Talk:Masatoshi Nei

message: The subject apparently has been editing this article (see the history).  Wikipedia has a policy of leniency toward "subjects who try to fix what they see as errors or unfair material".   However, I think the current version of the article has a number of unsourced statements that raise questions.  Nei is attributed with several firsts, but there is no secondary source indicating that he was the first.  He also is attributed with developing a diversity measure that is "widely used".  I believe that this is true but it is not referenced.  It may be true that neighbor-joining is the "most widely used" phylogenetic inference method, but this is not referenced.  I don't think Nei is known for "new evolutionary concepts."  Nei's contributions seem to be mainly technical-- mathematical and statistical techniques for inference and analysis that are faster or better in some way. 
The current article is a list of accomplishments without scientific context to judge the nature and importance of these accomplishments.  Maybe that is OK for a biography but in some cases it becomes misleading.  The "MHC Loci . . . " section makes it seem like Nei invented the idea of using nucleotide data to detect selection.   Actually there are other ways to do this that also date from the 1980s when comparative sequencing took off.  The section ends with "Although various statistical methods for this test have been developed later, their original methods are still widely used.[24]"  Reference 24 is Nei's recent book, Mutation-Driven Evolution, which generally dismisses the work of other scientists competing with Nei, including their methods to detect selection (see section 4.8, p. 81 and onward).  I think this article should not cite Nei's book as evidence of how influential and important Nei is.  
Dabs (talk) 15:30, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  warning: subject is editing his own biographic article 

message: I've done the first two references as examples of inline citation, and I hope I've inspired you to finish the project, since fewer deleterious mutations will occur in this article if you do the job instead of me. The hard-coded format which you have used for citations will lead to linkage disequilibrium in the list of citations within a few generations as mutations and recombination occur in this article. Since the rate of recombination in Wikipedia articles is high, this article will quickly mutate from a well-referenced article, which it is now, into a pseudo-article, an article that is non-functional and cannot evolve into a better article. A pseudo-article is the final stage in the evolution of an article, before it is pruned from the encyclopedia. According to the neutral theory of Wikipedia article evolution, articles experience drift because most Wikipedia edits are neutral or even slightly deleterious. Don't let this article turn into a pseudo-article. Like me, you probably don't believe in intelligent design, but please intervene in the evolution of this article to make it possible for the article to evolve into a future version of the article, adapted to the changing Wikipedia environment. For more information, see Wikipedia:Inline_citation. Metzenberg (talk) 08:40, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please put references into inline format instead of hard coding 

message: The text looks very similar to this from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Masatoshi-Nei/e/B001HP2QFE/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0. Should something be done about this?  TomS TDotO (talk) 13:35, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amazon  

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message: The long list of citations in the article is, remarkably given 6 years of cleanup and early warning of CoI editing by Nei himself, 100% primary. It's more than time that most of the primary sourcing was removed and replaced by secondary sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:34, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: ALL the sources are primary