User talk:Bob blechman

Thank you for your edits to R. O. Blechman. Obviously, there is no way to ascertain whether your registered name means you are the esteemed cartoonist yourself, as Wikipedia is unfortunately often the target of hoaxes. Regardless, I wanted to explain my own recent edits to your edits.

Since Wikipedia requires that all claims be verified by reliable-source citations, I've gone to the National Cartoonists Society website and linked to the page listing R. O. Blechman as recipient of The Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010 (not 2011, as was given in your edit; please see that page of the NCS site).

Also, we do not add material within a cited passage that does not appear in the footnotes citation. In this case, the Blechman biography, written by the equally esteemed Edward Sorel, at the Art Directors Club 1999 Hall of Fame page &mdash; which would certainly be considered a reliable source &mdash; does not mention Blechman being stationed in Germany. He may well have been &mdash; I'm sure you understand that Wikipedia cannot "take someone's word for it," and so requires a footnoted citation. His biography page at his official website does not mention Germany. I do have the book R. O. Blechman: Behind the Lines and will look there for confirmation.

And in the off chance that this really is the real Mr. Blechman, may I say how your work has delighted me all my life, and how astonished I was to discover that as late as December 2008 that there was no Wikipedia entry for you. And while I haven't looked it up, I do wonder whether those TV commercials for Red Bull are Blechman animation or a Blechman imitator.

With regards, --Tenebrae (talk) 18:32, 19 September 2011 (UTC)