Talk:Erin Horsburgh

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Clearly not NPOV.

"Erin Horsburgh herself isn't certain that she is Azaria Chamberlain. To her, this is an answer to a mystery that has plagued her for her entire life - who is she, who were her real parents, and what happened to her? The reason for her to do this is not for publicity. It is because she wants to find out who she is."

My sentiments exactly. Osgoodelawyer 15:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Complete beat-up

The Australian ABC says The media exploited the delusions of a vulnerable young woman to keep this bogus story running for days.

Since that is the only reference to this woman from a news organisation, and it basically says that the story is not true, I'm proposing that the article be deleted. Kevin 10:56, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Removed deletion tag

While the subject may be considered distasteful, and Horsburgh herself either deluded or a con artist, that facts remain that Horsburgh exists, she DID claim to be Chamberlain, and she was interviewed in the media and created a stir.

Deletion would be warranted if none of this had happened; the article, however, is based on facts and provides an interesting coda to the Chamberlain case. I'm not going to try to clean the article ... I don't have the resources to go fact- or source-hunting, tbh -- but even if this IS a hoax (or a "media beat-up," but I'm not sure what that means) that doesn't mean it's not 'pedia material. There are lots of famous hoaxes and hoaxers in history. Just because what they say may or may not be true, that doesn't mean they should all be deleted. The Cardiff Giant was a hoax, for instance, but it has a rather handsome entry. :) --MattShepherd 16:32, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Agree. Are we going to delete the article about Orson Wells' War of the worlds because the war of the worlds didn't actually occur?--Matt D 02:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Not Clear

Ok, so Erin Horsburgh was adopted by the Chamberlains? or what? It's a little unclear from the article.--Matt D 02:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Why not just do a DNA test and be done with it...?

Doesn't it seem someone, somewhere, maybe even daytime television would foot a few hundred bucks to be done with this?

If you take the time to familiarise yourself with the case, i think you might understand what an outrage it would be to request that the Chamberlains participate in such a test. Afterall, they were oirginally convicted of KILLING Azaria. The territory still takes the official position that Azaria died that night even if the last official Inquest weasled out and listed the cause of her death as "undetermined."Lisapollison 22:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup of last section done

I cleaned up the last section of this article a bit and will see what I can do with the rest of it. My goal is to remove the obvious POV material and try to convert what I can to more NPOV statements.Lisapollison 22:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I've rewritten the first 3 paragraphs with some references. Nothing in the mainstream media has much on the remainder. If I get to it later I will probably cut it back to a few sentences at most. Kevin 11:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

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