Talk:George Metesky

F.P.?
What does the F.P. stand for?


 * Says "Fair Play" in the article--Wafulz 19:26, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Copyright violations
I think most of the "Predictions" section is copied directly from one of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers. --Wafulz 07:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay I did some, uh, "research", and it appears that the material was basically copied from the book and then shortened (the bullets are even in the same order as in the book). I've put this here in case anyone wants to re-write it. If anyone's curious, it was from Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader, ISBN 1-59223-116-0, page 321 --Wafulz 20:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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Good New Yorker article on profiling
(section copied from Talk:Offender profiling)

Remember 23:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks like Gladwell's been reading Wikipedia; I don't see anything in the Brussel/Metesky section I haven't seen elsewhere. --CliffC 14:27, 7 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I just finished this article and in spite of my above quibble about the first section, it's very interesting. Anyone wanting to read it should do so soon; the New Yorker only keeps its articles online for a few days.  The title is Dangerous Minds: Criminal profiling made easy.  Gladwell pretty much paints profiling as a bogus science.  He talks about the incorrect BTK profiles and several other cases.  About the Metesky case he criticizes Brussel's after-the-fact editing of his predictions and says, "Brussel did not really understand the mind of the Mad Bomber. He seems to have understood only that, if you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous.... It’s a party trick."  --CliffC 17:51, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I just re-read the New Yorker article, after reading one in this months Smithsonian "UNmasking the Mad Bomber". In the New Yorker article, Gladwell asserts that Brussels got it mostly worng. Meteskey, he says, lived in White Plains, not Waterbury and had no connection to the military. According to this Wikipedia article, he did live in Waterbury and sered in the Marine Corps. These are pretty significant factual differences. I tend to trust the New Yorker, but I probably trust Wikipedia more. Can anybody reconcile this discrepency? Graycenphil (talk) 12:05, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

I guess I can't edit my entry. I meant to say above that, according to the New Yorker, Brussels told the police Metesky was in White Plains, which is where they searched for him. The Smithsonian says Brussels told them he would be in central Connecticut. Graycenphil (talk) 13:04, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

External link to Metesky musical
I think the link to A LOUD NOISE IN A PUBLIC PLACE – a play with music about George Metesky should stay. The site describes this "play with music" and lists its songs; we can see how the play parallels his life. My favorite title: A Man Can Only Take So Much. The mp3 songs are performed by earnest (if not IMO Broadway-class) talent, and are very entertaining even if it might take two sittings to get through them all because the sound is not so great. The guy's site is not spammy, and hey, it's free entertainment. --CliffC (talk) 02:35, 7 December 2007 (UTC)


 * That is the point. In your words it's free entertainment...which has absolutely nothing to do with the encyclopedic content of the article. It is trivia at best. IrishGuy talk 02:41, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Photograph
A photograph of this man would be of benefit here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.9.151.254 (talk) 09:59, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Biography?
The article is titled "George Metesky", but it begins with his joining the marines: there's nothing about his early life, family, etc. Either the article should include stuff about its subject's early life, or it should be re-named. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 22:16, 22 January 2013 (UTC)