Talk:David Proud

A message from a kinda curious big fan
Well er dunno what to say er i'm a big fan and kinda curious about how he did the football acting in desperados and ran around if he uses a weelchair please mail bk SD!

Unsourced claims in original article
I removed the following claims although they seem likely to be true. I just can't find WP:RS for them.
 * David Proud was coached by Uri Roodner of East 15 Acting School. (Uri Roodner may not be notable enough for an article?) I could semi-verify that Proud was given coaching by Roodner arranged by the BBC to prepare him for appearing on Desperados - a google cache existed of a now removed entry from a casting website, advertising Proud's services, which stated this fact.
 * David Proud is a talented wheelchair basketball player, has played since the age of 11, winning various national awards including “GBWBA most promising young player of the year - the previous source also stated that Proud is very physically fit and played national league level wheelchair basketball. But no details on the specific claims. The GBWBA website is horrible to navigate (or to search on google), so no joy there either. TheGrappler (talk) 21:57, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * New unsourced claim: added by someone else then removed. It was claimed that he is good friends with Jason Maza which is believable; but the claimed source only confirmed that they'd done some writing together. (They both appeared in Special People, so this is believable). TheGrappler (talk) 20:09, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Article has been paraphrased at actor's own website!
http://www.davidproud.co.uk/biography actually postdates this article! I fear that this may get identified as a copyvio, but the Wikipedia article actually predates the publicity site. "Proof" can probably be obtained from the edit history, which will reveal that this article grew organically, rather than as a copy-and-paste job. It's probably worth being careful referencing things to the official website, as it risks creating a circularity of authority... it's true on Wikipedia because it's referenced to the external site that copied Wikipedia? TheGrappler (talk) 02:14, 16 November 2010 (UTC)