Talk:Jonathan Mann (physician)

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Review comments

Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:

Appropriate infobox should be added
Photograph should be added from a source with a free license
Some copy editing needed for style and grammar
Basic biographical information required, eg place of birth, education, career prior to joining WHO
Lead should be expanded to survey other aspects of his life
Article would benefit from further division into appropriate subheadings
References should preferably be converted to inline format using the reflist template, to prevent the need for manual renumbering
External links to useful online resources should be added if available

Espresso Addict 21:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

would be good to add a photo and remove the categorization/title as WHO offficial or WHO administrator MarkC1120 (talk) 15:05, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Was there ever an NPOV dispute?

An NPOV tag appeared on this article five months ago, sparking what may be Wikipedia's most low-key NPOV controversy ever i.e. not a single comment since then in either direction. It could be less of a puff-piece perhaps, but that aside I wonder if the NPOV tag shouldn't be removed in the near future. EEng (talk) 01:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, done. If someone wants to reinstall they can offer specific actionable items to be addressed. -- Banjeboi 03:45, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder why the NPOV tag is on this article. I believe it to be straightforward and factual.Janebf (talk) 15:42, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited out some adjectives that could be seen as opinion, and have added a few facts about his first wife, the mother of his children. I wrote an article about Dr. Mann for The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives in 2002.Janebf (talk) 16:00, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The tone is hagiographic; it reads like an obituary written by a fan. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:08, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the article is hagiographic, and worse it is also incomplete (e.g. project SIDA isn't covered) and not in chronological order. I propose to edit the Career section to neutrality & expand it, with The Coming Plague as my main source (since I have it at hand) for new material -- as well as pulling some things out of the Health and Human Rights section. 72.22.176.154 (talk) 21:24, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Additional sources

I think the section on "Career" can be expanded upon, so here are a couple sources that I think might be useful to do so.

"History – HealthRight International". healthright.org. Retrieved 2020-05-28.

Fee, Elizabeth; Parry, Manon (2008). "Jonathan Mann, HIV/AIDS, and Human Rights". Journal of Public Health Policy. 29 (1): 54–71. ISSN 0197-5897. --Globe17 (talk) 12:36, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]