Talk:Jennifer Lerner

Controversies
I've removed the controversies section for now because that material may belong elsewhere (if anywhere). It has the look of a coatrack. --TS 21:12, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree with removal as WP:UNDUE WEIGHT in a WP:BLP. -- Cirt (talk) 23:24, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Add List of NOVA episodes for DVD "Mind over Money"? 99.54.140.24 (talk) 00:39, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Issues of WP:WEIGHT in WP:BLP
Lerner's name has been mentioned in connection with two controversies, both of which some person is very eager to see added to this article. In one case, data was falsified by a CMU student with two masters degrees and a previous publication record, a student for whom Lerner was one of several advisors and whose bad data corrupted some papers that she had coauthored with Lerner. In another, Lerner was in technical violation of some confidentiality requirements regarding grant proposals. A, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by now-banned Humbert1, makes clear the utter triviality of what was in question and what was the result -- that in future she would ask for explicit permission from the NSF before seeking the technical assistance she needs due to a physical disability. Information about these two non-notable events, edited in a way to shed the most unflattering light on Lerner, were repeatedly added to this article by Humbert1 until he was finally banned for edit-warring. The matter was taken to the BLP noticeboard where it met clear consensus that it violated WP:BLP and WP:WEIGHT. The same exact material was added in mid-November by a new editor, whose interest in Wikipedia seems to have died at once after those stories got put back in here. They don't belong in the bio.betsythedevine (talk) 01:08, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Betsythedevine is obvious shill for the Harvard General Counsel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asakharov (talk • contribs) 21:23, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I am a longtime Wikipedia editor with no connection to Harvard's General Counsel, to Lerner, or to most of the bios on my Watchlist. betsythedevine (talk) 21:36, 19 December 2010 (UTC)