Talk:Don Herbert

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"...the Mr. Wizard Science Center located outside Boston"

can't find a reference for this. Where outside Boston? Is it still open? David 21:30, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I have added the sentence merging the data Teacher to Teacher into Don Herbert. Bejnar 20:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Science Center?

I've added this to the article: "the existence of such a Center is disputed" in accordance with my posting above in May. If no one can find documentation, how can we claim it as fact? David 16:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/watchmrwiz/watchmrwiz.htm

http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/bioandtimeline.htm

This doesn't provide more information, but it does seem to offer pretty firm support for the one-time existance of the center. Although the first link may have picked up the existance of the center from Wikipedia, I would think the second should be considered authoritive, as the whois information on the page shows it registered to "Herbert, Don" I thus recomend the removal of the "existnce ... disputed" blurb.

LittleBrother 21:23, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the center is claimed to have existed ("1969: Mr. Wizard Science Center opens in Boston suburb."). But there is no evidence that the supposed center still exists. Perhaps it existed in 1969, but that is not sufficient for claiming that it still exists. Many organizations that existed in 1969 no longer exist. The burden is on you to show that it exists, not on me to prove that it does not exist. Otherwise, Wikipedia cannot pretend to being authoritative. David 22:29, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The tone of your addition is horrible 68.45.4.118 21:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, the current phrase, "...outside Boston, which no longer exists." is certainly amusing. Bostonians will be surprised. I'd edit it into something less silly if I were more awake. Snezzy 11:44, 9 February 2007 (UTC)