Talk:Wouter Hanegraaff

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Doesn't look like this guy passes the professor test. Every tenured professor has written a couple of scholarly books and maybe edits a scholarly journal. Not enough, unless I'm missing something. Nicely done article, but should probably be deleted. Herostratus 03:42, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

His book on the New Age movement is one of the first if not the first non-polemical academic reviews of the subject (i.e. it is written neither from a sceptical nor a religionist perspective, and presents an analysis of the movement on the basis of its important texts). That alone makes him notable (plus the fact that book has a decent print run, being printed by SUNY Press)

In addition he has co-written and edited a number of books and journals (full details on his hime page). Included in the Wikipedia Notability Criteria is:

Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more

Since Hanegraaff is already a published author (one book), co-author (several books), and/or editor (a number of books, plus a number of journals), that surely makes him notable.

M Alan Kazlev 08:44, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, fair enough. Thanks for clearing that up. I'll remove the ((importance)) that then. Herostratus 11:37, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Herostratus  :-) M Alan Kazlev 11:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hanegraaff

Any known realtionship between the two Hanegraaffs? --Pjacobi 22:28, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

none that i know of! M Alan Kazlev 20:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

>They are family, brothers even, I think

No, Hank's father is a brother of Wouter's father.

>Aha, thanks, i couldn't remember correctly.