaluation cited, and this would simply be abuse anyways since plenty of people have had unfavorable psychological diagnoses that probably aren't in their article.
27 October 2019
- 17:56 17:56, 27 October 2019 diff hist +6 m British Banking School It doesn't make sense to say, of a school of thought, "they were created in order to" -- shouldn't be plural, and the purpose was to get to the truth of the matter, not specifically to oppose another school. A minor edit, but bad writing like this irks me, so I fixed it.
8 October 2019
- 14:48 14:48, 8 October 2019 diff hist +29 Socialist Reich Party Lee's views have not found wide acceptance; barring direct citation of his primary sources, the article needs to be much more equivocal about the veracity of his claims
29 July 2019
- 20:10 20:10, 29 July 2019 diff hist +1,480 Talk:Labor theory of value No edit summary
28 July 2019
- 22:54 22:54, 28 July 2019 diff hist +92 Talk:Labor theory of value No edit summary
- 22:48 22:48, 28 July 2019 diff hist +642 Labor theory of value I found a source I had offhand which made the exact point I made earlier but which directly replies to Nitzan and Bichler (BR Hansen)
- 22:43 22:43, 28 July 2019 diff hist −228 Labor theory of value Clarified what Moseley says; the previous revision slightly mis-states his point and my original point could have been clearer.
- 22:39 22:39, 28 July 2019 diff hist +977 Talk:Labor theory of value No edit summary
- 17:15 17:15, 28 July 2019 diff hist −100 Pao-yu Ching Deleted the meaningless phrase "left" (it is sufficient to say that she is a Maoist) and cleaned up a lot of very basic grammar/spelling mistakes. De-italicized article names, which just receive quotation marks in English-language scholarly references. Finally, I deleted "she is notable for saying that socialism was defeated rather than failed" since that is not a very unique perspective among MLMs. I made it clearer that her original contribution is a close analysis of revisionism
- 17:07 17:07, 28 July 2019 diff hist 0 Pao-yu Ching moved footnotes outside of periods, as this is generally more common on Wikipedia and in scholarly work, even if some journals put them inside periods
- 04:16 04:16, 28 July 2019 diff hist −2,028 Labor theory of value I removed contentious language suggesting that the theory is "wrong", rather than, like all science, disputed/debated. I also don't know that this very lengthy section citing fairly obscure authors (I have written a thesis on this topic and read very widely and never encountered these authors) should be in here. I would press for full deletion, but for now, I simply removed the massive blockquote and the very informal/personalistic conclusion.
- 04:11 04:11, 28 July 2019 diff hist +189 Labor theory of value Added relevant counter-arguments to Keen which were missing and deleted some unsourced claims. Fixed some awful grammar, too. Notably, I deleted this "However Keen argues that the usefulness (use-value) of the machine does not necessarily depreciate at the same rate - why a machine wearing out should mean it isn't useful is unclear". It's by definition true that if a machine wears out, it is no longer usable. That's just what the words mean. This argument is too nonsensical to have been rebutted
- 03:56 03:56, 28 July 2019 diff hist +1,067 Labor theory of value "Some studies" is too vague. I tagged this with citations needed and fixed a number of grammatical mistakes. I also added material clarifying that Bichler and Nitzan accidentally stumble onto precisely Marx's point, that prices reflect cost prices plus the average rate of profit, not values.
20 July 2019
- 21:23 21:23, 20 July 2019 diff hist −28 Ágnes Heller Fixed the mistaken capitalization of the "d" in "democratic centralism", fixed a category error (the party "adhered to democratic centralism"; it did not "believe in it", which is a personal relationship to ideas), and removed the parenthetical explanation "total allegiance to the party" since that is not a reasonable restatement of the meaning of that idea
15 July 2019
- 17:51 17:51, 15 July 2019 diff hist −1 m Labor theory of value Fixed punctuation
- 17:49 17:49, 15 July 2019 diff hist +71 Labor theory of value No edit summary
- 17:45 17:45, 15 July 2019 diff hist +641 Labor theory of value No edit summary
- 17:38 17:38, 15 July 2019 diff hist +374 Labor theory of value Added two more up-to-date resources that are well-regarded in the literature
- 17:33 17:33, 15 July 2019 diff hist +146 Labor theory of value Fixed another period and put the Rubin book in the further reading
- 17:30 17:30, 15 July 2019 diff hist 0 m Labor theory of value Moved a period that I misplaced
- 17:28 17:28, 15 July 2019 diff hist +753 Labor theory of value OK, fine, I will now add sources showing that criticisms above are tendentious and unscientific and should not appear in Wikipedia; it's bad practice for the burden of proof to be on a dead man. Pilkington own work fails to establish that Marx needs use-values to be individually determined--it's his responsibility to adduce evidence. Again, why not just fill the page on "God" with creationist nonsense and then demand it remain in the article and that someone footnote every single reply? Tag: Undo
- 07:05 07:05, 15 July 2019 diff hist +1 Labor theory of value In my last set of edits, I made clearer that certain arguments on here are non-sequiturs; they really should be deleted, but I accept that the existing discourse is so poor that this is what the discourse says. It's as if we had a page on "god" that said "but god must exist because scientists still don't know how to cure cancer" -- it might bamboozle the uninformed (which is precisely whom Wikipedia should speak to) because it simply sounds "scientific"
- 06:56 06:56, 15 July 2019 diff hist +538 Labor theory of value No edit summary
8 July 2019
- 04:48 04:48, 8 July 2019 diff hist +1,226 Talk:De dicto and de re →Bad writing: new section
6 July 2019
- 23:33 23:33, 6 July 2019 diff hist −1 Arthur (TV series) changed "inferred" to "implied" -- common mistake
- 02:00 02:00, 6 July 2019 diff hist +4 m Friedrich Carl von Savigny title of book needs italics
15 June 2019
- 18:52 18:52, 15 June 2019 diff hist −4 Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003 No edit summary
- 18:52 18:52, 15 June 2019 diff hist +26 m Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003 Since covers of other artists (besides YLT) are identified on this page, I thought the Sandy Denny cover should be ID'd as such.
- 18:06 18:06, 15 June 2019 diff hist −481 Criticisms of the labour theory of value I deleted the second paragraph because it sets up a "critique" from which the conclusion does not follow. It introduces intimidating-sounding jargon but fails to directly show the relevance to the point.
- 16:20 16:20, 15 June 2019 diff hist −6 m Labor theory of value deleted "scarcity value" since that's not a real term and it's extra confusing in this context
14 June 2019
- 19:07 19:07, 14 June 2019 diff hist +439 Talk:Labor theory of value →This page needs some serious work: new section
- 19:00 19:00, 14 June 2019 diff hist −4,465 User:Phil from somewhere/Oppressors–oppressed distinction Deleted irrelevant "see also" links and an entirely too-long quote from Minogue.