User:Michael Martinez
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BEFORE YOU QUOTE WIKIPOLICIES AT ME
[edit]People become protective of the articles they contribute to on a regular basis. That's understandable. However, the tendency to throw short links and warning labels at other people because they don't agree with your decisions is not good Wikipedia practice. I see many editors throw Wikipolicy citations at new Wikipedians and at editors who suddenly show up to leave an opinion on article Talk pages. The policy citations are usually inappropriate.
It's been my experience that the majority of people who cite Wikipolicies in Talk page discussions - especially where they use the shortlinks - haven't actually read the policy pages, or cherry-pick the policy points they want to use to shore up their arguments.
Every time you do this to ME, I click on the links, I read the policy pages, and I may even search for related policies. I make sure I understand what these policies say before I quote them back at you.
Be a good Wikipedian. READ the policies you cite to other people and ask yourself, "Am I being fair or am I just cherry-picking policy points because I want to win an argument and protect my edits?"
If you place a comment about policy or a warning about policy on my User pages, the fact I delete it means I have read it. It also means I'm more likely to out-quote you on policies in whatever Talk page discussion sent you here to intimidate me (which is also a violation of Wikipedia policy). Don't weaponize Wikipedia policy pages to win arguments when other editors question your decisions. That questioning process is part of how Wikipedia works. Don't try to silence other people with Wikipolicy links. Most of the time, they aren't doing anything wrong.
INTRODUCTION
[edit]This is not a Wikipedia article. I wrote this bio years ago because certain people repeated false information about me in Wikipedia discussions. This bio is only intended for the use and reference of Wikipedians who want to know my background and why I may be mentioned in Talk pages or some articles. I do not edit articles to promote myself. I do not use this page to promote myself. It could use a little cleanup but I don't have much time for that. The information I provide on this page is true and accurate.
Michael Martinez is an author, theorist, blogger, search engine optimization specialist, and former computer programmer.
Michael's online career began in 1993 when he joined the Compuserve discussion community for a software firm's customers. Expanding to the Compuserve SFLit Forum, Michael joined a budding writers group called the Compuserve IMPs (the Wikipedia article was deleted in early 2015 as award-winning published SciFi authors no longer appear to meet Wikipedia's bizarre "notability" requirements). As Compuserve expanded its services to include access to the World Wide Web and the news groups, Michael's attention turned to the growing Internet.
Essays and Books on J.R.R. Tolkien
[edit]Michael Martinez was recruited to write for Suite101 in 1998, launching the Hercules and Xena topic. After a year he switched to writing about J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth, a topic he managed for 3 more years before handing that column over to someone else. Suite101 eventually transformed itself into a very different kind of Website and Michael withdraw all his essays from their archive.
Michael currently writes for the Middle-earth blog on Xenite.Org and the "Tolkien Studies on the Web" blog (both his own sites) as well as occasional posts for the Tolkien Society blog. Many of his essays have been translated (with my permission) into Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, French, and Italian. Michael's work has been cited and/or featured on thousands of Websites.
Books by Michael Martinez include Visualizing Middle-earth (Xlibris, 2000), Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth (2001), Understanding Middle-earth: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth (Vivisphere, 2003), and Mindfaring Through Middle-earth (Amazon Kindle, 2015).
His essay "Why Citations Do Not Make Wikipedia and Similar Sites Credible" was included in Practical Argument: A Text and Anthology, 3rd Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016)
Search Engine Optimization
[edit]Michael became active in the search engine optimization community in 1998 and his experiments in interactions between Websites and search engines have influenced many Web marketing tools and practices. Michael launched the SEO Theory blog in December 2006.
His theoretical work has focused on the Searchable Web Ecosystem and includes proposals for viral propaganda theory, large systems theory, deep Web interferometrical analysis, and applications of swarm theory to the study of Web marketing practices.
External links
[edit]NOTE: This section is NOT a "link farm". Link farms are GROUPS of interconnected Websites that attempt to influence search engine results by falsely inflating each other's values. These links follow Wikipedia guidelines and they do not pass any value in search algorithms. Furthermore, the sites linked to below are a mix of news sites, community sites, academic papers, personal sites, and Google Book searches which do not interlink with this page.
Any attempt to remove these links will be deemed vandalism and a violation of Wikipedia guidelines. The Wiki guidelines for user pages DO allow personal autobiographical notes.
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Tolkien Society Blog
- Official Web site of Michael Martinez
- Michael Martinez on Tolkien Society Blog
- Middle-earth Blog
- Xenite.Org: Worlds of Imagination on the Web
- Tolkien Studies on the Web
Search Engine Optimization and Webometry
Occasional Media Mentions
- SALON: Who Owns Xena?
