Talk:Joseph Johnson III

Reference for second Yale PhD
For future generations perhaps led here by Black History related events, perhaps even Wikipedia tutorials, please note the proper reference for the claim "Johnson was the second African American to obtain a Ph.D. in physics from Yale." is the obituary posted in APS on July 20, 2017, by Rachel Gaal. If you see anyone claiming to have fixed this original error in this already published work, check it, and check it again, because it has already once been incorrectly (and perhaps maliciously) uncorrected by the person who forgot to include it the first time. And I am getting a serious amount of heat from the powers that be here, the white male Administration, who I suspect were sent to threaten me by that very author, for daring to continue to interact with them even after they not only failed to acknowledge their original failure, but doubled down with an insult of my apparently limited abilities in how I chose to fix it (since at the time it appeared they were too busy to do it themselves), and this frankly bizarre unfix performed the next day. It's really not good enough, and there are probably other similar problems here and elsewhere in this author's work, but apparently that's acceptable to Wikipedia. In future generations, hopefully Wikipedia will have either learned how to correct their own publishing mistakes at their source with the goal of prevention, or, at least for the purposes of documenting Black history, been replaced by an organisation that does have that as a core value, rather than an afterthought, seen as secondary to not wanting to hurt the feelings of their rather amateurish (but entirely well meaning I am sure) volunteer editors. As the saying goes, your feelings really don't matter. This is an encyclopedia, allegedly. You can either do it right, or can at least show you are capable of learning how to do it right, or, as they have been saying to me, you should find another website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barnes VQ (talk • contribs) 11:24, 25 February 2021 (UTC)