Talk:Paul Gottfried/Archive 1

Start

This is just a little start. More help would be encouraged. Thank you. --User:Damnedkingdom

Recent edit

A recent edit added some strongly POV phrases, including:

• Most of Gottfried's work is characterized by vast and often esoteric learning combined with elegant prose,...Unsubstantiated neoconservative attacks on his personal reputation.'

without adding any actual facts. I've reverted it, but I'd be happy to see factual, NPOV material added. Thanks, -Willmcw 10:05, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

An-Cap?

I removed the American Anarchist and Anarcho-Capitalist tags from this page because I'm fairly sure he is neither. I'd love to be proved wrong, however. Does anyone have any evidence that Dr. Gottfried identifies himself as anarchist? The closest I've seen is a LewRockwell.com article in which he says he is "verging on right-wing anarchism" (or something similar). Atripodi 20:58, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I was student of Paul Gottfried at Elizabethtown College, and interviewed him as a member of the student media there in the period of 2000 - 2002. Based on my conversations with him, and to some extent on intellectual comments he made about my classwork, I can strongly agree with the statement from LewRockwell.com. However, this opinion is drawn largely from inference, since he never directly expressed any such sentiment himself in class, nor in my interviews with him. Therefore, I would suggest quoting the LewRockwell.com article and leaving it at that. MolotovH 19:12, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I have spoken with him and he is not an anarchist or even a minarchist.

Jewish

Is he? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.98.214.61 (talk) 00:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

He is a Jew. He is on the Jews for Ron Paul page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RG415WBFA (talk • contribs) 18:38, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

He's a Catholic, actually. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.68.219.77 (talk) 05:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

• Gottfried is ethnically Jewish but is an adherent of Roman Catholicism -- so he belongs in both the Jewish (ethnicity) and Catholic (religion) categories. --172.166.34.85 (talk) 22:47, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

What is your proof that he is a Roman Catholic? —Preceding unsigned comment added by RG415WBFA (talk • contribs) 19:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Libertarian

Gottfried is a member of Libertarian organizations; this is not debated. Whether or not he is "paleoconservative" is controversial. JRoanoke (talk) 05:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

The category is relevant, see [1] - if he was one of the founding fathers of the movement I can see no justification for removing the category. Dougweller (talk) 06:49, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Neither Catholic nor Anarchist. I have known Paul as a colleague and friend for over 20 years. Based on my personal experience I can vouch for the fact he is neither a Roman Catholic nor a anarchist. He is a practicing Jew. Also, he is as an admirer of Thomas Hobbes, he is hardly an anarchist.

Any Wikipedia reliable sources here yet?

This is a biography of a living person, but I'm not seeing a single Wikipedia reliable source here. The sourcing standards here have upgraded over the years, and most of the blog links now in the article should be excised by the WP:BLP or WP:EL policies, and perhaps as well for neutral point of view? Are there professionally edited, reasonably neutral sources about Paul Gottfried that could be added to this article? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 23:39, 4 October 2010 (UTC)