Talk:Brandon Colby

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Citation problems

I have hidden multiple citations that either do not support assertions, are to permadead links, or are broken and unlikely to be archived.

In addition, after ten years, the article still reads like an advertisement. Ten years ago the subject seems to have been borderline Wikipedia notable at best. Now, in 2021, either the still operating company or the subject of this article may have enough reliable, third-party, independent sources for an encyclopedic article. — Neonorange (Phil) 15:38, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Each of the two, initial creators, User:Lammzg and User:TelomeraseMe, are seemingly single purpose editors with only two titles: Brandon Colby and Existence Genetics (company founded by Colby) plus three other edits. Neither has edited since 2012. — Neonorange (Phil) 16:16, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I updated some of the phrasing and added some sources. There don't appear to be too many RS on this individual, though I think there are potentially more about his company Sequencing (I haven't checked).

This Google Scholar search includes a number of sources mentioning him, only one paper I see that he has written himself, which I included in the article.

The below paper includes some more information on Colby and Sequencing, but I was unsure of it was RS because it is a thesis and Colby was apparently involved.

Artz, Matthew (August 2018). "An ethnography of Direct-To-Consumer Genomics (DTCG): Design anthropology insights for the product management of a disruptive innovation" (PDF). Retrieved July 17, 2024.

Pingnova (talk) 03:41, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I searched quite a bit for RS about Sequencing and didn't find much. I added to the article what seemed appropriate, although a few are still press releases not published by Sequencing itself. I hadn't exhausted the Google Scholar search I linked above for Colby and may do that in the near future. Sequencing is likely as covered as it can get. Pingnova (talk) 18:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Possible sources

There are not many RS for Sequencing. Future editors with RS should add them to the article. Below are a number of possible sources for the search "sequencing.com" and "brandon colby" I could not evaluate, but will list here to hopefully make things easier for other editors.

Source in Korean which mentions sequencing.com multiple times
Source in German that mentions sequencing.com
Uses a quote from Colby
Another Colby quote
Colby quote
Description of Colby's book: "In 2010, physician-author Brandon Colby, MD discussed in his book Outsmart Your Genes the association between the genetic revolution and the technological singularity. Dr. Colby expressed his views pertaining to the ways in which predictive medicine and genetic technology will impact health care, longevity, and society over the next few years as well as into the next decade."
Stanford alumni publication talking about Existence Genetics

I was unable to access this:

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Pingnova (talk) 22:04, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Problematic external links

@Pingnova: In this edit, you restored external links to the subject's book pages at the publisher and at the Internet Archive, saying that the former meets WP:ELOFFICIAL, and the latter is not a pirate site.

WP:ELOFFICIAL requires that the subject of the article control the site in question. It is highly unlikely that Colby is the person in charge of the Penguin Random House site... and I say that as an author with work listed for that very publishing house. Even if it did pass that concern, we'd then run into something lower in that guidline, specifically More than one official link should be provided only when the additional links provide the reader with significant unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites We already have a website for the book, one at least more likely controlled by the article subject.
The Internet Archive is indeed a pirate site. It has lost large copyright violation cases before and is in the midst of them again. The fact that it has the word "Archive" in its name does not change its nature.

Please remove these links. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 06:32, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]