Talk:Alexander Pearce

message: As they were placed - they looked like advertisements - have tried to consolidate in a format more appropriate  SatuSuro 12:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Films

message: * unless referenced text below should be left here as no attempt at either providing footnotes or reliable sources has occured.  At the moment it looks like potential copyvio material which means it should be left off  main space altogether  SatuSuro 12:01, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced material

message: that's in the introduction.  is there any OTHER way to eat....well, any large creature??Colbey84 (talk) 02:46, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ate him in pieces" 

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message: It is claimed that Alexander Pearce said "Man’s flesh is delicious. It tastes far better than fish or pork", but the cited source is a random website which does not itself cite a primary source. I've read almost all of the sources about Alexander Pearce from the time, and none of them make mention of this quote. I've left it for now with a "better source needed" note, but it should probably be removed if nothing can be found.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meditaris-avena (talk • contribs) 04:08, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I know almost nothing about the subject but I've had a little play with thisand the closest I can get is the highly fictionalised novel For the Term of His Natural Life where one of the characters says: "I have seen the same done before, boys, and it tasted like pork." But you probably already knew that anyway. For all we know the website might have embellished a source like that ... Graham87 17:28, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The earliest book I can find that mentions this in Google Books is the children's book Crime Time: Australians Behaving Badly (2009) by Sue Bursztynski. According to the introduction available online, something to this effect was mentioned in the Encyclopedia of Murder by Colin Wilson and Patricia Pitman ... hardly a scholarly source. And the bit of the bibliography I can access through Google Books says this: "If you're a member of a public library, just use your membership card to log into the library's website and you can use the online resources, including encyclopaedias. I did." My ability to use Google Books is relatively limited because I'm blind and use a screen reader ... and I know Google Books has its own limitations ... but I think it's pretty safe to remove this passage now, as I'm about to do. Now beware of citogenesis ... Graham87 17:59, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It was added to Wikipedia in January 2011, so anything containing this quote published afterwards is suspect. I had the article on my watchlist by then (I put it there around the time of the linked edit), but I guess I just trusted the quote because it was added by an established editor. Graham87 18:19, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Better than fish or pork"