Talk:Miguel de Cervantes

message: This article is full of meaningless drivel that has no place on Cervantes' page. It's getting quite tiresome to watch Wikipedia editors make a joke of themselves by trying to pretend that devout Catholics were secret secularist leftists.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.32.91.98 (talk) 06:28, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Horrible article

message: If we want to get this article up in quality, we need to first start with the lead. Compare this with Shakespeare's lead. Why are his parents and brothers listed - that's something for the bio section. Birth city is enough and then we can go directly into summary of his works. Anyone else interested by the fact that he and Shakespeare died on the same day.--RossF18 (talk) 18:08, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement of article - start with the lead

message: See Talk:Miguel de Cervantes/Archive1#It's unknown when Cervantes was born.  
In keeping with other articles (Shakespeare, Beethoven, etc) where we make it clear in the body of the article that we do not know the exact date of birth, we certainly should not present a lede para with an unqualified date of birth as we’re currently doing with Cervantes.  That is very misleading and, well, wrong.  The best we can do is surmise, assume, speculate and believe that he was born 29 September, but we do not know it as a fact, so we should not present it as if it is a fact.  --  Jack of Oz  ... speak! ...  11:50, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth is unknown

message: Both family names (undoubtly Saavedra, subject to discuss Cervantes) are of Galician-Portuguese origin, and Saavedra were (and today is, as long as I can hear) pronounced with long vowel: [miˈɣel de θerˈβantes sa:ˈβeðɾa], Saavedra comes from Latin sala vetera (intervocalic l dropped, as usual in Galician-Portuguese, remaining first a long vowel and after a crasis, the vowel being long no more). The Spanish equivalent is Salavieja, another common surname. It is, curiously, in modern Galician and Portuguese that this surname is pronunced with short a, no long one, even with old spelling (double a).91.117.9.231 (talk) 00:05, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, yes, the usual anti-Spanish drivel.  No Spaniard can be allowed recognition.  Read through Wikipedia; any Spaniard of note was really "Portuguese," or secretly "Jewish," or actually a "Basque," or whatever. Just please, Jesus, don't let him be Spanish!98.162.136.248 (talk) 14:48, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronounce

message: why is the don quichotte section included in the death section ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.141.236.28 (talk) 21:32, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  article sections 

message: He was married and he did have children, but nothing is said here about them, except a brief reference to one of his daughters.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.191.234.242 (talk) 07:22, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who Were His Wife and Kids? 

message: In the death section, there is a article about his plays. I am not entirely sure how to move or create a new headline, so can someone please fix it? Thanks, EpicFail7777777 (talk) 01:45, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: Does anyone really say "the proof is in the pudding" as a shortened version of this? (Which makes no sense at all) Can we have a reference if this is really the case please.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.74.69.18 (talk) 11:33, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've only ever heard the shortened version, but I suppose it should be sourced. 64.180.40.75 (talk) 19:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

text: Yes they do, particularly in the US. It's a pet peeve of mine, like "could care less" instead of the correct "could not care less". – ukexpat (talk) 20:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The proof of the pudding is in the eating 

message: The Spanish version of Cervantes' Wikipedia article says that this poem was a falsification, or that it was not written by Cervantes. I am currently taking a course on Cervantes, and my professor said this also.— Preceding unsigned comment added by NatalieAvigailL (talk • contribs) 
:That statement in the Spanish article has no source. If you can find reliable sources to support it, then it can be added to the English article.--ukexpat (talk) 18:14, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  La Epistola a Mateo: historia de una polémica literaria en torno a Cervantes 

message: Cervantes died in 22 April. See the reference, but even in the Spanish Wikipedia it is written like that. I´ll change it. See you  Albertojuanse (talk) 14:47, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't forget that Spain was using the Gregorian Calendar but Britain was still using the Julian Calendar, they were ten days adrift of each other, so Cervantes and Shakespeare did not both die within a day of each other.  Also, Spain at the time had a custom of using date of burial as date of death. 2.31.162.59 (talk) 21:12, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Died Date 

message: It is controversial, but a section of Cervantes scholars is firmly convinced that Cervantes, while not a Jew by any stretch of the imagination, was descended from Jews on both sides. 
If I put it in the article someone is going to take it out.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deisenbe (talk • contribs) 09:52, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Cervantes' Jewish ancestry

