Talk:Oliver R. Smoot

message: "markings were made at each distance between his head and feet." Ummm? How many markings between head and feet? What distances between head and feet? Thanks! I got my Wikipedia laugh of the day! Long dead writers and authors are rolling in their graves! (Unsigned) 70.189.208.233, 17 Nov. 2009.
:Reworded. It was absurdly awkward, and now should be a lot clearer. Hertz1888 (talk) 00:47, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Poor grammar

message: This is supposed to be a biographical article, but instead it mostly seems to cover what's already covered more completely in Smoot.  Where can we get source data to refocus this article? - Denimadept (talk) 17:39, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Modified.  Most bios seem to have birth, early life, and so forth.  Where is that?  There's also a bio infobox.  Where's a picture of Mr. Smoot?  Where was he born?  When?  What else has he done?  Is he married?  Where does he live?  Does he have hobbies?  Maybe he goes around with a piece of string measuring things in 5'7" units.  What else is there about him other than the smoot unit and his ANSI career? - Denimadept (talk) 17:46, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biographical?!? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The Smoot article gives- with no citation- "He is the cousin of Nobel Prize in Physics winner George Smoot"; George Smoot's own article also (in a rather poorly-implemented, shoehorned-in manner) gives "(It is Smoot's cousin, Oliver R. Smoot, who was the MIT student who was used as the unit of measure known as the smoot.)" Are there any sources supporting this? This source- http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/10/04/at_mit_future_nobelist_not_above_a_prank_or_two/ (the original source mentioned evidently https://aether.lbl.gov/www/personnel/smoot/smoot-measure.html)- states "distant relative", so probably that, at most, ought to be stated.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.192.96 (talk) 17:23, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Cousin?

message: It seems to me that the unit of measure and his time spent at the ANSI and ISO are the actual notable things about him - the school from which he graduated probably belongs in the biography section rather than the summary
~Jade Z
216.80.1.156 (talk) 02:56, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is the fact that he graduated MIT in the first few words

message: I added an infobox with picture to the article. Neutron jf (talk) 04:39, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added infobox 

message: If the 2019 redefinition of the SI base units is not a reference to the 2016-04-01 recalibration of the Smoot, I would be shocked. But one important thing about that article is that it says the current size of Oliver R. Smoot has decreased to 1.67 meters. I propose that the height on the infobox be updated, and include that Mr. Smoot now is 0.9813139 Smoots tall. In fact, I'm making the update now. If someone can prove that he has not decreased in height and the article was a complete fabrication instead of just a partial fabrication, I welcome a revert. --TIB (talk) 23:02, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating size of present day Smoot