Talk:Dora d'Istria

On "The Albanian cause" section
How is it possible to use one source only in order to write a whole section trying to deny the general consensus of the historians about the Albanian origin of the woman and her family? That's a total propagandistic POV. And the source that has been used is not even written in English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.34.203.162 (talk) 02:56, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * If you`re interested in a non-Romanian source on Elena Ghica's fantasies, you could check out an... Albanian one: Merita Sauku-Bruci, Elena Ghika a Girolamo De Rada. Lettere di una principessa, Tirana, 2005. This book presents the story of Dora D'Istria Albanian "myth". Till then, know that citing a source, may it be a Romanian one, does not constitute a "POV statement". SISPCM (talk) 23:01, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * That book is written in Italian, my native language, whereas I don't know if you've ever been able to read it directly. I've posted two Italian and Romanian academic sources to show the Albanian origins of the family: these are quotes from scholars. If you're interested in what the Romanian historians think about, you should contact Ovidiu Ghitta, that I've quoted in the article. The section "The Albanian cause" is based on one source only which is quoted several times. As I've written already in the discussion on the section titled "Origins" in the article dedicated to the Ghica family, how can been taken seriously such a statement: "Modern Romanian historiography has expressed vexation at the appropriation, undertaken by Albanian historiography (and by the unscientific Western scholarly works relying on faulty and superficial theories), of not only the Romanian feminist activist and writer Elena Ghica, but also of the whole Ghica family", when I show a modern academic source written by Romanian scholars and published by the Cluj University press stating so: "Grigore IV Ghica, a member of a family of Albanian descent and Greek culture" (Maria Crăciun, Ovidiu Ghitta, Ethnicity and religion in Central and Eastern Europe, Cluj University Press, 1995, p. 202)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.34.183.206 (talk) 01:35, 15 June 2011 (UTC)