Talk:Kirsty Duncan

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Hello, I hope I am following the outlined proceedures properly. I'll be brief. Dr. Kirsty Duncan has accomplished a great deal in her career and I think the story of her research into pandemics including the 1918 Spanish Flu (where she led an expedition to locate and recover samples from graves burried in permafrost on a remote northern Norwegian island) as well as her involvement in Canadian Federal politics deserves a notation on Wikipedia. Her work has been the subject of documentaries on A&E and the BBC, she has two published books on her expedition, and she was chosen to succeed the retiring Roy Cullen for the nomination to represent the riding of Etobicoke North, Canada. I hope this meets with the necessary criteria. Please provide any assistance needed to complete this page. Thank you for your patience.

Anthony Melihen

PS: I noticed that the title is listed as Kirsty duncan, with a lower case 'd'... Naturally, it should be "Duncan", I hope this can be fixed. Thanks again.

Only 4 hits on Google News
http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&tab=wn&nolr=1&q=%22Kirsty+Duncan%22&btnG=Search —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.35.246 (talk) 17:58, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Uh, no. Mr. Absurd (talk) 22:22, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. You are right. We are both right. I clicked the Canadian pages. Thanks for the point.  ;-)   North Etobian (talk) 01:27, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Mind you, she did not win the Nobel Prize and I will soon be editting suchg to something more accurate. This article is pretty biased in favour of her. North Etobian (talk) 01:32, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know. But if you re-read the article you'll see I've made some pretty heavy changes to remove the obvious bias. It's much bettter now, I think. Mr. Absurd (talk) 02:11, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes indeed. A far better job than I could have easily done. Thanks  ;-)    North Etobian (talk) 14:04, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Now on Wikinfo
Kirsty Duncan70.54.181.70 (talk) 21:06, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Copyright violation?
The fact that this article is identical to the bio on Duncan's website makes me suspicious, so I reported this article at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems --Padraic 23:44, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I checked the history of this article. Duncan's website was added on December 15, 2009. The text on her website existed on Wikipedia pretty much unchanged for over a year prior to this addition of the website link. I suggest that Duncan's website was built with a little bit of copy/paste in order to create the bio page, not the other way around. EncyclopediaUpdaticus (talk) 18:20, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

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Weak citation
I find the citation for the statement "However, the samples were not viable, as the bodies were not in the permafrost, and the expedition ultimately proved a disappointment." to be weak. This is reference [7], "Digging up the deadly past". The National. Martin Newland. 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2009-09-30.

That link is no longer accessible. Is there a better reference to support that statement? Or, should the statement be changed to better reflect the results of the research?

Respectfully, Aquick777 (talk) 00:22, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

I propose the following:

(1) removing reference [7], since it is no longer accessible,

(2) changing the sentence "However, the samples were not viable, as the bodies were not in the permafrost, and the expedition ultimately proved a disappointment." to "While the excavation was exemplary in terms of archeological procedures and treatment of culturally sensitive sites, it did not yield samples from which the virus could be reconstructed because the bodies were not in the permafrost."

(3) adding the reference "Excavating the Flu" at https://definingmomentscanada.ca/the-spanish-flu/themes/excavating-the-flu/

Respectfully, Aquick777 (talk) 02:21, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Added the above reference - it becomes [9]. Removed reference [7] - references were renumbered so now reference [7] is a good reference.

Aquick777 (talk) 16:41, 10 November 2020 (UTC)