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None of the following are reliable sources:
Hrafn Talk Stalk( P) 19:20, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
What part of "This article relies on references to primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject, rather than references from independent authors and third-party publications. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources" do you fail to understand?
If "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" cannot be found, this article will be subjected to a WP:AFD, and most probably deleted. Adding more citations to Shapiro himself is simply 'rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic'. Hrafn Talk Stalk( P) 05:24, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Here are some references from The New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times. I can provide many more if needed.
Drrll ( talk) 10:18, 3 September 2011 (UTC) Note: apparently Hrafn doesn't actually want editors to provide references, as he refactored my starting list of references by stiking them and adding his commentary. And if he would have bothered to dig a little, he would have seen that yes, the last reference heavily focused on Shapiro was from The Chicago Sun-Times, as can be verified here: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1559253.html Drrll ( talk) 11:32, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Here are some references from The New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times. I can provide many more if needed.
James Shapiro is well substantiated under the Wikipedia are listed that substantiate him with respect to WP:PROF guidelines. Specifically:
James Shapiro has written two articles for Scientific American: "Transposable Genetic Elements" Cohen, S.N. and J.A. Shapiro. 1980. Transposable genetic elements. Sci. American 242 (2), 40-49. http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v242/n2/pdf/scientificamerican0280-40.pdf and Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v258/n6/pdf/scientificamerican0688-82.pdf
Here's an article he published for the Boston Review: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR22.1/shapiro.html
With respect to academia, James Shapiro's article :Thinking about bacterial populations as multicellular organisms" has been cited 447 times according to Google Scholar.
Perhaps, most notably, in the very famous Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District), "The first case to test a school district policy requiring the teaching of "intelligent design," (quote from http://ncse.com/creationism/legal/intelligent-design-trial-kitzmiller-v-dover) James Shapiro was cited numerously by the defense (see Day 10, Day 11, and Day 21 http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/day10pm2.html ; http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/day10am.html ; http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/day11am.html ; http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/day21am2.html) for examples.
Also I don't understand where [User:Hrafn|Hrafn] gets the idea that James Shapiro doesn't fulfill WP:PROF specifically, Criteria #2 "The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level." As the article itself says, he was named in 2002 an honorary Officer of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth! How is that not a highly prestigious honor at the national level?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.135.82.188 ( talk) 13:44, 7 September 2011 (UTC)