User talk:Jonathanhiramkaplanreal

Hi. I see you've been on Wikipedia a while, but since no one seems to have extended you an official Wikipedia Welcome yet, let me belatedly do so now:

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From me (jonathanhiramkaplanreal): I have had to correct a very misleading, and error-filled, entry on Michael D. Coe. I want to know how, if it is possible at all, to attach Coe's c.v., as it contained the full record of his publications, memberships, and awards, which are very numerous (I have had to quite selectively pick and choose among these). For the sake of full disclosure, I was Coe's student, his last doctoral student, in fact, before he retired from active teaching. Thanks for your help. Hello, Jonathanhiramkaplanreal, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Thanks for your contributions to MesoAmerica related articles! Cheers, Infrogmation (talk) 19:16, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thank you, in return. My only concern is to create a public record that is as accurate to the truth as possible. I know Mike Coe extremely well and I know his importance in the field. I was his last doctoral student before he retired. If I am partial to him you must try to understand that I am very very picky about people. Integrity is absolutely essential, and Coe has the greatest integrity as a scholar as well as the greatest intuitions and insights about the field; he is also unselfish - casual comments he has dropped have been picked up by others countless times and carried downfield for touchdowns that made their careers. He has contributed very significantly not only in Maya epigraphy but in Olmec archaeology and the Pacific coast origins of Mesoamerican civilization. He is also the most unpretentious great man I have ever met. The entry on him patently distorts his record and meaning for the field, and I have to hazard one of the many who envy his stature, and have pined for his recognition though not warranting it, have got it in for him and contributed to the writing of the wiki entry. Jonathanhiramkaplanreal (talk) 03:44, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]