Talk:Frank Drake

message: Dr. Drake was my favorite professor at UCSC, and I thought he deserved more than a stub entry.
So I've made a major update.  I added some details of his early life (mostly from http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/biography_drake.html) and expanded on his accomplishments.  Hopefully this can get the article out of Stub status.  I'll let others decide on that, however.  Ocicat 22:14, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Major update

message: I've editted the reference to the USS Albany, Originally, someone had pointed the link to the USS Albany (CL-23) and not the correct ship, which is the USS Albany (CA-123).  The rational behind my change, is that Dr. Drake was born after the USS Albany CL-23 was scrapped in 1930.  So there was no way possible that he could of served on that particular ship.  Rmgrotkierii 16:37, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ship

message: Note this reference to the Drake equation from February 2008:  http://xkcd.com/384/
--Stéphane Charette (talk) 06:58, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  xkcd reference 

message: Frank Drake modified is own article (this one). A movie with the proof of that will be loaded on you tube soon. Pleas DO NOT roll back. Thank you. --DracoRoboter (talk) 17:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frank Drake 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I found a book review for IS ANYONE OUT THERE?: The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
* https://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-22/books/bk-2158_1_frank-drake
If it has at least two it can get its own article.
WhisperToMe (talk) 02:00, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book review for IS ANYONE OUT THERE?: The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 

message: Several citations were included in the lead section that didn't support the content they were referencing. I'm copying these contents below in case they are useful elsewhere. 
 Polyamorph (talk) 10:56, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  References moved from lead 

message: The article presently describes him as having founded SETI, but the linked SETI article is about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence in general, not any specific project or organisation? Should it instead by the SETI Institute? This article mentions him having a leadership role in that institute, but he is not mentioned in the article about the institute. Either way, we shouldn't describe Drake as the founder or director of a research programme which doesn't have a founder or director. MartinPoulter (talk) 09:18, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The article does not say he founded SETI. Polyamorph (talk) 09:22, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Oh, sorry. It does in the lead. Hmmm, perhaps that should be revised. Polyamorph (talk) 09:32, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

text: here is a link to the history of the SETI institute. Polyamorph (talk) 09:35, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Thanks for pointing this out. I've modified the lead and the appropriate career section to clarify this, supported by the references already cited.Polyamorph (talk) 09:42, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Founder of SETI?