Talk:Richard Preston

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TED talks video

Suggesting the possible idea of adding a TED talks video link to this article, regarding Preston's redwood forest climbing talk.

I just deleted the video, which someone added to the coast redwood page, because the video is not geared specifically enough to the redwood tree itself. The video covers people, climbing forests, hemlocks, Preston's childhood, on and on. It opens immediately into advertising too, which is pretty bad for an external link. Anyhow, it seemed like a reasonable addition for the Preston page here. But I did not want to add it right away without allowing a few days or weeks for other editor feedback. ThreeWikiteers (talk) 03:24, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Micro

Shouldn't Micro be added to the "selected works" section? Alphius (talk) 19:12, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Baron Dunmore

Why does Baron Dunmore redirect here? —Tamfang (talk) 19:14, 16 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Books removed from bibliography

I have removed two books from the Bibliography on this page, as there is no strong evidence they are by this Richard Preston (they are not listed in the "other books by this author" lists in Preston's books, for example, or Preston's own website), and moderately strong evidence they are in fact by other people who happen to also be called "Richard Preston".

2016: Serenity Granted: Accepting Hardship As A Pathway to Peace. Serenity Granted, LLC. 2016. ISBN 978-0997790610.

A website seemingly associated with this book is serenitygranted.net. The photograph on that website is clearly not this Richard Preston.

1997: Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple. Medmaster. 1997. ISBN 0940780313.

This book is by "Richard A. Preston M.D.", whose biography on Amazon.com reads:

Richard A. Preston, M.D., M.S.P.H., M.B.A.

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Research Center
Department of Medicine

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

This is surely a different person. Mpaldridge (talk) 08:59, 8 September 2022 (UTC) 08:56, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Pure Fuel"

I've also removed

1996: Pure Fuel. 1996.

Again, no strong evidence: not on or Preston's own website, for example. On the other hand, the British editor and journalist also called "Richard Preston", on his Linkedin page claims credit for the text in this book. Mpaldridge (talk) 09:07, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]