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Your edits to Cold Fusion

Before adding back the references you are insistent on adding, please explain on Talk:Cold fusion why they should be included. Please recall WP:N and WP:NPOV. Thank you. Michaelbusch (talk) 22:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

My response at the Cold Fusion discussion page:

Michaelbusch, or someone, keeps deleting important books about cold fusion. Michaelbusch asks: "please explain why these particular references are required." Reasons:

Experts in cold fusion ranging from Storms & Bockris to Arthur C. Clarke recommended these books, and wrote forwards & introductions to the books.

Mallove was published by Wiley, one of the largest and most respected technical publishers. It was widely reviewed and nominated for a Pulitzer prize. Mallove himself played a key role in the history of cold fusion. Mallove purchased the rights to the book and reprinted it, partly because he needed the income, which was considerable.

Dozens of experts contributed to Beaudette. The University of Utah asked for, and accepted, his papers, interviews and the manuscript of this book.

Mizuno is one of Japan's leading cold fusion scientists and electrochemists. He has published over 50 papers, mainly in Japanese, about several different aspects of electrochemistry, including cold fusion. The Japanese edition of this book has sold tens of thousands of copies and the publisher asked him to write a second book, which he did. (It has not been translated into English.)

Contrary to your assertions above, these are not in any sense "self published" books. They were all professional edited and they have all sold thousands of copies.

The fact that you ask why these books are important tells me that you are unfamiliar with the field. Have you even read these books? There are roughly 2,500 researchers in cold fusion listed in the LENR-CANR database. I have met or worked with hundreds of them. I am sure that most of them are familiar with these books, and consider these books important. If you are not an expert in cold fusion, you have no business second-guessing them. Whether you think cold fusion is real or not has no bearing on this issue. If this article was about the Flat Earth theory it would include books that most Flat Earth believers consider important.

PLEASE STOP VANDALIZING THIS PAGE!

- Jed Rothwell Librarian, LENR-CANR.org

Let me add that I have several other books on cold fusion, both pro and con, that do not merit listing in this bibliography for the reasons you cite; i.e. they are obscure or self-published. In other words, your standards for exclusion are reasonable but they do not apply to the books you excluded.

Your recent edits

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Sign your talk page posts, and stop your verbose flaming. Michaelbusch (talk) 22:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Conflict of interest reported

Your conflict of interest with regards to cold fusion has been reported to the Misplaced Pages administrators here. If you continue to insist on including questionable references that you have had a hand in creating and maintaining, you may find yourself blocked or banned. Consider this fair warning. ScienceApologist (talk) 16:10, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

No personal attacks

This last edit borders precariously on violating the Misplaced Pages policy of no personal attacks. If you do not stop this kind of behavior you will be shown the door. ScienceApologist (talk) 16:20, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits to Cold Fusion - 3RR violation warning

Due to your repeated reversions of the cold fusion article, you have violated Misplaced Pages's three-revert rule. Any further editing of the page today would be reason for a block from editing. Michaelbusch (talk) 19:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem. I will ask others to revert it, and I will revert it again tomorrow. I will not allow bullies like you to censor my friends, especially dead friends.

- Jed