Talk:Rodney Barker

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Science and Academia

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group.

The Conflict of Interest Issue[edit]

I rather suspect that the conflict of interest issue comes from my part in this article. Although I am associated with Gresham College (mentioned as one of Professor Barker's institutions), none of what I have written is either contentious or irrelevant to the Wikipedia project. I do not think that anything in the article is contentious or non-factual and Professor Barker is a leading British academic and so deserves a Wikipedia page - in the light of this, I'm not sure what could be held against this article. If anyone feels that I have been unfair or at all biased in this article, then please do change it, but as it is, I do not see any need for this the scare-warning of 'Conflict of Interest' which I feel has no factual basis in the actual content of the article. Jamesfranklingresham (talk) 14:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Citation Issue[edit]

I'm not sure why the request for citations has been added to this article: everything in it comes from the few webpages which were listed under 'references'. Listing the same few webpages alongside each and every fact or date in the article would have been needlessly repetitive and not at all helpful. Please do change it, if the current method is felt to be insufficient, but I do not think that this article at all lacks "additional citations for verification" and so I feel that the tag requesting it is misleading and incorrect. Jamesfranklingresham (talk) 14:18, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]