Talk:Joseph H. H. Weiler

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The entire second half of this article, and perhaps the whole piece, is compromised by aggrandizing terminology. Someone please size it down and even it up. Cjs2111 23:58, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why the second half is so laudatory is precisely beacuse Weiler is one of the most influential and leading academics and policy-makers of our time. If we gave the blank facts, then it would be impossible to recognise his unique contribution.Harlay (talk) 01:03, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but that's nonsense. Not even in the entry on Beethoven will you find such overblown language. Weiler is, in my opinion, a very good and influential scholar, but even so I find this entry comical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.23.61.208 (talk) 08:44, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The petitesse of the previous commentator shows itself. Judging from contributions by the same contributor, am academic, maybe a fomer student of Weiler. For those who actually know about this subject, Weiler is unquestionably the greatest living scholar of EU law and has done even more - he is part of and influences the European integration debate. How many other professors of EU law get to go to Davos? Why does he get honorary doctorates at an unusually early age? One may not like him, but it is impossible to deny his towering presence. If he is so bad as the other commentators say, why would Federico Mancini, Habermas and others engage publicly with him? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harlay (talk • contribs) 20:37, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You ask "If he is so bad as the other commentators say...". The other commentators don't say he is bad. Merely that the article is bad. There's a difference.