Talk:Simo Parpola

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What a sadly unbalanced article. Simo Parpola has published extensively yet the only work covered is a single paper. Katherine Tredwell 03:09, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV[edit]

We need another perspective on Parpola besides his own. In the introduction of his article "Assyrian Prophecies, the Assyrian Tree, and the Mesopotamian Origins of Jewish Monotheism, Greek Philosophy, Christian Theology, Gnosticism, and Much More" Jerrold Cooper Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 120, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2000), pp. 430-444 Cooper writes: "Simo Parpola is a scholar with impeccable credentials. editor of the State Archives of Assyria series. arxI the foremost expert of his generation on Nco-Assyrian. If he cook) make the case for a Moopotamun pedigree of the twin foundations of Western Civilization. "Jewish Monotheism and Greek Philosophy." it would radically alter our understanding of the formalist influences of our civilization, and the field of Assryology would be moved from the margins of the humanities to a position of central importance. Ilowcver. a careful reading of Parpola's articles and the introduction to Assyrian Praph re rer reveals arguments that art often circular and flawed, in which, by virtue of an enthusiastic presentation, what remains to he proved is transformed into evidence for a construct that resemble* doctrine more than theory." We need someone with access to this article to use it to balance the article. Dougweller (talk) 10:26, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Still NPOV?[edit]

I Agree Katherine Tredwell's comment that Simo Parpola has published extensively. I added a selection of his publications so that his areas of work are now better covered. Unfortunately, I am not the right person to describe the relevance of the individual fields of Parpola's work. I also agree with Dougweller that many contributions of Parpola have far reaching consequences and are relevant, maybe radical. But I am from another branch of humanities and not the right person to assess these and not deeply enough in the respective disciplines to relate Parpola's published results to previous views and results in those fields. But I am sufficiently well aware of facts about Parpola's career and doings. I cleaned the earlier version (before 2016-05-15) because the previous description was clearly not representative. Simo Parpola is known primarily as an Assyriologist, and his main contribution is bringing the heritage of Assyrian State Archives available to all scholars as properly interpreted and translated texts. Koskenni (talk) 08:52, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Until we get independent sources discussing him I'd say NPOV isn't met. Doug Weller talk 15:03, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Now I fail to follow your line of thought. What do you actually expect to happen? As far as I can judge and confirm, the article contains only bare facts, no opinions which could be challenged. The sources from which the facts are taken are openly available and I have included references to the sources to my best ablility. Please, remove the intimidating tags or explain me what I have missed. It would be better to remove the whole article than keep it posted with such flags. Koskenni (talk) 16:42, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just background information: The "Publish or Perish" program (using Google Scholar) gives 2813 citations to Simo Parpola, including the selection of publications I included, and computes a H-index of 27 (i.e. 27 publications that have been cited at least 27 times). Parpola's profile is that of an academic scholar, his connections to ethnic Assyrians is, of course a fact. I removed those passages because it would be unfair to label him as a political actor. And another point, I am not the S. Koskenniemi (Seppo Koskenniemi) who participated in the research of the Indus Script in 1960s and early 1970s. -- Kimmo Koskenniemi, emer. prof. of computational linguistics, contributor to Wikipedia since Feb. 2004, Koskenni (talk) 06:55, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]