Talk:Death of Rey Rivera

Question
The article states: Rivera went missing from his residence on May 16, 2006, after receiving a phone call from the Agora switchboard, according to a guest staying at the Rivera home at the time. What does the "Agora switchboard" mean? Is that the name of a town? Or the name of a hotel? I looked in the cited source and it never mentions "Agora switchboard". Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 04:04, 30 September 2020 (UTC)Joseph A. Spadaro (talk)


 * Update: I edited the article accordingly. And added a source that clarifies this issue.    Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 01:05, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Claim about running impossibility with barefoot or flip-flop
The author of the article claims that it would not be possible for a male like Rey to get to the needed speed if wearing a flip-flop or barefoot. I do not think that this claim is accurate. It is indeed possible to get to this speed. We should also consider the impulse of the jump, which adds to the center of mass velocity. Professional jumpers can develop 10m/s speed easily (https://athleticsweekly.com/performance/how-fast-are-the-best-long-jumpers-1039932456/). Rey would have to develop half of it, 5 m/s, which is perfectly feasible, even with barefoots and flip-flops. This paper (PeerJ. 2018; 6: e5188. Published online 2018 Jul 13. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5188) investigates empirically children running barefoot and with shod, showing that the mean speed is 5.48(70) m/s. Therefore, the claim that Rey could not get to the required speed is utterly false.

If the author is not convinced of that, he/she should at least cite the source where this was claimed. Otherwise, it would configure original research.

I would recommend that the article be more neutral anyway, and acknowledges the fact that investigators and the experts did not rule out this hypothesis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marco Ridenti (talk • contribs) 12:43, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

9/27/2021 removal of content
I came across this article last night and was surprised to see a large portion of the Investigation section does not seem to belong here, so I have removed it. The removed section reads like an article about Miryam Moya or her book, rather than a wikipedia article. I strongly suspect that it was plagiarized. It also contained no citations and had substantial issues with the WP:Neutral point of view.

In addition to the removed content, I also have concerns about the Media section including an image of the book cover (which does not seem sufficiently relevant to the article itself) and the mention of Moya's book in the Media section linking directly to an Amazon page to purchase the book. I am not a frequent editor but neither of these things feels appropriate for wikipedia from my perspective.

Please let me know if there is any disagreement with my removal of the content. Buffalo74 (talk) 15:05, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

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Needs edit
There is a reference to "hit and run theory," but no theory in article. 2601:1C2:1B7F:E760:8D9E:29D5:F595:61D1 (talk) 01:17, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Horizontal distance
The article states "101 feet (13 meters)" which I changed to 31 meters after assuming someone accidentally switched the digits (and assuming 101 feet is correct).

I can't find a good source for the horizontal (and vertical) distance, but it seems that something around 13 meters is more correct (this article mentions 45 feet). This affects the rest of the calculation and it's not clear (for either 13 or 31 m) how 29 miles per hour was reached. GuguboWIKI (talk) 15:18, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

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