Talk:Jeremy Rifkin

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criticism section

The criticism sections contains mainly unsourced statements. If we remove them, as required by WP:V, we are left with Time magazine saying that JR is "the most hated man in science". While this is surely interesting and notable, it is not a criticism of his position, but a report of what feelings other people have about JR. I am sure that there is plenty of criticism of JR around, and would ask fellow wikipedians to incorporate this into the section (I am not knowledgeable in the subject). If the section does not improve within some time, I think it should be deleted.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasy jatere (talk • contribs) 13 December 2008 (UTC)

This comment has been here, unsigned since 2008. I'm putting the unsigned template on it and replying so that it can be archived. As for the question itself, I am not against integrating the criticism into the rest of the article. Doing that is recommended best practice but I am strongly against deleting the Criticism section unless that happens. The article is pretty much a hagiography, with signs of either fan-writing or COI, and removing what little criticism we do have would tip it from being a poor article to being an outright disgrace. --DanielRigal (talk) 09:41, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotional over-coverage

There is far too much detailed over-coverage here. The year by year stuff should be coalesced and summarised with all the trivial stuff about individual speeches or favourable mentions in the press removed. We don't need to pretend that each book he writes or speech he gives is a milestone in human development that makes the World tremble. If anything, it sounds so ridiculous that it might discourage our readers from taking him seriously. --DanielRigal (talk) 01:29, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]