Talk:Michael J. Tyler

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Doug butler in topic Tense of statement.
edit

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Michael J. Tyler. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 21:03, 9 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

POV

edit

Removal of "distinguished" does not detract from the article but does it indicate a point of view in respect of an academic? No more than "large" for a number of publications or "prominent in his field" I would have thought. Doug butler (talk) 03:42, 14 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Tense of statement.

edit

He *was* a South Australian academic? Has he died?

Deliberately vague. Last time I saw the man was maybe 10 years ago at Blackwood craft market.

If so, this should be mentioned; but if not, but he is retired, I think this could be worded better, such as "he is a retired South Australian academic". My understanding is that words like "was" are normally used in Wikipedia only for people who have died.

I have heard nothing but would not be surprised either way.

Also, I wonder if "herpetologist" would be a better description than "academic", which sounds rather vague, and more so than it needs to. M.J.E. (talk) 16:28, 28 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

There are/have been plenty of non-academic herpetologists. I've added "herpetologist" to the lede but don't think it's a big improvement.Doug butler (talk) 05:30, 29 September 2018 (UTC)Reply