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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 04:10, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
So this chap published a paper 2 years ago that some people are now offended by.
I added some details on the controversy and removed some blog citations. Please help me by (a) adding better citations or (b) removing some of the remaining POV writing; it is hard to write details like this without "taking sides." CircularReason ( talk) 09:09, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
User:Arthur blumfield continuously deletes well-documented and objective sources that state facts reflecting negatively on the subject of the article. For instance, three statements about the controversy by professors of philosophy from all over the world have been removed by him, after which he put a tag requesting more reliable sources about the controversy. Similarly, he removed the information about the reaction of the editors-in-chief of Synthese to these criticisms. Further, he removed a ranking of Logica Universalis by a well-respected and widely used ranking authority, one of only five such national authorities listed on the Journal ranking.
These edits are typically made without explanation and are clearly biased towards the subject of the article and aim to remove all negative facts about him. Thus, they constitute sneaky vandalism as defined in WP:SNEAKY: "reverting legitimate edits with the intent of hindering the improvement of pages".
Arthur blumfield posted the photo File:UNILOG2015.JPG, which
The fact that Arthur blumfield posted it as his own work means that this user is one of the organisers and, thus, close colleagues and collaborators of the subject (or, possibly, even the subject himself). This explains the source of the positive bias. 80.110.124.29 ( talk) 23:34, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
I've just removed a bunch of these, generally blogs are not considered a reliable source for a biography like this one, see WP:SPS. Sometimes we make an exception when the people writing the blog are acknowledged experts on the subject they're writing about, but I would like to see a case made for adding these sources here (and a consensus to include them) first. Also, if you're adding blog sources please summarize and use short quotes rather than copy-pasting in the entire source. See WP:COPYVIO. Thanks. Fyddlestix ( talk) 03:04, 19 May 2016 (UTC)