User talk:SeriousScholarship

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Samuel_Heilman[edit]

Please read WP:BLP, and specifically WP:BLP#Challenged_or_likely_to_be_challenged. The bottom line is we just don't source criticism of living people to weblogs or other personal websites. Also please don't revert other edits for no good reason ([1]) if as you claim there is printed discussion of Rapoport's opinions then references to them will have to be provided. Thanx Misarxist (talk) 13:19, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That newspaper item, on a different topic ([2]) is fine. At the risk of repeating myself, the problem was with critical material from blogs, thanx for not adding that back. Misarxist (talk) 10:25, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a link to Rapoport's review ([3] printed in PDF form. It makes for fascinating reading and would help round out Samuel Heilman's wikipedia entry.SeriousScholarship (talk) 17:22, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Still sourced to a blog, not good enough. Misarxist (talk) 09:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I hear ya. Well, the author posts his/their responses linked from his own website [4] (see the "Seforim Blog" section), so I assume that this would be a legitimate source for at least half of the dialogue. Since I am not certain, please confirm. SeriousScholarship (talk) 09:37, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Like I said, sources from a blog ([5]) just don't cut it, it doesn't make any difference if they've in pdf format. Misarxist (talk) 11:10, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]