Talk:Chris Denning

message: Archived deletion debate: consensus was to keep
Is this insignificant paedophile really worthy an article in Wikipedia? To me, that's maybe a news item, but not encyclopedia material. (38 Googlits for +"Chris Denning" +paedophile) Delete. Lupo 12:13, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Article for Deletion

message: After his release, Denning went to live in Slovakia, where the age of consent is fifteen.
Why is it relevant to mention Slovakia's age of consent here? It implies that Slovakia is some sort of seedy haven for men who lust after young boys. In fact, many countries have an age of consent of 15 or lower, and even in Denning's native Great Britain the age of consent is only one year older than this (i.e. 16). 217.155.20.163 19:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV statement about [[Slovakia]]? 

message: Seems the BBC was a veritable nest of paedophiles - wasn't Denning a producer on some of JS's radio shows ?? 80.42.237.44 (talk) 00:38, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any links with [[Jimmy Savile]]? 

message: I've had to delete quite a lot of information about Denning for the moment. The claims regarding his convictions may all be true, but they are currently unsourced. To make such allegations without verification leaves Wikipedia prone to legal claims of libel: WIkipedia's guidelines regarding biographies of living persons makes it very clear: "(c)ontentious material about living persons (or in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced – whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable – should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion" (their emphasis, not mine). I'm sure there must be plenty of citable sources for the claims: if these are included, the material can be re-added, but until then, we need to stick to provable facts ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 17:12, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: added one reliable source (via an edit conflict) but others need to be found. Edmund Patrick –  confer 17:32, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thumbs up from me on that - that's much better. I've re-jigged the formatting of some of the references, 'coz I'm a bit of a nerd like that. Regards, ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 18:46, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced 

message: I've reinserted his date of birth, which is attested from various sources including those sites loosely described as "genealogy sites" which are not user-generated but which are repositories of official registration details.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:06, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This is OK. I've been wary of genealogy sites ever since some people got themselves excited over a claim that Adam Lanza, perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting‎, died on the day before the shooting.. Also, if a person has a common name like John Smith, there is considerable scope for misinterpreting search results even if they are reliable.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 19:32, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

text: I agree.  But, we now have a better ref for birth date and place, from The Prague Post.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:28, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth details 

message: There is a reference to an Operation Arundel. It needs an article really.
--Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 19:26, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Operation Arundel]] 

message: Re this edit: I saw the source but the International Business Times is largely a rehash of material from other news sources and it doesn't say that Denning presented TOTP, only that he took boys to recordings of it, which is what other sources say. List of Top of the Pops presenters says that he presented the show on 7 December 1967 and 22 February 1968, but the IBT source does not confirm this. It may be correct but isn't in the TOTP episode guide here which is rather incomplete.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 07:20, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Both episodes given on the Wikipedia page as being presented by Denning are listed in the BBC Genome/Radio Times site as being presented by Pete Murray: 7 December 1967 here and 22 February 1968                  here. Might have been changed after the magazine went to press, but this is enough to doubt if Denning was the actual host. His own credits in the BBC Genome site do not include Top of the Pops. Philip Cross (talk) 08:01, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I've reverted unless some clear evidence comes along that Denning did present TOTP.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 08:13, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top of the Pops presenter 

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