The result of the debate was USERFY. JIP | Talk 07:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC) reply
vanity page, impossible to verify. I looked pretty carefully, and found that Carlos Blanco has a website (in Spanish) [www.carlosblanco.es] and he appears to have a couple of articles on egyptologia.com in the "Amigos de la Egyptologia" section, but I could find no external mention of him apart from WP mirrors. The page was created by
User:Carlos Blanco, and the same user added Carlos Blanco to
List of child prodigies. The only editor on
Carlos Blanco besides him was
User:Jondel, who has been wikifying it; I asked him but he does not condone/endorse the content. userfy and delete. (see below)
Mangojuice 14:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
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Carlos Blanco was very famous in Spain between 1998 and 2000 as a child prodigy who could read Egyptian hieroglyphs and Arabic, aside from different ancient languages. He was appointed lecturer at the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona when he was 12, in 1998, and he got a "matrícula de honor" (highest grade) in Egyptian language at the Spanish Association of Egyptology in 1998. He then got a scholarship and went for one year to Westminster School, London, and later to the University of Navarra. All data are true, basically taken from his web page, but it is not difficult to check the data revising what newspapers like "El Mundo" (one of the most important ones in Spain) told of him in 1998: * El Mundo, 17-V-1998, Madrid, 24: "Un niño de 12 años de Coslada, el egiptólogo más joven de Europa". You can see this in http://www.arrakis.es/~seha/1998.htm#MY with the headlines of 1998, 17th May. And you can check that he had his own section in "Crónicas Marcianas", the magazine with the highest share in Spain by then, in different webpages or writing to the Spanish channel (Telecinco) where it was emitted when he was collaborating (1999 and 2000). You can also check that he is a member of the International Association of Egyptologists: Blanco Pérez, Carlos Alberto (see web page http://www.iae.lmu.de/) So, I see no reason to delete the page, because it gives information on a person who has objectively been well known in his country as a child prodigy and a "superdotado". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.237.12.82 ( talk • contribs)
As Pablo Flores (a native speaker) has said, there are good credentials and information seems to be true. It would be interesting to write to the channel "Telecinco" to see if Carlos Blanco worked in "Crónicas Marcianas" as a "superdotado" (gifted child) when he was so young, because if it is true, then he was really famous in Spain because of his intelligence and it would be interesting to have an article on him in the English Wikipedia. — Preceding
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The result of the debate was USERFY. JIP | Talk 07:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC) reply
vanity page, impossible to verify. I looked pretty carefully, and found that Carlos Blanco has a website (in Spanish) [www.carlosblanco.es] and he appears to have a couple of articles on egyptologia.com in the "Amigos de la Egyptologia" section, but I could find no external mention of him apart from WP mirrors. The page was created by
User:Carlos Blanco, and the same user added Carlos Blanco to
List of child prodigies. The only editor on
Carlos Blanco besides him was
User:Jondel, who has been wikifying it; I asked him but he does not condone/endorse the content. userfy and delete. (see below)
Mangojuice 14:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
reply
Carlos Blanco was very famous in Spain between 1998 and 2000 as a child prodigy who could read Egyptian hieroglyphs and Arabic, aside from different ancient languages. He was appointed lecturer at the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona when he was 12, in 1998, and he got a "matrícula de honor" (highest grade) in Egyptian language at the Spanish Association of Egyptology in 1998. He then got a scholarship and went for one year to Westminster School, London, and later to the University of Navarra. All data are true, basically taken from his web page, but it is not difficult to check the data revising what newspapers like "El Mundo" (one of the most important ones in Spain) told of him in 1998: * El Mundo, 17-V-1998, Madrid, 24: "Un niño de 12 años de Coslada, el egiptólogo más joven de Europa". You can see this in http://www.arrakis.es/~seha/1998.htm#MY with the headlines of 1998, 17th May. And you can check that he had his own section in "Crónicas Marcianas", the magazine with the highest share in Spain by then, in different webpages or writing to the Spanish channel (Telecinco) where it was emitted when he was collaborating (1999 and 2000). You can also check that he is a member of the International Association of Egyptologists: Blanco Pérez, Carlos Alberto (see web page http://www.iae.lmu.de/) So, I see no reason to delete the page, because it gives information on a person who has objectively been well known in his country as a child prodigy and a "superdotado". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.237.12.82 ( talk • contribs)
As Pablo Flores (a native speaker) has said, there are good credentials and information seems to be true. It would be interesting to write to the channel "Telecinco" to see if Carlos Blanco worked in "Crónicas Marcianas" as a "superdotado" (gifted child) when he was so young, because if it is true, then he was really famous in Spain because of his intelligence and it would be interesting to have an article on him in the English Wikipedia. — Preceding
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