Talk:George Cardona

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George Cardona is a major scholar, perhaps the most senior Sanskritist living today. His work is already referred to in several Wikipedia articles

I removed my speedy deletion tag, but please expand the article, nothing distinguishes this person from any random professor, his nationality isn't even stated. Please check WP:BIO. Equendil Talk 23:48, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, he _is_ a random professor, very famous in his own narrow speciality, virtually unheard of outside of it. I know him only through his work, have no idea about the biographic details, sorry.

SnoTraveller 00:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Google search shows, among other things, a Festschrift for him -- surely this is a distinction not every random professor gets.

Indian Linguistic Studies : Festschrift in Honor of George Cardona/edited by Madhav M. Deshpande and Peter E. Hook. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2002, xxvi, 384 p., figs., ISBN 81-208-1885-7.

Amazon shows him with 21 volumes. A little digging shows stuff like http://www.aiausa.org/news/springsummer2001/springsummer2001pg1.html

SnoTraveller 00:14, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Notability should be apparent in the body of the article, not the talk page :) Equendil Talk 00:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Point taken. I added a "honors" section. I'm sure a much better bio could be built, and that he has been awarded all kinds of academic distinction (I already found a Collitz professorship, a rare distinction indeed).

SnoTraveller 01:02, 4 June 2006 (UTC)