Talk:Melvin Calvin

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Evidence of author bias? [edit]

To avoid incurring the wrath of the WP community for editing a Nobel laureate's page without preceding discussion, I submit that this following sentence is biased and does not merit inclusion based on the general reference of Melvin Calvin's book:

"...he makes no mention of Andrew Benson and the fundamental, formative contributions that Benson made to these discoveries."

Discussion welcome.

Pkbowen (talk) 18:12, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Any discussion of bias is irrelevant. Bias is allowed in WP if justified.
However, the sentence you mention only has a citation to Calvin's book. So the claim that Benson was not mentioned in that book is original research and therefore disallowed. I will delete it. If anyone wishes to restore it, they must provide a citation supporting the claim in a reliable source. David Spector (user/talk) 14:53, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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