User talk:2600:1700:4810:D130:E894:22E6:F6B9:3404

Requesting edits to article about me, Ellen V. Rothenberg
Dear editors,

First, I apologize for making so many requests. When you kindly first created this entry about me, I asked for you to correct a couple of factual errors about my birthdate and education, and I am very grateful that you did this.

However, in one case it seems that I asked for something that went out of control. I asked for adding a very simple acknowledgement that my parents encouraged me in my interest in science when I was young -- that was not usual in the 1950's. For this, I cited the same interview with Deichmann that you were already citing (currently, notes a, b, c, d). I am grateful that something about this was indeed added. Unfortunately, the addition your editor made went way overboard in drawing upon details of that interview, dwelling upon my elementary school years, across two vivid sentences. But this is not why you have me in Wikipedia at all!

Could you please remove these sentences: 'Rothenberg describes her upbringing as "sex-blind". She credits her parents with giving her "this heroic sense of one's potential" and says her father "taught [her] advanced math and logic to the point that [she] got in trouble with [her] teachers".'

...and simply replace them with something plainer, to the effect that my parents encouraged and supported my interest in science from an early age?

There is a nice short biography of me now on the National Academy of Sciences web site, and you would be welcome to look at that for more explanation of my actual contributions. I am really, really sorry to trouble you, but I think that your articles about people are very important to the public. I have not saved the world or anything like that, I am just a biology researcher and a teacher, but the current version of my article makes me sound a bit like a megalomaniac! I apologize again for troubling you, and I hope that you will be kind enough to honor this request. Thank you in advance.

Best regards, 2600:1700:4810:D130:E894:22E6:F6B9:3404 (talk) 21:37, 30 July 2021 (UTC)Ellen Rothenberg (born 1952)