Talk:Philip Baxter

"His advice was appreciated, his recommendations accepted..."

The source given for this sentence is a newspaper article which only quotes the primary. Rephrase or better source is needed. Better sources are needed elsewhere also. Juan Riley (talk) 01:48, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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User:Hawkeye7, here we go again. My first objection to the sourcing of this sentence was put here yesterday on the talk page. That reference, as I said, for a quite judgmental sentence was actually derived from quotes by the subject in a newspaper article. You ignored my posting so after a day without a "helpful" response I deleted the sentence. Now you have obviously abandoned that reference and cite another as the source. But there is no reference given for this sentence. Given its subjective status there really has to be. If Gowing says this then it is his/her opinion now..and should be just quoted. Juan Riley (talk) 21:23, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

User:Hawkeye7, do not use edits marked as "minor" to revert content edits. Juan Riley (talk) 21:25, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

There is a reference at the end of the sentence, and it is to Gowing, pp. 258-259. Baxter's return to Oak Ridge as assistant to the General Manager is not an opinion, it is a fact, and Gowing supplies this fact. An article is sourced from its references. It is not a collection of quotations. Why didn't you check Gowing yourself? If you are an expert on the subject, why don't you know who Gowing is? Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:36, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

User:Hawkeye7, of course he came back. The issue was consensus objective references to "His advice was appreciated, his recommendations accepted...". This you ignored. Perhaps like on past edits you see the problem without admitting it--and slither away. Find a good source that says it and Bob's your uncle. And now you go all "I am an expert" on me? I kinda like thinking that no I am not an expert...and see the agenda in your edits. There are quite a few signs in just this article of white washing. Juan Riley (talk) 21:45, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

User:Hawkeye7, not that I doubt the possible request from Groves, but that sentence is not referenced. Juan Riley (talk) 22:15, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Yes it is. By footnotes 3 and 8 at the end of the next sentence. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:16, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

User:Hawkeye7, you mean at the end of the next sentence? Juan Riley (talk) 23:20, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Geez I thought you were an expert? The refs at the end of the next sentence? Juan Riley (talk) 23:22, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Where would these quotes fit in?

"Australia was in Baxter's words,'the last big continent which the white has to develop and populate'(Baxter 1957, p. 75), and nuclear power was to be his instrument." From MacLeod, Roy (1995). "Resistance to Nuclear Technology: optimists, opportunists and opposition in Australian nuclear history". Page 169, in Bauer, Martin W. Resistance to new technology : nuclear power, information technology, and biotechnology. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521455183. OCLC 30777787. A reference, not a quote, apparently removed by User:Hawkeye7. Juan Riley (talk) 22:28, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

It's a book I have here. I added it to the references, but then didn't use it, so I removed it. I can put the quote in if you like it. Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:19, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

'Twould provide a more balanced view of this person who comes off in much that I have read the last day as a bit of a bureaucratic racist factotum. Juan Riley (talk) 23:26, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Hawkeye7: Not that you like balance. Only if I like? Quite a "historian" you pretend to be. Juan Riley (talk) 01:57, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Hawkeye7:Still nothing on this subject? Well then go right ahead and keep call yourself an historian. Juan Riley (talk) 00:09, 11 May 2016 (UTC)