Talk:Jill Trewhella

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User:99of9 and User:Penn Syd wrote the first version of this article and are also employees of the University of Sydney, and as such may have a conflict of interest with the article subject. External editors are encouraged to review and edit the article. --99of9 (talk) 01:44, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Human Genome Project[edit]

This sentence is factually incorrect, or at least misleading:

Her team was involved in the Human Genome Project and sequenced chromosome 16.

I can understand the mistake: Trewhella was the director of Biosciences at LANL which was the group at LANL that worked on the Human Genome Project, ~~largely (entirely?) before she took on the role~~, but as the director of the organization she had media appearances and quoted in articles where she talked about the project on behalf of Biosciences at LANL. As a scientist she was not involved at all in the Human Genome project. Wrapperfunction (talk) 17:21, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Removed as it was based on an article by the subject..... can you provide an independent reference??? Regards, Ariconte (talk) 21:03, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't, I just have direct knowledge of the events as they unfolded. I skimmed the article she wrote, and it is, as I said, Trewhella talking about the work that Biosciences did ~~(before she took over)~~ as the administrative head of that division. It might be more accurate to say something like "She became director of B which was part of the team involved in the HGP" (rather than "her team was involved in HGP. She became director of B") but I think it stands better as it is now without the reference at all. Wrapperfunction (talk) 21:43, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

She was admin head of B during key parts of the HGP, but not scientifically involved. I don't have a citation handy, but wanted to make sure the talk page here wasn't misleading Wrapperfunction (talk) 13:41, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]