Talk:Duncan MacPherson

message: On November 8th, 2006 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasted a 1 hour documentary into this story; The Fifth Estate puts their old programs online, and will be available to watch from their website http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/archives.html and a direct link to the web feature is at http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/iceman/ - Gribbler 07:43, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Let's take Seawaggg's reverted edits down the line:
* "an upstart semi-pro hockey team" - "Upstart" according to whom?  WP:LABEL violation.
* "His career as a possible NHL hockey player had just come to an unhappy end." - How do you know that?  For all anyone knows he might have been relieved.  Violation on speculation.
* "The New York Islanders had a few months earlier cut him from their minor league system." - Incorrect.  His three-year entry level contract had expired, and that was reflected in the article; that is not being "cut."
* "and no other pro team had chosen to pick him up." - We don't know that; it's possible - indeed, probable for a 1st rounder, however underperforming - that MacPherson had offers.  Violation on speculation again.
* "No other team saw any potential in the former 1st round draft pick." - And how do you know that?  Violation on speculation once again.
* "from a distant friend" - "Distant" according to whom?  WP:LABEL violation.
* "without advising anyone of his plans" - We don't know that for a certain fact either. Violation on speculation.
* "into unfamiliar wilderness." - "Unfamiliar" to whom?  Violation on speculation.  
* "A young man who had survived winter after winter of -40F in his native Saskatchewan" - Aside from that the average January low temperature in Saskatoon is -8 degrees F, what are you trying to intimate?  That there's something sinister in dying of exposure when the thermometer's "only" 15 degrees below freezing?  WP:EDITORIAL violation.
* "gentle Austrian mountains, where at coldest it was 15F." - "Gentle" according to whom?  And where is your source for the night time temperatures of the region when MacPherson was there?  WP:EDITORIAL violation.
These are all unwarranted, unsourced POV-pushing edits.  Seawaggg states in his edit summary that "its not speculation to describe seeing a hoped for career not come true as an unhappy end."  It is exactly speculative to do so; he is speculating on what MacPherson's mood was.   Ravenswing  23:29, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe Seawaggg means well, and is honestly hoping to improve the article.  However, the commentary you are challenging does need to be removed.  The article was not in encyclopedic tone and had many statements designed to be dramatic that should not be reinserted.  Resolute 14:02, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculations 

message: So, where's this "mystery" the article is swaggering about?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.163.231.182 (talk) 10:09, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: An young man's acccident

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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thread_title:  Some of the links are broken