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:I think "misleading, irrelevant" is a good reason ("added after his death" is not). Wikipedia biographies should summarize the most important aspects of a person's life and career, not record every minor thing they might have said or done. The quote is merely pointing out the politicization of the issue. How is it significant to Parker's biography? [[User:Schazjmd|<span style="color:#9966FF;">Schazjmd</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Schazjmd|<span style="color:#5500FF;">''(talk)''</span>]] 15:14, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
:I think "misleading, irrelevant" is a good reason ("added after his death" is not). Wikipedia biographies should summarize the most important aspects of a person's life and career, not record every minor thing they might have said or done. The quote is merely pointing out the politicization of the issue. How is it significant to Parker's biography? [[User:Schazjmd|<span style="color:#9966FF;">Schazjmd</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Schazjmd|<span style="color:#5500FF;">''(talk)''</span>]] 15:14, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
::For me, the opinion of Parker on an important question is significant to his biography. Moreover, as a scientist, one would think that he is competent with regard to the political pressures undergone by scientists. [[User:Marvoir|Marvoir]] ([[User talk:Marvoir|talk]]) 16:37, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
::For me, the opinion of Parker on an important question is significant to his biography. Moreover, as a scientist, one would think that he is competent with regard to the political pressures undergone by scientists. [[User:Marvoir|Marvoir]] ([[User talk:Marvoir|talk]]) 16:37, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
:::I think there is a question of [[WP:UNDUE|balance]] here. Because this quote is unrelated to the rest of the content, you had to create a new subsection for it. That puts this excerpt from an introduction to someone else's book on a par with his scientific career (''Hypotheses''). It's about three times as long as the coverage of his personal life and of the several textbooks he wrote. It looks more like advocacy from an editor than a serious contribution to his biography. <span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; color:grey;">[[User:RockMagnetist|RockMagnetist]]([[User talk:RockMagnetist|talk]])</span> 17:01, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

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Views on climate change

On March 15, I had added a section "View on climate change" wit this content :

In a preface to the book by Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder, The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change (2007), Eugene Parker wrote: "Global warming has become a political issue both in government and in the scientific community. The scientific lines have been drawn by ‘eminent’ scientists, and an important new idea is an unwelcome intruder. It upsets the established orthodoxy."[1]
  1. ^ Quoted by Marion Long, "Sun's Shifts May Cause Global Warming. Physicist says carbon dioxide's no big deal", in Discover magazine, June 25, 2007, online.

On March 16, an anonymous contributor deleted this section with the following comment : "delete this section. it is misleading, irrelevant to his work, and was added after his death." Is that a good reason for deleting an information ? Marvoir (talk) 13:55, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think "misleading, irrelevant" is a good reason ("added after his death" is not). Wikipedia biographies should summarize the most important aspects of a person's life and career, not record every minor thing they might have said or done. The quote is merely pointing out the politicization of the issue. How is it significant to Parker's biography? Schazjmd (talk) 15:14, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
For me, the opinion of Parker on an important question is significant to his biography. Moreover, as a scientist, one would think that he is competent with regard to the political pressures undergone by scientists. Marvoir (talk) 16:37, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think there is a question of balance here. Because this quote is unrelated to the rest of the content, you had to create a new subsection for it. That puts this excerpt from an introduction to someone else's book on a par with his scientific career (Hypotheses). It's about three times as long as the coverage of his personal life and of the several textbooks he wrote. It looks more like advocacy from an editor than a serious contribution to his biography. RockMagnetist(talk) 17:01, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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