Talk:Andrew West (linguist)

message: 'Oppose proposed deletion The page was created by Kaihsu Tai, who as far as I know is not personally acquainted with Andrew, who has only edited it once to delete some vandalism as far as I can see. There are a number of external publications which Andrew has authored or co-authored which are relevant to his expertise, some of which is in the same field as in my own. I will edit the article to include some of these. -- Evertype·✆ 22:42, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a vanity page 

message: I suggest adding references to his BabelPad software. -- Evertype·✆ 22:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Software 

message: Someone slapped a load of "citation needed" tags on the article.
* "Chinese name 魏安".  It seems self-evident from the fact that the first work (Sanguo yanyi banben kao) is authored by 魏安 (pinyin Wèi Ān), and the second work (Catalogue of the Morrison Collection of Chinese Books) has "Andrew West" on the English title-page, and "魏安" on the facing Chinese title-page, but if you want a reference, I suppose that the Library of Congress gives the pinyin for  魏安 ("Wei, An") in their record for Andrew West.
* "He initially devoted himself to studying Chinese novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties".  I guess this is inferred from the fact that in 1996 I wrote a book on a Ming-Qing Chinese novel, and in 2006 I was not writing books on Chinese novels, but I agree that this sentence is really not good, and if I were allowed to freely edit the article, and I had access to the appropriate sources, I would replace it with a neutral and factual statement, somewhere along the lines of "West studied at such-and-such University from year to year, where he received a PhD for a dissertation on such-and-such a topic, and he then held a position as blah at such-and-such University where he taught such-and-such subject from year to year".  As it is probably difficult to find any sources for the factual statement, I suggest removing the sentence entirely.
* "He now specializes in the minority languages of China, especially Khitan, Manchu, and Mongolian".  I guess that is inferred from various encoding proposals and documents that I have written, but it is a subjective statement that is hard to prove, so I suggest that it be removed.
* "West has also worked to encode gaming symbols and phonetic characters to the UCS".  I suppose you could reference the Unicode Standard acknowledgements, but it does not seem particularly notable, so I suggest removing this sentence.
* "and most recently has been working on encodings for Tangut and Jurchen".  The Tangut claim could be justified by this and other encoding proposals, but there is no justification for the Jurchen claim.  Probably not notable anyway, so I suggest simply removing it.
I hope someone can address these citation needed issues, so as to improve the article. BabelStone (talk) 07:46, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations needed 

message: Evertype added a bunch of external links to encoding proposals authored or co-authored by myself; Jytdog removed them; and then Kaihsu re-added them.  Although the external links do provide some information that may be useful to readers of this page, I agree with Jytdog's characterization of them as "random", and as there is no indication that any of them are particularly noteworthy or intrinisically more important than any of the many encoding proposals by myself that are not linked to, I suggest removing them all, and only adding external links to encoding proposals by me on an as-needed basis to support something mentioned in the body of the article. BabelStone (talk) 07:56, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links