Talk:Nils Melzer
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editI know its bad -please make it better, don't delete! Cheers93.96.148.42 (talk) 18:51, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Mostly unreferenced article
editThis article is basically unreferenced, and should be deleted unless more material can be found to justify Melzer's notability. Perhaps a few references to his books can be brought in to add more material. -Darouet (talk) 21:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
This passage needs some attribution and is probably unwarranted character assassination in any case. In reality it should read;
[One of the women] An anonymous person allegedly interviewed by Melzer later sharply criticized him and demanded his resignation. [She] An anonymous person said that by defining how a "proper rape-victim" would have to act, Melzer was engaging in victim blaming and that his report was partially "untrue and defamatory".
Either delete the passage or provide your name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nnoddy (talk • contribs) 05:36, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
Odd behaviour
editEditors recently removed text from the article because it was sourced to a self-published blog. In order to do that they had to extract it a paragraph containing text sourced to three separate medium.com references. The medium references and associated text were left in place. “Medium is a blog hosting service. As a self-published source, it is considered generally unreliable and should be avoided unless the author is a subject-matter expert or the blog is used for uncontroversial self-descriptions. Medium should never be used as a secondary source for living persons”. Any explanations? Burrobert (talk) 00:55, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
Question
editIs the person who is the topic of this article the same one who wrote this book?
Menzler, Nils (25 July 2019). Techno-Esoterik in der säkularisierten Moderne: Überzeugungsstrategien, Apparate und die Formung des modernen Subjekts (in German). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-27303-3. ISBN 978-3-658-27302-6. - Scarpy (talk) 04:49, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
- Apparently not. The name is slightly different. The Nils Menzler who wrote the book has a blog. His CV says “Nils Menzler studied media science and German studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the University of Virginia. Master thesis 2012 on “Money flows, magnetic fields and the world land bridge: Lyndon LaRouche as an apocalyptic, ideologist, scientist?” Current research focus: Theory and history of marginalized knowledge - conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, esotericism”. Burrobert (talk) 08:17, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
Burrobert you’re translating from here yeah? https://ifm.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/index.php/institut/personen/rieger/promotionsprojekte/nils-menzler-die-materialitaet-der-esoterik-die-rhetorik-esoterischer-apparate/ - Scarpy (talk) 05:38, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
- Yes that’s the one. Burrobert (talk) 09:25, 17 July 2020 (UTC)