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This should help with fact verification/cites/determining notability. Note that not all are "reliable sources" themselves, but seem to point down a rabbit hole that may lead to more good sources. Spazure09:53, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Why is this article, that is about the book The Sirius Mystery, spends most of its entry debunking the book? Is this how an encyclopedia should be? 76.20.197.63 (talk) 05:12, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Aside from self-published author page, no in-depth biographical information from independent secondary sources available to construct an NPOV BLP. Subject's book is more notable than the author. LuckyLouie (talk) 13:48, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge no bio for this person. To keep we would need for there to be enough information to fill out a page just about him, not the Sirius Mystery. Sgerbic (talk) 00:43, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note - I redirected the author's article to this page. This has been stale since August and I have to say there have been no policy-based arguments for keeping the author article. In my view, it is an example of a non-notable author writing a notable book, and the oppose votes did not voice any policy reasons for keeping a standalone article. ‡ Єl Cid of Valenciatalk21:00, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
How can one non-peer reviewed book discredit another?
In the first section, the book is labeled "pseudo-scientific", but the citation is just to another book. Why the preference in assigning authority from one author over another? 107.13.52.124 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:39, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
St. Martin's Press has no reputation of publishing science books, and there is no reason to assume that "The Sirius Mystery" had an editor familiar with scientific procedures. The opposite is true for Springer Publishing. Also, Temple has no scientific background while "Andrew May has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in astrophysics from Manchester University" [1]. On top of that, as you can see from the article, Ian Ridpath, Carl Sagan and James Oberg, all more reputable than Temple, also see very little value in Temple's ideas. It is very obvious that May's assessment is the conensus among those scientists who are interested in pseudoscience. --Hob Gadling (talk) 16:46, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm, so the knowledge of the Dogon could only have come from European explorers, with their bibles in hand and pith helmets on head. The blackies in their grass skirts and cultural infancy can only have kind of picked things up as they earnestly absorbed everything that the whities gave them.
Nothing to do with bibles of pith helmets, rather with high-resolution telescopes which are needed for that specific knowledge about Sirius and which the Dogon did not have at the time. Simple logic, not racism. --Hob Gadling (talk) 07:16, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
