Pudeo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:27 pm
Adding original research to discredit a journalist who criticized yourself in the very op-ed the sentence is about, in a BLP about a person who you've had a
public dispute with.
I don't know if it's "discrediting" Sastre to say she wasn't at the CERN conference — the
article in question doesn't say one way or the other so I suspect most readers would assume she wasn't there. But I agree that it's "original research," by Wikipedia's definition. Frankly, that whole sentence may be unnecessary.
As for the list of signatories (to the petition in support of Strumia) not being published, that's not in dispute, is it? I understand why they wouldn't want to publish such a list, but it's still a valid point that should probably be in the article.
Still, you're right, this is something she should have gotten someone else to do — I'm guessing she waited a year for someone else to do it without her having to ask, in vain, and she figured that was long enough.