Talk:Bernard-Henri Lévy

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Contents 1 Booksellers 2 POV 3 Sourcing? 4 "Combat" paper 5 Start class 6 WikiProject class rating

[edit] Booksellers

I have put the link to the French Amazon site in for the readers' convenience. While there may be other booksellers who have these books readily available, the French Amazon site is easy and convenient. I see no harm in it and a little good. What is the problem with having it? Fred Bauder 17:23, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] POV

The uses of words like "lofty" (which has "pompous" and "arrogant" as connotations) or "lavish" are, in my opinion out of place. Even worse is something like "he is nonetheless often lampooned as the archetypal pretentious". Levy is a controversial figure and the article, as it is now, does illustrate very well the polarization that his image creates--it does, however, sound quite informal and opinionated, which come out--again, in my opinion, as biased. I think the article lacks references (e.g. by whom is he "often lampooned as the archetypal pretentious Left Bank intellectual"?) and need to be seroiusly reworded. I do not, however, that the neutrality of the article is terrible--thus i left the POV tag on this talk page and not in the actual article page. J4vier Apr 8, 2005

I'm moving the POV check back to the main article. This tag should not be put on the talk page as the template itself references the talk page (which is redlinked from this page). Also, POV checks in talk pages almost never get looked at. -- ShinmaWa^(talk) 20:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm fixing what I can. I speak French, so I'm starting to borrow stuff from the French article. I'm also trying to cite as many claims as possible. Any help is much appreciated. I can only work on it in spurts. Thanks! --AaronS 18:09, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sourcing?

Some phrases from this article seem to be lifted from the Guardian profile on Levy in a manner that borders on plagiarism, especially the second-to-last paragraph.

I wouldn't call it plagiarism, but it is true that much of the "personality" stuff does seem to come from that article. Since he just came out with a book, there's quite a few more articles on him. I'm going to see if I can diversify our sources. --AaronS 18:10, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Combat" paper

"Lévy is also a pre-eminent journalist, having started his career as a war reporter for Combat, the famous underground newspaper founded by Camus during the Nazi occupation of France."

When and where the paper was founded seems a bit tangental (and distracting) to me, considering Lévy wasn't even born before the occupation ended. If the paper is interesting enough, it should have its own page we can link to. But either way, I suggest removing the paper founding specifics from the "Biography" section. -- Or at the very least, include Camus's full name. --JMD 17:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Start class

With a little work this would be B class. Use uniform citations, currently inline and footnotes are both used. Also the lead needs to be expanded. It also appears everything comes from one source, to get to anything above B class there should be some variety, and an appropriate infobox is needed. Aboutmovies 02:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 03:48, 10 November 2007 (UTC)