Talk:Thomas Crowther (ecologist)

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Tone
The article's tone seems to me unfit. It somewhat resembles an advertisement brochure. Examples:
 * "aims to generate a holistic understanding"
 * "This research revealed that there are approximately 3.04 trillion trees on Earth" whereas "Previous estimates suggested there may only be 400 billion trees on Earth."
 * The story about his triumph over previous critics: "'Tom was teased over the years by his fellow Professors for being the 'tree counter'. But Tom stuck with it and on 2 September 2015, his findings were published in the Journal Nature, the most prestigious paper in his field'"
 * "Prof Ivan Janssens, seen as one of the godfathers in the global change ecology field commented"
 * " He went on to give a keynote address [...] alongside Nobel Prize winner Dr. Rattan Lal"
 * "Through the latest machine learning approaches" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sylbendrechsler (talk • contribs) 21:06, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Warning
Although this page passes AfD in 2018, much of the material addedsince then has been highly promotional, giving credit for activities where the subject was one of the people to influence events, or only one of a committee. Additionally, our tanards for rejecting `prootioal articles have become much stricter.

There is additional considerable material giving his opinion on general subjects relating to environment. Although he is notable within hisfield, heis not such a famousauthority that thegeneral reader will be interested in this material: it too counts as advertising.

Someof the material on the page apparently intended to show notability actually shows only promotional activity: being nameda YoungGlobal Leader is not a notteworthy award, but a promotional gimmick.

Given the nature of the article, it would appear that much of te material has been added by editos with a conflict of iterest, such as being membesofhis group or otherwise associated with him--the article was indeed started by what would appear from the name to be the individual himself--this sort ofautobiographical writing is very highly discouraged as perhaps the most extreme possible form of conflict of itnerest. -- DGG ( talk ) 23:37, 26 October 2021 (UTC)