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I corrected the link for "The St. Petersberg times" to go to "St. Petersberg Times" which redirects to the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the The St. Petersberg Times) because this is where the source cited actually came from. Perhaps the article should be changed to say that the article/source are from the Tampa Bay Times? I'll let a better editor figure that out. Mnuber ( talk) 21:40, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
This article is really pretty well referenced. We might be able to make a GA push for it. Though if we do, we might want to wait till after he's actually confirmed as Energy Secretary to submit the GA nomination. Between now and the confirmation, I do think journalists will be digging into his past and who knows if anything controversial might surface. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 21:44, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Anybody else interested in this? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 14:53, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
In the Personal Life section:
Does this really deserve mention in the article? He's probably been a speaker in many many engagements, being a Nobel Prize winner. And he's probably a signatory to a lot of things. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 16:28, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody have any objection to removal? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 12:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
I have his senior picture from undergrad. Would that be of any use for this page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjeye ( talk • contribs) 01:25, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm cutting down coverage of details of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Energy Biosciences Institute, the Bio-X program/ James H. Clark Center, and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, because these are not specifically connected with Steven Chu. — Sebastian 04:46, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
I find Sebastian Helm's modifications somewhat disingenuous. While he stated he'd like to keep information related to other institutions on other sites, he reincorporated the incorrect statement regarding who voiced which concerns about the EBI. The truth is that many people - not just faculty - have voiced concerns, and about more than just 'selling out' as SebastianHelm modified the text to read. I am reinstating these.
Furthermore, I do not see the harm in including a few more words here and there. But if we are going to keep as little information as possible about other institutions in this page, then there is still more cutting to be done. 5p0gSp ( talk) 05:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
You are right that my modifications were not perfect, and I admit that they were indeed motivated by cutting back some of your edits. We have an ethical and legal responsibility to write such articles about living persons with the greatest care and attention to neutrality. While I appreciate the contributions of a knowledgeable editor such as you, your edits unfortunately didn’t meet this requirement. After your recent edits, the article was devoid of any mention of his role in establishing and funding the Kavli Institute, and, at the same time, criticism of another project is overstated and covered in several sentences.
The deletion of the Kavli Institute sentence was hardly justifiable. With your interest in Steven Chu, there’s no reason why you could not simply enter “Steven Chu Kavli Institute” in your search engine and confirm the sentence with reliable sources like this. And with your knowledge of the need to adhere to references, you should be aware that writing “This has drawn controversy with a wide range of people”, does not confirm to our policies when none of your four references actually mentions “a wide range of people”. That said, I agree with you that the wording “some of Berkeley's faculty”, which I reincorporated, was not adequate either. I will edit the article accordingly. You now claim there are “many people”. Could you give a reliable source with an estimate of how many there are?
Because I made mistakes myself in this, and because, above all, we seem to share some core values, such as care for the environment, consumer protection and transparency of public institutions, I will not take the usual path of officially warning you. I prefer to first engage with people in an open, personal dialog. Please respect this as well as our policies, particularly the admonition to write for the enemy. If we can meet at this common ground, then I’m sure we will have a good cooperation ahead. — Sebastian 21:43, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
I am Steven's second cousin - our grandfathers were brothers. Relationships in Steven Chu's lineage were incorrect. The work cited is in error, it should perhaps have used the word "maternal" rather than "mother's".
This wording was: "His mother's grandfather earned advanced civil engineering degrees at Cornell University and his mother's granduncle studied physics at the Sorbonne before they returned to China."[2]
The correct relationship is: "His mother's father earned advanced civil engineering degrees at Cornell University and his mother's uncle studied physics at the Sorbonne before they returned to China."[2]
His mother's uncle was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Shu-hua —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.111.225 ( talk) 17:28, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Pauline —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.111.225 ( talk) 17:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Pauline!
