Talk:Abbas Abdi

Cleanup

 * This article was nominated as a speedy. However, a search of verifiable sources came up with articles in the New York Times, The Economist, Time and US News and World Report. It needs a general cleanup including wikifying and adding material from sources. Capitalistroadster 03:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

To Do list
My guess from the present version of the page (see reference 2 from ifex.org, in which the URL has been broken) and from a quick look at the revision history is that this page is regularly subject to minor sabotage. Probably people interested in maintaining the quality of the page should add it to their watchlist. Luckily any damage is reversible :). Boud (talk) 11:10, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Integration of some of this into opinion polls. Boud (talk) 11:10, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Hostage taker
Why is there nothing about his involvement with the hostage crisis? This page links directly from the Iran hostage crisis page, listing him as a hostage taker. Yet nothing is mentioned about that in this page.

"Self-Taught Sociologist"
A problematic title, to say the least. A quick search finds some social commentary, a highly-criticized book (in terms of it being valid sociology), 3rd author on an article. He once ran a political poll... Thousands of grad students have more qualifications than this. It's not a job title. If Abdi is a "self-taught sociologist," every journalist, food writer, political pundit, and sportscaster should also get this attribution.

Recommend striking this. It's a vanity title. Better to say "amateur sociologist," or "some of his work touches on sociology."