User talk:Laxdad18

Bob Powell
Wikipedia appreciates all constructive editors, but the way it's set up, everything in it needs to be verified by a reliable-source citation. I'm sure you can understand that an encyclopedia can't just accept anything anybody adds and "take their word for it." You say Bob Powell was your father &mdash; yet anyone can claim to be anyone on Wikpedia, which occasionally gets hoaxed. People have claimed they're a friend of so-and-so and that person is dead, etc.

In this case, the death date comes from the U.S. government's Social Security Death Index, which is the closest thing to a death certificate. This doesn't mean it's not wrong, but the odds are very low, and without compelling public evidence otherwise, we can't change the date. The difference between October and December is significant, and it's hard to imagine the U.S. government paying two months' worth of Social Security to a deceased person without repercussion.

What I would suggest, if you really are who you say you are, is to contact a magazine such as Alter Ego, which can verify your identity, and do an interview with it to state your case there. I'm sure any comics-history magazine would love to speak to the son of Bob Powell and learn more about this great artist. The magazine has spoken to the daughters of Joe Maneely and Bill Everett, for example.

To give you an example of what I mean, click here to see Jim Steranko being quoted in that magazine correcting something Roy Thomas had said.

I'll help you with contact information, etc., if you need. And I would suggest, to understand better how to write for this encyclopedia, you go to the Five Pillars of Wikipedia. With regards, Tenebrae (talk) 14:45, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Contact Roy Thomas and Michael Gilbert of Alter Ego - they will confirm my identity. Also myself and my brothers worked with them on the Alter Ego series they did a few years back on my father. If you are familiar with that publication you will see credit for my participation and I am mentioned in the series. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laxdad18 (talk • contribs)


 * I don't think you understand how this works. It's not my or any other editor's responsibility to contact anyone &mdash; and what would we ask? "Is Laxdad18 the son of Bob Powell?" If someone is not going to even look up the very basics of Wikipedia citation and verification, then it's hard to work with that person. Read the policy on original research, please. We can't just "take anybody's word for it." --Tenebrae (talk) 15:23, 14 February 2014 (U

Where can I send you a scan of my fathers obituary? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laxdad18 (talk • contribs)


 * Go to my user page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tenebrae. In the lefthand navigation bar, you'll see a link for "Email this user." Click that and send me the attachment. Presuming it's a newspaper or such, and not a family newsletter, then it will be citable and I promise I will cite it. --Tenebrae (talk) 01:04, 15 February 2014 (UTC)