Thank you for your patience and your explanation! You are absolutely right! I just misread the source. 真不好意思! What was I thinking when I reverted your first correction?! — Sebastian 04:19, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
I took the liberty of combining the section on his career and the section on his personal life, as they are both not that big. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 15:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Ok, according to his bio at Stanford - [1] - he has been published 195 times. I don't think it is practical to list all of them, and I'm not sure why the ones currently in the article [2] were specifically selected to be included. Any suggestions on how to handle this? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 14:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
So, unless there is objection, I will be removing that section, but I'll also make sure there is an external link to a list of his publications. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 15:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
I've deleted the following from the article:
It was placed in the section about his views on energy and global warming. If anybody can find a more appropriate place for this (and certainly not the intro!) please feel free to re-insert. But to me that seems like a rather trivial piece of information. His views on evolution has not been brought up as an issue in the news media, as far as I know. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 19:23, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
References
In the introductory paragraph, the article reads, "US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white to increase the average global albedo."
While probably important to put somewhere in the article, does this really need to be stated in the introductory paragraph? Also, the sentence dates itself, and will become wrong next Tuesday. Should it be moved to the Energy and global warming section, or the Energy Secretary section?
Max Baroi 12:59 AM PST, May 28, 2009 —Preceding undated comment added 08:00, 28 May 2009 (UTC).
Anybody interested in pushing this to GA status? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 14:29, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Links 4 and 5 are broken. Given Chu is supporting coal: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9I4D1G03 his stated stance against fossil fuels seems dubious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.47.71 ( talk) 13:16, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Two anonymous editors added in a mention to a statement that Chu made, apparently to the WSJ: "We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money". This was played up a bit in a few conservative blogs, but it is unclear to me if it merits inclusion in this article. At any rate, its current placement is a bit awkward. A13ean ( talk) 01:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
In the spirit of Wikipedia having tens of thousands of 'controversy' sections in its articles, we need one about Solyndra, since Chu was the man who made the final decision. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.183.191.86 ( talk) 18:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Information from this article should be included: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/energy-secretary-chu-takes-full-responsibility-solyndra/story?id=14967189#.TsUcIpusf3W — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.231.177.18 ( talk) 14:42, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
The page was vandalized today with the edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.65.249.4 ( talk) 00:01, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
The latest xkcd features a fictional reference to a questionable edit to this article. Please be kind. -- Tasty monster (= TS ) 09:03, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
You're smarter than that, Trypsin. The simple solution is to rely only on sources that predate the insertion of the statement in the article -- preferably, sources that predate the article's creation. (And no fussing about 'predation' and 'predator' -- this is obviously "predate" the antonym of "postdate", not the synonym for "prey".) DS ( talk) 18:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Might it be worth putting up some sort of msgbox? I picture something along the lines of this:
Visitors from
xkcd: Secretary Chu did not create the
Scroll Lock key. |
-- Erik Siers ( talk) 01:56, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
A msgbox like that must not be put up unless we have a source establishing that Secretary Chu did not create Scroll Lock key. The Scroll Lock article makes no mention of who created it; we do not yet know whether or not it was Secretary Chu. Dsjoerg ( talk) 14:51, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
I removed the scroll lock thing the other day, but someone added it back. Has any new evidence surfaced to suggest that this thing is actually true, rather than still being something that was completely made up for an XKCD comic? My searches only return references to the comic. Has something changed? 134.114.64.250 ( talk) 23:32, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Chu is quite notable for telling the Wall Street Journal, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." (Those levels are currently about $9.54 per gallon.) Four months after he stated that this was his view, President Obama appointed him Secretary of Energy.
But I fear that if I add this to the article, liberal Wikipedia editors will immediately censor it. What to do? 174.24.93.182 ( talk) 06:02, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
He's American. Shouldn't Chinese spellings be limited to people who are Chinese? The use of the Chinese spelling suggests that he's Chinese, which is misleading. Yes, he's of Chinese ancestry, but does Wikipedia show Chinese spellings for all Chinese-Americans? What's the Wikipedia standard? Omc ( talk) 20:14, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
I remain convinced by these sources. In Chinatown in Washington DC, I learned its possible to transliterate Fuddruckers, but that doesn't tell us anything. a13ean ( talk) 00:58, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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I thought that Wikipedia entries are supposed to try to be neutral and objective, but I think that one sentence in this article pushes more into opinion: "Demonstrating his naïveté and being out of touch with the working poor and middle class Chu stated in a Wall St Journal interview..."
