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January 2013

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(I have noticed that all of your contributions to Wikipedia seem to have the purpose of promoting Steve Hall -- or a frequent collaborator of his -- one way or another.) DreamGuy (talk) 20:58, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

note - I fixed the wikilink to steve hall above. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 19:07, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Considering that the test you added [here shows that Hall was a member of a band called The Questionnaires, your username might violate our username policy. DreamGuy (talk) 15:28, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, he was, and they were pretty good, too. I'm an ex-student and shortly to be his Research Assistant, but I chose to study with him because of his fast-growing reputation. Is that a conflict of interest? If so, fair enough, but it doesn't alter the fact that his work, along with Winlow's, is cited in most of the major textbooks in Britain and the USA - Newburn's Criminology; Lilly, Cullen and Ball's Criminological Theory, Hopkins Burke's Understanding Criminological Theory etc. etc. Hall has been described by big names such as Elliott Currie, Pat Carlen and Robert Reiner as one of the most creative minds in criminological theory, and his work as a 'remarkable intellectual achievement' that 'rocks the foundations of the discipline'. It gets great reviews in top journals like this http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/15/bjc.azs073.short?rss=1 and this http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/02/27/bjc.azp005 - in this latter one one Hall's work is described as superior to that of Jock Young's, Britain's biggest name in criminology; it is, too, Hall is light years ahead. Check all this up for yourself. The problem here is that the administrators know nothing about the discipline and its current evolution.

Look, do what you want, I don't really care, this place is a bit of a disaster anyway - the ideas of Hall and others will filter through eventually, and Wiki will be left way behind, one of the reasons virtually no academic who I've heard of recommends it. One parting shot, though - I did a huge amount of work on the Criminology page in order to include all the schools of thought and concepts from the 19th and 20th centuries... Hall and co. get only a brief mention at the end. Since then other people have been on and posted a load of misleading and barely relevant nonsense. I'm told that it's now a laughing stock amongst professional criminologists. I was getting round to correcting it all, but if you are going to censor me, I will not help you, and the page will continue to deteriorate. --Questionnaire (talk) 19:05, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Simon Winlow for deletion

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