[WikiEN-l] Low citation quality in BLP articles

[Wily D]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:14 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> <<In a message dated 1/6/2009 7:11:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm writes:
>
> The vast  majority of citations
> are to newspapers, new magazines, and online news  and opinion sites,
> while very few are to peer-reviewed publications.   >>
>
> Can you point to any source in a BLP which comes from a "peer-reviewed
> publication" ?
> I mean any of them at all?
>
> Will Johnson
>
Of course, there are some.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar_Toomre
cites a few peer reviewed papers, although one is by the subject.  But
that's still only ~10% of the total references, and the biography
mostly recounts the science he's done.

Brian