Talk:Mark Ames

message: * "...where by his own admission he was a reactionary Republican punk in opposition to Berkeley's Left-wing politically-correct hegemony, before turning to the Left in the neo-liberal 1990s."  There is no source that he was a "reactionary Republican punk" (which should be in quotes so as not to be POV), and the link about turning to the left only shows he might be called somehow leftist now, nothing about turning to the left in the 1990s.  The statement that the 1990s were neoliberal, and the implied connection, don't belong either.
*can someone find the appropriate (scientific) citation for the article about Ames' scabies case in the New England Medical Journal?  It should be 1991, and about the history of modern itching medicine (историю современной медицины чесоткой).  Or was it just a joke?
*"Ames earned praise for being the first American journalist to predict Russia's debt default as well as Russia's 1998 financial crisis."  Obviously the "earned praise" needs another citation, and the links given only show that he predicted it, not that he was first.  One alternative would be to show that many others still had rosy outlooks on the situation when he foresaw what was going to happen.
Dsol 17:43, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information in various versions of the article that needs to be sourced 

message: as to whether to remove the material that 82.141.187.170 is calling "vanity."  vote here, give your justification
*Oppose vague and subjective complaint calling for removal of info by an anonymous ip with essentially no unrelated edits.  Dsol 21:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Calling for consensus votes

message: Autohagiograpy not neutral point of view
:This is a meaningless comment and a non-argument.  There's nothing inherently recognized about autobiographical (much less authagiographical) sources as inherently POV by wp's policies.  Removing tag.  If this doesn't stop, and serious discussion doesn't begin, I'll request protection for this page shortly..  Dsol 13:54, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest you first read the pages on writing better prose before you move on to the NPOV policies :)--Urthogie 12:13, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV dispute 

message: I looked up the IPs of the addresses that have been blanking this page and violating 3RR.  They both point to Central European University.  Based on the vandal's behavior, I got a hunch.  Turns out I wuz right: .  Doctor Ekman is a Associate Professor at CEU in the Department of "Finance, Economics, and Quantitative Studies" teaching classes like "Company Valuation".  In retrospect, I should have guessed earlier based on the IPs obtuse reasoning, obnoxiousness, as well as the disappearance of Ekman's former IP, (his obsession with Mark Ames, his deference towards SlimVirgin, etc).  Again I am floored at how much time Dr. Ekman is spending in feeble pursuit of an ancient vendetta against an entirely indifferent opponent.  Honestly Dude: Move On With Your Life
Anyway, now we know what this is all about.  Dr. Ekman, why don't you explicitly delineate your specific areas of concern about the article.  Engaging in a revert war isn't going to get us anywhere.  Please be specific.
--Ryan Utt 04:40, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good eye.  I noticed budapest also, but didn't make the connection.  Use of multiple IPs to help circumvent 3RR is a relatively serious offence, especially for someone with so many edits and a previous 3RR block.  This need to be added to the RfC. Dsol 14:35, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Ekman Returns 

message: interview in kp.  interesting stuff in there. for example
"Я мог бы вернуться в Штаты. Но не хочу. Я сюда приехал не ради денег, как одни. Не ради секса, как другие. Я приехал сюда жить. А жизнь здесь интересная." Dsol 09:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [http://www.kp.ru/daily/23810/60074/print/ article] 

message: Ames has a TV show on this network. Does anyone have access to coverage of this, or better yet, links to the shows themselves? Dsol 20:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He does multiple pieces for them. Hence my tagging (nearly two years later) as dubious the claim he's in exile in Panama. PetersV <SMALL><SMALL>     </SMALL> TALK</SMALL> 04:38, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: He's definitely done these in the past, but I'm not sure when the last one was. He's almost certainly not in Panama, and has mainly covered American politics since the Russia-Georgia war. dsol (talk) 12:22, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't really matter where he actually lives. What matters is that he claimed he fled to Panama, and no reliable source disputes that (as far as I know). I attributed the claim about fleeing to Panama to him so there should be no problem now. LokiiT (talk) 04:36, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this excellent and detailed account of the exile, Ames went back to America and currently resides there. The Panama thing was obviously a hoax/lie. "“It’s kind of terrifying being back here. I find the rules here suffocating,” Ames says when I ask how it feels returning to the States after a decade and a half in Moscow. “I miss the extreme melodrama” of Russia, he says. “Here there are so many horrifying layers of décor and piety. Everything is at stake in this country—in theory it’s Rome, and yet it operates like small-town Nebraska. There’s so little real drama here.”" LokiiT (talk) 01:33, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russia today 

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message: Strange that these are not mentioned in the Wikipedia article: https://jezebel.com/writers-matt-taibbi-and-mark-ames-serviced-no-one-but-t-1820007051 77.222.27.77 (talk) 23:25, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accusations of sexual harassment, misogyny, etc.