Without researching the history of this incident further, I'm not really prepared to rewrite the sentence but I think it would at least sound more objective if it said something like "Chu was criticized for being naïve and out of touch [citation] with the working poor and middle class when he stated..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smithchuck ( talk • contribs) 21:45, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
"In 2011 after the scope and magnitude of the failure of Chu's Loan Guarantee program began to become publicly known a scathing internal White House memo suggested "...that the president be strongly encouraged to make major leadership changes as soon as possible,..." Chu resigned as energy secretary on April 22, 2013."
The DOE Loan Programs Office was created in 2005 by Congress, predating Chu's tenure by 4 years. A rewrite of the possessive may be appropriate for clarity.
The sentence is structured to suggest a dominant causative relationship between Chu leaving after Obama's first term and the memo on Solyndra's bankruptcy, which is speculative. Would suggest elaborating on criticism of DOE loans and the memo in the section discussing his DOE tenure.
I would also suggest that criticism of the loan program be slightly modified for NPOV. As far as I am aware, the loan program still exists and has had positive return on investments, so "the scope and magnitude of the failure" seems unbalanced. Also, would recommend attributing "scathing" to ABCNews, since they were the ones to describe the memo as such, and none of us have actually seen the memo. — Y phelan ( talk) 22:19, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Professor Steven Chu ForMemRS headshot.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on 24 September 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-09-24. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks — Amakuru ( talk) 08:48, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Under Dr. Chu's name and above his photograph are the abbreviations of three professional societies Dr. Chu belongs to -- two of which are not of his country, the U.S.A.
This is my fist encounter with such information placed in that spot. I've only seen aristocracy information placed so. I understand that such abbreviations are acceptable for certain professions outside of the US, but this is the first Wikipedia page where I have encountered this information placed in the Info Box.
Before all kinds of professionals start to list their professional associations under their names in the Info Box, what is the Wikipedia guideline/etiquette regarding such information displayed thusly? MissMaryMack14 ( talk) 06:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
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I corrected the link for "The St. Petersberg times" to go to "St. Petersberg Times" which redirects to the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the The St. Petersberg Times) because this is where the source cited actually came from. Perhaps the article should be changed to say that the article/source are from the Tampa Bay Times? I'll let a better editor figure that out. Mnuber ( talk) 21:40, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
This article is really pretty well referenced. We might be able to make a GA push for it. Though if we do, we might want to wait till after he's actually confirmed as Energy Secretary to submit the GA nomination. Between now and the confirmation, I do think journalists will be digging into his past and who knows if anything controversial might surface. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 21:44, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Anybody else interested in this? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 14:53, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
In the Personal Life section:
Does this really deserve mention in the article? He's probably been a speaker in many many engagements, being a Nobel Prize winner. And he's probably a signatory to a lot of things. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 16:28, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody have any objection to removal? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 12:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
I have his senior picture from undergrad. Would that be of any use for this page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjeye ( talk • contribs) 01:25, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm cutting down coverage of details of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Energy Biosciences Institute, the Bio-X program/ James H. Clark Center, and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, because these are not specifically connected with Steven Chu. — Sebastian 04:46, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
I find Sebastian Helm's modifications somewhat disingenuous. While he stated he'd like to keep information related to other institutions on other sites, he reincorporated the incorrect statement regarding who voiced which concerns about the EBI. The truth is that many people - not just faculty - have voiced concerns, and about more than just 'selling out' as SebastianHelm modified the text to read. I am reinstating these.
Furthermore, I do not see the harm in including a few more words here and there. But if we are going to keep as little information as possible about other institutions in this page, then there is still more cutting to be done. 5p0gSp ( talk) 05:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
You are right that my modifications were not perfect, and I admit that they were indeed motivated by cutting back some of your edits. We have an ethical and legal responsibility to write such articles about living persons with the greatest care and attention to neutrality. While I appreciate the contributions of a knowledgeable editor such as you, your edits unfortunately didn’t meet this requirement. After your recent edits, the article was devoid of any mention of his role in establishing and funding the Kavli Institute, and, at the same time, criticism of another project is overstated and covered in several sentences.
