Talk:Donald Sinclair (hotel owner)

message: The article has a notice at the top of it: "The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic."  I think that notice should be reviewed in consideration of removing.  Nearly ever sentence has one or more quoted sources.  I have to say that I browsed to the article, as part of research while preparing for a holiday in Torquay... I found it very informative and am very pleased I read it.  I really hope it will not be removed: it's a good article! 88.96.159.86 (talk) 16:32, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: Remove Notability Notice from Article 

message: It would be most illuminating if Sinclair's reaction to the program based on him were included in the article.
- It would indeed be most illuminating, but perhaps his personal reaction is not included because he has never given one publicly. 88.96.159.86 (talk) 16:32, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I vaguely recall reading an article many years ago (can't recall which publication) where Donald Sinclair was quoted as admitting "Well, John Cleese did stay in our hotel, and I suppose it's possible I may have been a bit on the brusque side. This Basil Fawlty character must be based on me." Muzilon (talk) 00:31, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reaction? 

message: According to several sources it wasn't a rucksack but an attache that was deposited beyond the garden wall. Monte Python participants, especially the main such, were not about to carry rucksacks around anyway. Please correct this.
: Idle goes into some detail in Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut). Sinclair's widow denies the bag and wall story, as she should. Much less dramatic than the retelling, ammended. MartinSFSA (talk) 15:47, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rucksacks? 

message: According to the Fawlty Towers main article, Mr. Sinclair never left Torquay and didn't emigrate to Canada. -Mfree 17:58, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccuracy about place of death? 

message: The main article states that the daughters say the rendition was accurate, as opposed to this article. --Liberlogos 09:09, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the contradiction by removing the uncited information (in the main article, which has the daughters saying it was accurate). I've also moved the detail all to this article, so that hopefully the contradictioj won't happen again. Rocksong 01:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction on family 

message: FreeBMD lists only three people named Donald Sinclair registered in 1909: two in June (Donald, in Whitchurch; Donald Jarran, in Swansea) and one in December (Donald Alan F, in Darlington). So date of birth and/or birth name may be different. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:02, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there no (even unreliable) source for date of birth? Where did the date of 10 July 1909 even come from? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:11, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: There are family trees on Ancestry.com which indicate he was born in Ireland as William Donald Sinclair. That seems to be confirmed by the Dublin birth index. Muzilon (talk) 23:57, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date and place of birth