Talk:Lee Berger (paleoanthropologist)

message: The edits done today were to move the article toward being encyclopedic, rather than being an article based in largest part from self-published material from the Professor's CV, drawn not from independent published biographical and scientific sources, but from his personal (not university or other official) web pages.
Note, little actual substantive content was changed, though, based on BLP criteria, much of the article could be removed as devotedly, perennially unsourced—which automatically makes it contentious in the view of many BLP editors.
Note, one edit performed was to remove part of a statement from the "Further reading" section:
*Portions of this Article were based on Lee Berger's Published  Curriculum Vitae
It is entirely inappropriate to attempt to indicate sourcing, broadly in this way, and especially so from a self-published source.
In the course of the editing, two tags were added, then removed because the required edits were made that justified their removal — the URL-only and reference style tags. (All references that now appear are of a relatively uniform style, and are no longer URL-only, at all.)
The three major objections that remain are:
* that vast swaths of this article are sourced only from Prof Berger's self-published CV;
* scientific content is all but solely derived from lay sources (exceptions being a primary Berger source, and one News and Views article);
* the tone of the article remains self-congratuatory, as if the editors (Users) Gladysvale and Lysine007, in addition to the identified Prof Berger (User:Profberger) do not understand the need for independence of viewpoint in these encyclopedia articles.
I would particular suggest that  and his select colleagues—those too close to the title subject to be objective—post material to a new section in Talk, rather than edit the article. Otherwise, it will remain an embarrassment, rather than a good article candidate here. 
Finally, I invite removal of the section tags, one by one, after each section is sourced and otherwise made encyclopedic, and removal of the article tags after all section tags have been removed as a result of improved article content.
Other editors concerned with misuse of BLP articles by individuals too close to the article subject have been notified of these changes.
Cheers, Le Prof (User:Leprof_7272)  71.201.62.200 (talk) 18:08, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
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message: I have added a section covering the publication of three new papers related to Homo naledi in the journal eLife, including some contextual info regarding Berger's public announcements and reactions, and the peer reviews which are made public in eLife peer review process. On the whole these reviewers were very critical, and the language of this section comes off similarly critical but to the best of my ability everything is properly cited and devoid of subjective language. I'd welcome any input if people have suggestions for improvement or new info regarding Berger's recent publications and related activities with Netflix and the like. Mausfield (talk) 18:34, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of info related to Homo naledi and Dinaledi subchamber publications in summer 2023