Talk:Barbara McClintock

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McClintock was honored with a commemorative stamp by the United States Postal Service in May 2005 in the series celebrating great american scientists (along with Feynman, who already has this information in his page, Von Neumann and Gibbs who don't). A link is here:

http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=4849367

Would anyone want to update the article with this information?

Thanks for pointing that out I'll update the article to include the stamp as soon as I get a chance--nixie 21:20, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. If you've a moment, I bet that Von Neumann and Gibbs need similar updates, though Feynman seems to have a dedicated following. I don't feel comfortable enough yet editing well-established pages other than making small grammar or spelling changes, and I don't think I'll have time to read the tutorial more until this weekend.

If you are planning to keep editing, it'd be great if you'd sign up to make an account, that way people can get to know you--nixie 03:09, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't all the dates be linked? Mgiganteus1 02:23, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Looks like we're using the most elderly picture we could find. Why not one more like this? It was taken at the time that she was actually doing her research. --P3d0 13:08, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree. This current picture is screaming vandalism...

(Oh come on... the current picture is so sexy...) On a more serious note, I looked and could not find a single picture of her with a verifiable license. Anyone who could find such a picture would be welcome to replace the current one. Raul654 19:51, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

What about the stamp? JohnRussell 20:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandals

I have this page on my watch list. Did something happen in the news today re McClintock, why the sudden blip in vandalism? David D. (Talk) 19:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Take a gander at the main page Raul654 20:06, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

John just clued me into this fact. Can we semi-protect the page? David D. (Talk) 20:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

See user:Raul654/protection Raul654 20:51, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I've sprotected it for a few minutes. Lets leave it blocked for 10-15 minutes and see what happens. Such severe vandalism as this could put people off Wikipedia for good.--File Éireann 21:33, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Unprotected - keep an eye out!--File Éireann 21:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

SProtected again! The vandalism is just too severe.--File Éireann 21:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)