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Talk:Ralph Copeland

message: I guess Leland S. Copeland was not a family member related to Ralph Copeland, although he (L. S. Copeland) was also related to astronomy. If someone of the English Wikipedia has plans to create a Leland S. Copeland article, I want to see it immediately! L. S. Copeland seems to have been an inventor of many nicknames of deep-sky objects and also of rather curious names for telescopically observed formations on the moon's surface. DannyCaes (talk) 13:02, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who was Leland S. Copeland?
Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/April 14, 2007

message: Please replace each of the hyphens used as dashes with "—". Thank you very much. --Ysangkok 11:53, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done -- you may wish to be sure I got them all. – Luna Santin (talk) 10:28, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hyphens should be dashes
Talk:Ralph Vary Chamberlin

message: Below are some potentially relevant sources that may be useful to include. --Animalparty-- (talk) 18:47, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I took some notes on the Chamberlin honor banquet program. The article already contains all of the biographical information in it. It did have a sentence about how he influenced Utah in educational, philosophical, and cultural fields, especially through students, who helped improve public attitudes toward science. Angus M. Woodbury and Stephen D. Durrant gave talks in tribute and Stanley B. Mulaik presented a book of letters from colleagues, students, and friends. Also, someone painted a portrait of him which was featured on the front of the program. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 19:06, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional sources 
Talk:Randolph Kirkpatrick

message: "Kirkpatrick also identified and named the mollusc Pickworthia kirkpatricki Iredale, 1917 (now in the genus Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892)."
:The above doesn't make sense. Pickworthia kirkpatricki Iredale, 1917 would be a species named by Iredale, in honour of Kirkpatrick. Species are often named after their discoverers, so it is plausible the Kirkpatrick discovered/identified it. Lavateraguy (talk) 11:42, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  last paragraph 

message: Subject is noted as contributor/author on 4 books and several papers in the catalogue of the Natural History Museum, London (NHM) (See https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44NHM_INST:44NHM_V1&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&mode=basic&displayMode=full&bulkSize=10&highlight=true&dum=true&query=any,contains,Randolph%20Kirkpatrick&displayField=all&pcAvailabiltyMode=true); and Nature published his obituary. (see https://www.nature.com/articles/165669b0.pdf) His work at  NHM means that his name appears attached to the (now obsolete) formal names of several species (eg  Aaptos nuda (Kirkpatrick, 1903)) Copies of some correspondence to him by researchers is held by the National Library of Australia. (See:https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1126190271/findingaid#bibliography)
So while his field of expertise is certainly esoteric, I feel that he meets notability. Wayne 02:26, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  On notability
Talk:Rebecca Lancefield

message: The article serotype says that Lancefield discovered the concept (or should one say invented). Does that equal the work om Lancefield grouping? Is the main importance of that work something for people interested in group A streptococci, or is the development of a method - that could be generalised to other fields - the main thing? --Stighammar (talk) 21:31, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serotype - Lancefield grouping?
Talk:Richard Arnold Epstein

message: I believe he is no longer alive, but cannot find a reliable source. I have temporarily forced his age off of the infobox. O3000 (talk) 21:19, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age
Talk:Jean Victor Audouin

message: Audouin's middle name is misspelled in the WP article title. It should be VICTOR, not VICTOIR. Fide Encyclopædia Britannica, French WP, Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré, etc. (I'd correct it myself, but I don't know how to). Lyttle-Wight (talk) 17:16, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle name misspelled
Talk:Richard Arenstorf

