Talk:Luis Walter Alvarez

Orphaned references in Luis Walter Alvarez
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Luis Walter Alvarez's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "harv": From List of Bohemian Club members:  From James Watson: "Chairman of the Bored", Steven Shapin, Harvard Magazine, January–February 2008 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 21:13, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Health
no talk of cancer from smoking or radiation? constant in many wikipedia aticles is absent info that coud lsave lives if publizied Juror1 (talk) 15:33, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

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Lead image
I feel like one should have full disclosure, so if you say something in an edit summary, and it's then dealt with, you say so.

So, I said the 1961 image and former lead had copyright problems. And it did: Pretty much everything said about the reasons for it being out of copyright were wrong. (see commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Luis Walter Alvarez 1961.jpg), but, as it happens, it's still out of copyright for completely different reasons (see previous link, or updated file description page for new reasoning).

Very briefly: It was being treated as an image created by the Nobel Prize Foundation in Sweden, despite predating his Nobel Prize by six years, and the argument for it being out of copyright was based on Swedish law. It was actually created at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California by Donald Cooksey - which, as you'd imagine, Swedish law is irrelevant to - but coincidentally, we had proof it was published without notice, which, at the time it was created, was a statuatory reason for things to go out of copyright in the U.S., so it's out of copyright after all but for a completely different reason. Which is a mess of a situation, but I've updated everything to the accurate information.

Now I think the new lead image is still sharper, more interesting, and a better choice, so I don't propose we change back to the previous image. Here's the images side by side:

I'd say the third one is a clear improvement on the others, so I'd say let's keep it as the lead, and maybe put one or the other of the old lead images further down in the article. But I don't want to mislead anyone, hence the full disclosure. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.6% of all FPs. 08:20, 12 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I prefer the source old lead image, hard to distinguish this guy from Michael Keaton in the new image. LegalSmeagolian (talk) 14:45, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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Hello! This is to let editors know that File:Luis Alvarez_with_a_magnetic_monopole_detector_-_Restoration.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for April 24, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-04-24. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 10:21, 5 April 2024 (UTC)