Talk:Paola S. Timiras/Archive 1

Open Letter to my wikipedia colleagues
Dear wikipedia colleagues,

I would like to update you on a issue that has become disturbing to me. A few days ago Wim Crusio and I had a disagreement over the word "Phenomics" which has been used in many scientific publications and online dictionaries. Wim Crusio has been changing the wiki entry to re-direct it to the word "Phenotype" and I have tried to keep the word as a stand alone term. After his repeated failed attempts to redirect the word to "Phenotype" he has decided to carry out a reprehensible vendetta against myself, my work and my co-researcher who passed away in 2008. As you can see by Wim Crusio's edit history on the following items, he started to delete and alter the following items, on April 29, 2010, which was directly after our disagreement over the word "Phenomics" :

Steven A. Garan, Aging Research Centre, Automated Imaging Microscope System, Paola S. Timiras

I hope the contributors to wikipedia do not encourage this kind of childish behavior. If Wim Crusio has a disagreement regarding an issue with any of my wikipedia colleagues, I would hope to stand by them should a person like Wim Crusio carry out a similar campaign. What I find utterly reprehensible is Wim Crusio's sudden interest in my co-researcher of ten years Paola S. Timiras. She passed away in September of 2008 and starting on April 29, 2010, his actions in altering her page are clearly an act driven not my any scientific motivation, but instead by a malicious desire for revenge.

Steven A. Garan

Sgaran (talk) 20:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I will only give one comments here: The "malicious" edit referred to by Sgaran is this one and I invite anyone interested to look at it. As for who is using a deceased person for his own goals, I leave the conclusion up to the reader. --Crusio (talk) 22:09, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I will only give one comment here: The malicious removal of historical information from a deceased persons page is perverse, and an act of revenge again one of her long time colleagues is simply pathetic. If you have a dispute with someone, one does not attack their friends and colleagues. Perhaps Cusio can explain his sudden interest in Paola_S._Timiras? --Sgaran (talk) 22:37, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Sgaran, please cease these personal attacks, they are not helpful and a violation of policy. -- Nuujinn (talk) 22:52, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Article Cleanup
I've begun to clean up this article, to provide proper sourcing improve the prose. If there are any questions about what I'm doing, please let me know. -- Nuujinn (talk) 18:43, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * May I point to the earlier cleanup I did? I followed WP:MOS as much as possible (removing academic titles and such) and limited the references to the 5 most cited ones, removing abstracts and hardly-cited minor publications (all co-authored by Garan, S). This article should be about Timiras, not about Garan and his accomplishments. --Crusio (talk) 20:00, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I do not disagree, but we need to work together to achieve consensus, and it would be good to move away from the constant reversioning. No need to be in a rush about this one. -- Nuujinn (talk) 20:07, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I have added some substantial biographical sources. Colonel Warden (talk) 20:10, 1 May 2010 (UTC)