message: Is it necessary to preserve for all posterity Arenstorf's erroneous proof of the 
Twin Prime Conjecture?  Is there some reason that he is being singled out here, 
among many other mathematicians that have made (and later withdrawn) similar claims?
In fact it seems to me that he may not meet the standard for inclusion in wikipedia, 
and perhaps the article should be deleted.  What do others think? Plclark 01:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and so I propose that the article should be deleted.Kope (talk) 21:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not so sure about deleting the article, but the erroneous proof certainly had undue prominence in the article. If it were just one sentence in a page-long article, that would be fine with me, but now half the article was about it. So I removed that paragraph. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:02, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not so sure either, but let's talk about it.  Which of the criteria of WP:PROF are met here?  Arenstorf has only 14 MathSciNet publications, only one of which is in what I consider to be a very good journal (Crelle), and none in the very top journals.  The only thing which stands out in the article is that he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal. Clicking on the link, it seems fairly clear that this is not an academic award, so cannot be used to satisfy WP:PROF.  On the other hand, this page itself claims that the award is quite prestigious and that Arenstorf is a notable recipient of it.  Is this enough to establish notability? Plclark (talk) 06:55, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: For me, it was the combination of the award and that the Arenstorf orbits are named after him. Perhaps I should clarify that with "I'm not so sure" I mean "I don't know" and not "I think the article should be kept". -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 20:50, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consider removing the discussion and reference to false proof of twin primes
Talk:Richard Arnowitt

message: This article was not written by a native speaker of English. As a result, it is meaningless in places.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.210.172.112 (talk) 14:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not 
Talk:Jeanne Villepreux-Power

message: This article was edited as part of the Zoological Society of London Edit-a-Thon . 
The editor who attended the event may be a new editor. In an effort to support new editors, please assume good faith to their contributions before making changes. Thank you! PatHadley (talk) 20:13, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article was edited as part of an edit-a-thon
Talk:Jedediah Huntington

message: Recently, a pair of miniature images (done by artist Mary B. Way) came up for auction and were thought to be Gen. Jed. Huntington (1743-18??) and his wife Anne Moore Huntington. 
You have the one pictured thought to be Anne Moore Huntington. I am not convinced that these attributions are correct and were mis-identified by Sotheby's when they were for sale many years ago. They probably are Capt. Simeon Huntington of New London and his wife. More information would have to be determined.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.68.232.11 (talk) 15:45, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anne Moore Huntington image
Talk:Richard E. Bellman

message: ...to the mathematician who shaped the thinking of thousands. 212.188.109.202 (talk) 14:41, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Virtual flowers 

message: * In this edit text is copy/pasted from the Bellman equation, Bellman-Ford algorithm, Curse of dimensionality, and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation articles. 
-- Mdd (talk) 21:41, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-paste registration
Talk:Richard L. Doty

message: Dr. Doty received an award from the International Biography Centre which is described on wikipedia in not very good terms:
“Government consumer advocates have described it as a "scam" or as "pretty tacky". Its use to support the granting of a US O-1 visa (for  individuals with an extraordinary ability) has been described by US employer Oracle Corporation as purchasing "vanity accolades" to use as "phony credentials", with a warning that "visa fraud is a serious crime" with severe penalties.”
Thus I am not convinced that his receiving the IBC outstanding scientist award merits any mention in Dr Doty’s article. I have removed it and if anyone disagrees please let me know and we can discuss. Sharperimage0 (talk) 17:43, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like the article on the IBC is now deleted so that solves that.  - SHARPER IMAGE (talk) 05:27, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Award” from the IBC
Talk:Richard Kuhn

message: Popular versions of the story of the miraculous origin of the "Virgen de Guadalupe" state that Richard Kuhn found that the colors in the image had no determinable natural origin. This staement is repeated often in various forms. There appears to be no evidence that Richard Kuhn ever studied the painting or made such a statement. It would be useful if someone knowledgeable of Kuhn's life & work could comment. The references to Kuhn in the "Virgen" literature probably exceed all the scholarly references.
58.175.208.118 (talk) 11:21, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Virgen de Guadalupe

message: If his "fuhrer" prevented him from getting his Nobel Prize, and in the intervening years it turned out what a Nazi scumbag he was, shouldn't the Nobel committee have told him that he wouldn;t be getting it after all?  Acmthompson (talk) 13:28, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  nobel prize
Talk:Jeptha Wade

