Talk:Sidney Paget

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The Image Gallery at the bottom of the page, a collection of portraits and illustrations by other artists, has nothing to do with the artist or his work. It seems to be nothing more than self-promotion based vandalism on the part of the contributors. I am deleting them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.159.48 (talk) 16:45, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Lack of citations
This article has only two inline citations, despite making dozens of factual assertions, opinions and critical observations. Jtcarpet (talk) 04:07, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

People from Maesteg
This is in the category "People from Maesteg" but there is nothing in the article to support that, and a google search for Sidney Paget and Maesteg only finds pages linked to this page. Is this a mistake? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.24.246.112 (talk) 20:25, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Claim of confusion with his brother
The article reports that Sidney Paget was commissioned to illustrate The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by accident, as the letter from The Strand Magazine was intended for his brother Walter Paget and was opened by Sidney in error. The article does not contain a citation for this claim, but it is widely reported and citations could certainly be added. However, in an article in the Summer 2019 issue of the Baker Street Journal (unfortunately not available online), the author points out that this story was not told contemporaneously and, based on all the available evidence, seems (at least to him) to be unlikely to be true. I am not adding this assertion to our article because (1) as a new analysis it could be considered original research by our standards, and (2) I have a COI, as I wrote the BSJ article. However, I do think it would at least be worth adding some caveat to the assertion as it now appears. Thanks for your consideration. Newyorkbrad (talk) 09:20, 30 August 2019 (UTC)