Talk:Ian Gibbons (biochemist)/Archive 1

Theranos scrubbing Wayback Machine?
An editor recently removed the paragraph titled "Official biography at Theranos website", with edit summary "Official biography at Theranos website: Wayback does NOT provide a copy of the company bio, remove per BLP guidelines as unverified". A sampling today of Theranos entries at the Wayback Machine, including the one for 6 April 2012, shows that some have been recently "unarchived" and replaced with more-generic content. Since Gibbons is no longer a "living person", it seems BLP guidelines would no longer apply, and I've rewritten and replaced the paragraph without citing the Wayback Machine. The remaining material seems uncontroversial and unlikely to be challenged, and should be helpful in understanding Dr. Gibbons' pre-Theranos career. --NoApostropheInIts (talk) 23:09, 22 July 2018 (UTC)


 * The idea of pages on the Wayback Machine being "unarchived" to remove trivial information about former members of staff, is pure conspiracy theory fantasy. The page the original text alluded to rather vaguely is at https://web.archive.org/web/20120406073929/http://theranos.com/about/management.shtml
 * The confusion was presumably because this page wasn't actually linked from the site's header at that time, having been orphaned some time in the previous two years - the same text appears, fully linked from the header, in the 2010 snapshot of the same URL. - IMSoP (talk) 23:24, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Grammar and structure.
Grammar and page structure could use some work. I tried to improve the text, but a lot of it still reads like opinion, or a personal recollection, rather than factual or observant reporting. The page could also use a sidebar with Ian's birth, death, and other profile information. --Htkoca (talk) / 69.17.128.166 (talk) 20:14, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

high prestige = elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Great Britain in 1983.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Great Britain in 1983. This is the top honour for a British scientist. The Society has a page on him that states: See  "Professor Ian Gibbons FRS" The Royal Society
 * "He discovered, named and characterised the founding member of the dynein ATPase family of motor proteins and other microtubular components in cilia and flagella. By elegantly combining biochemical techniques with light and electron microscopy, he greatly advanced our understanding of microtubule-based motility, particularly by the direct visual demonstration of active dynein-dependent sliding between adjacent microtubules in structurally weakened flagella." Rjensen (talk) 06:34, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, that was awarded to Ian R. Gibbons. Same name and same area of research, so it threw me as well. - Bilby (talk) 08:15, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Research on the article
Did a bit of research on the article. Prior state. Post research. Thank you for taking a look, Princessa Unicorn (talk) 02:56, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Expand or preserve
Wow. It reads like a classical Greek (and geek) tragedy. Let us work at expanding or at least preserving (see above re Wayback). Zezen (talk) 05:57, 19 October 2018 (UTC)


 * I've worked to expand the article with additional research. Please see . Thank you, Princessa Unicorn (talk) 02:57, 5 March 2023 (UTC)