Talk:Dan Mathews
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[edit] Let us upgrade
For the year 2006-07, let us concentrate on upgrading the contents of this page as decided: Wales to upgrade quality of Wiki. Thanks. --Bhadani 00:11, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Removed POV comment from article
[[He is also known for critizing a dead-man,"no shock at all that Steve Irwin should die provoking a dangerous animals". His outlandish comments against such a great man were ignornant and made him look like a total asswhole infront of the world.]] [1][2] [3])
Besides spelling and grammar mistakes, this unsigned comment doesn't criticize Irwin but expresses a lack of surprise at his demise. Bob98133 15:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, right! Did you read the context? The line is almost an implied threat except that he's not promising he'll precipitate the action, but you can't really be saying that Dan wasn't making a shock comment about how Steve Irwin deserved it. --68.47.137.29 (talk) 12:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
- I could agree with you had he said this while Irwin was still alive, however Mathews was using a perfect aspect to describe a logical conclusion, as in "it should come as no surprise if someone who plays with fire gets burned." There is no implied threat since Irwin was already dead when he made this remark. Whether or not this was said for some shock value is impossible to determine with any certainty, nor is it relevant to the fact that he made the comment. Bob98133 (talk) 15:34, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Should this have references?
But when asked by the magazine who he considered influential, he joked, spree killer “Andrew Cunanan, because he got Gianni Versace to stop using fur,” a quip for which he was widely criticized.
I bet he was criticized for this but shouldn't this have references to note who criticized him? Also "widely" seems like it's POV. Maybe it should be changed to something like: a quip for which he was criticized.(with references)? Bob98133 15:31, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Several changes/updates
- added "senior" to vice president in article and photo caption as this is his title according to PETA
- removed "Gary Glitter" and replaced with "Morrissey" - I could find no reference to Mathews ever working with Glitter but he is known to have worked with Morrissey/The Smiths
- added "in Italy" which is where he did modeling and acting
- added link to Genre Magazine and indicated that it is a gay lifestyle mag which makes Mathews comment about Versace a bit more clear
- removed link to Activist Cash page of quotes by Mathews since quotes weren't relevent to link
- added Further Reading section and added Mathews book "Committed"
- removed "widely" criticized per above comment
