Talk:Rodney Marks

message: disambiguation: the comedian Rodney Marks links to this article.  That should be rectified.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.69.186 (talk) 16:59, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This page tagged for speedy deletion by a one post user for being nonsense and lacking importance "This article or other page provides no meaningful content or history, and/or the text is unsalvageably incoherent. It is patent nonsense (CSD G1)" and "lacks information on the importance of the subject matter." 
Nonsense?  Even in first post there were links to newspaper coverage of the event. And look at your own rules - people write articles in multiple posts  you should WAIT - and this may mean days - until the article is completed before judging it.
Importance?  The first murder in Antarctica isn't important?  Lets run the Google test on this. Pathetic. 
This article was tagged within seconds of being posted and could not have been read by the tagger. 
Like many users I am sick of the stupid criticsms and incorrect corrections of articles placed by bots - let alone the possibility of loosing an article as soon as it is created to a speedy deletion process.  Most wikipedians are interested in writing not deleting or administering and don't follow the archane rules that trigger bots, or want to waste time defending anything vaguely questionable under some obscure rule written by deletionists.  This is not a matter of 'oh, we've now decided your article has some slight merit so we will be kind enough to let it stay with alterations we see fit, be grateful' and any criticsm which shows a complete lack of procedural justice is dismissed as wikilawyering.  The act of tagging the article is rude, annoying and impolite and wrong, and creating a robot to be rude annoying and impolite as well as frequently wrong is worse.  An apology would be appreciated.  yes the article could no doubt be improved.  be cosntructivem, research it and make the edits yourself.  Winstonwolfe 04:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK if being the first alleged murder in Antarctica makes it important, why is that not in the first sentence of the article? -- RHaworth 04:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: because I'm not writing for the ease of deletionists - they can have the decency to read the article before deleteing it.  Last scentence, second to last para. Winstonwolfe 06:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done extensive cleanup:  as far as I can tell, *none* of the sources are alleging it's a murder, so I've removed the POV and sensational wording.  The news is still fresh, and reading it as "murder" seems premature based on the sources given so far.  Sandy (Talk) 18:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And I'm guessing the headline "Who Killed Rodney Marks" sways you not one little bit. Winstonwolfe 06:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tagged for speedy deletion, "alleged murder"

message: Hoping somebody more knowledgeable than I can fix this, current version contains 
The whereabouts of the station doctor, Robert Thompson, have been unknown sometime after 2006.[7]
Assume it's a typo, but have no idea what they meant. Certainly it's interesting info that the station doctor
was missing, but begs more info, and it's mysterious how 'sometime after 2006' could happen - his
location was known before, but now it's not? 
Anniepoo (talk) 21:50, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsense Sentence 

message: Substituted at 04:47, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: Is it known where the methanol came from? Was any methanol stocked at the station, e.g. for use in machines? --Neitram (talk) 11:31, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a reliable source for wikipedia inclusion, but this article states . Schazjmd (talk) 22:18, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it known where the methanol came from? 

message: I moved the statement that Marks had Tourette Syndrome from the investigation into death section to the early life section, as it doesn't appear to connect to the investigation whatsoever. However, noticed there's no source on this? Wasn't able to find one myself. Not sure if it should remain without one? JackMeraxes (talk) 08:19, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: A Mental Floss article mentions Marks' Tourette syndrome, saying that Marks "had been known to use alcohol to cope" with his Tourette symptoms — something that would argue against his having consumed methanol intentionally, since "Marks had access to plenty of alcohol on the base if he was looking to self-medicate, and as an experienced binge-drinker, he would have known the risk of drinking unfamiliar substances".  The Mental Floss article itself, however, cites no sources for this claim.  — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 01:17, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tourette Syndrome