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This is not an objective article. Though the ideas are quotated, it seems that the wikipedia assumes the critic to Mona Baker as anti-semitic. Every quotation goes in this direction, especially this:
I would just say that she is criticised, and take then the notes. We must not say every word the critics say, and we should at the same time search for critics in the opposite direction.-- 87.222.163.92 ( talk) 11:24, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear fellow Wikipedians. I am a translator who attended an event held by Mrs Baker back in September 2010 and I have a different picture from what was stated at this article (so far). As I saw that almost all the article was devoted to discussions related to the Middle East conflict (which, frankly speaking, I don't know with the necessary depth), I decided to further expand the article, including a "linguistics-only" section, named "Career". The rest of the article has been renamed as a section, Mona Baker and the Middle East Conflict. Best regards, -- Fadesga ( talk) 15:41, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I beg to differ. It is very surprising that much (in fact, the biggest part) of the article is about "Middle East conflict and Israeli academics". This would be justified if Baker's only claim to recognition is the controversy. But this is certainly not the case. Mona Baker was a major figure in modern translation studies before these events, and she remains so today. She established one of the first and major translation journals, the first encyclopedia about translation studies (which remains a major reference today), and the first publishing house dedicated to translation, and she is the founder of a whole theoretical approach to translation studies (narrative theory). She is also credited with introducing corpus studies into translation research. She recently had a translation research center established in her name by Shanghai International Studies University. All this is absent from the article. There is only a brief introduction about her career where we know she is a professor at Manchester University with the usual academic credentials, then the greater part of the article (four or five times as much) is dedicated to the controversy. In fact, you can call this basically an article about the controversy pure and simple, with the biographical information serving as an intro. If you want to dedicate an entire article to this issue, then this is fine, and would be even more proper. But this is not how a biographical article is done. Check any article about a prominent figure, and see if this is the case. There are people who were Nazi collaborators whose biographical articles did not lend such weigh to the controversy. Just two examples: /info/en/?search=Paul_de_Man /info/en/?search=Helmut_Schmidt -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7081:5D07:E706:296D:E389:DEF3:2528 ( talk) 15:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Hosting this on her site: http://www.monabaker.com/pMachine/more.php?id=A2918_0_1_0_M -- AnonMoos ( talk) 14:06, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
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