The deletion of the Kavli Institute sentence was hardly justifiable. With your interest in Steven Chu, there’s no reason why you could not simply enter “Steven Chu Kavli Institute” in your search engine and confirm the sentence with reliable sources like this. And with your knowledge of the need to adhere to references, you should be aware that writing “This has drawn controversy with a wide range of people”, does not confirm to our policies when none of your four references actually mentions “a wide range of people”. That said, I agree with you that the wording “some of Berkeley's faculty”, which I reincorporated, was not adequate either. I will edit the article accordingly. You now claim there are “many people”. Could you give a reliable source with an estimate of how many there are?
Because I made mistakes myself in this, and because, above all, we seem to share some core values, such as care for the environment, consumer protection and transparency of public institutions, I will not take the usual path of officially warning you. I prefer to first engage with people in an open, personal dialog. Please respect this as well as our policies, particularly the admonition to write for the enemy. If we can meet at this common ground, then I’m sure we will have a good cooperation ahead. — Sebastian 21:43, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
I am Steven's second cousin - our grandfathers were brothers. Relationships in Steven Chu's lineage were incorrect. The work cited is in error, it should perhaps have used the word "maternal" rather than "mother's".
This wording was: "His mother's grandfather earned advanced civil engineering degrees at Cornell University and his mother's granduncle studied physics at the Sorbonne before they returned to China."[2]
The correct relationship is: "His mother's father earned advanced civil engineering degrees at Cornell University and his mother's uncle studied physics at the Sorbonne before they returned to China."[2]
His mother's uncle was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Shu-hua —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.111.225 ( talk) 17:28, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Pauline —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.111.225 ( talk) 17:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello Pauline!
Thank you for your patience and your explanation! You are absolutely right! I just misread the source. 真不好意思! What was I thinking when I reverted your first correction?! — Sebastian 04:19, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
I took the liberty of combining the section on his career and the section on his personal life, as they are both not that big. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 15:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Ok, according to his bio at Stanford - [1] - he has been published 195 times. I don't think it is practical to list all of them, and I'm not sure why the ones currently in the article [2] were specifically selected to be included. Any suggestions on how to handle this? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 14:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
So, unless there is objection, I will be removing that section, but I'll also make sure there is an external link to a list of his publications. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 15:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
I've deleted the following from the article:
It was placed in the section about his views on energy and global warming. If anybody can find a more appropriate place for this (and certainly not the intro!) please feel free to re-insert. But to me that seems like a rather trivial piece of information. His views on evolution has not been brought up as an issue in the news media, as far as I know. Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 19:23, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
References
In the introductory paragraph, the article reads, "US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white to increase the average global albedo."
While probably important to put somewhere in the article, does this really need to be stated in the introductory paragraph? Also, the sentence dates itself, and will become wrong next Tuesday. Should it be moved to the Energy and global warming section, or the Energy Secretary section?
Max Baroi 12:59 AM PST, May 28, 2009 —Preceding undated comment added 08:00, 28 May 2009 (UTC).