message: The section on Jeptha H. Wade (December 26, 1924 - August 8, 2008) should be moved to its own article, it is not relevant here.  I agree that he is most likely independently notable. --Bejnar (talk) 19:15, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Jeptha H. Wade (December 26, 1924 - August 8, 2008)
Talk:Richard Rudgley

message: it appears that Rudgley's first book on drugs was indeed "critically acclaimed" and won him an award, but that he later lost it and his books on the Stone Age, Paganism and Barbarians are essentially debunked as rubbish by critics. --dab (𒁳) 12:26, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm puzzled about the appraisal of Rudgley's stone age books. The article gives an excerpt from Denise Schmandt-Besserat's critical review of Secrets of the Stone Age (it is not clear whether the book or the television series). But if we follow the link to her we find the very first reference to her work, in a wholly positive tone, is 
"" Looking at that reference, which is chapter 3 of the book, we find that Rudgley does indeed describe Schmandt-Besserat's work in glowing terms, using phrases like "brilliantly and convincingly argued" (page 50). This seems a surprisingly asymmetrical mutual appraisal between these two authors.
I'm also curious about other reviews of "Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age". On the back of my copy it has "Wonderful reading ... illuminating ... a zest for discovery that makes it a page-turner" Nature
together with similarly positive comments from the Mail on Sunday and from Martin Bernal. Nature, in particular, must be regarded as a reputable source of criticism, so would it not be more balanced to cite that too?
SamuelTheGhost (talk) 13:11, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What can I say? I've got her review, which is of 'Lost Civilizations', not 'Secrets', the book of the tv program. Schmandt-Besserat isn't happy about the way her work and that of her colleagues was used. A very short review is here . I don't have Robb's Nature review, and we can't use just the bit from Amazon as who knows what the rest says?  I can't find anything from the Daily Mail or Bernal. dougweller (talk) 14:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rudgley, Denise Schmandt-Besserat and others.
Talk:Jeremiah Joyce

message: It seems very plausible, as suggested by Ed Pope , that Mr Willis who took Joyce on as apprentice in 1777 was the glazier John Willis. He is well known as the founder of the building firm Sykes & Sons. This is of interest since John Willis took on his own son as apprentice in 1778. The family did work on the Middle Temple and St Clement Danes Church. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:40, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mr Willis
Talk:Richard Wrangham

message: I've added in some points debunking some of rangham's ideas re cooking.Loki0115 (talk) 20:41, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It is irrelevant that those sources are 12 years old as they are among the first links to appear when one googles "richard wrangham". The fact is that Richard Wrangham is so fringe, that there are few articles about his ideas, since he is viewed with disdain by the rest of the anthroplogical community, being labelled a mere "chimp researcher". So the general susbstance of that deleted paragraph is valid. I will look for more modern refs to add to it, but I don't really think that's necessary, as no recent article has come up to suggest that there is any decent evidence to support Wrangham's claims re fire being invented c. 1.9 million years ago.
Loki0115 (talk) 02:21, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: ==
Talk:Jeremias Benjamin Richter

message: The stement of the "essence" of the Law of reciprocal proportions is usually credited to Richter, Proust gets  the law of definite proportions and Dalton the law of multiple proportions. Axiosaurus (talk) 08:45, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richter usually credited with he law of reciprocal proportions 
Talk:Alan Reed

message: He universally used the generational suffix "senior", once his son Alan Reed, Jr. became an actor. We should at least mention this in the intro. JustinTime55 (talk) 20:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Alan Reed, Sr.

