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I feel sure there is more to Mark Pathy's life than just buying a space tourism ticket. There should be more biographical information and verifying references. I won't take it down but whoever put it up should add more about the subject of the article.RichardBond (talk) 06:40, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
An IP has expanded the article quite a bit with sources from here and several additional references. It's still a stub, but it covers the basics. --mfb (talk) 02:09, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The article doesn't mention space tourism anymore, only being "private astronauts"; that seems like shading the article to make it look better. I suspect all the space tourist articles should be watched for such things. The mission commander, former NASA astronaut and Axiom Space officer is a "private astronaut" since he's private sector, but he didn't have to pay for a ticket. -- 65.93.183.33 (talk) 12:46, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
There is no clear convention how to call these people. The Russians flew some tourists to the ISS - "don't touch anything". But how do we call people if they do something related to their work while in space? As an extreme example, will Tom Cruise be a tourist - or will he just do his regular job (acting for a movie) at an unusual location? --mfb (talk) 15:52, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
If several reputable news sources refer to them as such, then it can be mentioned in the article that they are such. Currently space tourism is not linked to from this page in the body of the article. -- 65.93.183.33 (talk) 08:12, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
SciAm and collectspace.com, both used as references, have identical text. Who copied? SciAm is clearly more credible in general. That text uses private astronauts, it does use "tourists" but only in reference to people on earlier missions. Washington Post doesn't give them any "title" but it quotes Connor calling themselves private astronauts. Text copy at montrealgazette.com - is everyone copying news now? In the second case it's clear who copied because the Montreal news copied a standard text about Bezos owning the Washington Post. --mfb (talk) 09:16, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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