Talk:Ron Arnold

message: Is it necessary to link his books to amazon.com? It is probably prefeable to put in ISBN numbers. The books can then be found at libraries. Alan Liefting 09:49, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  amazon.com links 

message: Additions include my honors in the "100 Best Books" reader list of the Modern Library, my Left Tracking Library website, and my Washington Examiner column with a link to its use in the Congressional Record.
Deletions include an apparently fabricated quote attributed to me that I cannot find in its claimed source in the archives of the Boston Globe, so I assume it is incorrect, since it uses words I don't normally use for philosophical reasons. However, if whoever posted that that quote can find it in the Boston Globe and send a true copy to me at arnold.ron@gmail.com, i'll be happy to restore it. Meanwhile, I have replaced the contentious quote with a real one from the only article about me I can find in the Globe.
I don't mind being beaten up for the truth.
If some editor wants to talk to me to clean this article up, I can be reached at 425-454-9470.
It would be nice to be actually contacted by people who write about me.
Ron ArnoldRonarnold (talk) 19:38, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have edited this page to insert and delete several items 

message: "one of the most effective adversaries of the environmental movement." Effective by what standard? And in whose judgement? If Ron were even successful in getting anyone other than his closest acolytes to adopt his pet phrase "Big Green" as an epithet for non-polluting industry, I might be inclined to agree. I've tagged this and other over-reaching claims for needed citation.Bustter (talk) 05:14, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  effective? By what estimate? 

message: Clicking each footnote in the text, I find that few of the links offer support to statements made in the article. Several are links to Amazon pages for books that presumably contain supporting information; someone needs to read the appropriate guideline  and format these references appropriately; Amazon links are decidedly not appropriate. 
Footnote 7 is just a link to one of Arnold's websites, and as such should appear as an "external link," not a footnote. But for the Modern Library's listing of EcoTerror, and the link to the Congressional Record, the present article is without citations.  Bustter (talk) 17:18, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editors working this article need to use sources 

message: Only when you examine the list itself do you realize the import of the fact that Arnold's book is on the "Reader's List," a supplement to the Board's List. I think users of the Wiki would get a more honest impression of the nature of this list if they knew that L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics is the second most important of all nonfiction works accrding to this list, after Ayn Rand's "The Virtue of Selfishness". Clearly, the Reader's List was open to manipulation by organized groups. Today, we'd see one of Stephen Colbert's non-books at the top. Bustter (talk) 17:33, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Modern Library List" essentially a fraud [imo] 

message: As per WP:COS, edits by Ron Arnold himself (User:Ronarnold) should be either reverted or heavily edited, particularly considering the unencyclopaedic nature of the article so far. None of the edits as far as I can see warrant emergency editing for reasons of defamation etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.135.11 (talk) 00:05, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ron Arnold is editing his own article