Talk:Marie Tharp

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Tacitus Complicitus?
What does this mean?
 * The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor". It was cited by the New York Times for its standing as an "eloquent testament both to Tharp’s importance and to Felt’s powers of imagination."

That her historian helped the story along? We have her own words for that:

https youtu.be /QcaIP6NqZTI?t=494

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcaIP6NqZTI&feature=youtu.be&t=494

Weatherlawyer (talk) 18:37, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Less patriarchal / patronizing cover photo for article
This main article photo shows Bruce Hezeen in a pose suggesting he's instructing Marie Tharp. Although Hezeen was very important in providing support to Tharp, she brought the vision and the persistence to prove the existence of the Mid Atlantic Rift. Hezeen was no more important than any of the 20 or so women who worked alongside Tharp.

May I suggest a photo where Tharp stands alone? Perhaps photographer Bruce Gilbert will give permission to use a beautiful 2001 shot on Columbia University's website?

http://earth.columbia.edu/news/2006/images/MTHARPbg1_400.jpg

Here are other URLs referencing that photo:

http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2006/story08-24-06.php http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2010/12/24/a-famous-ocean-floor-map/

Or another photo could be selected. With a campaign on women scientists in STEM (#WomenInSTEM) trending on Twitter so we can make girls feel they have a future in the sciences, a less patriarchal cover photo for this article is in order. 96.27.104.7 (talk) 04:18, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

I found a public domain photo
Please change the photo. I don't have an account and I'm incompetent to edit Wiki, but that photo has got to go. It's patronizing, and she's a feminist icon.

Here's a public domain photo credited to the Library of Congress

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/01/27/books/review/27WASHBURN/27WASHBURN-blog427.jpg

Published on the New York Times website here

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/books/review/soundings-about-marie-tharp-by-hali-felt.html?_r=0

96.27.104.7 (talk) 04:36, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

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Page mentioned as example of gender bias
This Marie Tharp page was mentioned in a 2015 New Statesman article on Gender bias in Wikipedia. Including citation here in case it is notable. https://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/05/wikipedia-has-colossal-problem-women-dont-edit-it SunnyBoiSunnyBoi (talk) 12:36, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * that is a bit mischaracterizing. the article in newstatesman is about gender bias in Wikipedia. And this wikipedia page appears in the newstatesman article. but this article is not mentioned as any sort of example of gender bias in wikipedia, just a page that someone in the article has edited.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.220.7.244 (talk) 01:21, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Image replaced
FYI, I've just replaced the image used in the infobox of this article. The photo it replaces, File:Tharp & Heezen.jpg, is likewise a non-free photo, and has a couple problems as people have noted elsewhere on this talk page. For one, it's a profile that actually shows less of the subject. Second, the image appears to be Heezen teaching Tharp about the map as though the map isn't her work. Seems like a fine image for his article, where it is still used, but there's this great image of her that's better in both respects. Thanks to for identifying the opportunity and the better image. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 15:07, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Image
The image used at present is fair use. We have "Marie Tharp working with fathometer record (cropped).jpg" image of her, this is not contentious and it is free to use. Marie Tharp's estate needs to give permission for us to use their image, which I agree is much better. Victuallers (talk) 13:58, 21 November 2022 (UTC)


 * BTW,although the previous picture looks better...--ZhaoFJx (talk) 14:09, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for finding the one with Public Domain. Thanks to that, I can also place the photo in the article in Japanese Wikipedia where we are prohibited from using fair-use photos.
 * The previous photo could be used in another place in the article if it's not an issue. It was also a nice color photo and makes us feel more alive. shuuji3 (talk) 15:16, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The previous photo could be used in another place in the article if it's not an issue. It was also a nice color photo and makes us feel more alive. shuuji3 (talk) 15:16, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Missing topic
Hi everyone!

I was wondering if there is any missing topic in Mary Tharp biography that really needs to be covered.

Thank you! Elaine Marley-Threepwood (talk) 08:22, 29 March 2023 (UTC)