Talk:Mark Whitacre
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[edit] May 29, 2007
Thanks for the suggestions. Most of the images were removed and the article was shortened significantly. Feel free to help improve the article because multiple editors improve this process. Any comments or suggestions for the Solomon Bayley article would also be appreciated. I discussed this on your talk page for 65.96.190.159.ReadQT 02:56, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] May 27, 2007
The good article standards suggest relevant images, not visual fluff. None of the images contained in this article are directly relevant, they're simply related by incidental association. For instance, showing a Cayman Islands flag just because Whitacre used banks in that jurisdiction is irrelevant to an article about Whitaker. All of the images can and should be excised. The chief reason this article is so odd to me is that it appears to be a virtual island in the Wikipedia universe. At a glance, it looks like maybe two people ever really contributed to it in the past half year, one of whom only edits this single article. The misuse of the horizontal rule is particularly jarring; it's as if the main contributors are indicating they never looked at featured articles to see that nobody surrounds sections with them in the same fashion. I continue to have misgivings about the length, scope, merit, formatting, and, by extension, neutrality. 65.96.190.159 19:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] reorganizing ADM and price-fixing material
The Archer Daniels Midland article contains three paragraphs about the price-fixing scandal; the entire lysine price-fixing conspiracy article consists of four short paragraphs and is half the length of the "ADM Price-Fixing Case" section in this article. Some of this material really belongs in the ADM or lysine articles. I will work on moving some of that material over as I get time.
I'm also concerned about the tone of this article -- some of it reads more like a college newspaper than an encyclopedia (e.g. "stunning turn of events") and there's a lot of subtle NPOV. I'll work on cleaning that up too. Tim Pierce 17:26, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] NPOV?
After scanning this entry, I was curious and went to Whitacre's own site (www.markwhitacre.com) and the PR announcement for his new job in 2007 (http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=18934291). Much of the language in this entry seems to mirror the language at those sites. It seems like it's either a case of unacknowledged citation (aka plagiarism) or of someone with a vested interest in this case doing much of the writing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blewenstein (talk • contribs) 05:46, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia cited as the source
The acknowledged citation is Wikipedia in the website, http://www.markwhitacre.com/career.html ; Wikipedia is credited at the end of the paragraph from a May 3 version.67.98.185.179 02:50, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 07:17, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
