Talk:Alexandre François

Bronze Medal of the CNRS
While the CNRS Bronze Medal is a respectable award, I don't think it's accurate to call it "the highest annual award for French junior researchers in linguistics". CNRS's own description reads, in its entirety: The CNRS Bronze Medal recognizes a researcher's first work, which makes that person a specialist with talent in a particular field. This medal is a way for the CNRS to encourage the researcher to continue work that has met with initial success and already produced fruitful results.

In comparison, the description of the Silver Medal reads: The CNRS Silver Medal honors researchers who are only at the beginning of their rise to fame, but who are already recognized nationally and internationally for the originality, quality, and importance of their work.

(The Gold Medal is awarded to more senior researchers.)

Also, the Medals are given in a whole range of sciences, not only linguistics; some 40-50 bronzes and 10-20 silvers are awarded each year. I've amended the description in the article accordingly. Hqb (talk) 20:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello Hqb. Thanks for your note. Your correction is fine. But just for the sake of discussion, note that the quote you cite has vaguer terms because it covers all disciplines: there are about 40 bronze awards each year simply because there are 40 disciplines. But each discipline, in this case Linguistics (identified with an admittedly obscure tag 'commission 34'), only has one bronze every year, which is awarded to a junior researcher. For that reason, my initial formulation was technically accurate: namely that the Bronze Medal for Linguistics is the highest annual award for junior linguists from French CNRS. The choice of the term 'highest' was designed to avoid the wrong interpretation number 3 on the podium which spontaneously comes to mind; indeed silvers and gold go to distinct age categories. Anyway that's not essential, and your edit is okay. Thanks also for removing the Notability tag (incidentally I've added a couple of other references since then). If you (or others) do think this page must be deleted, then fair enough. Womtelo (talk) 22:24, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * True. I guess it's not entirely clear whether a silver medalist would still be considered a "junior researcher". But if the article is to say "highest", it really should be backed by an unambiguous source stating so. Also, the highest distinction awarded by the CNRS in a particular age and field category is not necessarily the highest French award in that category. Again, it might be in this particular case (junior researcher in linguistics), but the CNRS web site at least makes no such claim.


 * I personally don't think the page should be deleted, but a biography article referencing only the subject's own works always looks a little iffy. I'm glad to see that's not the case anymore. Hqb (talk) 10:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Change of laboratory and position
François doesn't belong to Lacito anymore but to Lattice (www.lattice.cnrs.fr%2FFrancois-Alexandre-890&usg=AOvVaw3vHgHFFq1izq8TI81Y0z87) and he is no director anymore.213.111.4.76 (talk) 16:26, 16 November 2018 (UTC)