Talk:Robert Taylor incident

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A fact from Robert Taylor incident appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 7 April 2008.

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Started a page requested on the WikiProject Paranormal to do page. The "Robert Taylor incident" was requested and I've spent some time building on this page. Not many references so far, but I can dig up plenty more, so I'll be doing that for the rest of the day.

Regarding the title, Robert Taylor incident, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with it. The Lonnie Zamora sighting is under his name and the Rendlesham Forest Incident is named after the place of the sighting. Should this page be renamed "Robert Taylor" or due to it being a common-ish name, "Dechmont Law Incident" or as suggested on the Dechmont Law page itself "Livingston Incident"? Decisions, decisions, eh? --Factorylad (talk) 17:00, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

I would favour Dechmont Law UFO incident. Grievous Angel (talk) 17:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lack of reliable sources

At present the article has a number of failings. First and foremost there is no indication of notability (involvement of Lothian police isn't notable). If this incident did not receive mainstream attention then it's a candidate for deletion. Furthermore, none of the sources cites are WP:Reliable source, a necessary component of wikipedia articles. Jefffire (talk) 13:23, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

The incident received mainstream attention as is evidenced by the news report uploaded to and hosted by YouTube. The matter was in the media at the time and continues to this day as evidenced by the articles by Edinburgh Evening News and The Telegraph. Bob Taylor received an obituary in The Economist after his death. All aforementioned references have been cited in the article now. --Factorylad (talk) 16:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm happy this meets the notability standards now, thanks for getting those references. Jefffire (talk) 17:39, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I was aware of this incident, wasn't it featured in a TV series about strange phenomena? Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World maybe? Grievous Angel (talk) 17:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Yep, your right, I've added the footage to the references list. It was originally broadcast on 4th November 1980. --Factorylad (talk) 19:47, 7 April 2008 (UTC)