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Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The revised text uses material from Donald M. Nicol's book "The Reluctant Emperor" (referring to John VI), from Google Books, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the Bekkos blog. I do not know how to add Encyclopedia Britannica attribution. Someone pls do it. 118.94.151.122 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:29, 18 July 2009 (UTC).Reply
Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion
Dear editors,
I am concerned with the amount of pro-Catholic/anti-Palamite bias in several sections of this article, including but not limited to "he found himself unable or unwilling to follow John VI Kantakouzenos into his Palamism, preferring the more logical and intelligible Thomism.", "and practiced in Aristotelian dialectic, he demolished the theses of the hesychast theologian (Gregory Palamas) with astonishing ease and clarity", and other such passages.
It is not clear to me whether the body of this article is in fact quoted from [1] (Donald Nicol's The Reluctant Emperor). Certainly the more biased and polemical parts do not have any referenced attached, and so I think this constitutes a breach of WP:NPOV. I would appreciate if one of editors with longtime involvement in this article would clarify this for me.
P.S. Full disclosure, I am Eastern Orthodox and will be making a public COI declaration if I end up editing this article.
I have made some edits to improve neutrality, but had not noticed that most of the article is copy-pasted (and thus in violation of WP:PLAGIARISM) from the linked Martin Jugie references (hosted bekkos.wordpress.com blog). I will add the relevant template to the responsible user, and I recommend that the whole article be re-worked, as it is now a long copy-paste from one unreferenced source. Maximilian Aigner (talk) 08:03, 29 January 2019 (UTC)Reply