message: He also might have another child, my father per DNA. I'm 55 years old and I am creating a family scrapbook.  I would like to get to know him better or at least meet possible relatives if they are ok with that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.142.169.21 (talk) 01:21, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children
Talk:Roald Sagdeev

message: Would an interview with Roald Sagdeev from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0BE3C6370FDE493B98D8A90BB0D9D1E4 (I helped with the site, so it would be conflict of interest for me to just add it.) Mccallucc (talk) 22:29, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link to interview on nuclear policy?
Talk:Robert A. Swanson

message: Robert Swanson's biography here is a good test case. If you died before Wikipedia, are you in some sense pre historic? There's no doubt that Swanson, with Herbert Boyer, founded the microbiology industry. See Boyer's article. There's very little doubt that Swanson, when he funded Boyer, here in what became Silicon Valley, was a role model for the venture capitalists who created Silicon Valley itself; perhaps the great role model. In 1976, they modeled a new relationship between money and "pure" science which was very controversial at the time. The Nobel snubbed Boyer to punish him, some speculate. Yet Swanson's wikipedia article is a third the size of Jack Dorsey's, who founded Twitter. Indeed, it's smaller than that of any minor officer of Twitter. While their articles grow into epics, his will probably fossilize in place. Two hundred years from now, students trying to reconstruct Silicon Valley, will greatly overestimate the importance of everyone in the Wikipedia age. Unless he has left his papers to a research facility, they will find almost nothing about Swanson, and reams about Twitter. To have lived before the Wikipedia fact-gathering device may come to be, in some sense, pre-historic. Will researchers begin to notice whether historical figures lived B.W. or A.W.? Before Wikipedia and After Wikipedia? Profhum (talk) 09:37, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  B.W. and A.W. and Robert Swanson, d. 1999
Talk:Jesse Truesdell Peck

message: Should this article mention that this guy was Stephen Crane's great uncle and may have influenced his poetry?   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.156.71.162 (talk) 19:04, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Robert Julius Trumpler

message: FYI, there exists drafts at DRAFT:Trumpler catalogue and DRAFT:Trumpler classification and  -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 06:59, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Related pages

message: I've requested an upload of a portrait. It's languishing at IFU right now... Wikipedia:IFU#Portrait_of_Robert_Julius_Trumpler -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 07:38, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Portrait
Talk:Robert Latou Dickinson

message: Re: 
 and debunked sexual myths such as that the penis and cervix would interlock during human copulation. 
Oh, but they can interlock: Vaginismus. Shall we fix it? Zezen (talk) 10:48, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Sexual myths?

message: There should be some info on his work on this.
203.220.183.143 (talk) 23:46, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norma and Norman
Talk:Robert Ledley

message: While it may be true that Robert Ledley got all the credit, it is also true that Richard Gordon (Radiology, University of Manitoba) wrote the first software which performed the computation known as computed tomography.  See the section labeled as HISTORY at the URL:
http://www.snark09.com/index.php
Gordon's software was written in 1970, while Robert Ledley's work was done in the MID 1970s.
I suggest that credit should be given where credit is due.
William R. Buckley (talk) 05:36, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Computed Tomography. 
Talk:Robert H. MacArthur

message: This man died seemingly very young. Anyone know why?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.86.136.57 (talk) 01:30, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Cancer of the face.  (No, I don't have a citation, but that is what killed him).  MacArthur was a great guy who inspired a generation of younger ecologists who worked with him.  He had a way of being supportive of attempts to do theory in ecology, and getting the listener excited about the possibilities.  Even though I wasn't an ecologist, and didn't work with him, he was very supportive of me when I visited his department in 1967 and when we met at meetings or during a visit of his to Seattle.  His death was very sad, but in his short life he had a major impact on ecology and a considerable impact on evolutionary biology as well.  Someone ought to add to this page a list of ecologists who worked with him or co-authored with him -- it would be impressive. Felsenst (talk) 13:14, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk
Talk:Venus 5

message: *http://venus5-movie.com
:ヴィーナス・ファイブ
A live-action movie version is now out. 
76.66.202.213 (talk) 12:03, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Live action movie
Talk:Robert Weinberg (biologist)

message: I don't see any information about Weinberg in that article. I see they both work at MIT in biology. I am incined to delete it. --14:17, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why "see also Phillip Allen Sharp"? 

