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LaRouche

Re the RfC, I've trawled through Google Scholar and brought up some academic sources that call LaRouche an economist, in addition to the various media sources that were already listed. Have a look at them, and see if they change your mind, or not. I tried to avoid the ones that I know are LaRouche's own publications.

Let me add that I'm not a particular LaRouche fan. But if the man and his views have the ear of various foreign governments, notwithstanding his lousy standing in the US, then I believe we shouldn't minimise that, and give the reader the impression that he is nothing but an inconsequential local cult leader. Cheers, --JN466 18:56, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again. I had resigned myself to the likely outcome of the RfC, and removed the economist label, but now see that LaRouche, under the pen name Lyn Marcus, authored a book, Dialectical economics : an introduction to Marxist political economy (1975) (entry at archive.org), published by D. C. Heath and Company (Lexington, Massachusetts), which was reviewed in the American Economic Review, published by the American Economic Association.

The book has citations in Google Scholar and in Google Books.

To my mind, this changes things, and I feel less happy to let the matter drop. Surely, having your work reviewed in the American Economic Review, which according to our article on it is one of the most prestigious journals in the field, counts for something. Add to that the fact that he was considered quite an important economist by various Latin American governments, according to reliable sources, and I feel uncomfortable not calling him an economist. What's your view? --JN466 03:45, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

• Just to let you know, if it makes any difference, that the AER snippet is from an ad in the back matter, rather than a review. (This info comes courtesy of User:Volunteer Marek, who checked the relevant issue.) --JN466 22:32, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for taking an interest in the request for arbitration another editor started with me. I appreciate your efforts towards resolution and neutrality, and naturally I have no requests or advice, I only hope you don't get bored with the minutia.

Best wishesLeidseplein (talk) 23:45, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed change in 1953 coup article

I'm soliciting active editors in coup article for a poll on this proposed change --BoogaLouie (talk) 15:04, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Name

I prefer you to refer to me as Martin or Mr. Tammsalu in the future. Thanks. --Martin (talk) 02:46, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Burkie Barnstar
		For your many efforts to improve articles on Conservatism-related articles, I give you the Edmund Burke Barnstar. Keep up the good work.  Will Beback  talk  04:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

RFD closes

Please do not revert the official closure of deletion debates. If you disagree with my closure, you can come to my talk page and question me about it, or protest to a wider audience at WP:DRV. But reverting an admin when he or she closes a debate is really not a good idea. And triply so, since you reverted my closure of three different debates, two of which were totally unrelated to you. The revert button is only supposed to be used against vandalism. And an admin closing three deletion debates is far, far from vandalism. - TexasAndroid (talk) 05:07, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

I am very sorry. I was unaware that I had made a deletion, and must have deleted your edit while scrolling through my watchlist. TFD (talk) 11:16, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Apology and explanation accepted. I've made inadvertent clicks in my time as well. - TexasAndroid (talk) 15:48, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Video

Thanks for the link. I'll take a look.   Will Beback  talk  04:03, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Arbitration decision

Enforcement by indefinite ban of User:Vecrumba is declined. User:The Four Deuces is banned indefinitely from editing articles which relate to minority peoples of the Soviet Union due to repeated violations of the warning in Section 8 of the decision Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Vecrumba. Appeal is to the Arbitration Committee. User:Fred Bauder Talk 00:08, 30 April 2011 (UTC)