User talk:Smkolins/Archives/2015/March

care to look over a biography of a living person?
Just want to make sure I didn't flub things over any policies. If you are interested that is… --Smkolins (talk) 17:58, 24 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Yep, I'll do that. I assume it's the one in your sandbox.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  09:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I've had a read through and done a bit of background reading. There are plenty of reliable sources providing significant material about Dr Jim Turpin to establish that he is notable. The article is sober and factual, and there don't appear to be any claims made that are not supported.
 * There are, however, a couple of places which need some attention: "he was not satisfied that he had a meaningful life" is an opinion by whom?; "so he added going to the medical school" is not clear; and the war in Vietnam section contains a lot of quotes. While I checked and noted that most of the quotes were supported by nearby cites, it is expected that quotes from BLPs are given inline cites directly at the point of mention. Also, the quotes should come from reliable sources - local newspapers are sometimes a little borderline. If you are going to have a quote, rather than a summary, then there should be a good reason for it. Do you need ALL those quotes, for example "It costs $224,000 to kill one Viet Cong (and half of that)… can educate thousands" and "It takes $260,000 to kill one VC and one cent a meal to feed a Vietnam child." could perhaps be better summarised as "he felt the money spent on killing the Viet Cong could be better spent on feeding and educating Vietnamese children."
 * I couldn't find sources for "If you eliminate the pathological conditions, I firmly believe the pathological concepts will disappear too.", and "We must consider maturely and objectively, yet with all the love we can muster what is the answer to Viet Nam."
 * If the above points are dealt with, I think it will be OK to move into mainspace.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  10:33, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all that. :-)
 * The uncited statements are from several possible statements - I'll cite them.
 * I'll recheck the source of the quotes some you didn't see - mostly the quotes per section come from one or two newspapers in that section so it's the same reference for all three but I can move them inline. The two nearly same quotes about costs are in fact a year or few apart - I agree on your meaning of the quotes though. I could go either way. The reasons I stuck with quotes was a) it represents his own voice in his thinking and he had a way with words, b)there were no scholarly reviews on his positions making statements about his war comments (though I feel the matter is itself in general one with much discussion). However I'm perfectly comfortable with the article evolving as people improve it with either sources I missed or more refined techniques for communicating what was said.
 * I had a technical issue on two sources - one is a newspaper cite that I couldn't provide a url for because it's in a subscription service (newsbank) and I don't know what a public url would look like (vs the kind that depends on the institution) and the other is citing the court case - I can't parse the source to know what lines of information go in each line of the citation syntax. --Smkolins (talk) 11:17, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmed99999 (talk • contribs) 18:33, 7 March 2015 (UTC)