Talk:Kwame Anthony Appiah

message: Whoever it is that keeps removing the fact that he is gay and that he was born in London, could you please explain why? There is a citation to an interview he gave where this is discussed. Deepak 19:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Homosexuality

message: It's hard to tell if the section on the book "Cosmopolitanism" is a summary of his ideas or a critique of his ideas.  Would the article work better by just editing out this whole paragraph and replacing it with a one or two sentence summary?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nangua (talk • contribs) 15:15, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ideas

message: If he was born in London, can he really be described as 'african american'? Contaldo80 (talk) 13:37, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  African American 

message: Apparently he was a joint editor of Microsoft's abortive Encarta Africana. Worth a mention? 86.159.192.146 (talk) 03:16, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Encarta 

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message: COI - I know Appiah for many years and I know of the author of an article that alleges with serious documentation that in one of his books Appiah committed academic misconduct. Now I know this is controversial but I looked up some papers on academic misconduct and this is what they wrote regarding the Stapel Affair:
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Something Rotten
'How is it possible that a well-known scholar could get away, for many years, with a large string of publications in which all his hypotheses were always spectacularly confirmed, by experimental data that were widely perceived by colleagues as “too good to be true",   ......  Think of the fact that, again and again, academic top managers have tried to cover up cases of fraud and plagiarism, and have been intimidating whistleblowers, because apparently they are more afraid of reputation damage for their institution than concerned about scientific standards and morality.'
In this context  a high reputation and a minority background may inhibit critical faculties and fear at the risk of being accused of harbouring anti-minority biases, but once the 'whistle' is blown I think it should be mentioned. Appiah certainly is able to defend himself but the debate and academic integrity only work if whistles can be blown.
I am proposing to insert: "allegations have been  made about the integrity of Appiah's scholarship" with a reference to the article: https://www.academia.edu/38069441/Appiah_and_the_racism_in_his_work_-_part_1.pdf
If you have a lazy moment feel free to have a read. Napata102 (talk) 23:24, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm. Are there other scholars who have published this allegation? I see that African Century Journal describes itself as peer-reviewed but I can't find anything about its submissions process and this particular paper is written by the chair of the journal, so arguably falls more into the category of self-published sources, which are barred from use in biographies of living people. Additionally, we should keep in mind the guidance about due weight, particularly as far as determining the significance of different viewpoints--if we can't find it discussed anywhere else, it probably does not rise to encyclopedic significance as yet. Innisfree987 (talk) 19:18, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: From what you describe, it does not sound like this is yet appropriate material for the encyclopedia. Please do read the due weight policy on how to determine whether a viewpoint is significant enough to merit inclusion. While I understand your interest, as a teacher, in this new finding, the purpose of the encyclopedia is not to alert specialists to new information; rather, as a tertiary source, we aim to give generalists the broad strokes of what is already drawn the attention and discussion of the respected secondary sources in a field. (I know this principle of being a lagging indicator of significance is nearly the polar opposite of what's prioritized in research journals, and can come as a surprise when one first starts editing the encyclopedia.) If this new material ultimately garners attention and discussion among a number of reliable sources, then we might consider it's a sufficiently significant view to rate inclusion. But it does not sound like that's the case yet. Innisfree987 (talk) 07:26, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  criticism of academic integrity