User talk:Zorndyke

I'm not sure you understand what RationalWiki is
How does this Neema Parvini/The Academic Agent person have anything to do with our mission? Right now, it reads like a puff piece promoting someone who's not relevant to this site at all. I'll give you a week to turn that irrelevant puff piece into a proper RW article before I nominate it for deletion. Spud (talk) 06:59, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
 * And don't blank your talk page. It's not considered your personal property here. It belongs to the entire community. It lets everybody see what kind of user you have been. Spud (talk) 11:52, 3 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Wasn't trying to blank it. Still learning the ropes. No need to be hostile.


 * I'm not puffing this guy. Neema Parvini is a professor at the university of Surrey who runs The Academic Agent as an alias so he can shill right wing propaganda. &mdash; Unsigned, by: Zorndyke / talk / contribs
 * The problem was that the page you created said absolutely nothing about his politics. It just said what a great Shakespeare scholar he is.
 * Perhaps you hadn't finished the page. In which case, the best thing would have been to create it as a draft You can try again bu creating Draft:The Academic Agent. It can be moved from Draft:The Academic Agent to The Academic Agent when it says everything that a RatinalWiki article about that man should say. Spud (talk) 01:17, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * You're missing the point. He speaks on politics and economics with the aim of promoting a right wing view, but is A) unqualified in either and B) is hiding behind the alias "Academic Agent" because his work would be embarrassing if associated with his IRL person. The page I posted is revealing but fair, and for that reason would have more weight than if I just did a laundry list of his sins. If what you're asking for is that I deliberately smear the person or else it's not a viable page, than I suggest you do some serious introspection. &mdash; Unsigned, by: Zorndyke / talk / contribs
 * I am definitely not calling for anybody to be smeared. That would mean telling lies about somebody and that is the very last thing I ever want to see here. But, again, the problem is the page you created said absolutely nothing about his politics. On the basis of your article, a reader who had never heard of the Academic Agent before would not understand what relevance he had to this wiki. You appear to be wrongly assuming that everybody already knows who the Academic Agent is and you just had to explain who the real world Neema Parvini is. That is simply not the case. It's fine to write about the notable things he's done in real life, the books he's written and so on, but you also have to say something about the views he expresses on his website. I'll say again that you might be better off creating the article as a draft first, then you can take as long as you like adding the relevant information. Spud (talk) 12:53, 4 March 2020 (UTC)