Talk:Michael Biggins

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Notice This subject of this article has also been throughly discussed on Talk:Blackout (entertainer) prior to it being merged into this one.

[edit] Too much to handle alone

Biggins and his alter ego Blackout have way too much for me to handle alone. While I have done what I can to fill in the story as best as I can, and I have used many publications for citing, I need help with this. If you are a long time fan or friend of Blackout or the actor Michael Biggins and know detailed portions of his life and work and can help expand this, that would be great. This pioneer needs to be in wikipedia and he has done so many things under so many differnt ames that I have a hard time keeping track. I have written him but not received any responses as of yet. Areas that need work are his COMPLETE listing of Stage, Screen, and TV and internet work. I would like to have complete bios of all known recordings he has released but it is a big task being his site has been up over 12 years and there are many segments, videos, plays, sketches, radio broadcasts, and TV shows that I am unaware off. Most of my research and citations have been from national magazines and the 80,000+ references and links in Blackout's forums, but I still dont know what college he went to, a full list of the plays he has performed in, nor a full list of all his films and TV appearances. So please, do not destroy but help BUILD this biography of a very talented entertainer up. A fan. ManofThoth 21:06, 15 April 2007 (UTC)ManofThoth

[edit] Merging of Blackout and Michael Biggins

I tagged both articles for merging since I don't feel they demonstrate enough notability for separate entries. This was already discussed as part of the Blurpinkle deletion discussion, including comparing the articles to having separate ones for Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens. Having a page for both a performer and his main character you would have to have sufficient references for both. Currently none of the Biggins references are valid links or extend beyond trivial coverage. If editors wish to merge into Blackout as opposed to the other direction that is fine. I am interpreting the naming conventions as preferring Michael Biggins over Blackout (entertainer) because of the ambiguity of Blackout. Both also have major structure and tone issues, including excessive external links, which make both articles appear somewhat promotional in nature. - Optigan13 06:48, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

This has been a problem for some time; I concur with Optigan, and would add that both articles reek of the fansite, with ManOfThoth seemingly playing the part of "Number One Fan". --Orange Mike 13:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
I did the merge, including heavy restructuring and removal of unsourced or poorly sourced content. I also tried to correct for tone issues and other general corrections to bring in line with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. This was done in two rather large edits, so if anyone wants to include content please try to do so with proper citations as opposed to reverting. The structure was lifted from the Jake Gyllenhaal since that is a recent featured article on an actor. Optigan13 06:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 14:52, 9 November 2007 (UTC)