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Q1: Why doesn't this article discuss the accusations against Tyson that he fabricated a quote by George W. Bush?

A1: An RFC was held about whether this should be mentioned in September–October 2014 (see the archived discussion here) and it was closed as "do not include on the basis of WP:BLP and WP:UNDUE."^[1]

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Semi-protected edit request on 26 Nov 2019

Missing citation source in section "Media appearances" for film appearance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975590/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Semi-protected edit request on 24 May 2023

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Height 1.88M 2A02:C7C:D66D:D800:883:DEC5:AD3C:B9D7 (talk) 11:19, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Needs a source, and is completely immaterial to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:43, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My reverted edit

It's stated in Solar eclipse of June 30, 1973 that he was in the plane. What I wrote here was just writing the same information. Aminabzz (talk) 17:01, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Aminabzz, it doesn't say that. It says he was on the commercial cruise of the S.S. Canberra. Adding that information to this article also requires citing the source for that information, and other Wikipedia articles can never be sources. Schazjmd (talk) 17:06, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I see. I will write it again with the true information Aminabzz (talk) 17:09, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Aminabzz, be sure you include a reliable source for it. Schazjmd (talk) 17:13, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I did. Aminabzz (talk) 17:18, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see the information exists on the article. Was it there even before that wrong edition by me? I don't recall the information was there. If it was there then the re-reversion of my recent correct edit makes a point. But if that wasn't there before then why was my edition again reverted and someone else wrote the information from scratch? Aminabzz (talk) 14:53, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Aminabzz, you can look at the edit history of the article to see what happened. You added content with a source. It was not reverted. I rewrote it per the source to give it more context. I then moved it to a more appropriate place in that section. Schazjmd (talk) 14:57, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thanks Aminabzz (talk) 15:01, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism

Nothing about criticism in this article. Looks like a PR~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.156.61 (talk) 12:51, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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