Talk:Godfrey Louis

message: Most of the text on this page was lifted directly from a news item (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02/red.rain/index.html). 
What is the process for eliminating blatent plagiarism from Wikipedia?
* ... the encouragement of constructive editing? Davy p 02:18, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: The paragraph that I'd added about the failure to use GCMS analysis was removed on the grounds of being Original Research. It isn't, and I've replaced it with a shorter version.
GCMS is a now standard technique which is used whenever 'unidentified' chemical stuff turns up, especially if it might potentially be hazardous. To mention the lack of such a test isn't OR but a courtesy to readers who may be unaware that such test equipment exists. If 'original resarch' was involved it was in reading Louis's papers themselves rather than second- and third-hand accounts, and in following the affair. I remain astounded than none of those involved in the 'microbes from space' episode - Louis, Wainwright, Wickramasinghe - put the red raindust through GCMS: this would have been expected to provide useful information in short order. Mention of the failure to use GCMS does not seem at all inappropriate.Davy p 20:48, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason I considered it OR was the lack of citation.  Unless you happen to be aware of every use of gas chromatography ever, even those uses that went unpublished, you cannot truly say that it was "never apparently done."  To say this is your own original research, as in, your own inability to find a publication of it.  And no matter how many other Wikipedians are unable to find publication of it, until the fact that this test has never been undertaken appears in a reliable source, it doesn't belong in the article.  Someguy1221 22:00, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) 

message: The article is written like an advertisement. But I do feel that some portion of this article can be added to the topic - Red rain in Kerala
This page doesn't meet Wikipedia's standards. The only one report provided is that of a regional daily and Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe has denied the fact as well (see the report published by Guardian).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Klarav1 (talk • contribs) 10:14, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Normally I don't like to see too much merging, as it makes the parent topic page too big. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 13:23, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

text: yes, but there is no new information is this page. So I am not sure if it meets Wikipedia's standards. I also checked if the claim concerning the new department is true. And I am unable to find any such information in the University's website Klarav1 (talk) 07:51, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Red rain in Kerala]] 

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