Talk:Charles Castonguay

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[edit] About Speedy Deletion

Congratulation to the programmers for the speed. ;-)

However, I am merely translating the equivalent French language article. Charles Castonguay is known to about anyone person in Quebec and Canada who ever took any interest on the question of language shifts. He published extensively on this rare subject in French and also in English from the 1970s up until now.

I believe he is also well-known as a mathematician, at least in Canada. -- Mathieugp (talk) 17:16, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't believe he passes the tests here on the English side, but I have withdrawn the speedy deletion tag. Please start providing sources for his notability, as opposed to his publications. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:20, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Google Scholar gives this: [1]

In Google Books, his 1972 thesis is (surprisingly I find) still cited in recent mathematics and analytical philosophy reference works: [2]

The fact that he contributed articles to academic periodicals in linguistics, economics, demographics, sociology, politics strongly suggests rare expertise in his "adoptive" field of the statistical analysis of language shifts. -- Mathieugp (talk) 20:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

The more of this stuff that goes into the article, rather than here, the better. I've also attempted to help by tagging the article as a stub: mathematician, linguist, and Canadian academic. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:15, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I am not certain how to add "more of this stuff into the article" in a way that is relevant to a bio. Can you give me an example of the form it could take?

In any case, as further evidence of international recognition of his precious work on language shifts, I found an article by Colin H. William, professor and researcher at Cardiff University : [3]

Speaking of the Welsh language policy, William wrote (my translation back to English): "The strategists of the language policy have greatly neglected research and do not have at their disposal any study comparable to the excellent detailed analysis often prepared under the auspices of the Conseil de la langue française, such as that of Maurais (1987, 1988) and Castonguay (1994)." -- Mathieugp (talk) 15:11, 27 March 2008 (UTC)