Talk:Michael J. Tyler

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

Australia: South Australia / Biota Low‑importance

	Australia portal Michael J. Tyler is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject South Australia (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by WikiProject Australian biota (assessed as Low-importance).
	Need help improving this article? Ask a Librarian^{What's this?} at the National Library of Australia, or the State Library of South Australia.
	The Wikimedia Australia chapter can be contacted via email to helpwikimedia.org.au for non-editorial assistance.

Amphibians and Reptiles Stub‑class Low‑importance

	Michael J. Tyler is part of WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, an effort to make Wikipedia a standardized, informative, comprehensive and easy-to-use resource for amphibians and reptiles. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information.Amphibians and ReptilesWikipedia:WikiProject Amphibians and ReptilesTemplate:WikiProject Amphibians and Reptilesamphibian and reptile articles
Stub	This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Michael J. Tyler. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140502003339/http://www.fncv.org.au/wp-content/themes/field-naturalist/publications/ANHM/ANHM_WINNERSs.pdf to http://www.fncv.org.au/wp-content/themes/field-naturalist/publications/ANHM/ANHM_WINNERSs.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 21:03, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

POV[edit]

Removal of "distinguished" does not detract from the article but does it indicate a point of view in respect of an academic? No more than "large" for a number of publications or "prominent in his field" I would have thought. Doug butler (talk) 03:42, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Tense of statement.[edit]

He *was* a South Australian academic? Has he died?

Deliberately vague. Last time I saw the man was maybe 10 years ago at Blackwood craft market.

If so, this should be mentioned; but if not, but he is retired, I think this could be worded better, such as "he is a retired South Australian academic". My understanding is that words like "was" are normally used in Wikipedia only for people who have died.

I have heard nothing but would not be surprised either way.

Also, I wonder if "herpetologist" would be a better description than "academic", which sounds rather vague, and more so than it needs to. M.J.E. (talk) 16:28, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There are/have been plenty of non-academic herpetologists. I've added "herpetologist" to the lede but don't think it's a big improvement.Doug butler (talk) 05:30, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]