User talk:BlueonGray

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Hello, BlueonGray, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hi C. Fred. How do you flag an entry for removal on the grounds that it is about a junior prof with no accomplishments worth mentioning and was clearly created by himself for self-promotion?--BlueonGray (talk) 23:23, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Make sure all those allegations hold water, then you'll want to follow the instructions at WP:Proposed deletion or WP:Articles for deletion.

You could also tag the page for speedy deletion. However, I'm looking at the page right now, and if it meets those criteria, I'll delete it. If it doesn't as an administrator, I'd decline the deletion, and you'd have to go one of the other two routes anyway. —C.Fred (talk) 23:29, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

I disagree that the page was created by the subject to self-promote. However, I do agree that the article had no clear assertion of significance or importance, so it was deleted under speedy deletion criterion A7. Had you wanted to tag the article—or if you need to tag a similar article in the future—the tag is {{db-bio}}. —C.Fred (talk) 23:34, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Fred. This is good to know. I appreciate the tips.--BlueonGray (talk) 23:53, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

/* note - BLPN - Ricardo Duchesne*/

Hi, there is a thread at the BLP noticeboard here about a couple of detrimental edits you have made to the Ricardo Duchesne BLP. Feel free to comment there explaining your position or not as you feel but please don't add opinions and suchlike to the article. We will discuss and help you in all policy matters but you do yourself no favors by violating policies and guidelines, There are hundreds of thousand other articles you can enjoy improving and I hope you will stay and do that, thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 20:56, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

You are again disruptive on the article. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 08:43, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi. There is an incident in which you may have been involved: click. Regards Gun Powder Ma (talk) 09:01, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

The Wikipedia entry for Ricardo Duchesne has no justification for its existence. There is good reason to believe that it was created by Duchesne himself. I have therefore nominated it for deletion. If you can provide any evidence that Duchesne meets the criteria of a notable scholar, then please do so.--BlueonGray (talk) 18:45, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

WP:Battleground

It is plainly obvious that you know Duchesne and have only come to WP to disrupt the article because the two of you have had an argument in a Canadian newspaper this February: This BlueonGray is you (navigate to Comments on this Article: Posted by Blue on Gray, Feb 12, 2011 5:28 PM and Apr 24, 2011 10:55 PM) and soon after the incident you registered here. Since then you have only edited the article on Duchesne, invariably in a negative manner. What you do here is a personal crusade, which is against the spirit and policy of WP. WP:Battleground: Wikipedia is not a place to hold grudges, import personal conflicts, carry on ideological battles. Way to go my friend, way to go, you do all of this. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 22:19, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Does Duchesne meet the criteria in WP:ACADEMIC of noteworthiness? That is the only issue here. There is no evidence that he does. I could speculate as to who would create a Wikipedia entry for an academic non-entity, but that would be counterproductive. If you have evidence of Duchesne's noteworthiness and influence as a scholar, why not just produce it rather than resorting to ad hominem attacks?--BlueonGray (talk) 22:24, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, he does, absolutely. There are over 30 citations by international scholars listed in Google Scholar alone, from many of the most important authorities in the field, if not close to all. He is not just noteworthy, he is even clearly above the average noteworthy. With this settled, the question mark is now behind your motives and why you have come to Wikipedia after staging repeatedly ad hominem attacks on Duchesne at this Canadian newspaper: For the record, if anyone is turned off by Western civilization, it is because of the arrogance and tastelessness of its self-appointed representatives like Ricardo Duchesne. Posted by Blue on Gray, Feb 12, 2011 5:28 PM. So you are here on WP:battlegrounds, because of a personal feud. Pity for you. Greetings to Toronto. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 00:40, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

30 citations in total for a full professor is surprisingly low. A serious scholar with serious scholarly contributions to knowledge and a serious influence upon scholarship would have hundreds, if not thousands, of citations. 30 citations spread out over many articles is very, very unimpressive. There is nothing exceptional or outstanding here. Incidentally, are you Ricardo Duchesne?--BlueonGray (talk) 03:40, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

No, I am not Duchesne. Unlike you I don't need to remain silent on my identity, I have nothing to hide. :-) 30 citations in peer-reviewed journals by many of the leading authorities is quite good actually. What you fail to see (or acknowledge) is that the field of historical sociology is not that big as, say, that of the history of communism. Therefore, asking for "thousands" of citations is quite pompous and misses completely about what limited field of history we are talking. Greetings to 98.142.247.157 Gun Powder Ma (talk) 06:22, 25 August 2011 (UTC)