Anybody interested in pushing this to GA status? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 14:29, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Links 4 and 5 are broken. Given Chu is supporting coal: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9I4D1G03 his stated stance against fossil fuels seems dubious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.47.71 ( talk) 13:16, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Two anonymous editors added in a mention to a statement that Chu made, apparently to the WSJ: "We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money". This was played up a bit in a few conservative blogs, but it is unclear to me if it merits inclusion in this article. At any rate, its current placement is a bit awkward. A13ean ( talk) 01:04, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
In the spirit of Wikipedia having tens of thousands of 'controversy' sections in its articles, we need one about Solyndra, since Chu was the man who made the final decision. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.183.191.86 ( talk) 18:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Information from this article should be included: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/energy-secretary-chu-takes-full-responsibility-solyndra/story?id=14967189#.TsUcIpusf3W — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.231.177.18 ( talk) 14:42, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
The page was vandalized today with the edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.65.249.4 ( talk) 00:01, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
The latest xkcd features a fictional reference to a questionable edit to this article. Please be kind. -- Tasty monster (= TS ) 09:03, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
You're smarter than that, Trypsin. The simple solution is to rely only on sources that predate the insertion of the statement in the article -- preferably, sources that predate the article's creation. (And no fussing about 'predation' and 'predator' -- this is obviously "predate" the antonym of "postdate", not the synonym for "prey".) DS ( talk) 18:23, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Might it be worth putting up some sort of msgbox? I picture something along the lines of this:
Visitors from
xkcd: Secretary Chu did not create the
Scroll Lock key. |
-- Erik Siers ( talk) 01:56, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
A msgbox like that must not be put up unless we have a source establishing that Secretary Chu did not create Scroll Lock key. The Scroll Lock article makes no mention of who created it; we do not yet know whether or not it was Secretary Chu. Dsjoerg ( talk) 14:51, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
I removed the scroll lock thing the other day, but someone added it back. Has any new evidence surfaced to suggest that this thing is actually true, rather than still being something that was completely made up for an XKCD comic? My searches only return references to the comic. Has something changed? 134.114.64.250 ( talk) 23:32, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Chu is quite notable for telling the Wall Street Journal, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." (Those levels are currently about $9.54 per gallon.) Four months after he stated that this was his view, President Obama appointed him Secretary of Energy.
But I fear that if I add this to the article, liberal Wikipedia editors will immediately censor it. What to do? 174.24.93.182 ( talk) 06:02, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
He's American. Shouldn't Chinese spellings be limited to people who are Chinese? The use of the Chinese spelling suggests that he's Chinese, which is misleading. Yes, he's of Chinese ancestry, but does Wikipedia show Chinese spellings for all Chinese-Americans? What's the Wikipedia standard? Omc ( talk) 20:14, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
I remain convinced by these sources. In Chinatown in Washington DC, I learned its possible to transliterate Fuddruckers, but that doesn't tell us anything. a13ean ( talk) 00:58, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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I thought that Wikipedia entries are supposed to try to be neutral and objective, but I think that one sentence in this article pushes more into opinion: "Demonstrating his naïveté and being out of touch with the working poor and middle class Chu stated in a Wall St Journal interview..."
Without researching the history of this incident further, I'm not really prepared to rewrite the sentence but I think it would at least sound more objective if it said something like "Chu was criticized for being naïve and out of touch [citation] with the working poor and middle class when he stated..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smithchuck ( talk • contribs) 21:45, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
"In 2011 after the scope and magnitude of the failure of Chu's Loan Guarantee program began to become publicly known a scathing internal White House memo suggested "...that the president be strongly encouraged to make major leadership changes as soon as possible,..." Chu resigned as energy secretary on April 22, 2013."
The DOE Loan Programs Office was created in 2005 by Congress, predating Chu's tenure by 4 years. A rewrite of the possessive may be appropriate for clarity.
The sentence is structured to suggest a dominant causative relationship between Chu leaving after Obama's first term and the memo on Solyndra's bankruptcy, which is speculative. Would suggest elaborating on criticism of DOE loans and the memo in the section discussing his DOE tenure.
I would also suggest that criticism of the loan program be slightly modified for NPOV. As far as I am aware, the loan program still exists and has had positive return on investments, so "the scope and magnitude of the failure" seems unbalanced. Also, would recommend attributing "scathing" to ABCNews, since they were the ones to describe the memo as such, and none of us have actually seen the memo. — Y phelan ( talk) 22:19, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
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Under Dr. Chu's name and above his photograph are the abbreviations of three professional societies Dr. Chu belongs to -- two of which are not of his country, the U.S.A.
This is my fist encounter with such information placed in that spot. I've only seen aristocracy information placed so. I understand that such abbreviations are acceptable for certain professions outside of the US, but this is the first Wikipedia page where I have encountered this information placed in the Info Box.
Before all kinds of professionals start to list their professional associations under their names in the Info Box, what is the Wikipedia guideline/etiquette regarding such information displayed thusly? MissMaryMack14 ( talk) 06:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)