Caveat
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Again, welcome! - Tapir Terrific, 15:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I notice you added a couple of articles to the bibliography of this article. I've cut them for the moment, and put an explanation on the article's talk page, but I'm happy to be shown how I'm wrong, if you'd like to discuss the issue there. Cheers, Sam Clark 16:13, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello again - I'm sorry, I'm going to seem like I'm picking on you: I've cut the short addition you made to the retributivism section, for similar reasons as those for cutting your bibliographic additions. Justice is a 'high level', general introduction to the subject, and I think it would be a mistake to let it gather more and more specific points and positions. The libertarian approach to retributive justice is certainly of interest, but if we include it here, we ought also to include a range of other specific positions, which would make the article unwieldy. Why not add a rather more detailed account to Retributive justice and/or Libertarianism? Actually, the former could use a general going over by someone with some knowledge of the subject: it's a mess at the moment. Again, happy to discuss all of this either at the article's talk page or at my talk page. Cheers Sam Clark 10:36, 25 August 2006 (UTC)