Talk:Mick Aston

WP:NOR
If you are correct - How can I tell! See policy in link above. This being a public domain encyclopedia anyone can make these claims. How do we "know" this to be the case. I have only seen reference in web based locations to a son. Please state you claim, i.e. give sources etc. or we have to assume this is "spam". :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  15:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair point - I shall continue procrastinating whilst i should be revising and endeavour to provide you with necessary facts to prove my own existence! (interesting!)


 * If you are who you say - this would be an interesting philosphical question - when am I who I say I am? But hopefully you can see my reluctance to let "anyone" claim to be some one of note or connect to such a person. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  16:13, 28 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Talking of which, are you by any chance related to Carenza Lewis? I know her hubby posted for a while on a well-known and related forum a couple of years ago. You could, perchance be the same Mr Lewis? Bruce, aka Agendum | Talk 12:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


 * not that I know of, but we haven't completed our family tree so who knows. Actually there are quite a few Lewis's about to so isn't too likely. Also I'm not even sure if "Lewis" is her given name or marital one. I assume by the way you talk probably her marital one. It might be nice to know. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  14:32, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Carenza Lewis's husband is David McOmish of English Heritage. She kept her maiden name for professional reasons. 86.150.96.155 (talk) 08:28, 12 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Verifable refernce to a book should be suffient. Although offical style web source would be quicker. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  16:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, this task is turning out to be rather tricky! I am starting to doubt my own existence... Does it need to be a web based source? I believe that one or two of his early books are dedicated to both myself and my brother. I shall find out which. (to previous message) I am sure that if one traced their family tree back far enough they would be amazed at who they were distantly related to. Could be quite scary.

Mick has a son, James, by Carinne Allinson, who also has two other children by other fathers. Carinne's eldest child, Kathryn, was reared as Mick's daughter, but is in fact his step-daughter. Mick's book Monasteries (Batsford 1993) was dedicated to James and Kathryn. --Genie 16:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

emeritus?
Is it correct that Mick is an emeritus professor? The University of Bristol webpage says only that he is retired, implying specifically that he is not emeritus. 08:57, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Mick is indeed an emeritus professor. Mick told me that himself, but you can find the information online e.g. http://www.winchester.ac.uk/?page=8101 --Genie 13:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I propose all useful material from Mick's Archaeology be moved to this article. The article on the book simply doesn't have enough material to justify a separate article. It has a couple sentences and a chapter listing, the first of which would be merged, and the second of which doesn't really need to be in the encyclopedia. Tuvok[T@lk/Improve] 12:07, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Agreed.--Genie (talk) 19:52, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

No objections, so merger carried out. --Genie (talk) 11:59, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Obituary source
The claim he's died is unsourced, anyone have an actual source? --Killing Vector (talk) 19:09, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * He was active recently: 13 June report - visits N Cadbury . Hope this is not a silly joke! Vernon White  . . . Talk 19:16, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I hope I don't need to remind people that we have been hoaxed before; no source, no go. Guy (Help!) 20:40, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The only sources (as of now) I can see is via the official Time Team's Facebook and Twitter accounts, which I suspect won't be allowed within a million miles of WP:RS, but is not being reported within any secondary mainstream sources either. This could be a difficult condonrum if said secondary sources do not report his passing but official sources says he has passed away. --tgheretford (talk) 20:59, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Why wouldn't an official Facebook stream be a RS? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:16, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Because "official" pages/steams come in varying degrees of officialness and reliability and can be hacked (no suggestion of that here though). They're obviously also primary sources. Thryduulf (talk) 21:30, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The only thing I can find is a essay regarding specific websites here External links/Perennial websites. Although I suspect WP:BLP and WP:RS will trump both of those and people are being cautious. From what I have read on Twitter, a BBC journalist is researching his death, so an reliable secondary source should be available via the BBC News website soon. --tgheretford (talk) 21:32, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * And now The official TimeTeam Twitter account. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:28, 24 June 2013

Sadly true. It's been confirmed by Frances Pryor on his Twitter feed who had it confirmed to him by Phil Harding himself. (UTC)

Now in a secondary source: http://www.cheddarvalleygazette.co.uk/Channel-4-Time-Team-Archaeologist-Mick-Aston-dies/story-19376672-detail/story.html Thryduulf (talk) 21:40, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * All good. But a reminder: we don't put citation needed on breaking news of death, we remove it pending an actual source. We have a source now, it's fine. Guy (Help!) 22:39, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

It's also now in the Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mick-aston-dead-time-team-1989900 GrahamN-UK (talk) 22:51, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Date of death
Although the news broke yesterday, I can't see any specifying the date as the 24th, and sometimes there is a delay while family and friends are informed. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:02, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * From official comments on Facebook/Twitter it seems it was either very late on the 23rd or early on the 24th - certainly during that night. The Bristol University tribute says "Sunday night" so maybe we should go with that? Thryduulf (talk) 22:18, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The Guardian's obituary though says the 24th . Thryduulf (talk) 07:42, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Did he really say it ?...
Did Mick really ask "what does she have that I do not"? - regarding the appointment of Mary-Ann Ochota ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.29.164.21 (talk) 14:06, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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