Talk:Steve Mirsky

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Call for input (obsolete as of 1/28/2018)[edit]

I will be working on this page to expand it in January 2018. Please let me know if you have any ideas, concerns, references to cite, or photos to use. Thanks. --Milkshake60201 (talk) 21:08, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This work is now complete.

In addition to updating all sections with referenced information:

I found the following information unsubstantiated due to a lack of references, and removed same from the article:
- Unsubstantiated: Mirsky as staff editor at Breakthrough
- Unsubstantiated: Mirsky contributing freelance articles for American Health, American Way (American Airlines in-flight magazine), Current Science, Earth, Eating Well, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, Self, The Humanist, Longevity, Muse, Science World, Sea Frontiers
I removed the Bibliography section as it listed, seemingly randomly, a handful of Steve Mirsky's “Anti Gravity” columns. His output includes hundreds of columns and podcasts, and there is no need to list them here.
I added Steve Mirsky's name to the following article lists: List of American print journalists & Notable Science Journalists.

The following information and research was not incorporated into the article at this time:

==Personal life== Mirsky refers to himself as “Bar Mitzvah boy” in his Twitter profile<ref name="TwitterSM201706"/> and has tweeted displeasure and disagreement with Donald Trump and his presidency: * 12/29/2017, in reference to a retweet which accused Donald Trump of making “everything” a “personal grudgefest”: “Trump plays one-dimensional chess.”<ref name="TwitterOneDim20171229"/> * 1/8/2018, in reference to an image of a smashed up car with the word “TRUMP” on its hood: “Finely tuned machine.”<ref name="TwitterCar20180108"/> <ref name="TwitterSM201706">{{cite web |title = (((Steve Mirsky))) |date = |url = https://twitter.com/stevemirsky |website = Twitter |publisher = Twitter, Inc. |accessdate = 24 January 2018 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20170608160041/https:/twitter.com/stevemirsky |archivedate = 8 June 2017 }}</ref> <ref name="TwitterOneDim20171229">{{cite web |title = Trump plays one-dimensional chess. |date = 29 December 2017 |url = https://twitter.com/SteveMirsky/status/946970250440073216 |website = Twitter |publisher = Twitter, Inc. |accessdate = 15 January 2018 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180115192725/https:/twitter.com/SteveMirsky/status/946970250440073216 |archivedate = 15 January 2018 }}</ref> <ref name="TwitterCar20180108">{{cite web |title = Finely tuned machine |date = 8 January 2018 |url = https://twitter.com/SteveMirsky/status/950402886197968898 |website = Twitter |publisher = Twitter, Inc. |accessdate = 15 January 2018 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180115192520/https:/twitter.com/SteveMirsky/status/950402886197968898 |archivedate = 15 January 2018 }}</ref>

--Milkshake60201 (talk) 19:30, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography[edit]

I have recommenced the Bibliography section (first started in December 2014, but then deleted). Entries use cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Links to potentially unreliable digitised copies may be removed. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 05:36, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]