Talk:Paul Lee (environmentalist)

WP:COI Declaration

Hi all, I just wanted to declare: I know Paul personally and have heard direct stories about his life and events from him. But I am absolutely not being paid to create a page, nor receiving money from him for anything, if anything he's my mentor. But I consider him a close friend. Sincere intention must be that any WP Editor that looks over any clause on this page would think: "okay, this page goes above and beyond in being thorough in its citations of legitimate corroborations of everything that is discussed on the page, and links go directly to those proofs so that it is easy for me to verify without having to put in a bunch of work". Especially noting the potential COI.

Most of Paul Lee's publicly written and published content involves autobiographical allusions, but just to let anyone interested in on my editing of this page: much of Paul's life has been heavily documented by a variety of sources, at least the primary events that make up the page on him as of 4.9.22. If any part of his page ever sounds as if I am stating something that sounds like opinion without expressly stating whose opinion it is, please edit it, let me know on the talk page, or draw attention to it. My submitting this draft was guided largely by knowing that he should already have had a page already, he just happened not to yet.... but he should've had info out there just as his friends and colleagues do (Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Ted Carpenter, Terence Malick, etc...). And he shows up in a mind boggling amount of published sources, so it seemed clear he would eventually make it onto wikipedia regardless. As of 4.9.22 he's got something like 35 sources not written by himself alluding to each separate clause on his entry, but by people who are mostly other people with their own influential careers who have their own wikipedia page, or are clearly authors published by respected companies who thoroughly vet their publications. And there are more sources out there covering other things on his life; the ones in the reflist are just what seemed the most obvious to include to educate a reader on Paul's life/career/what-to-know.

The one thing that comes to mind in COI declaration related to myself and Paul is that I am (4.9.22) enrolled in school and Paul wrote a letter of recommendation when I applied based on my merits to be admitted to the school... but hopefully that example would be obvious that I didn't pay him to do that and he wasn't "my boss" when he did that. Another thought is I had have had a chance to volunteer at Food Not Bombs, which he supports through his Homeless advocacy in Santa Cruz. But that project is all volunteer-run, so while I was inspired to learn about Paul's advocacy for unhoused folks throughout the year, and that was relevant to me starting to volunteer at Food Not Bombs, it's not by any means a job I've gotten through him, but a volunteer thing I do, related to the advocacy he's shown throughout his time working with the Santa Cruz unhoused population.

The goal with any edits I make is that it is not even close to ambiguous as to whether the statements are truthful and so in that light, I absolutely encourage anyone who reads over this content to click the citations to see exactly the online source I refer to for every clause on the page. I intend to stick to that rigorous standard with any edits I make moving forward. And with any edits I make on Wikipedia in general, for that matter. I take editor integrity seriously, please let me know if I ever fall short; I appreciate learning from mistakes. If anything I thought my having heard about experiences he's had through his lectures and lessons would help inform me as a person to type a decently well-done summary... but yes, the intention is to have no opinions be a part of this encyclopedic summary.

Cheers, Garrett.stephens (talk) 04:14, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Header Puzzle

Hello friends,

I wanted to do a first talk entry on this page to say: as of 4/6, I have added a paragraph and perhaps a couple more sentences, to where I am wondering if there might soon be a time where further separating Dr. Lee's "Career" section into multiple headers might improve readability. A helpful editor split the page's content recently, as it used to just have one section titled "biography" so that it changed to having both "early life and education" and "career", which I think was a great call. I am just starting this talk section in case anyone reads the page as it stands and has a thought on how it could be improved. I get the sense it could be improved, I am just not sure how yet.

Thanks so much for your edits and attention, Garrett.stephens (talk) 22:44, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Class Improvement

I would argue that Biographically this page has been greatly improved, but could be further fleshed out if it wants to be considered good. I would argue that if this is the description for C "Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study" ... this page is certainly a step above that. It is a fairly full picture of the life and Career of Paul Lee, but there is more that could be added. But I think it is at minimal above the phrase "not a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study".

If someone who knew nothing about Dr. Lee were to read this article, they would know more about his life than 90% (in honesty I made this number up) of people who have read one of his news articles or bios in isolation. This is the best bio out there on him, aside from the autobiographical content he has himself penned, which doesn't mean anything as a standalone statement, but again I think it would be too harsh to say it is a C.

So hopefully I'm not overstepping but I propose it is bumped to a B, as it stands, especially with his work in Pogonip in Santa Cruz highlighting the entryway into seeing what distinguished Lee as a particularly notable environmentalist. I have combed the text a ton to make sure each and every clause asserted can be thoroughly backed by a published online source corroborating precisely the same, if only in paraphrase, so I certainly hope there is nothing on there that sounds opinionated instead of biographical without the clear indication Paul recounted something in some way, or Page Smith recounted something in some way, or... etc.

Garrett.stephens (talk) 00:43, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

er go, {{WikiProject Biography |class=B}}

P.S. I hope my tone in this section makes it clear I am open to discussion if anyone would like to offer disapproval of a citation or suggestions on improvement of a citation... but hopefully it is clear if you follow the links I either go to a Worldcat registered text or where possible directly provide a hyperlink to the exact paragraph I am referring to in google books, so that by clicking the link in the reflist you see the exact string of text I am alluding to in what is stated as encyclopedic fact on the page!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garrett.stephens (talk • contribs) 00:43, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Dr. Paul Lee’s death.

Dr. Paul Lee recently passed. The details of his transition aren’t included on this page. Can someone do that? 2601:647:CB00:E2C0:85A3:4AB5:1262:219 (talk) 16:58, 3 November 2022 (UTC)