Talk:Robert Earl Hughes

message: http://www.washingtontimesreporter.com/state_news/x688587697  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.248.212.101 (talk) 23:14, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
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message: User had added a gallery, which had spaced the page to be huge, I reverted it back to how it was from before. IamMoe79 (talk) 00:33, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
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message: Article here: " On July 10, 1958, Hughes contracted a case of measles,[2] which soon developed into uremia,[2] resulting in his death in Bremen, Indiana". The article gives his death on the very same day. Was it really so - he died of complications of measles on the very day of the infection?!--Alexmagnus (talk) 12:56, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Reworked the death section... I don't see a date for 1st symptoms.Shajure (talk) 21:18, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

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thread_title:  Yahhoooo credibility 

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BlacknoseDace (talk) 13:24, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
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message: Yes he was extreme large, however the photo currently being used is edited to make him look even more comically obese. Could someone please change it to a different photo, or the original unedited version of that photo. You can see the difference between in the images below.
Edited photo currently being used  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Robert_Earl_Hughes_Carnival.jpg
The original unedited photo http://the-source.net/wp-content/uploads/1-28-523x514.jpg
Just your average wikipedian (talk) 01:56, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have a better photo that is legally available to WP, and that you have the rights to share, please upload it.  The 2nd link perhaps does not work, as it shows on my browser only a portion of the image at the commons.Shajure (talk) 04:53, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, yes the comparison photo I used is cut off at the top and bottom, however it does show clearly that the photo currently being used has been stretched sideways to make the man look more spherical. I am not an expert on free use and copyright, but since the edited photo was able to be used without being taken down, I would assume that the image (both edited or unedited) is in free use? If so I would be happy to do some digging and find the uncropped unstretched image to replace the current one. Just your average wikipedian (talk) 05:33, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think we can assume anything of the sort.  It might well be appropriate to remove the current image.Shajure (talk) 10:46, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

text: I have removed the link to the image.Shajure (talk) 10:55, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  please change edited photo 

message: The source is Ripley's Believe It Or Not, but there is no link.
The two obituaries I found do not mention military service:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.obituaries/c/HMFU69BSSQI?pli=1
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7051577/robert-earl-hughes
This article about him that doesn't mention military service: https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2001/Heavy/
Here is the likely explanation for the incorrect information:  Robert had to register for the draft in 1944 but could not go to the registration office.  They came to his home instead.
>That year, 1944, he had to register for the draft, but his parents told the draft board that they had no way of getting Robert Earl to registration in Mount Sterling, 12 miles away. So the draft board went to Fishhook to register him.
>Stories about the unusual draft accommodations made papers in Quincy and other nearby cities - the first time Robert Earl made headlines. The stories said Robert Earl, likely the largest man to ever register for the draft
https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/2008/03/13/world-s-heaviest-man-world/46240427007/
There is no evidence I could find beyond that of him actually serving, and that seems extremely unlikely.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiwokowakawukuweke (talk • contribs) 16:22, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed per wp:BLPShajure (talk) 19:08, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious claim about military service  

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