Talk:Mario Alinei
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[edit] Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 00:57, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Tag as Unbalanced
Mario Alinei is the proponent of distinctly minority points of view: on the methods of historical linguistics, on the Uralic languages, on Etruscan, and on European archaeology and prehistory. I don't feel that this article, as it currently stands is balanced, in that fails to mention that most specialists on these subjects, almost without exception, reject Alinei's ideas. The difficulty, however, is that Alinei is so almost universally regarded as unserious, that hardly anyone reliable ever bothers to say so. I feel that links to Alinei's own material should be reduced, references to the handful of criticisms of Alinei that exist should be found and added, and a summary of what is thought to be wrong with Alinei's ideas added to the article. Bofoc Tagar 13:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
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- The mainstream linguistic IE theory is full of bugs, archeologically absurd and ideologically biased, (just have a look at Renfrew's if you don't like Alinei's papers), so I don't see why Alinei could not have the permission to express his ideas. I don't see either why the author of one of the most significant works against this widely indefensible IE Theory, being moreover professor emeritus from the University of Utrecht etc. should request your approval for an article in the Wikipedia;
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- By the way, I find rather suspicious your desire to censor the references to Alinei's papers; that's not the sign of a very scientific spirit. Nor is your spiteful anger against Alinei either. Just try and re-read yourself "The difficulty, however, is that Alinei is so almost universally regarded as unserious, that hardly anyone reliable ever bothers to say so". You did.
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- What I consider as really unserious and rethorically preposterous is sentences like this one : "most specialists on these subjects, almost without exception, reject Alinei's ideas". Good. Who ? Where ? Which papers ? Which books ? Which arguments ?
