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He has become prominent in the UFOlogy Community[edit]

Adniral Gallaudet has become prominent in the UFOlogy community. He even is on record as saying that one of his family members has had paranormal experiences. Why is this not in the article? Montju (talk) 23:29, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agree 100%. In a recent interview (Dec. 14, 2023. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/navy-officer-supports-ufo-claims/ ) Adm. Gallaudet stated he believes whistleblower David Grusch’s sworn testimony about a UAP crash retrieval program, that he has had personal experience with coverup regarding UAP’s during his service, and that, while he acknowledges the military’s need to maintain tech secrets, the bald fact that we are in contact with non-human intelligence should be released to the public.

That a respected figure such as Gallaudet, with the impressive resume and list of awards shown in the article, should make such a statement speaks volumes and deserves mention. Vanglest (talk) 01:28, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing[edit]

At Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Timothy_Gallaudet, there were reasonable concerns raised that significant edits o n this page violate our policy on paid editing. I have tagged the page appropriately. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 15:58, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will note that the obvious editor to address stated at User_talk:LMG2000#February_2024 that Gallaudet is their father, so pretty clear COI, although they deny it being paid. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 22:08, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's no question that this article was constructed by editor(s) with a WP:COI, and the subject's off-WP comments (as presented in this FTN discussion) indicate that includes at least on person in his apparent employ. Whether they were paid for such editing...well, I don't know. In the meantime I've attempted to remove much of the unnecessary/unencyclopedic/puffery details, and I believe more of that can be done. A remaining issue, however, is that almost everything here is referenced to primary sources, and as such the entire article reads more like a press release or a promotional personal website than a WP BLP. Are there any secondary sources available that are independent of the article subject? If not, does the subject satisfy GNG? They seem to, but where is the secondary coverage? JoJo Anthrax (talk) 20:03, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. I created this article in 2017. Looks like it's been pretty well hijacked since then by COI editors. This is the initial version. I think it (barely) satisfied GNG. But, given the current weird editing patterns here, I'm not against deleting it. It looks like it was always pretty marginal to begin with. Marquardtika (talk) 20:14, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Doing a newspapers.com search, while I find him being quoted in a number of papers in regard to climate issues, most of that is just a few wire stories that run in a lot of papers. The most in-depth I could find on him there is him talking about Navy life, then this on Trump not hearing from him, followed by this short section of a local-boys-in-uniform column. (Here's his wedding announcement.) -- Nat Gertler (talk) 21:58, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]