User talk:Greendogghost

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The Adventures of Tintin
Hi. You've added the following to the above article:

"Popular belief associated the name Milou with a girlfriend Hergé had at the time, but this has been since disproven in favour of a more widely accepted explanation to the origins of the two characters. During the second half of the 1920's, in Belgium, the national and international press regularly related the exploits of two men. Robert Sexé, photographer-reporter motorcyclist on Belgian motorcycles Gillet of Herstal and René Milhoux, Belgian motorcycle pilot, Grand-Prix champion and motorcycle record holder. At that time Sexé had been round the world on a motorcycle and Milhoux was a motorcycle world champion. In 1928, whilst Sexé was in Herstal speaking with Léon Gillet about his future projects of adventure, Mr. Gillet put him in contact with his new champion, Milhoux, who had just left Ready motorcycles for Gillet of Herstal. Very rapidly a great friendship struck between the two adventurers of the extreme and the two men spent many moments talking about mechanics and voyages. Sexé explaining his needs and Milhoux giving his knowledge on mechanics and motorbikes pushed beyond their limits. Thanks to this union of knowledge and experience, Sexé will head off on numerous trips throughout the world, bringing back countless documentaries that will see light in the press of the day. The General Secretary of the Hergé Foundation in Belgium has admited that it is not to hard to imagine how a young George Rémi, better known as Hergé, could have inspired himself of the exploits printed in all the press of these two friends, ambassadors for the brand Gillet of Herstal, Sexé with his trips and documentaries and Milhoux with his triumphs and records, to create the characters of Tintin, the famous traveling reporter and his faithful companion Milou."

Because of the way Wikipedia works, we need to be able to verify text, as Wikipedia is a tertiary source and so can't contain original research. I can find a source to attest to the Robert Sexé influence, and did amend the text to reflect that, but it appears you have again added the material. Do you have any sources which would support your claims? I've also reinstated a reference which your edits have removed. I know it is hard to spot them and what they mean, being wrapped in tags and invisible in the article; their usage is described at Footnotes. Anyway, once again, welcome to Wikipedia. Steve block Talk 15:31, 5 January 2007 (UTC)