Talk:Stanford R. Ovshinsky

message: According to the episode Hydrogen Hopes of Scientific American Frontiers on PBS (US TV), Stan and Iris work as a team. The PBS web site article which i linked starts with that topic. Also, no mention of his solid hydrogen storage tank made of metal hydrides. TIA.
Jerome Potts 04:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of his wife Iris 

message: Two biographical entries for the same person have just been merged here. The other says he was born 1922, this one says 1923. Can we confirm the year? Thanks. Samsara (talk • contribs) 20:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Stan was, in fact, born November 24, 1922, according to his mother's Petition for Naturalization. --Thomprod (talk) 00:01, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date 

message: in the current article, the name "Sanford" is used twice. I'm assuming these are typos so I am changing them, please correct me if I am wrong. --chodges 05:25, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: His first name is spelled Stanford. --Thomprod (talk) 00:02, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  is the name Sanford or Stanford? (or, let's be consistent) 

message: Does this article meet Wikipedia's standards for objectivity, and is more detailed information required about the subject's actual inventions?   Is the article too vague? 03:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Question about accomplishments

message: Thank you, --72.209.9.165 (talk) 00:02, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Akron, Ohio, as stated in the lead of the article. --Thomprod (talk) 00:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Does anybody know his birth place?

message: This article is embarrassingly puffy.  It sounds like it was written by a bad PR agent for Ovshinsky.  It's so over the top in glowing superlatives that one has to unfortunately discredit everything in it about this probably virtuous and capable man.  The article should be written objectively.  Minor details about character should not be repeated.  References to good works and family should be minimized.  All of these things should be reserved to a biography or eulogy, but not to an informative, objective article.  The characterizations in this article are just plain silly.  If his family and friends want a monument for Ovshinsky, then they can erect one.  Wikipedia should be more credible than this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.135.164.172 (talk) 14:44, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This Puff Piece is 50 Percent Longer than Necessary 

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