Talk:Caroll Spinney

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Caroll Spinney article.
Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Ask questions, get answers. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Be welcoming	Article policies No original research Neutral point of view Verifiability

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]

Contents 1 Media appearances 2 Body discovered on Property 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Book the widsom of big bird.jpg 4 Born at age 74?

[edit] Media appearances

Incidentally, Caroll Spinney was mentioned in the 12 November 2006 Something Positive webcomic. Wyvern 02:35, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Body discovered on Property

I'm relatively new on the editing front, but is it normal to have such tangential (not to mention, grisly) information on a Bio page? The first paragraph, at most, should've sufficed I think. EDIT: Death didn't actually on the property, plus it was apparently an accident. Like I said, I'm new at this :) Willcb 05:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree with you -- it's got little if anything to do with the biography of the person who is the subject of this page. The section should either be substantially reduced, or removed altogether.Larry Dunn 20:08, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

If the section grows enough, it could become a separate article, presumably Scott Deojay. His sentencing is today - serendipity that I was here. --EarthPerson 17:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Willcb. The extent to which the "Body Discovered on Property" section is unecessary. I think putting the first few sentences noting Caroll Spinney's connection (it was his property and his employee) are sufficiant enough. Any more makes it seem like he was more involved than what was said. SkittlzAnKomboz 03:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Book the widsom of big bird.jpg

Image:Book the widsom of big bird.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 17:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Born at age 74?

I notice from the info-box that Spinney was apparently born at the age of 74. Perhaps we might start a category for famous people who were born at an advanced age. Laozi, for example, was born at the age of 80. --Dawud —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.167.166.234 (talk) 00:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)