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October 2020[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to Jean-Paul Marat has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 12:01, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I have just reverted the recent changes you’ve made to Jean-Paul Marat. I’m going to start a discussion in the article talk page so other editors can contribute. All the best Mccapra (talk) 16:10, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for the note. Sorry to lose this thread. I believe I have already continued to make edits based on what I learned here. My concern about the Marat page had and has to do with ideology. While I get that some see Marat as a precursor to later analyses--or even a master thinker about the care of workers--I see him as a being in a time and place. We cannot unmake what he did, his role in the Terror, to suit any latter day intellectual exercises, from the left or right.

I'll will check other pages to see if this is even relevant anymore.


A remark in another section relating to my work on the John Michael Vore page has lassoed my issues with the Marat page as part of his attack on me and the Vore page. This is what I wrote in response: No matter how my input re: Marat is characterized it doesn't change the fact that what I was saying came from my reading Paris in the Terror: June 1793-July 1794" by Stanley Loomis. While any of us might disagree with what an authority might write, his view was the standard view until I believe about 1990. Whereas Loomis & company saw Marat from what he did during the terror, others have seen in him a precursor to Marxist ideas and embraced him. I'm surprised that I could find no way to express the Loomis view, now in the minority.

So, far from what a critic on another page says about what I was doing, in a conversation he was not part of, it was not my view, but Loomis' view that I was attempting to inject into the Marat page.

I believe I was able to get in some Loomis references?

John Michael Vore page[edit]

After starting the John Michael Vore page I have learned that it would be more helpful to be less involved. Am proceeding accordingly.

[This entry edited to assist in neutrality, COI discussion.]

Informatics411 (talk)

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Request reason:

It appears as if edits from nearly 3 years ago we're "undone automatically" without a reason stated? As for the changes to the Marat page, I was making changes based on information found in the book, by Stanley Loomis, Paris In The Terror (Lippincott, 1964). I am now attempting to add clarity to the Narcissus page. I teach using the Ovid version of the myth and tried to revise the page to at least reflect what this myth says, as it is the main conduit through which most of us learn of the myth. There were in the original versions several unsourced statements as well as factual errors relating to Pausanius' dates. Informatics411 (talk) 19:57, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

This account is not directly blocked and you don't appear to be making an unblock request. Yamla (talk) 20:07, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]


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