Talk:Mariano Gagnon

Initial article building
, very happy to be collaborating with someone on this article. :) I had seen it yesterday and added the NYT source so it wouldn't get deleted before I had a chance to clean it up I'm not sure the Shining Path poster is the best image for this article. It would seem to have the implication that Gagnon supported them, which was the exact opposite of the case! I'm not really sure what a better image would be though. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)


 * , I am ok with having it removed or changing the caption so that it reflects that Gagnon opposed this org. Whatever you think is best.


 * One thing I thought of adding was a multiple location map with the location of the mission, Tzibokiroato, and any other key locations. Perhaps that would be a viable alternative. What do you think?


 * Great to have you here, too!–CaroleHenson (talk) 14:35, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll remove the image for now. We can add it back later if either of thinks of a better caption. I think the maps would be a good idea. I'm not familiar with how to add them to articles, so I'll follow your lead on that. Something else to keep in mind is that the original creation claimed that he died in March 2017. I'm searching for a source, but am coming up dry. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:42, 2 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. I couldn't find an obituary either or record of his death either - under the name Joseph or Mariano.–CaroleHenson (talk) 14:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * It doesn't help that the Peruvian branch of the Franciscans website seems about 6 months outdated. The US based ones published monthly obits, and his name doesn't appear there. I think its likely that he did die (the original page seemed like it was going for a memorial to me), but I think under BLP policy we can't claim that. The best way to split the baby is probably to use the past tense in referring to him but not mention the death until we have a source. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:08, 2 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Makes sense to me.–CaroleHenson (talk) 15:09, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

I've changed the description of the mission to hub. I didn't like seat because that sounds a bit too formal and juridicial, I agree with your reasoning re: home, centrality is fine, but I tend to prefer simpler language when possible. If you don't like hub, you can change it back to centrality if you want. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:36, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK
, I was thinking of noming this for DYK, since we have the majority of his life in here and are finishing out the details now. What do you think of the following hooks/do you have any other ideas:
 * ...that Mariano Gagnon was a Franciscan friar who organized airlifts to help refugees escape the Shining Path?
 * ... that Mariano Gagnon dropped salt and Christmas presents to indigenous people from an airplane while their mission was being attacked by the Shining Path?

Let me know. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:45, 2 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Great idea, I like the first one - short and catchy.–CaroleHenson (talk) 18:58, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Cool. I always like having at least one ALT. I'll go ahead and start the nom. Work can always continue. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:59, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Congrats!
, Congratulations on finding the obituary! Great find.

I had a thought about nominating the article for GA - it would be good to add information about how he got ammunition to fight off the guerillas. It's mentioned in several articles - and was his take on the moral, religious dilemma.–CaroleHenson (talk) 16:36, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I emailed the US province's communications office to ask if they could either confirm he was alive so I didn't keep searching, or to point me to a publicly published obituary. Religious orders are pretty good about helping people find information about their members, so I thought it worth a shot. Yes, I think that would be good. If I recall correctly, the sources just mentioned he got the weapons from the Peruvian government/army. His book would likely go into more detail on the specifics, but that poses the obvious problem of someone self-reporting on their own activities during a war, so we'd have to use it carefully. I think it would be an acceptable use of a primary source to relay his claims about how he viewed the conflict's intersection with his moral and religious views. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:49, 5 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Makes sense. I'm in the middle of something right now, but I can work on it within a day or so.–CaroleHenson (talk) 17:52, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

For your information: you can find a couple more images of Gagnon in the same setting in the Flickr gallery: Lima 2010, just in case you want to use some of them to illustrate the article. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:56, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * thanks for finding the picture and extracting one of just him from that. I had found it, but was concerned about the personality rights of the others involved. The cropped image is perfect though! Looked through the gallery again, and I don't see many that would fit with the rest of the article. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:00, 22 May 2017 (UTC)