Talk:Patrick Reynolds (activist)/Archive 1

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Hello, this is Patrick Reynolds, the subject of this Wikipedia page Patrick Reynolds (Anti-Tobacco Advocate).

I just wanted to point out an error and provide a source for a needed citation in this page about me. There are four to-dos in all, listed in order of importance:

I have tried in the past to edit this page as 2patrick2, but other editors undid my changes, thinking what I wrote was not properly verified. I will provide the correct sources this time, but I do not have sufficient knowledge as a Wikipedia editor to make these updates myself. Your help in correcting the four items listed below would be much appreciated.

Listed below are four changes I'd like to see made, and the sources for each change. Restoring a few of my previous edits would also be welcome, if that is possible. My previous edits are well documented in the book I co-authored about the RJ Reynolds family, The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy and Tobacco - Three Generations of the RJ Reynolds Family and Fortune (Little Brown, 1986; current publisher is iUniverse.)

1. ERROR: The first sentence in the bio about me says --

"He is the grandson of the tobacco company founder, R. J. Reynolds,[4] and speaks of how he believes his family business has killed millions, including his own father (Richard Joshua Reynolds, Jr.) and brother (Michael Randolph Reynolds).[2] "

It was not my brother Michael Randolph Reynolds who died from smoking in 2004; it was my half-brother, RJ Reynolds III (also known as Richard J Reynolds III and Josh). Josh's death from smoking is well-documented in the press at the time, and also cited in a memoir I wrote which was published in two top medical journals, cited below. Here are three sources, then, for correcting this error:

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-15/local/me-16089_1_patrick-reynolds Los Angeles Times, July 15, 1994 - Memorial Message: Tobacco Scion R.J. Reynolds III, an Emphysema Victim, Is Eulogized by His Brother, an Anti-Smoking Activist

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/4/1/94.full.pdf+html?sid=4af634c9-b695-4716-a46d-590b98f4ee2e Tobacco Control, British Medical Journals, 1995, Q4: pp. 94 - 99, Death from smoking in the RJ Reynolds family

http://med.stanford.edu/medicalreview/smrp6-13.pdf The Stanford Medical Review, Vol 1, No 1, September, 1999, Rebel With a Cause - The Grandson of RJ Reynolds Chooses to Turn Against the Tobacco Industry

Please make this change, and cite at least one of the sources above. I am sorry that I do not know how to do it. Another correction --

2. Under Social Activism, a sentence in the third paragraph needs a citation:

He advised the Greek government on anti-smoking measures[13] in 2009[citation needed], and in 2011 was seeking sponsorship for a world tour.[13]

The citation may be documented by listing the news articles on my visit to Greece in 2009, at --

http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_2_29/04/2009_312621 Kathimerini News, April 29, 2009, Smokers are allies in the new laws [banning smoking] (In Chrome, click on "Translate to English," and read the last paragraph.)

There are links to more news articles on my visit to Greece in 2009 at this url:

http://tobaccofree.org/news/index.html#greece

There is still more info on my visit to Greece in 2009 at www.Tobaccofree.org/intl.pdf

3. I would very much like it to be mentioned that the group I founded, the Foundation for a Smokefree America ( www.Anti-smoking.org ), produced an educational video which has been bought by 10,000 middle and high schools: "The Truth About Tobacco, 2011 Edition". Here are three source urls for that:

http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Tobacco-2011-Edition/dp/B0045W5YVY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361424359&sr=8-1&keywords=the+truth+about+tobacco Amazon.com, The Truth About Tobacco, 2011 Edition

http://www.tobaccofree.org/video/ Web page for educational video The Truth About Tobacco, 2011 Edition

www.tobaccofree.org/vid.pdf Brochure for educational video, The Truth About Tobacco, 2011 Edition

4. It would be great to have a more current photo at the page about me. There are some public domain photos taken in 2009 available for open download at our website url www.Tobaccofree.org/photos/

Thank you for your support in making these changes to this Wikipedia page: Patrick Reynolds (Anti-Tobacco Advocate).

Patrick Reynolds 2Patrick2 (talk) 06:18, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Replied here. Editors are requested to consider a change in the image of the individual based on the above request. The remaining queries have been answered. Thanks. Wifione  Message 09:24, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Images
I don't think the images at http://www.tobaccofree.org/photos/ have a specific enough licence for upload. The copyright holders (usually the photographer) need to release them under a 'free licence' specifically. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en is a very common one. They should be uploaded to commons though so other language wikipedias can use them. You can have your website guru or webmaster add a specific licence to each image. The photographers themselves can upload to commons which may be the easiest. If any are over there now there should be a Category:Patrick Reynolds or Category:R. J. Reynolds family for them. If not they can be created in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Families_of_the_United_States Editors will decide which ones to include so you may wish to only have the better ones licenced or uploaded.--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:08, 21 February 2013 (UTC)