User talk:Blorg

Why did you remove Berimen's book on the basis of self-publication. Many philosophers have self-published, ranging from Hume to Russell. This is a good reference book. User:Icut4you

• I (Blorg) did the deletion, I wasn't logged in.

I don't think Berumen is quite in the same class as Hume or Russell; or for that matter the other sources quoted on that page. Putting him there suggests that he is a noted authority on business ethics, and that his book is an accepted text. This is not the case.

One would expect an accepted text on business ethics to be found within university libraries. Yet his book is not in the libraries of a handful of universities I tried: Yale, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, and Chicago. Among these are some of the top business schools in the US, who might be expected to have a book on business ethics. Nor is it in the British Library or the Library of Congress. (The book is in the Stanford catalogue, his alma mater.)

On Amazon, the only place that I can find where the book is reviewed, only one of the reviewers has reviewed any other books. I think a book should be more generally accepted before it is included as a reference. Blorg 13:38, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Even Hume and Russell were not in the same class as Hume and Russell when they first published. It's in barnesandnoble.com and others, too, and I know it is at the LA library (one of the largest in the world), 'cause that's where I heard him lecture. Quite good. Anyway, it seems as legitimate as others on the list. I do not think one has to be well known to be included as a reference. If it bothers you this much, remove it; I am not going to get into a revert war. It isn't that important. icut4u

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I have renamed this as you suggested, and amended the links including yours in Camp David. Thanks for pointing it out; I've no idea how it ended up with an em-dash in the name; it certainly wasn't deliberate. -- Chris j wood 12:33, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)