Talk:Dick Rockwell

Dick Rockwell
I want to say we're honored to have Dick Rockwell's daughter here contributing to Wikipedia. Your father was a talented artist whose heart shone in his work, and it was remarkable that there had been no biography here for him until recently. But then, such fellow greats as Syd Shores and Joe Maneely were without articles, too. Your father's generation deserves the deepest and most comprehensive articles we can create.

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The one thing &mdash; and we ask you please to understand &mdash; most important to Wikipedia is confirmability, which in practice means that everything needs a citation where fellow editors can go and verify facts for themselves. Thus, the stricture "No Original Research", which means everything here has to come from a published (print or onliine) source. I believe that you're Dick Rockwell's daughter, but the fact is, any fan of any artist or writer or anything can claim to have first-hand knowledge of something, but there is, in fact, no way to verify. I'm sure you understand that the Internet is full of hoaxsters, or simply just partisan fans.

If you can speak to a journalist at Alter Ego or Comic Book Resources or something, so that a disinterested third-party can verify who you are and published an interview with you on the record in a source others can access, that's all it would take &mdash; and I can practically guarantee that somelike like AE editor Roy Thomas would jump at the chance to sit down and gather first-hand accounts of the Dick Rockwell and his work.

I need to edit your change for the above reasons. Please read again what I've written here, and try my suggestion. Believe me: A good interviewer will coax out important memories about your dad and his work that you wouldn't even remember you had, and we historians will have all that much more to work with!

THANK YOU for coming here. Please help us write the definitive Dick Rockwell piece under Wiki guidelines!--Tenebrae 19:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)