Talk:Stuart McLean/Archive 1

Archive 1

Book Series

Is it reasonable to create articles for the individual Vinyl Cafe books? Newtonthenewt (talk) 15:03, 29 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.199.134.168 (talk)

Stephen Leacock award

Is this fact right? Eric Nicol won 3 times, there may be others —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.145.187.67 (talk) 20:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC) Yep, you're right, he won in 1951, 1956 and 1958. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.144.146.45 (talk) 01:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 February 2017

he died from Chemo!! [virus-infected link redacted] 172.191.15.30 (talk) 23:45, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 00:05, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

The link wasn't a virus, but it is a pain. It also did not support that he died from chemo, the articles stated "as a result of Treatment-related complications". That could be anything. The infobox template has a comment that a "person dies of the disease, not of its treatment". Walter Görlitz (talk) 07:08, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

WestNet Action News

i submitted from reliable sources, WN action news — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.200.112.33 (talk) 01:48, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

"West Net Action News" (what fake-news hell is this?) is not a reliable source. If real sources like The Globe and Mail and the National Post and the Toronto Star and the CBC aren't saying that he died of the chemo rather than of the cancer, then neither are we — some no-name local news microsite startup most certainly does not get to claim greater reliability than the CBC about something like this. And for added bonus, I get a virus warning every time I try to click on that link — which means we can't even leave it here for further discussion. Bearcat (talk) 01:52, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

"Together with family and friends, Stuart established the Camp Kanawana Fund, providing financial support for campers in need." [1] Phflupp (talk) 07:00, 16 February 2017 (UTC) phflupp

We need a reliable source for this information — which means media coverage in an independent source, not a press release from Camp Kanawana itself. Bearcat (talk) 07:48, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

The good news is that I have now found a reliable source which does address his sponsorship and support of Camp Kanawana, so I'll be adding it to the article with that source instead of this one. Bearcat (talk) 19:06, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

stop calling it "fake news" and getting on that bandwagon, just because its main stream media does not mean its fake. a fake news company doesn't have satellite trucks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.200.112.33 (talk) 08:05, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm not saying it's "fake news" because it's not mainstream. I'm saying it's fake news because it has headlines like "McDonald's manager steals 29 tons of McNuggets", "How to avoid your mother-in-law", "Is this woman too hot to be a banker?", "100km long traffic jam in China, is Calgary next?" and "Jennifer Aniston adopts 33-year-old boyfriend from Africa" — and whenever the photo accompanying the headline is a television screenshot, it's plainly using a screenshot of the CBC or CNN or a random local Fox Network affiliate with its own logo copypasted over the real network's bug. Whatever that is, "real news from a reputable news organization that Wikipedia needs to take seriously as a reliable source" definitely is not it.

And neither am I jumping on any "bandwagons" — just because Dolt 45 is on a campaign to redefine "fake news" as meaning any news he doesn't personally approve of doesn't mean that it isn't still a real thing that had a real meaning before Lord Dampnut and Lying Spice and Hellion Scamway came along.

And by the way, just because a website puts a picture of a van with its name on it at the top of its front page doesn't mean it actually has real "satellite trucks", either — especially when the name is quite plainly over a patch of different white than the rest of a van that's otherwise identical to CTV's satellite trucks. What that demonstrates is that either "WestNet" hired the worst van-painting company in history after buying a surplus van from CTV, or somebody did a sloppy photoshop job on a photograph of a CTV van — and considering the transparent photoshopping of the television screenshots, it's pretty obvious which one of those explanations is likelier. It does not, in and of itself, constitute proof that "WestNet" is a reliable and reputable source of news, especially if you're asking us to accord it a higher degree of reliability than McLean's own damn employer as to his cause of death. Bearcat (talk) 15:29, 16 February 2017 (UTC)