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I have just received an email from Politicos which claims that the company was originally associated with the International Socialists, the forerunner of the Socialist Workers Party, but is now independent of it. Obviously, if there is a source going into this in more detail, it should be made use of in the article. Philip Cross 17:16, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Took a quick look on the net, could only find the Sheikh bin Mahfouz lawsuit - are there any others? - The article seems very dismissive about the press, comments? sbandrews ( t) 15:11, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
The section on the attack on the University of Michigan Press over distribution of Pluto Books is far too long; it forms much more than half of this article. Although the issue may be relevant, and worth mentioning, at present it falsely suggests that this controversy is the main thing for which PP is notable. This accords undue weight to the point; in an article of this length, the issue deserves a sentence, or two at most. RolandR ( talk) 17:44, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
By the way, if you want to bulk up the non-Michigan aspects of the article, one way might be to discuss the atlases -- through most of the eighties on into at least the early 1990's, they did at least several "alternative" atlases, which were mostly fairly high-quality and fairly well-received, as far as I can remember. I liked them better when they were making funky alternative atlases than "Israel must die" books... AnonMoos ( talk) 21:15, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
I was going to comment about the space given to the controversy as well. The controversy was really about the university, not Pluto Press. Pluto has the perfect right, in both the UK and the US and most other countries, to publish any books it likes. What was a controversy was a major public university going into a partnership with political radicals. On the other hand the section really does no harm and provides information to interested people. It might be possible to create a new article on the controversy, or was that already done and then merged here? Borock ( talk) 08:54, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
The issue here is that the criticism was mostly about the [non-]academic standards of University of Michigan Press. That article has an almost identical section: University of Michigan Press#Controversies (actually it has a bit less material). It seems a bit odd to put equal emphasis on this here and in the Michigan Press article. I'm going to merge some material there. Tijfo098 ( talk) 09:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC) Done Tijfo098 ( talk) 09:19, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
The following apppears to be mainly a string of reviews of some book, so more suitable for an article on the book itself. But several books were controversial, and all jpost links below are dead, so I have no idea in which book (or authors' biography) article this paragraphs belongs to:
Tijfo098 ( talk) 08:56, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
I have just received an email from Politicos which claims that the company was originally associated with the International Socialists, the forerunner of the Socialist Workers Party, but is now independent of it. Obviously, if there is a source going into this in more detail, it should be made use of in the article. Philip Cross 17:16, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Took a quick look on the net, could only find the Sheikh bin Mahfouz lawsuit - are there any others? - The article seems very dismissive about the press, comments? sbandrews ( t) 15:11, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
The section on the attack on the University of Michigan Press over distribution of Pluto Books is far too long; it forms much more than half of this article. Although the issue may be relevant, and worth mentioning, at present it falsely suggests that this controversy is the main thing for which PP is notable. This accords undue weight to the point; in an article of this length, the issue deserves a sentence, or two at most. RolandR ( talk) 17:44, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
By the way, if you want to bulk up the non-Michigan aspects of the article, one way might be to discuss the atlases -- through most of the eighties on into at least the early 1990's, they did at least several "alternative" atlases, which were mostly fairly high-quality and fairly well-received, as far as I can remember. I liked them better when they were making funky alternative atlases than "Israel must die" books... AnonMoos ( talk) 21:15, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
I was going to comment about the space given to the controversy as well. The controversy was really about the university, not Pluto Press. Pluto has the perfect right, in both the UK and the US and most other countries, to publish any books it likes. What was a controversy was a major public university going into a partnership with political radicals. On the other hand the section really does no harm and provides information to interested people. It might be possible to create a new article on the controversy, or was that already done and then merged here? Borock ( talk) 08:54, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
The issue here is that the criticism was mostly about the [non-]academic standards of University of Michigan Press. That article has an almost identical section: University of Michigan Press#Controversies (actually it has a bit less material). It seems a bit odd to put equal emphasis on this here and in the Michigan Press article. I'm going to merge some material there. Tijfo098 ( talk) 09:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC) Done Tijfo098 ( talk) 09:19, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
The following apppears to be mainly a string of reviews of some book, so more suitable for an article on the book itself. But several books were controversial, and all jpost links below are dead, so I have no idea in which book (or authors' biography) article this paragraphs belongs to:
Tijfo098 ( talk) 08:56, 7 November 2010 (UTC)