Talk:Robert E. Lee Chadwick

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This is a strange entry. Chadwick is a relatively minor figure in Mesoamerican archaeology, although he did publish a few significant papers, mainly on interpretations of the codices. Most of this entry consists of a list of papers that he wrote but never published. This puts him in a negative light, as someone who did research but never published the results. There is virtually no biographical information; perhaps there is a reason why he never published all these papers.

The list of unpublished papers is important for the history of Mesoamerican archaeology, but it is not an appropriate kind of list for Wikipedia. I would hesitate to remove it, however, unless the list is posted elsewhere on the internet. But given the small entries for some of the major Mesoamericanists (e.g., Kent Flannery, William Sanders), it is strange to have a long entry on Robert Chadwick.

Michael E. Smith (talk) 00:41, 16 August 2009 (UTC)