Talk:The Big Bopper

message: The photo JilesPerryRichardson2.jpg does not appear to be genuine?  It is a picture of his son J P Richardson Jr. 67.160.173.249 17:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That was indeed J.P. Richardson's son, replaced image.Wurmis--19:28, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: First of all, the man's name is J.P. Richardson not The Big Bopper.  The article should be titled J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.  Nixon's nickname was "Tricky Dick", but that's not the title of his article is it?
Doing it this way screws up the encyclopedia.  By way of illustration, someone clicks on the category of "Plane Crash Victims" looking for Holley, Vallens and Richardson, but Richardson is alphabetized under "Big Bopper".
So nobody can find him.
:I agree. The article should be titled with his real name.--Dennis Fernkes 12:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe this box contained an unsourced and unlicensed image and was removed on March 13, 2006.--Dennis Fernkes 12:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs major work 

message: He's credited with working at KTRM radio -- that's Truman State University in Kirksville, MO. Was there an earlier station with these letters, and they were recycled later? Adamdavis 15:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Wikipedia article for KTRM, the call sign was in use for AM 990 in Beaumont during the time he worked there.  The call sign for that station is now KZZB.  Laura1822 01:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Tried to clarify. DavidOaks (talk) 19:37, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  KTRM? 

message: See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 04:23, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations & References

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support per move rationale as stated above. Wilhelm meis (talk) 01:06, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There seems to be a lot of coming & going regarding Richardson's birth date.  So I decided to look it up my limited, though usually adequate library.  I found, Talevski's Knocking On Heaven's Door: Rock Obituaries, it's Oct 10, 1932.  Whitburn in his Top 40 Hits says 10/24/30.  Lazell in Rock Movers & Shakers reports as Oct. 29, 1932.  Any ideas?  Is this an all-or-nothing scenario? Carptrash (talk) 04:57, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date 

message: "The bodies of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson were ejected from the plane on impact and probably tumbled along with the wreckage across the icy field before the mangled plane came to rest against a barbed-wire fence. While Peterson's body remained entangled in the main mass of plane wreckage, the fully clothed bodies of Holly and Valens came to rest several feet away from the wreckage on open ground.
Wearing only a red-checked flannel shirt and light blue cotton pants, the body of J.P. Richardson was thrown approximately 100 feet beyond the wreckage, across the fenceline and into the next cornfield. Like Holly and Valens, Richardson died instantly of massive head and chest injuries."
Those seem like contradictory statements.--Khajidha (talk) 01:16, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which is it?