Talk:Mary Styles Harris

Mary Styles Harris’ Wikipedia page requires multiple alterations and additions. Primarily, her page should display at least one image of her either in her professional field or in her everyday life. Currently, no images are displayed on the site and a Wikipedia viewer has no direct access to her picture. This fact leads to the question: why don’t any images of Styles Harris exist on Wikipedia and also, what steps can be done to change that? After further investigation via a Google image search, I found a few photos of Dr. Harris that could be used on her Wikipedia page. For example, I found the image located here, http://journeytowellness.com/about-mary-s-harris, which can also be uncovered in a Google image search. Secondly, Dr. Harris’ page seems very basic in terms of information and facts regarding her background and her career. In other similar Wikipedia pages, the background and career sections of the scientists are typically much more in-depth and specific. For example, the Wikipedia page on Mary Styles Harris states that “she has spent most of her professional career involved in the application and transfer of basic research to the health care field.” The page would be much more informative if it explained what the “basic research” she engaged in was. This sentence also elicits the question of what contribution her research actually has had to the health care field. By attempting to engage in further research, I learned that not much else exists on Dr. Harris in the research realm. The only information I could find validates the pre-existing information written on her Wikipedia page but did not serve to provide any new, additional information. Lastly, I propose that more research be done on Dr. Styles Harris. After more research is conducted or located, the page should be edited and backed with reliable sources. Currently, the page displays this notification on the top immediately following Mary’s name: This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (November 2007) The fact that this message is the first thing that a viewer sees when they come to Mary Styles Harris’ Wikipedia site is an important issue to address. It leaves the thought and the doubt that this information could be invalid or is not worth reading because it is not well-cited. The sources I found regarding Dr. Harris were questionable as well and would not be worth adding to the page. I think that with the uncovering of addition information I aforementioned and by using proper reliable citations, Mary Styles Harris’ page will be much improved and on par with similar bibliographical pages. Tgrider23 (talk) 04:25, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

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Additional citations with reliable sources and need for additional clarification and sources
This pace has a References section, but also a Sources section. It is unclear whether this latter section and the sources listed are relevant to any information listed in the article. At this time, it seems like additional related reading and perhaps should be renamed to reflect that.

Additional reliable sources were added and in-line citations fixed and added where needed.

The current article as well as some of the sources originally present and the new ones added state that there are publications in biology and medicine journals. However, repeated searches only produced the following: Harris, M. S. (1976). An investigation of several aspects of the killer character in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cornell University. It is a dissertation. Wondering if we can add a Selected Publications section based on this citation or if anyone can find additional publications. Osquaesitor (talk) 22:41, 10 June 2020 (UTC)