Talk:Andrew Oddy

Expansion
This article has been substantially expanded but has numerous additional problems now. It is mainly reliant on Oddy's own writings, it contains far too much detail of a tangential type, it includes silly "chat" stuff (I've removed a couple of seemingly jokey asides), it is almost certainly being edited by someone with a major conflict of interest, and I don't think the citations even support a lot of what is said. - Sitush (talk) 12:36, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

What we seem to have is a lot of detail about what he did, even after my pruning, that is sourced directly to the man himself. Yet we do not have sources for the most basic biographical stuff. It is a very odd situation and makes it read more like a self-penned tribute than a biography. - Sitush (talk) 15:19, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm not going to waste my time cleaning up any more citations until we have some sort of consensus regarding just how much self-sourced info should be in this article. I understand why so much is used but that doesn't make it right. It sits very uncomfortably with me. - Sitush (talk) 15:57, 21 August 2017 (UTC)


 * When I was trying to edit the citations as advised by you, half the entry has been lost. I think that sitush and I may have been editing at the same time.  I have not re-instated any text that has been edited out by others, but I may unwittingly have re-edited footnotes if we were working at the same time.  I do not know what  to do now.  I can see things wrong with the citations and Who's Who could be used for career details, if that is an acceptable source.  Can you recover what has been lost? Do you want to?  Do you want more publications added? (There is a whole raft of work on the Sutton Hoo burial and on early Islamic coinage which is recognized internationally.)   abila.pao  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abila.pao (talk • contribs) 17:19, 21 August 2017 (UTC)


 * We really need sources about him, not ones by him. I suspect the Sutton Hoo stuff will mostly fall into the latter category. AS for publications, well, it is getting messy because so many of them are already cited. I am at a bit of a loss here. - Sitush (talk) 18:26, 21 August 2017 (UTC)