Talk:Donald Crowhurst/Archives/2020

Date of birth

Any advances on 1932? My searches for anything more specific have been fruitless. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 08:58, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

The article in the German Wikipedia has 19/8/1932. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.38.71 (talk) 12:40, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

There might be no birth certificate for a birth in India in 1932. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.38.71 (talk) 12:33, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

New section added "Reputation and historic re-appraisal"

Hi all, I have added a new sub-section to "Aftermath" entitled "Reputation and historic re-appraisal", dealing with the latter, with quotes from various parties post the 1970 book, to my mind giving more of a historical perspective that was previously lacking in the article. I trust that fellow editors will agree that this is an improvement and sheds some more light on the continued fascination of the Crowhurst story for writers, artists and recent film makers, as well as upon Crowhurst the man attempting to find a way out of an impossible situation. Cheers Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 21:26, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Lead section extended

Hi all, I have added another paragraph to the lead pointing out some of the things that have happened since the race, which after all finished in 1969. I trust other editors will not object (also bearing in mind previous comments on this Talk page regarding changes someone else made to the lead). The main interest in Crowhurst today is probably in the area of "popular culture", revisiting his story from a historical perspective, and also what happened to his boat, the latter covered in more detail elsewhere... Cheers Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 22:05, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Additions to article Sep 2020

Hi all, I have added a new section to this article entitled "Mental condition and final philosophical writings", incorporating some of the text by other WP editors previously in the next section and adding some more, particularly with an indication of the nature of his philosophical/cosmological "treatise" and relevant quotes (including the phrase which has been picked up elsewhere, "It is the Mercy", not previously included) and what Tomalin & Hall considered his "final countdown". Also I re-titled the section previously titled "Death" to "Disappearance and presumed death" which I feel more accurately characterises the true situation (in fact, nobody know what happened to him, it is all presumption), and added a bit more info to fill out various other sentences previously written. I hope readers/fellow editors agree that these are improvements and help to tie in the page with events and discussions that have appeared in the recent past (2 movies, various interviews, media revisiting the story, etc.), as well as adding further citations of an academic nature. Regards - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 20:09, 19 September 2020 (UTC)