User talk:Sholomsholom

Welcome. I am looking forward to your guidance.Sholomsholom (talk) 08:49, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Judith Butler interview

The interview I removed from the Judith Butler article was indeed an interesting one. I read the whole thing, and in fact forwarded it to several friends outside of Wikipedia. So definitely nothing critical of the interview itself. Of some possible interest, I also happen to follow Naomi Klein and noticed someone added an interview from the same source to that one (which I also removed for the same reasons); probably the same editors, but I didn't check.

If the interview was used as a source for some specific claim in the article, it would be a great source. But since Butler (or other famous intellectuals) have given dozens or hundreds of interviews, something being just another one of them doesn't merit inclusion in an encyclopedia article. That makes us look like a WP:LINKFARM. A good approach here is probably to start a section on the talk page that provides the link, and ideally also states any highlights of the source that might be useful to incorporate into the article. A whole "interviews" section is definitely LINKFARM territory, but talk pages are specifically for improving articles, and discussing possible sources is one central type of improvement. LotLE×talk 16:40, 29 March 2010 (UTC)