Talk:Noam Chomsky

Article Checklist for "Noam Chomsky"

Workgroup category or categories	Linguistics Workgroup, Politics Workgroup, Topic Informant Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Stub: no more than a few sentences
Underlinked article?	Yes
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	John Stephenson 03:29, 19 March 2007 (CDT), Petréa Mitchell 12:14, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

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Delete?

Larry's post specifically mentions this page, as it's got a picture, but I'm not sure the article itself is worth keeping in its present form. I'll give it a few days for objections before requesting a delete. John Stephenson 23:00, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

Done. John Stephenson 21:06, 11 April 2007 (CDT)

Put back the article checklist. John Stephenson 19:46, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

I found this picture on Flickr and uploaded it because it seemed to me to be a very nice picture of the person in question. In Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons you don't find a picture like this. I had no intention on working on the article, I was merely trying to help with a nice image. I thought someone would come along and write the article in little time, like it happened on Ann Coulter. So, if you feel like requesting the deletion, please do it. --José Leonardo Andrade 08:57, 10 April 2007 (CDT)

Political theorist?

Or notorious ideological activist? What are his qualifications as a political theorist? I will never forget the disruption to my own linguistics course at MIT by my professor, one of his protégés. He raged, "It's goin' down, man! The poor are gonna rise up in this city!" Thankfully, incidents were relatively isolated, and I did learn more about linguistics than ideology that semester. But when we did hear from Chomsky one day, he injected plenty of political ideology into his lecture about linguistics. <>< Tim Chambers 14:05, 7 April 2007 (CDT)

External links

I removed a link to a review of Chomsky's What Uncle Sam Really Wants; it was just an academic home page giving an opinion, rather than something like an archive of papers by Chomsky and others, etc. John Stephenson 21:10, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

• But Chomsky has taken numerous extreme political stances throughout his lifetime and become a very controversial public figure. As with his Wikipedia page(s), criticism of his views regarding the Khmer Rouge in the 1970's through his more recent support of Hezbollah are valid sources of information. Greg Lawrence 18:30, 2 June 2007 (CDT)