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I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates and tables for organising short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 01:55, 13 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Harper's Dec2023 Magazine Article

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...and I thought *I* was a rebel. Sheesh! Joetho (talk) 18:34, 21 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

@SashiRolls and Gwern: Came across this bio from the 2023 Singpost article about his on wiki shenanigans, I understand the bit about secondary/independent coverage but can we not have that fiction/semi-fiction Harper's article in the biblio or something. Gotitbro (talk) 18:36, 24 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done -- SashiRolls ^{🌿 · 🍥} 20:45, 24 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

I've looked into it and I believe his COI paid editing & Wikipedia manipulation was done for the Lannan Foundation, with key articles being Cobell v. Salazar, Dawes Act, Elouise P. Cobell (see its creation), and Leanne Hinton. Several of his accounts have already been banned by Checkuser, but given his use of many IPs and single-purpose and throwaway accounts, obviously, a lot of them would still be dormant and he could reactivate them at any time. (Inasmuch as he was paid to push his own ideology, he still has reason to do so even though the Lannan Foundation is winding itself down and he has a 'Distinguished Professor' job at Brooklyn College.) --Gwern (contribs) 23:07 23 November 2023 (GMT)

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Excited to see that Lerner published a "non-fiction" (?) article in the NY Review of Books, and while thinking I should add it here, remembered that he also published a poem in that publication a few months ago so ... I added what I could find from him in NYRB and the New Yorker (not including review articles). He also publishes in Harper's every once in a while so I'll look through those and add some more in periodically HarryChoomin (talk) 21:38, 24 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

A page that knows where it met you.

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