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Why is editing blocked on an article with such poor sourcing?

"DNA studies on ancient human remains confirm that light skin, hair and eyes were present at least tens of thousands of years ago on Neanderthals, who lived in Eurasia for 500,000 years."

No, those sources don't say that -- especially the bit about "500,000 years," but more important (given the subject of the article) nothing "confirms" "light eyes" in Neanderthals, only light skin and red hair. Genes expressing blue eyes in modern homo sapiens were present but less dominant in a couple DNA samples mentioned in one of the articles, but that's it, and the article warns that the study is not widely accepted and that we ahve no way of knowing what the actual effect of thse genes would have been.

Yet there it is: DNA studies on ancient human remains confirm that light skin, hair and eyes were present at least tens of thousands of years ago on Neanderthals, who lived in Eurasia for 500,000 years.

Who besides me will actually READ all five of those sources? It's not unlikely that the original editor who contributed the sentences had racist motives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:cda0:9220:c1ea:12f4:f079:be78 (talk • contribs)

Photo race bias: Caucasian eyes

As far as I can tell, of the 34 photos of human eyes in this story, all are Caucasian except one photo of an east asian eye (repeated twice). As the article's text makes clear, it's not correct to assume that everyone except Caucasians has brown eyes. For instance, just googling "North African blue eyes" generates many striking photos, e.g. https://africageographic.com/stories/the-boy-with-the-sapphire-eyes/ It would be great if this article were more inclusive.

Replying: North Africans are also considered caucasian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:6E00:295:A320:359B:C31B:8FDB:DF3A (talk) 08:52, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Vladimir Putin

He has very sticking green eyes. Why isn't this discussed in any fashion on Misplaced Pages? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valgrus Thunderaxe (talk • contribs) 09:43, 7 June 2022 (UTC) '

Vlad has blue eyes Akmal94 (talk) 05:24, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

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The Introduction of this article states that eye color can be affected by up to 15 genes, but later in the article, it says that it can be affected by up to 16. I would like this to change to match 16, which I believe to be the correct number. WednesdayFireball (talk) 05:14, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Done, thank you for pointing this out. --Mvqr (talk) 09:36, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Are these my eyes? Where did the publisher get that photo?

Are these my eyes? Where did the publisher get that photo? 49.237.42.31 (talk) 14:59, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Hazel Eyes

The hazel eye section is very vague and inaccurate. It says hazel eyes are basically any combination of colors with brown, gold and green being the main components which doesn't really define what hazel actually is. It then goes onto say that hazel eyes are 'sometimes' referred to as being synonymous with the color of a hazelnut when that is the accurate primary definition of 'hazel' eyes, eyes that are the color hazel resembling the golden brown color of a hazelnut. The hazel section needs to be properly addressed and edited to say that hazel eyes are eyes resembling the color 'hazel' which is the color of a hazelnut. Eyes that are the golden brown color of a hazelnut can be a combination of light brown, golds and greens when observed at close range. It can then go onto say that the term hazel can also be used ambiguously to refer to eyes that aren't a solid singular color, often when there's central heterochromia present. 2405:6E00:289:B4FC:BD72:E508:58C1:BE64 (talk) 09:51, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

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