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A news item involving Saul Perlmutter was featured on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the In the news section on 5 October 2011.
Wikipedia
Is he Jewish?
According to
jinfo.org, a site claiming "to provide an online resource that accurately describes the Jewish contribution to the cultural, scientific, and technological evolution of civilization" he is (so is co-researcher
Adam Riess). Is this a credible source?
DGtal (
talk)
14:24, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
We use jinfo.org just short of 50 times on WP. I cannot find any discussions questioning their reliability. I would say its safe to add this as a reference, to at least support categorizing him as a jewish scientist.(mercurywoodrose)
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03:52, 6 October 2011 (UTC)reply
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A news item involving Saul Perlmutter was featured on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the In the news section on 5 October 2011.
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Is he Jewish?
According to
jinfo.org, a site claiming "to provide an online resource that accurately describes the Jewish contribution to the cultural, scientific, and technological evolution of civilization" he is (so is co-researcher
Adam Riess). Is this a credible source?
DGtal (
talk)
14:24, 4 October 2011 (UTC)reply
We use jinfo.org just short of 50 times on WP. I cannot find any discussions questioning their reliability. I would say its safe to add this as a reference, to at least support categorizing him as a jewish scientist.(mercurywoodrose)
75.61.142.53 (
talk)
03:52, 6 October 2011 (UTC)reply