Talk:Andrew Fluegelman
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[edit] Source needed
I've snipped this sentence:
- It was reported that a suicide note was found inside the vehicle.
I don't think it should go in the article in the passive voice. Someone needs to find a source citation for this. Where does this information come from? Naturally, I think it is highly plausible that Andrew Fluegelman committed suicide, but "plausible" isn't good enough for this kind of assertion. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:13, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
I don't know if this is official enough, but it's the only source I've seen: http://textfiles.fisher.hu/news/freeware.txt
Towards the end of the article, Kevin Strehlo, the author of the article which appeared in NEWSBYTES (dated 7/30/85), an electronic publication available on The Source (tm), states:
"Fluegelman had been missing for about a week when his car was found parked near the toll plaza on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge, the site of so many of his moments of inspiration. Friends say a suicide note was found inside. His family held a memorial service in New York the following Sunday."
I remember being shocked deeply by the news. I worked as the production manager for Community Type and Design, so knew Andrew and worked on two of his books. He was steady, optimistic, intelligent, soft spoken, creative and very successful as a publisher, so the news of his apparent suicide was inconceivable.
- I'd say put it in, carefully phrasing the way you cite the source. The important thing is to have a source, which people can verify has been quoted accurately and in context, and is represented in a way such that people can judge its reliability. Actually I'll go do it. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- That works very well for me. Thanks.
[edit] I think you guys should check this out.
Andrew Fluegelman's profile on the Charley Project website
The Charley Project is a website devoted to cataloguing missing persons' cases in the United States, many of which are decades old. Fluegelman's disappearance is one of the cases profiled on the site; they reiterate some of the things echoed in the Wiki article, but they also state some things which are apparently controversial in nature around here. They include a list of agencies they've gotten the information from. Perhaps this could be a source of information? (Krushsister 01:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC))