message: 1- The article says: "His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes" It's not for this reason, actually because is the greatest ambassador of the spanish language. El Quijote was the book most translated in the world literature, with the exception of the Bible. 
2- El Quijote is the first modern (Polyphonic) novel in the History, and not only in Europe.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.203.59.67 (talk) 05:30, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The name of the book is not El Quijote. The name is Don Quijote. If you're writing Spanish, you can call it "el Quijote", but not "El Quijote". deisenbe (talk) 20:37, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  TWO IMPRECISIONS 

message: The article contains half sentences beginning with lower case letters, words written in entire capitals, and huge swathes of unsupported claims and attributions.  It's past midnight my time, I have fixed some of it, but much work is needed. μηδείς (talk) 04:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Style and Citations

message: Following on from a discussion on the Exhumation and reburial of Richard III it is suggested that a similar title be adopted for Cervantes - whether a subheading within this article or a separate one. Jackiespeel (talk) 14:15, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think an article Exhumation of Miguel de Cervantes is certainly appropriate. It's really not about his biography after all. —МандичкаYO 😜 11:53, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The choice may be different for English WP and Spain-linked WPs - as with RIII where 'many WPs' include the rediscovery and reburial within the main text (and eg Phillip of Macedon. The parallel would be the articles 'Death and burial of...' 11:07, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion

message: Since this section deals exclusively with Don Quixote I recommend that it be moved there. deisenbe (talk) 11:02, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving section on "Depictions, adaptations, and references in other works" 

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message: Proclaiming that Cervantes's cause of death was Type II diabetes is completely unverifiable. It does not matter that a physician today, after reading what a "physician" (remember you could be a barber AND a surgeon in those days)wrote down some 500 years ago, decided to call it Type II diabetes. A patient MUST be examined before any diagnosis can be given and of course, in this case, that's not possible. Otherwise it's just pure conjecture and that should be stated in this article. Besides there are A LOT of reason why a patient could be chronically thirsty; renal failure for one. And renal failure can be caused by many illnesses. The fact is, nobody knows what he died of.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.145.103 (talk) 04:40, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not a dogmatic assertion. This article only says his symptoms 'correspond with' Type II Diabetes, a statement I assess as not being a decisive diagnosis.  England's King Henry VIII and the latter's onetime chief minister Cardinal Wolsey are both surmised to have been Type II Diabetes sufferers.Cloptonson (talk) 19:11, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of death? Get real.  

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message: I've removed the "Spaniards of Jewish Ancestry" tag at the bottom of the page. Considering the scholar who first put forth the theory of Jewish ancestry seems to have been trying to advance his own ideas of Spanish identity, and the article itself says that any evidence for it is circumstantial at best, I found it pretty absurd that this tag was there.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HBBorges (talk • contribs) 17:59, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite agree. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:14, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: No. His Jewish origin is now completely mainstream consensus. Literally no one (except perhaps some crazy anti-semite) argues against it. At least among historians or academics. --79.153.124.157 (talk) 15:39, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spaniards of Jewish Ancestry category 

message: I was embarassed to be called here after a student brought this article to my attention. See the 2015 Talk entries above, about Citations and Style, and WP:COPYVIO. The article remains substantially in the very sorry shape indicated 4 years ago, with the only improvement being that the article tags now give clear, appropriate warning to readers that the content is far from encyclopedic (or even fundamentally reliable). The same issues persist—appropriated content, and other huge swaths of otherwise unsourced material, paragraph after paragraph, section after section. On top of it, some subsections—see those on "Don Quixote" and on "Exemplary novels" in the "Works" section—are little more than draft student essays, lacking detail or sources, but full of editorialising. Teachers, send your students to Britannica; this article is an intellectual morass, without hope for better any time soon. 2601:246:C700:9B0:85BB:6F50:E2F5:B45F (talk) 11:41, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Now updated, feel free to improve (I'm not a Cervantes expert).Robinvp11 (talk) 18:17, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: A disasterous mess

message: Vis-à-vis the current version of the article, does this recently added bit canonically contravene WP:UNDUE, WP:BALASP, WP:NOTNEWS and WP:10YT? If so, what do we do?--Asqueladd (talk) 16:28, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: On the basis of the points stated above, I've removed the content.--Asqueladd (talk) 23:55, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue 

message: Cervantes' Jewish origin at least on his father's side is fact. It is not a theory, we know the Jewish family and when they converted and no contemporary academic source denies it. On his mother's side it is more complicated. Regardless there seems to be an attempt to hide this in the article with a very bizarre attention to his physical appearance.Php2000 (talk) 15:47, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Jewish origin