Talk:Stuart Lubbock inquest

I believe that this short page on Stuart Lubbock clearly identifies how his death was important to the career ending of once popular TV star Michael Barrymore. His story was in many tabloids in the UK after being found unconscious in a swimming pool and became well known across the UK. As the blank page was previously linked to from the page of Michael Barrymore, people should be able to find out about who Lubbock was and the controversy surrounding his death.. In my opinion, there would be no good reason to delete the page.


 * I agree; the article is sufficiently encyclopaedic, and is relevant to a prominent television personality. However, the page is also rather euphemistic and skirts around the details of the incident a little too much; in particular, "the British tabloids took a strong view regarding what happened" is pretty meaningless and assume prior knowledge. Whilst of course there is limited accurate knowlege of the events which occurred that evening, and it is necessary to avoid potential libels, I think it would probably be beneficial to provide information on the reported injuries and cause of death Lubbock sustained, and possible causes thereof. DWaterson 00:57, 12 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree, but the article needs some attention, including content, grammar and spelling. --Dumbo1 01:16, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Is this a direct quote?
According to, the police "said the criminal investigation had been suspended, as the cause of death had been "unascertainable" and there was no witness evidence." But this article says, "Detective Chief Superintendent Ian McNeil said: " As the cause of death had been "unascertainable" and there was no witness evidence, he had decided to suspend the criminal investigation." The quote marks before "Detective" and after "investigation" are mine; the other three are in the article text, so the quote mark before "As" is unbalanced. Is it a direct quote that the reporter included verbatim in the paraphrase? If so, it needs a closing quote mark. If not, then did McNeil really say anything like that? Art LaPella 16:44, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

sourcing format needs improvement
This is a UK story, so I have no idea about the details, but the formatting of the referencing throughout the article needs more than a little TLC. If someone is a dedicated editor of this article, I can try to help with one or two examples, but I'm afraid I can't clean up the whole thing. Sorry to be grumpy about it. --Ling.Nut 05:36, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Some very useful pages to read:
 * Verifiability (policies)
 * Reliable sources (guideline)
 * Cite sources (style guide)
 * --Ling.Nut 06:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I think it might be a good idea to lock this page, due to current developments. _ Slight