- TV GUIDE: Hobbits, Elves, and Magic! The Inspired Film Journey of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendary Fantasy (link is to cover only)
- WIRED: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
- WIRED: 15 Great Chinese Dramas to Binge
- WSJ SPEAKEASY: Women Seize More of Middle-earth in ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’
- HUFFINGTON POST: The Pronunciation of 'Smaug'
- CMJ New Music Monthly
- CJR: Bloggers Respond Warmly to Dobbs’ Fire and Brimstone
- TELEGRAPH: Amazon's 1$ billion Lord of the Rings prequel already doomed
- GIZMODO: J.R.R. Tolkien's Son Resigns As Director of Tolkien Estate
- YAHOO NEWS: JRR Tolkien's son stands down as Tolkien estate director as Amazon's Lord of the Rings series is announced
- IFILM: Is Smaug Alive During The Rings Of Power? Where Middle-Earth's Dragons Came From
- SCIENCEFICTION[.COM: Amazon’s 'Lord Of The Rings' Series Makes More Sense, As It Is Revealed That Christopher Tolkien Has Resigned From His Father’s Estate]
- EPICSTREAM: Why Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings? Everything We Know So Far
Occasional Book Citations (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
- The Chesterton Review, Volume 28, Issue 1/2, February/May 2002 J. R. R. Tolkien, "Do Anti-SemitismCharges against Tolkien Ring True?"
- Unsung Heroes of the Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the Screen
- Moments of Grace and Spiritual Warfare in the Lord of the Rings
- J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
- Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays
- The Essential J.R.R. Tolkien Sourcebook: A Fan's Guide to Middle-Earth and Beyond
- Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien
- The Mirror Crack'd: Fear and Horror in JRR Tolkien's Major Works
- Trilhas e caminhos da comunicação: comunicação em perspectiva
- Moments of Grace and Spiritual Warfare in the Lord of the Rings
- Mythprint - Volume 39
- Orlando Bloom: Wherever It May Lead
- Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor: Warrior Stars of Xena
- Andre Norton
- The Routledge Companion to Media & Gender
- Harry Potter: The Story of a Global Business Phenomenon
- I Am in Fact a Hobbit: An Introduction to the Life and Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
- From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
- The Cyberspace Handbook
- Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture
- Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy
- A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien
- Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
- Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
- Harley Hahn's Internet & Web Yellow Pages
- Studying the event film: The lord of the rings
- Vanderbilt journal of entertainment and technology law
- NosOtras - Issues 1-3; Issue 5
- How Xena Changed Our Lives: True Stories by Fans for Fans
Occasional Book Citations (Theory and Stuff)
- Ultimate Guide to Link Building: How to Build Backlinks, Authority and Credibility for Your Website, and Increase Click Traffic and Search Ranking (Ultimate Series)
- Google and the Culture of Search
- Spin Sucks: Communication and Reputation Management in the Digital Age
- Seo. Como Triunfar
- Suchmaschinenmarketing mit Google: Eine Untersuchung zu Bedeutung
- Science & Public Policy - Volume 35
Occasional Academic Paper Citations (Various)
- Diary thesis: Search Engine Optimization specialist
- Web Spam Detection: New Classification Features Based on Qualified Link Analysis and Language Models
- INTERNET AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY IN IRELAND
- The Study on the Influence of Orienting-Marketing on Young Audience's Memory
- Appropriability and the European Commission’s Android Investigation
- Lineamientos Metodológicos para la Aplicación Exitosa de Técnicas SEO y SEM en PYMES
- Competing with Big Data
- Identification et prévention du Web spamming
- Software for experimental research the tissues in surgical wound on the organs of neck (Cyrillic)
- A Heterotopia: Night at the Museum with a Native in the Dark
- The Stuff of Legend
- Envisioning queer female fandom
- Out and about: Slash fic, re-imagined texts, and queer commentaries
- Textual orientation
- Queer female fandom online
- The Lord of the Rings online blockbuster fandom: Pleasure and commerce
- New xenaland: lesbian place making, the xenaverse, and aotearoa New Zealand
- Feminism, queer studies, and the sexual politics of Xena: Warrior Princess
- AN OASIS IN A CULTURAL DESERT PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THE CULTURAL DESERT
- Making-of documentaries on DVD: The Lord of the Rings trilogy and special editions
- Feminism, Queer Studies, and the Sexual Politics of Xena: Warrior Princess
- Understanding lesbian fandom: a case study of the Xena: Warrior Princess (XSTT) lesbian internet fans
- Potterian Economics
- Little miss tough chick of the universe: Farscape's inverted sexual dynamics
- The Hobbit Adaptation: Literary Infidelity or True to the Tolkien Spirit?
- Subtext matters: The queered curriculum behind the Warrior Princess and the Bard
- Indiscrete media: Television/digital convergence and economies of online lesbian fan communities
- The Cyborg or the Goddess?