Talk:Becky Smethurst

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Science and Academia

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group (assessed as Low-importance).

Astronomy Low‑importance

	Astronomy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Astronomy, which collaborates on articles related to Astronomy on Wikipedia.AstronomyWikipedia:WikiProject AstronomyTemplate:WikiProject AstronomyAstronomy articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Internet culture

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet culture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of internet culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Internet cultureWikipedia:WikiProject Internet cultureTemplate:WikiProject Internet cultureInternet culture articles

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Internet culture To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : View all requested internet culture articles
Expand : Pick an article from here or here
Photo : Category:Internet culture articles needing images
Stubs : All stubs are located here
Other : Category:Internet self-classification codes (!?); Try to get YouTube to FA; Tag all articles you find with {{WikiProject Internet culture}}
- See also Category:Internet culture articles needing attention

YouTuber[edit]

YouTube is a commercial name. Using the term "YouTuber" advertises YouTube, without Wikipedia making any benefit about it. A neutral term should be used, like "vlogger." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a01:e0a:ab7:fa80:f969:4ea1:8c8f:e6b9 (talk • contribs) 06:20, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See: YouTuber — It's in the Oxford English Dictionary [1] so this isn't really an issue. Aluxosm (talk) 12:24, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Science communication - also a podcast[edit]

To the Science communication part, there is also the podcast "The Supermassive Podcast".

Izzie Clarke (science journalist) and Becky Smethurst are the two hosts on every episode.

--Mortense (talk) 01:55, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Added. Erkin Alp Güney 13:54, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

BLPPRIVACY? Not really.[edit]

A recent edit adding the birth date was reverted. She herself published her birth year in the comment. Erkin Alp Güney 14:55, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comments on public YouTube videos have no expectation of privacy, even by Wikipedia's standards. Erkin Alp Güney 15:00, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, the example mentioned in the policy was like:

A verified social media account of an article subject saying about themselves something along the lines of "today is my 50th birthday" may fall under self-published sources for purposes of reporting a full date of birth. It may be usable if there is no reason to doubt it.

In this case, the quote was "Voyager 2 was launched the year I was born", which corresponds to and is also explicitly mentioned by the sibling comment as the year 1977. Erkin Alp Güney 15:05, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Quote about accent[edit]

The quote there was added to signify the specific comment by Dr.Becky is used as the source, rather than the video itself, but the removal of ?lc and the quote removed that information. Erkin Alp Güney 14:58, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Erkin Alp, the quote is presumably included within the video, so why do you feel it's important to add it to the reference itself? Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 15:05, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It is explicitly not, I happen to know because I have watched the entire video. It is only mentioned in the comment with the ID cited. Erkin Alp Güney 15:07, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If an author's reply to an off-topic (compared to the main topic of the source in hand) response (in a social media or A/V media post) is an unacceptable self-published source, that needs to be explicitly mentioned in the policy. Erkin Alp Güney 15:11, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Erkin Alp, I see what you mean now. Please take down the intensity a notch—we are trying to have a civil discussion about a minor point on a low-importance Wikipedia article, there's no need to be so forceful. I never said anything about what is or isn't acceptable—I'm merely trying to understand your perspective. I'm still curious to know, how does adding the quote to the reference reinforce it or make it more clear? Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 02:42, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]