Talk:Main Currents of Marxism

Some thoughts

Some thoughts on how to improve the article in response to the request from User:FreeKnowledgeCreator:

• " work about Marxism" - I think that book would be more precise than work. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:12, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• "the political philosopher" - probably worth specifying that he was Polish here. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:12, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• "to be a "handbook" on Marxism. Despite his critical stand toward Marxism" - maybe avoid the repetition of "Marxism", by using "Marxist theory" or something in place of one of the instances. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:12, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• "historical materialism" might warrant a link. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:12, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• "Great Britain" - perhaps United Kingdom? Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:16, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• Why link to Poland in "Background and publishing history"? Usually Wikipedia avoids adding links to the names of countries. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:16, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• "at a time when it was impossible to publish the work in Poland." - Make sure that you give an explanation of why this was, particularly as many readers may not be familiar with Polish history. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:16, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• The only citation in the "Background and publishing history" is at the end of the paragraph. Make sure that every separate statement has a citation after it, otherwise readers may think that only the final sentence actually is cited. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:16, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• "by author Michael Harrington" - can we get something more specific than "author"? Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:17, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• We need a link to Mao Zedong when he is first mentioned. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:18, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• It's definitely worth adding some more images. At the moment there is a lot of text and very little to visually break that up. We should have plenty of free-to-use images of long-dead Marxists that could be used in this article. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:19, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• It would be good if we had greater information on Kołakowski himself; a little bit of biographical information, that sort of thing. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:20, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
• None of the footnotes are linking to their entry in the bibliography. Midnightblueowl (talk) 22:22, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Midnightblueowl, I'll take all of that into account. Most of these issues can be addressed quite easily. Getting the formatting right can be surprisingly difficult, as I learned during the GAN process at The Homosexual Matrix. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 22:29, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Notability of the reviewers

Some of the reviewers don't have their pages here. Probably they deserve them. If not - meybe their reviews are overrepresented?Xx236 (talk) 07:10, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

No, we should be representing all reviews that appeared in reliable sources, to write a properly comprehensive article. It doesn't matter whether the reviewers are notable enough to merit Wikipedia articles or not. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 07:14, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Some of the reviewers don't have their pages here. Probably they deserve them. - No?

All reviews? You apparently quote only English langaue ones, so far from all.

Who is M. W. Jackson? Probably Michael Jackson [1].

Xx236 (talk) 07:18, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

The reviews I've quoted reflect the sources at my disposal. I have access to EBSCO, an academic data base. It does not cover absolutely everything. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 07:19, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

https://www.academia.edu/425793/Turning_Marx_on_His_Head_Kolakowskis_Main_Currents_of_Marxism - a published review, I don't know if it deserves to be quoted. Romanian POV.Xx236 (talk) 08:01, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2006/10/main-currents-of-kolakowski Xx236 (talk) 08:03, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020823.html Table of contents.Xx236 (talk) 08:05, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Leszek-Kolakowski---the-anatomy-of-totalitarianism-1063 Xx236 (talk) 08:11, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

http://journal.telospress.com/content/1981/47/228.full.pdf+html - for subscribers, haven't read it.Xx236 (talk) 08:40, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

German

• http://www.zeit.de/1979/12/grabgesang-auf-einen-toten Xx236 (talk) 07:46, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I don't personally read German so you would have to ask someone else for help here - or add it yourself if you know German. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 07:49, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

The translator

P.S. Falla

From Polish? French edition has been translated from German.Xx236 (talk) 08:36, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

prophetic - the source

https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0312/kluge2.html Xx236 (talk) 09:47, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

James H. Billington Xx236 (talk) 09:48, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Would you plase be more precize in the future?

First unsourced, later undue. It was rather obvious that after your unsourced I would quote my source. Please respect my time.

My source was an opinion about the book, so it should be moved but not removed.

Please discuss subjects on the Talk page, according to Wikipedia rules, rather than informing me about your decisions.Xx236 (talk) 09:56, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

I see no reason to consider this an important detail. It's not one of the main facts about the book's publication history. You're quite right, by the way, that I should have stated at the outset that this point was both unimportant as well as uncited. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 10:00, 17 May 2017 (UTC)