Talk:Michel Lotito

Stray comment
L.S., Do you consider there are any specific reasons for mr. Lotito to choose his objects? Hubertus Vinken

Mangetout
Mangetout actually means that you have a sense for gourmet. That you only eat the finest things. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 15.195.185.76 (talk) 13:17, 12 December 2006 (UTC).


 * I know my response is far stale, but just for the record, this is BS. --uKER (talk) 20:09, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Who's copying whom?
I thought it was interesting to see this article pretty much verbatim around the web - mostly under an article called "10 Most Bizarre People" For example (see number 10 in these two) http://www.oddpeak.com/item_65612.aspx http://jeffkillian.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/10-most-bizarre-people/ Who was first (wikipedia or the the article on the web)? Is the article short enough for people to be able to claim fair use of Wikipedia content? --Catch-22 12:54, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Dead??
Due to the French Wikipedia, Monsieur Mangetout died in 2007, but is that really true? - Sam Tollenaar (Dutch Wikipedia user) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.150.224.123 (talk) 12:43, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

He died indeed, but i can't find the real date. Jens —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.196.136.1 (talk) 22:23, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Does anyone actually have a reliable source for his death? The citation given doesn't really cut it, a news aticle would be much better. I know he can't really be classed as a major celebrity, but surely the media would have picked up on this, the French media at least!? All the sources I've found seem to stem from the French wikipedia article, which itself provides no reliable source.. Neodymium60 (talk) 21:06, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

I linked the Guinness World Records Page as a source for death: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/67621-strangest-diet Kristbaum (talk) 08:44, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Photo
A photo of Lotito can be found at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/2976278/Weird-world-records-bizarre-entries-in-the-Guinness-Book-of-World-Records.html?image=3 I would add it to the article, but copyright laws may not permit doing so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicaphilliac (talk • contribs) 22:37, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Figures
Him having eaten 1 ton of material between 1959 and 1997, and having eaten an airplane between 1978 and 1980 seem to contradict each other. Unless the plane weighed less than a ton and he didn't each much else. --uKER (talk) 20:09, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
 * According to the Wikipedia article, the plane weighs 680kg and I suspect an airplane is not 100% metal. --88.114.55.30 (talk) 12:26, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Items
Most people who visit Lotito's page are, at the very least, interested in the extraordinary items he ate throughout his lifetime, therefore I included a table that lists just that. The only reputable (and original) source I could find with this type of information is The Telegraph news article, so feel free to expand the table as you see fit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Housemill7 (talk • contribs) 22:05, 16 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Appreciate the inclusion of this list! But the Telegraph news article no longer substantiates it; it only has a photograph of Lotito, and the 2013 Curry book only covers about half the items and does not list amounts. Some items on the list (a half kilometer of steel chain in one sitting?) stretch the limits of imagination. Added a WP:FACT tag if anyone can find another WP:RS that lists numbers of items. Kalethan (talk) 23:03, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Recent edits
I'm just catching up with this twitch streamer, not surprised they'd start to target this article -Gouleg🛋️ harass/hound 02:13, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

How did he die???
It says “natural causes,” but how did he die? Was it just age or something natural, or was it like poisoning from that television or other? 72.188.17.58 (talk) 00:10, 19 November 2021 (UTC)


 * "Natural causes" means that he died from age. 31.152.177.218 (talk) 15:21, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * He was very young to have died of old age. Maybe it means heart attack/stroke? Cerulean Depths (talk) 20:17, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

This site says the cause of death was a heart attack, does anyone know if any other reliable source say the same thing? https://funfactz.com/weird-facts/michel-lotito/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.130.234.243 (talk) 04:49, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Discrepancy across languages
The dates given for birth and death do not match between the French version and the versions in other languages. The French version cites government data and lists them as 16 June 1950 and 17 April 2006.

That source is also used in the English article (and some other languages) despite still showing incorrect dates sourced from the Guiness article (15 June 1950 and 25 June 2007). DefogManicure (talk) 17:36, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Pica

 * This Michel Lotito must have had Pica eating disorder DoctorHver (talk) 00:19, 9 June 2024 (UTC)