Talk:John R. Clarke (scientist)

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Pilot license

The following is the body of an email from Dr Clarke and myself. I questioned the dates since they were not available on his CV. He sent me dates but wanted to check them. After looking in his records, this was his reply (email address redacted):

"On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:34 PM, John Clarke <XXXXXXXXXXX@XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.net> wrote:

   Correction: Pilot’s license in 1974, Instrument rating in 1978.  The Instrument rating is the hard one to get and keep current."

I will reference personal communication for this request. Thanks! --Gene Hobbs (talk) 22:42, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please also include a link to a verifiable copy of the CV, e.g. an archived webpage, or (better yet) replace the reference with more reliable, secondary sources. (Per policy: Do not base an entire article on primary sources, and be cautious about basing large passages on them.) Personal communication is similarly not a verifiable source, and may constitute original research although I do not doubt that you corresponded with the subject. Cheers, --Animalparty-- (talk) 00:33, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An email from a living subject is verifiable through the OTRS system, but we would usually prefer to save subjects from that sort of hassle. --RexxS (talk) 16:31, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Issue tags

The purpose of tagging articles is to attract more editors in order to help with the improvements suggested. I simply don't believe that the tags {{third-party}} and {{BLP sources}} are being used in line with their purpose:

Template:Third-party: "This template is used in articles to identify articles that name sources, but that are biased because every source named has a very close connection to the subject, such as the manufacturer of a product."
Template:BLP sources: "This template is intended to be placed at the top of articles about living persons that need additional references, and therefore in need of immediate attention."

This article at present has 25 references and a copious bibliography. Of the 25 sources, 15 are secondary sources not affiliated with Clarke, and of the remaining 10, 3 are Clarke's research papers published by independent publishers, and the remainder are self-published sourdes which are being used to support claims in line with WP:SPS. The article has no need for immediate attention and if there remains any concern over the references, then there are inline templates, such as {{cn}}, {{Dubious}}, {{Primary source-inline}} and {{Third-party-inline}} as well as this talk page to identify concerns. I am therefore removing the inappropriate tags pending discussion here. --RexxS (talk) 16:31, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]