Talk:Michael D. Coe

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Birth date

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Hello, Dr. Michael Coe's is MAY 14, not APRIL 14.  See email from him below from my
b-day wish today: 
  "Thank you, Donny, but my birthday will be on May 14th, not April 14th! My Wikipedia
  entry has it wrong, but I don't know how to correct it."
  Best,
  Michael Coe
Sincerely,
Donny Claxton

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Archeoastronomy (talk • contribs) 22:05, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The date of birth has been removed from the article until we can find a reliable source - we can't be sure the email above really comes from Michael. A reliable source for a birth date would be something like an official biography at his publishers website or a comment in an interview. filceolaire (talk) 10:23, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quote from Dr. Coe's autobiography: "My mother gave birth to me on 14 May 1929, in Miss Lippincott's Lying-in Hospital, on Manhattan's East Side" Chapter 1 - "A Silver Spoon", page 9 "Final Report" by Michael D. Coe - Thames & Hudson- New York 2006 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamag48 (talk • contribs) 21:13, 20 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

bias

This article reads like a panegyric instead of a neutral description of facts.

Jonathanhiramkaplanreal responds: I suggest you check out what I have written - investigate it to see if anything I have written is not true. Of course, if you work hard, you will find some in the academic ranks who have irked Coe, and battled with him, and tried to belittle him. But the facts are facts. If some of what I have written seems hagiographic, I challenge you to ferret out anything to contest what I have said. All I am doing is giving Coe due credit for his achievements.

Recommend revision

Michael D. Coe is an important archaeologist. This article needs more attention, both from the community at large, and from experts in archaeology and especially in Mayan studies. Please consider: (1) expand to highlight Coe's major ideas and contributions, including critical responses; (2) rewrite for neutral tone; and (3) supply more in-line citations.

G41rn8 (talk) 21:08, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I just took a crack at (2) and a bit of (3), still needs a lot of work. Tophtucker (talk) 21:51, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

'Debates' section reads like a character assassination attempt

As far as I can see, he has just taken stances on controversial issues where there are serious Mesoamericanists on both sides of the debate - by no means being even the only author or originator of a given stance - and articles taking the opposite positions are cited here as if they discredited him personally and his research work in general. 62.73.69.121 (talk) 06:03, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the sourcing of these claims is unclear as to which sources are cited as examples of his allegedly poor scholarship and which are cited as examples of scholars objecting to his allegedly poor scholarship. Some of the cited articles are authored by him or have him as a co-author (including the one cited as 'Bruhns, Karen; Kelker, Nancy', which actually has more co-authors). And it isn't explained what his contested positions actually were.--62.73.69.121 (talk) 06:11, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]