message: Weinberg retracted 5 papers, including a paper in Cell. The retractions appear to be due to verified image manipulation. This needs to be elaborated further. As of now, we have the following text:
To this day Weinberg has retracted five research papers where he is listed as a co-author. The retractions include one paper in Cell, one in Cancer Cell, two in Genes & Development and one in Cancer Research.[19][20][21][22] The reasons given for these retractions remain obscure. The text of the retractions points to instances of image manipulation.Lelandykes (talk) 15:58, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retractions
Talk:Joel Barlow

message: As an entertaining aside he has at least one High School in the U.S. named for him that is shared by both Easton, CT and Redding, CT.
Grokthis 04:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  High Schools 

message: The link 'Żarnowiec" in the article about Joel Barlow leads to the Polish village situated in pomorskie voivodship. I am not quite sure if this information is correct. Joel Barlow died in Żarnowiec in małopolskie voivodship, not so far away from Kraków. I knew something about his grave there, with Latin inscription on it. It is interesting whether the grave of Joel Barlow can be seen today in Żarnowiec. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.114.216.139 (talk) 22:15, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The place where Joel Barlow died 

message: The link 'Żarnowiec" in the article about Joel Barlow leads to the Polish village situated in pomorskie voivodship. I am not quite sure if this information is correct. Joel Barlow died in Żarnowiec in małopolskie voivodship, not so far away from Kraków. I knew something about his grave there, with Latin inscription on it. It is interesting whether the grave of Joel Barlow can be seen today in Żarnowiec.Paweł, Poland —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.114.216.139 (talk) 22:17, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The place where Joel Barlow died
Talk:Johan August Arfwedson

message: In the Swedish Wiki his name is "Arfwedson", here it is both "Arfwedson" and "Arfvedson". We need to be consistent in some way or other, I think.--Mycomp (talk) 00:18, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A published (1915) list of members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, based on the academy's own records, uses the spelling with "w", which is likely to be his own. Around the previous turn of the century, there was a trend to modernise and "swedify" the spelling of names. Arfvedson with "v" looks like an effect of that, because a lot of Wilhelms became Vilhems, to give an example using the same letters. Later in the 20th century, there was a habit to revert to people's own spelling in encyclopedias and biographical work. Tomas e (talk) 17:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Ronald Gillespie

message: There seems to be an imbalance here between LCP and the earlier work on VSEPR and fluorine/noble gas chemistry Drglheard (talk) 16:44, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

message: herd you like writing your own biography  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.84.0.222 (talk) 06:42, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  yo dawg
Talk:Ronald T. Raines

message: Most of the current article (September, 2012) is contributed to and revised by two editors who only edit other article to highlight the contributions by R Raines.  These editors are User:Bioorganic and User:Pack Man.  The entire article may well be autobiographical or was written by editors with a conflict of interest. --Smokefoot (talk) 00:06, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have no COI, then fill out your profile.  Anyway, most of the article was written by someone who obviously does have major COI hence the clear need for a tag.  It seems possible that Raines himself wrote the article.  It is interesting and worrying that so many editors have suddenly been attracted to this person's contributions and in such a corollated way - and all with the same characteristic avoidance of providing details on themselves.  --Smokefoot (talk) 06:22, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Authoring editors have probable conflict of interest
Talk:Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann

message: I have removed as suspected copyright violation from, here. However that is not the version from which this copy was made as that was not uploaded until after the text was added here by user:Mbecker1749 on 18 April 2013‎.
The details of the original text are given as:
:Appreciating Johannes von Hofmann By Matthew Becker [2010]
:*The following essay is based partly on the introduction to my book, The Self-Giving God and Salvation History: The Trinitarian Theology of Johannes von Hofmann (New York: T&T Clark, 2004).
The essay that follows is contains the three paragraphs which I deleted along with many others all well footnoted (which are missing from the text that I deleted).
-- PBS (talk) 21:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suspected copyright violation