Talk:Dov Lior

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You write: 'Shahak is not a reliable source, he was a chemistry professor who wrote anti-Jewish polemics', and advise me to find the original material. With regard to the second request, you are asking me to violate wiki policy, which is opposed to 'original research'.

As regards the first point, this is a judgement, I presume based on the wikipedia article on Shahak, since it shows no familiarity with his writings, but only with hearsay by critics who disagreed with him, mainly on hearsay. It is immaterial, in judging Shahak's essays and books, whether he was a chemist or a phlebotomist or whatever. Secondly, he did not write, 'anti-Jewish polemics': I take that to be your personal judgement, and would be interested to know on what basis you arrived at it? He wrote many essays against a variety of movements within Israel's political groupings which he thought a danger to the healthy development of a modern state. You, or I, might well disagree on this, but that is not relevant. As a strong source (he quotes his newspaper sources with author and date) for material on religious movements, he comes within the wiki rules, which were formulated to stop airheads from opinionizing about things without regard to verifiable and reliable criteria, not to censor sources by eminent figures in the public domain who happen to be controversial.RegardsNishidani 06:32, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Shahak was not a historian, he was a chemistry professor. His works are polemics; they do not count as reliable for historical information. Also, Wikipedia cannot be used as a source for claims in Wikipedia article. Jayjg ^(talk) 12:11, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Remarriage

So he remarried a dozen years before his first wife died? Arbeit Sockenpuppe 22:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dates in this article

According to Wikipedia:Manual of style (dates and numbers), dates in Wikipedia articles should always use the Gregorian/Julian calendars, with other calendar systems used in addition to the Gregorian dates but not in place of them. Hence, the dates in this article, currently given in the Hebrew calendar, should be given in Common Era notation as well. Unfortunately, I can't change them myself as each Hebrew year corresponds to two Gregorian years; e.g., it says that Lior was married in 5720, but I don't know if that was in 1959 or 1960. Could someone who knows the details of this man's life please add in the clarified CE dates? Terraxos (talk) 16:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)