Talk:Michael Rowbotham

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Page is merely a POV fork of the "debt-based" topic

Current content needs to be deleted, and an actual biography inserted. BigK HeX (talk) 14:49, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article is ok now

Since the article now seems ok, in my eyes, I took away all the xxx, that said it was biased, perhaps should be rewritten and so on. It is too short, but that´s another thing. --Mats33 (talk) 22:49, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of "neo-antisemitism" to describe his books in the article summary

While patrolling recent changes, I saw this edit made by 77.96.230.11 adding a description of the author's novels as "laying out the tenets of neo-antisemitism". After looking into the matter, I saw that the sources did not mention "neo-antisemitism" what-so-ever, felt that this was an edit that was not neutral and also violated WP:BLP (the need to remove such material is mandatory), and reverted the changes. The user keeps restoring the changes, has not offered any explanation as to why the information is not in violation and should be kept, and has instead only responded with this calling my warnings "lies" and claiming that this description is "common sense" even though no additional references were added to the article at all. I believe that this description implies a non-neutral viewpoint, is in complete violation of Wikipedia's BLP policy, and should be removed. The user has offered no reasonable explanation supporting their changes.

Reaching out to the user: Please explain here why your edit does not violate these policies, and please explain why it should be kept on the article. I agree that edit warring is absolutely NOT the right solution; I want to reach out and do the right thing so that we can discuss it. I will await your response. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 15:01, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above user is a proven liar who has violated multiple Wikipedia policies including 2RR and Wiki:Bullying. They are gatekeeping this page. I propose it should be deleted altogether because the subject is not notable, being known only for a couple of vanity-published works of antisemitic propaganda. It is absurd to claim that a book which openly espouses the principles of neo-antisemitism is not antisemitic: it's author most certainly does not make that claim, he's quite open in his hatred of people who are Jewish.

The simple reality here is that the (mentioned in the article) equating of a mis-stated description of fractional reserve banking with e.g. counterfeiting/fraud is _central_ to neoantisemitism. Similarly, the book's description of "economic distortions he believes to be inherent in the so-called debt-based monetary system" is just a rephrasing of old-fashioned 'the Jew bankers are manipulating the system to steal your money' propaganda.

There is just no doubt at all that the author and books are antisemitic _because they say so themselves_. Meanwhile, as I cited, the fully sourced Wiki page on neo-antisemitism specifically refers to the polemics in the book as typical of neo-antisemitism.

But you sieg-heilers aren't interested in truth, are you, just in gatekeeping.

Positive Money

Hello. I think that the following mention is an interesting information to add on the article page. What do you think?

"In the 2000s, Ben Dyson read the book The Grip of Death and then created the Positive Money organisation in 2010."

For your information, also see Talk:Positive Money.
Adèle Fisher (talk) 20:38, 1 March 2018 (UTC).[reply]