Talk:Alexander Arguelles

Slightly contradictory

"Professor Alexander Arguelles was born in 1964 into an exclusively English-speaking American household....his father is a scholarly polyglot whose shelves are filled with books in many different tongues." Am I the only person who sees these two as slightly contradictory? Maybe his father didn't really speak languages around the house, but exposure must have been there.

Written like advertisement

The majority of the links go to what appear to be a business venture on the part of Mr. Arguelles and the article itself is written in a way that strongly suggests personal promotion rather than encyclopedic content. Shoveling Ferret (talk) 09:16, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Promotional sections have been removed. The links do not go to business ventures, but to educational sites. Are these changes sufficient? If so, please remove the "written like advertisement" tag. Mythenmetz (talk) 02:57, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

It still reads like a CV! Also, observing the edit history, I postulate that user Mythenmetz (and probably user WidEyes) are in fact acounts belonging to the person who is the topic of this article.:)1812ahill (talk) 05:21, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Subject is not a notable person

The subject is not a recognised name in the field of linguistics, despite being described, possibly by himself, as a "philologist and hyperpolyglot". The cited academic qualifications do not suggest any expertise in the field. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.214.233 (talk) 23:28, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

He may not be well known in academic circles, but he has had a substantial internet presence since at least 2004 or 2005. Search on any engine and you will find multiple discussions about him on any number of language learning blogs and forums. 7Huang7 (talk) 03:27, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

I cannot vouch for Prof. Arguelles' academic qualifications, but, as a polyglot and an autodidact, he is well-known in online language-learner/polyglot circles. I hope the article stays (though it may need some further editing). --Metafrastria (talk) 20:39, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Regardless of the notability of Prof. Arguelles, one of the cited sources (#7: on "he has been called an elitist") is a forum post to a less than notable website, apparently by a less than notable person. Do random internet posters really count as reputable critics? If that were the case, I'm sure you could justify any statement at all by a link to a forum post. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.192.63.56 (talk) 04:27, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

There is only one redeeming factor for this article - the bibliography section, which gives it at least pretension of not being just a personal CV. MSMayo (talk) 07:46, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

It should also be noted that he is the son of poet Ivan Argüelles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Arg%C3%BCelles and nephew of author/artist José Argüelles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Arg%C3%BCelles.Jerrod111 (talk) 04:41, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Excessive use of subject's material provides single point of view

The use of references and external links to material written or composed by the subject of the article provides only a single point of view. The neutrality of the article seems questionable because of these links and references. Pknkly (talk)

Change of section names.

I added two section names, and removed the section name before the lede. I don't know enough to say whether this person is notable or not, so I am leaving that issue to other editors. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:22, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Additional information

As an acquaintance of Professor Arguelles and a fellow linguist, I was wondering whether it would be worth adding a note about the Professor's contributions on YouTube and also whether it might be worth mentioning the fact that he is not only an autodidactic learner, but also someone who, as an academic, has researched into so many different language learning techniques which appeal to a greater range of (potential) foreign language learners. I was also wondering, as I have mentioned Alexander Arguelles on my own user page, how to create a link to his own Wikipedia page. Lingua GenesisLingua Genesis (talk) 09:15, 19 June 2010 (UTC)