Talk:Jonathan Rothberg

message: Hi, I have cleaned up the article to a more neutral point of view and added additional references.
Ftroxell (talk) 02:40, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, still the passages with "Jonathan" appear to be written by someone with close connections to him; there have been no changes in this regard since my re-adding of the COI tag. Ftroxell, do you know Dr. Rothberg in person? If yes, the tag should stay there until all passages that might cause concern have been removed/rewritten. Also, a publication list seems not to be standard in Wikipedia.--Biologos (talk) 11:04, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: edits for neutrality and references

message: This article seems to be mostly a copy-paste job from the Baylor website on Rothberg: http://www.bcm.edu/news/packages/rothberg-bio.cfm
PhineasG (talk) 13:54, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: Hi, I deleted some duplicate information and made the whole thing look more encyclopedic. There are still some peacock terms and unsourced assertions left, I think.--Biologos (talk) 10:28, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits to improve article based on COI and rewrite tags 

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message: Opening paragraph:
Jonathan M. Rothberg (born 1963) is an American scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of CuraGen, 454 Life Sciences, RainDance Technologies, Ion Torrent Systems, Butterfly Network, and the medical device incubator 4Catalyzer. Rothberg is best known for his contributions to next-generation DNA sequencing. He was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Barack Obama in 2015 for his “pioneering inventions and commercialization of next-generation DNA sequencing technologies, making access to genomic information easier, faster and more cost-effective for researchers around the world."
Wconard1965 (talk) 18:27, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Regards,  spintendo  20:05, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: New content: requested edits

message: #  The lead is not the best place for quotations to go, as it should be a space where the main topics of the article are summarized.
#  The claims regarding CuraGen, 454 Life Sciences and Ion Torrent Systems are already in the article.
#  The citation given for RainDance Technologies was added to the location of the mention of this company in the article. The citation needed inline maintenance template added for this claim was removed.
#  The claim regarding the Butterfly Network was added to the main body of text. 
#  The claim regarding the subject receiving the National Medal of Technology and Innovation was added to the article.
#  The passages of text already existing in the article and shown in the table below were found to be insufficiently paraphrased from the source material. These passages were removed from the article. (See WP:CLOSEPARAPHRASE.)
:Regards,  spintendo  20:05, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit request reply 02-JUL-2018

message: Replace Recognition section with following content:
* 2015: The National Medal of Technology and Innovation for "pioneering inventions and commercialization of next generation DNA sequencing technologies, making access to genomic information easier, faster, and more cost-effective for researchers around the world."
*2015: The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer, for Butterfly Network Ultrasound on a chip
* 2014: John A. Quinn Lecture in Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
* 2012: Wilbur Cross Medal for most distinguished alumni, Yale University
* 2011: DGKL Biochemical Analysis Prize for development of massively parallel DNA sequencing 
* 2011: Doctor of Science Honoris Causa Mount Sinai School of Medicine for inventing massively parallel DNA sequencing
* 2010: The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer, for the Ion Torrent Semiconductor Sequencing
* 2010: Connecticut Medal of Technology for inventing Next-Generation sequencing
* 2009: $2.2 Million NIH/NHGRI technology development award to ION for the $1,000 genome
* 2008: The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer, for the Raindance microfluidics system
* 2007: The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer, for 454 Life Sciences' invention of Next-Gen Sequencing
* 2006: R & D 100 Awards to 454 Life Sciences
* 2005: Wall Street Journal 2005 Technology Innovation Awards, Gold Medal Winner for inventing Next Generation sequencing
* 2005: Member Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
* 2004: National Academy of Engineering   
* 2000: The Irvington Institute’s Corporate Leadership Award in Science
*1998: Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year
* 1991: John Spangler Nicholas Prize for the outstanding Doctoral candidate Wconard1965 (talk) 17:11, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested Edit: Recognition

message: Below you will see where proposals from your request have been quoted with reviewer decisions and feedback inserted underneath, either accepting, declining or otherwise commenting upon your proposal(s). Please read the enclosed notes for information on each request.  spintendo  19:56, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Reply to edit request 05-JUL-2018

message: ::, thank you for your edits. I appreciate your Spartan concision, but I do wonder if it would ever be possible to write this page in such a way that resembled a well fleshed-out page such as Niel deGrasse Tyson's, for example.  This was my intention in writing the draft page, and while Jytdog has made it clear that much of the content does not adhere to Wikipedia's standards on OR and promotional content, my hope was to put down something that read more like a biography page and less like a list of bullet points.  I am more than happy to work with editors to shop this further but want to know if there is any path I can take to create a more complete page. Thank you, Wconard1965 (talk) 13:43, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Request edit

message: The level of notoriety which an article's subject attains can affect how "well fleshed-out" an article is. Even though Wikipedia's content considerations are based largely on verifiability and what Wikipedia is Not, a large portion of what is deemed acceptable is driven by a subject's notoriety. Whether or not someone chooses to attend church every Sunday is a detail which has been deemed acceptable in articles about well known people while also deemed unacceptable in lesser known people (despite these considerations being equal for the most part). 
If this seems arbitrarily unfair, it may be because it is, but a person's notoriety can work itself out in more egalitarian ways. For instance, when a subject is more well-known, their article garners more page views. This increased visibility draws more editors to edit, increasing the size and the scope of the information presented. In this manner, the subject's notoriety organically drives an article's growth. Replicating this expansion synthetically (using one or two editors to add all the information at once) may be quicker, but would undoubtedly ring hollow to many editors noting that an article which reaches synthetically in one swift stroke the same level of detail achieved organically by others has an unfair advantage (the advantages discussed in the previous paragraph notwithstanding). As shown in the chart comparing the two articles you mentioned over a two year period, they have very different page view numbers, which impacts the quality quantity of information shown in both of them. 
In comparison, the Tyson article was essentially a stub for the first few years, eventually growing beyond stub status to reach a better form by 2011, a full 6 years after being created. Each time the article grew roughly corresponds to when Tyson either released new books, made television appearances, narrated new documentaries or hosted television series, all which increased his notoriety. I can understand the desire to have one article resemble another, but based on notoriety, these two really are apples and oranges. A more apt comparison would be to the Tyson article in 2007, as the article then looks much more like how the Rothberg article looks now. That was before many of Tyson's media appearances occurred.  spintendo  14:38, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
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