Neoliberalism Article
I updated the neoliberalism article a while ago and more or less left it on its own for a couple of months. I went back to it the day before yesterday because I was updating my CV and wanted to put that I was good at expressing complicated subjects clearly (I've been attending a course for the last two days on getting a job, which had CV writing as a part of it). It's the best example of that.
A lot of what I'd written has been hacked and rearranged. I'm not really surprised by that and on one level I'm pleased other people have taken it on board and gone with it. In some ways, I'd been avoiding it because I didn't want to see my beautiful article messed around with, even though it should be. But more than that, I didn't want to see the various scary disapproving comments that would be there by people with ideological axes to grind and who would dislike my edit just on principle.
What I didn't expect were two really positive comments on the talk page. One person suggested that I should have published the article in a peer reviewed journal and that is was a shame that I would never get credit for my work. Another that I should have written and published a book, so that Wikipedia could reference the book for the article.
I don't really know what to think about that, although initially I cried, because I'm finding positive comments hard to take. I don't think the work I did was really that hard. It was a challenge, yes, but all I did was read a bunch of disparate sources and ask them to make logical sense. It was more time consuming. I'm a nobody academically and I wouldn't even know what journals to approach and I'd doubt they'd have me, but it's nice for someone to suggest so. Even then I'm not really interested in credit, I just want people to stop fighting about the meaning of the damn word. As for a book, that would be a lot of work and I doubt anyone would publish me.
It's not the first time someone has suggested I write a book, or articles. My parents have both suggested it, and B has as well.
A lot of what I'd written has been hacked and rearranged. I'm not really surprised by that and on one level I'm pleased other people have taken it on board and gone with it. In some ways, I'd been avoiding it because I didn't want to see my beautiful article messed around with, even though it should be. But more than that, I didn't want to see the various scary disapproving comments that would be there by people with ideological axes to grind and who would dislike my edit just on principle.
What I didn't expect were two really positive comments on the talk page. One person suggested that I should have published the article in a peer reviewed journal and that is was a shame that I would never get credit for my work. Another that I should have written and published a book, so that Wikipedia could reference the book for the article.
I don't really know what to think about that, although initially I cried, because I'm finding positive comments hard to take. I don't think the work I did was really that hard. It was a challenge, yes, but all I did was read a bunch of disparate sources and ask them to make logical sense. It was more time consuming. I'm a nobody academically and I wouldn't even know what journals to approach and I'd doubt they'd have me, but it's nice for someone to suggest so. Even then I'm not really interested in credit, I just want people to stop fighting about the meaning of the damn word. As for a book, that would be a lot of work and I doubt anyone would publish me.
It's not the first time someone has suggested I write a book, or articles. My parents have both suggested it, and B has as well.