Talk:Michael H. Hart

Best seller
The assertions that his book was on the best-seller list are unsubstantiated. The separate article The_100_%28book%29 on the book gives a re-issue date 1992, but here's the NY Times list of top books for 1992: Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem (Little, Brown) - February 9, 1992

Give War a Chance by P. J. O'Rourke (Atlantic Monthly) - May 10, 1992

The Silent Passage by Gail Sheehy (Random House) - June 7, 1992

Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton (Simon & Schuster) - July 5, 1992

Every Living Thing by James Herriot (St. Martin's) - September 13, 1992

The Way Things Ought to Be by Rush H. Limbaugh (Pocket) - September 27, 1992

Sex by Madonna (Warner) - November 8, 1992

A search of the whole NY times list did not produce the name of Dr. Hart's book. Of course it could have been #5 or #6 - if so document it.Carrionluggage 04:17, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Recent edits

 * The bibliography is not the place for discussion of the faults of a book. We can start a paragraph discussing his individual works, but I'm not sure the fact that a later edition of one work was not sufficently updated in the mind of one reviewer is significant enough for an encyclopedia article on the author.


 * The man worked for NASA, no? He taught physics, no? Then he's a physicist.  "Claimed astrophysicist" is waaaay too loaded and POV.  Since he's a full time writer now, I believe, it really doesn't matter if he's not a member of professional physics organizations, and there is no source for this anyway. Gamaliel 02:24, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

1994
The article mentions that "At a 1994 conference, he had a public confrontation with former Klansman and former Louisiana politician David Duke", probably because the linked splcenter.org article says "At the latest edition of the conferences that began in 1994, held this February at the Hyatt Dulles hotel, a nasty spat broke out that upset the gathering's decorum". Since the article has no date we have no idea which February is "this February", but it is probably not 1994... --CrisDias 17:54, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I had a look at that SPLC article. It's dated "Summer 2006"--so, given the "this February" you point out, 2006 seems pretty darn indisputable for a date. Iralith (talk) 16:22, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

WHAT DOES THE BOOK DO! HA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.150.66.218 (talk) 21:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Questionable links from other Wikipedia articles to Hart's personal opinion on who's most influential
Somebody inserted many links from Wikipedia articles about truly notable personalities to Hart's list The_100. IMO Hart's personal opinion thus gains undeserved emphasis and credibility, although it is not more valuable than personal opinions expressed in many alternative lists (a few of them are mentioned below). IMO one should either delete all those links to Hart's list, or create Wikipedia articles for alternative lists, and add links from famous persons to those alternative lists, too. Otherwise Wikipedia biographies of influential persons will reflect undue bias towards Hart's personal opinions.

A top 10 list at http://www.faqs.org/shareranks/1338,Most-Influential-People-of-All-Time : 1 Manu (Shanker Mishra), 2 Einstein, 3 Socrates, 4 Aristotle, 5 Plato, 6 Newton, 7 Lao Tzu, 8 Moses, 9 Darwin, 10 Franklin.

A Japanese top 10 list http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/04/01/historys-100-most-influencial-people-hero-edition-video/ : 1 Sakamoto Ryoma, 2 Napoleon I, 3 Oda Nobunaga, 4 Saigo Takamori, 5 Miyamoto no Yoshitsune, 6 Jean of Arc, 7 Hideyoshi Toyotomi, 8 Albert Einstein, 9 Yutaka Ozaki, 10 Akechi Mitsuhide.

A top 7 list http://www.rateitall.com/t-1283-most-influential-people-in-world-history.aspx : 1 Jesus Christ, 2 Muhammad, 3 Adolf Hitler, 4 Ronald Reagan, 5 Albert Einstein, 6 Buddha, 7 Johann Gutenberg.

LIFE magazine's top 10 list http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/goth/MainPages/100_most_important_people.pdf : 1 Edison, 2 Columbus, 3 Luther, 4 Galileo, 5 Leonardo, 6 Newton, 7 Magellan, 8 Pasteur, 9 Darwin, 10 Jefferson.

Several lists are topped by Gutenberg, e.g.: http://www.falls.igs.net/~dphillips/biography3.htm

Another top 10 list http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=173626 : 1 Mohammed, 2 Aristotle, 3 Tsai Lun, 4 Johann Gutenberg, 5 Jesus of Nazareth, 6 Paul of Tarsus, 7 Shih Huang Ti, 8 Louis Pasteur, 9 Plato, 10 Siddhartha Guatama.

Yet another list found on the web: 1 Mitochondria Eve, 2 Jesus, 3 Mohammed, 4 Columbus, 5 Confucius, 6 Darwin, 7 Sun Yat-sen, 8 Karl Marx, 9 Buddha, 10 Rousseau.

Some of the numerous additional lists of this kind:

http://www.the-top-tens.com/lists/most-influential-person-of-all-time.asp

http://www.worldtop.org/Culture/People/Most+influential+people+ever/

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_are_the_25_most_important_people_in_history

http://www.historum.com/showthread.php?t=2971

Gimmemoretime (talk) 21:17, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

RfC
An RfC: Which descriptor, if any, can be added in front of Southern Poverty Law Center when referenced in other articles? has been posted at the Southern Poverty Law Center talk page. Your participation is welcomed. – MrX 17:01, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Source list of possible use for editing this article
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Citations for Shakespeare claim
The line about his claim for Shakespeare's identity is marked as needing a citation. I believe the first two references listed on the wikipedia page for his "100" book will suffice. I hope a skilled editor (which I am not) will add those citations. Note that these don't substantiate Hart's claim. They substantiate the fact that Hart made this claim. 99.116.150.17 (talk) 03:37, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Astrophysics
Although no longer practicing as an astrophysicist, some of his publications on extraterrestrial life in the 1970s-1980s are still cited today. This is completely separate discussion from the race-related views for which he is presently better known (and for which I personally have no sympathy). For balance, I think the article should cover this side of his life as well. It actually is already covered in some other articles in Wikipedia (see Fermi paradox), so all we need to do is copy that text from there to here. I'm going to do that. SJK (talk) 02:46, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Background and education?
Surely the article should start with some account of his birth and upbringing. Valetude (talk) 01:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

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