Talk:Ola Raknes

Caveat lector

A caution to readers and fellow editors about my kinship to the subject of this article. I am the great grandson of Ola Raknes. I have written this article, first in Bokmål, then translated to Nynorsk and now English. I concede easily that it has a lot of panegyrical elements to it, however, I have used all sources that I could come upon in writing this article, and I found nothing but positive texts and I believe that what can be perceived most directly as praise has for the most part been supplied with adequate references, and if more statements or claims need to be referenced it`s all in the supplied sources, and obviously, someone with Norwegian skills will need to check those. __meco (talk) 17:57, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

I have added a COI-tag, Raknes was a heck of a lot more controversial than what this article say. Meco has cherry-picked the nice things, and left out the negative ones. Btw, Meco is now banned from the project. Huldra (talk) 20:48, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Who is Federico Navarro?

An IP contributor added this name on par with Gerda Boyesen and David Boadella, however creating an ambiguity about whether Navarro is asserted to be a student of Raknes or not. If there is a connection between Navarro and Raknes this should be documented with reliable sources. I may look into this myself but I'd prefer if the individual who made the edit in question documents this link if it is valid and relevant. __meco (talk) 22:45, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Should this article be rewritten/reformatted?

It's an interesting subject, but the formatting and wording of a lot of things seem out of place for Wikipedia, especially the titles of certain sections. For example, "Studies and work side by side", "A notable figure in public discourse", "A rare aptitude for communication", and "Active as a therapist until the end" all feel like awkward and/or non-neutral section titles. This may be because of the translations Meco mentioned.

The organization is also odd, with the section about his childhood coming after 2 sections about work he did as an adult. Most articles about people seem to have an "Early life" section followed by sections about their work for this purpose.

Sorry to come in with so much criticism, but between the odd organization and the lack of neutrality, I feel like it needs some heavy edits. Leelubell (talk) 00:43, 5 December 2023 (UTC)