Talk:Spencer Wells

message: The first sentence does not make sense. I can't make the edit, cause I don't even understand what the author was trying to say? 216.232.98.171 (talk) 20:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: First Sentence

message: Including National Merit Scholar under the awards is idiotic.
well it is an award
I agree that it's somewhat non-encyclopedic and non-notable information. Much of the information in this entry would be appropriate for a CV but doesn't necessarily belong in an encyclopedia article. Postdoc fellowships, etc., can probably be omitted.
65.213.77.129 (talk) 14:34, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Awards

message: The species Homo erectus made the same journey (at least as far as Java) hundreds of thousands of years earlier.  Does Wells address this in his book?  It isn't mentioned in his film, nor whether we as a species are direct descendants of H. erectus.  Were all H. erectus extinct by the time H. sapiens came out of Africa 50-60 thousand years ago?  Badagnani 08:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Homo erectus]]

message: The History of Papua New Guinea article says that Homo sapiens got there 60 thousand years ago. But Wells says humans left Africa 50 thousand years ago. Both can't be right. Which is correct? Badagnani 02:01, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Papua New Guinea]] 

message: I can't understand the following sentence which was inserted by 76.16.176.166 (talk) back in June 2009:
:This question may be estimated by comparing other species with similar speed of reproduction, media have own deductible methods.
Could somebody please explain just what he was trying to say? DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 05:38, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: What does he mean?

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message: The University of Texas at Austin disclaimed any association with a professor who called for genocide to wipe out 9 million Israelis by bombing the Jewish state “until the sand turns to glass.”
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
A part-time professor who called for the total annihilation of Israel has been kicked out of a respected Texas university.
In an anti-Israel rampage on social media, Spencer Wells tweeted that Israel should be bombed “until the sand turns to glass,” The Algemeiner reported.
Although that specific tweet was subsequently deleted, two months ago Wells tweeted “Israel is going to be crushed beneath a giant Persian boot, funded by all of the enemies your government and the U.S. have cultivated in the region over the years.”
“When the U.S. goes down, all bets are off. Without U.S. backing, Iran will unleash all sorts of mischief in the Levant, backed by China, Russia and KSA. Israel’s days as a regional superpower are numbered, and geopolitics change rapidly,” Wells tweeted.
Wells proposed that “everyone pull their military forces out of the Middle East for 6 months and let Iran and Israel settle their issues once and for all. Whoever has more than radioactive rubble left at the end wins,” adding that he thought the result would be that “Israel is a nuclear wasteland.”
The University of Texas at Austin severed its ties with Wells.
“Spencer Wells is no longer a faculty or advisory council member at UT,” the university said on its official Twitter account last week. “He previously had a courtesy, unpaid appointment as a part-time adjunct that did not involve teaching. That ended in May and was not renewed. We do not have any association with the views held by Mr. Wells.”
Wells tried to defend his anti-Israel hatred by claiming, “I don’t have a problem with the Jewish religion at all. I have a problem with the vicious Apartheid practiced by the fascist government of Israel.”
However, Wells didn’t say why he wanted the genocidal bombing of Israel into total annihilation – the stated goal of Iran – which would result in the deaths of 9.2 million Israelis.
Wells, who calls himself a population geneticist, fled the U.S. in March and says he is “holed up a remote eastern Indonesian island.”
Wells was previously associated with the National Geographic Society, launching its Genographic Project in 2005.
Univeristy of Texas Bernadette99 (talk) 17:34, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Rummskartoffel (talk) 19:43, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 July 2020 

message: .... here is the entire RfC discussion...
This request for comment has been started about the verifiability of this page by the Israellycool blog as it applies to a series of alleged Twitter posts by Mr Wells, which have since been deleted.
This RfC asks:
1) Can the above source be relied upon solely for the purpose of alleging that the tweets were made? You'll note the blog posts contain screen shots of the alleged tweets.
2) Had the offending tweets not been deleted, could they be relied on as a source given Mr Well's twitter account is "verified"?
3) If the answer to either of the above is "no", what is preventing Mr Well's from continuing to make inflammatory tweets and delete them, without any being able to attract criticism on Wikipedia?
Joshgladwin (talk) 01:39, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment: Reliability of blog post by Israellycool as a source