I posted my last story for this email on Medium in Woodworkers of the World Unite!!! as that publication is owned by Scienceduude, who, if you can’t tell by his name, identifies with being a scientist while the publication identifies with woodworkers, and so boundless boundaries is a shared theme. Additionally, I need to promote my search for a leader of the museum in the larger world, and the last post was right for that.
Squeeze the Avacado clapped for What Happens If The Remote Work Revolution And The Historical Arts and Crafts Movement Meet On Common Ground?.
Squeeze the Avacado started following me when I started publishing with Woodworkers of the World Unite!!! Usually, I check people who follow me out right away but sometimes, as events go, I miss doing that, and so I checked Squeeze the Avacado out today and I am very thrilled that I did so. I love everything about the way she writes and the subjects of her narrative.
Squeeze the Avacado’s profile description says “Italian from Taranto, Australian from Melbourne, a “born again gamer (?)”. Writing about social psychology, businesses, and most likely, quite a bit of poetry“ The most current post is What is Cultural Psychology? And its relation to the arts in Europe. The title pulls me in. As it turns out the article is about pottery production, colonization, and people fainting in Florence because of the effect of being exposed to too much cultural meaning.
A quote from the article says:
The world that is outside of our minds is a materialised world, and fundamental for the transmission of culture, but also our own enculturation. In this way, things are capable of orienting our experiences, attitudes and behaviours.
This is why the founding purpose of Andersen Design was to create a hand-crafted product affordable to the middle class, during the age of plastics.
If you accept Wikipedia standards- don’t take my word for that, since it is not verified by a third-party source, preferably a journal. The irony is that any reliable outside source writing about Andersen Design today would use living relatives, especially children who were raised in the business in a home as their source, but according to Wikipedia if you are a direct source you cannot be verified.
I ran into this weirdness from Wikipedia when in 2019. I edited the biography of Governor Longly by saying that under Governor Longley instituted a centrally managed economy in Maine.
That was in 2019 so I do not have the exact quote of what I posted but I do have on the record that I cited as my sources the Governor’s Task Force on Economic Development 1976, which is not available online but can be requested from the Maine Legislative Library. Marshal J Tinkle, the author of The Maine Constitution, A Reference Manual, tipped me off to its existence, and that is the only reason I know about that document. I also used state statutes and other documentary records available from the Maine Legislative Library to verify the factual basis of what I posted but this is the response I received:
Please read Verifiabilty, not Truth. Wikipedia does not claim to offer what is true, only what can be verified in independent reliable sources. Original research is not permitted. As I indicated, if your research is discussed in such sources, it can be mentioned here, but otherwise, no. You may want to find an alternative forum where what you want to do is permitted. 331dot (talk) 00:42, 12 December 2019
So information stored at the Maine Legislative Library is not a verifiable source by Wikipedia standards- because no one is discussing it! Could that have anything to do with the fact that the source material is not even available online? The whole point of why I started blogging was because of what was missing from the public dialogue.
There are many alternative forums in which I post but the reason for wanting to add to the record in Wikipedia is that it is the first or one of the first sources to come up in any search. I myself use Wikipedia the verify general information, just because its positioning in a search makes it easiest to do so, but as you can see, while what Wikipedia publishes may be factual or else commonly held opinion, it is not necessarily the whole truth. In some cases, as in the biography of Governor Longley, what is left out, in my unverified opinion, is the most impactful effect of Longley’s tenure. The centrally managed economy continued to expand and entrench itself in Maine since Governor Longley invited a board of the leaders of the largest and wealthiest corporations in Maine to “lead the Legislature” in reinventing our constitutional form of government.
Since 2019 I was recruited by Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, an international academic journal, to do reviews of papers under consideration for publication. That is how I got my “preferred status” as a reviewer on Orcid:
Aims and scope
Aims and scope Palgrave Communications ( former name of HSSC) is an open access online-only journal dedicated to publishing high quality original research. The scope of the journal reflects Palgrave Macmillan’s strengths in the humanities, the social sciences and business. In addition to our multidisciplinary position, we particularly welcome interdisciplinary research, which fosters interaction, creativity and reflection between the rich disciplines that our project encompasses. HSSC Guide to Authors
HSSC is not a non-profit organization, but nonetheless, they do not pay reviewers. Since it is a peer-to-peer review process, I asked about submitting my own paper and was told the fee was 1160.00 to have a paper published. When I approached HSSC about waving the fee, I was told I could go through its University partners to have my fee sponsored, which is a system that draws heavily on non-profit contributions. However, I am not associated with a University. Eventually, I negotiated a full waiver, but I have not submitted a paper.
All of my research on Governor Longley is fully documented in blog-style reporting. It seems as if one should write in a different style for an academic journal but that is a time investment. Perhaps I will try submitting it as is. The research is verified by historical records. If the reviewers object to something about the style, that can be worked out. Isn’t that the purpose of a peer review? If HSSC publishes my work- then I am a source verified in a journal. Then I can try again to correct the common history that most are taught about Governor Longley’s tenure, leaving out the most impactful policy that Longley instituted. However, I would not be surprised at all if Wikipedia would still reject my source because I am the author, even if it gets published in an international academic journal. Can it be verified if the author is me and I submit it to Wikipedia?