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Brian.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:45 AM, AGK <agkwiki at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Any advice on how to respond to this?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Doctorlloydmiller <docmiller at burgoyne.com>
> Date: 2008/9/8
> Subject: Wikipedia e-mail
> To: AGK <agkwiki at googlemail.com>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>    I was so excited to find Wikipedia and to see that I was mentioned as a
> source expert for my subject of expertise. So I thought the honorable thing
> to do was to submit portions of my seminal book in the secion that mentioned
> the book so others might have access to some of the material. So I spend
> many hours preparing and submitting a new section of the submect but was
> accused of multi-crimes and deleated like a rat tossed from a trap,
> everthing I wrote, even little edits to the chapter already there to improve
> it, all gone. In fact they even deleated another of my books that I added to
> a list of further reading on Afghan music where my coleagues were listed. Do
> I have leprosy and does everyone hate me for some unknown reason?
>
>    I don't understand why when my book is listed as a reliable source for
> Persian Traditional Music on Wikipedia, everything I added to the article on
> Persian music or any other place on Wikipedia, even just a word or two, was
> viciously deleted as if I was some horrible stupid know-nothing and an
> unwelcome intruder when I was only trying to be helpful. In the world of
> Persian music, I am accepted as one of the scholars and my book has been
> called "the last word" on Persian muaic; so why would Wikipedia despise my
> every effort to submit material and seemingly block every word I have spent
> hours preparing? How can scholars in a field ever submit anything if they
> are first threatened with potential plagerism then, when they demonstrate
> they are the copyright holders of their own book, accused of conflict of
> interest even if all the quotes in the book are from accepted scholastic
> source persons? It's like Dante's Inferno or Zoroastrian hell.
>    Dr. Lloyd Miller, PhD Persian literature and music. 00:49, 8 September
> 2008 (UTC)~~~~~
>
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