Talk:Maria Mitchell

message: Merriam, Eve, ed. "Maria Mitchell." In GROWING UP FEMALE IN AMERICA:TEN LIVES, ed. by Eve Merriam, pp.75-92. Extracts from Mitchell's diary,
selected for the general reader. New York: Doubleday, 1971. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 15:30, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Another book source

message: "pron: ma-RY-ah" is not very helpful. Y can have the long I sound or the long E sound. And it is not clear in this case which is intended. RYE or REE would be more helpful. Alternatively the IPA could be used. 50.59.88.46 (talk) 13:12, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: This article needs a section on the subject's personal life.50.26.99.246 (talk) 13:50, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal Life 

message: I think the link to the "List of Christian thinkers in science" should be removed (as she would need to be removed from that list). As a unitarian she would not have accepted that Jesus is the son of God, hence she is technically not a Christian. Peteruetz (talk) 01:37, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian thinker? 

message: The second paragraph in "Academic achievements" appears to contain sections plagiarized from sheisanastronomer.org. While it is of course possible that the plagiarism runs the other direction, the Wikipedia version appears to me to be a trimmed and edited version of the information on the external site. SarahLawrence Scott (talk) 14:17, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism

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message: Hello everyone! I think that certain aspects of this article might require some clarification. In the portion detailing her discovery of the comet for example, the article states, “she submitted her calculation of the comet’s orbit, ensuring her claim as the original discoverer”. This claim appears immediately after a sentence in which she published her initial discovery under her father’s name, so I as a reader am quite confused about the name she used when actually submitting her calculations. I also think that the introductory material, for example, should incorporate more of her prominent achievements (of which there are many) in lieu of details about the gold medal she received and the fact that she was the third child. This information, in my opinion, would be better suited to the portion of the text that speaks of her early life and her scientific achievements.
As far as links to other Wiki articles are concerned, the link provided for the Nautical Almanac Office redirects readers to the Wikipedia article for the "United States Naval Observatory". I think that the top of the "United States Naval Observatory" article should include a comment to alert readers that “Nautical Almanac Office” redirects to this article to lessen confusion.Belajane41 (talk) 15:44, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content and Linking Edit Suggestions 

message: I am reworking the lead section by adding text and rearranging it to make it more concise and clear. Tswptd (talk) 15:12, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making changes to the article. 

message: Beginning revisions to the article to improve its clarity, chronological organization, and conciseness. We are making changes to the lead section, early years, and Miss Mitchell’s Comet section.Tswptd (talk) 15:17, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making changes 

message: I received the following enquiry on my talk page which I would prefer to reply to here:
 I am not sure that you contacted the correct editor about this section, since my only edits to the article have been to revert vandalism and poorly-explained removals of sourced content - I haven't read any of the sources or written any significant content for the article.  However, having read the section carefuly, I agree with you that the first two paragraphs (and perhaps part of the third one) are partially redundant.  I would be inclined to merge the first two paragraphs.  I think it would be advisable to check source #11 (Maria Mitchell The Soul of an Astronomer by Gormley) to see whether it adds much to the sources already cited or whether it can be omitted from the first paragraph.  In my opinion the point about social conditions in Nantucket in the final sentence of the second paragraph is interesting and should be retained somehow.  Hope this helps; I would like to leave the actual editing to your more capable and better-read hands.  All the best, Wham2001 (talk) 17:17, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing that others had joined in at your invitation, I stayed out for a while. I see that there was a little more vandalism, a good sign that not just insiders are looking at this article. Rather than make more suggestions I did a bit of editing on the lower part of the article a few minutes ago; perhaps the new section names and structure will be seen as improvements. The article is still on my watchlist, so I'll see whether anyone else makes more useful changes. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:20, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Early years" section 

message: Can someone please add how is her work used today?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by NotJoeMama1903 (talk • contribs) 00:47, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  New section