Talk:Charles Darrow

message: I believe this entire article lacks citations. Anyway, I added another known version to the 'evolution' section.Nricketts (talk) 13:58, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  article lacks citations 

message: Firstly, how about some structure and formatting to help make this discussion easier to follow...  There are plenty of resources available to help you format Wikipedia discussions...
The opening sentence of this article states "Charles Brace Darrow (10 August 1879–29 August 1967) is best known as the inventor of the Monopoly board game."  To the casual observer this sounds like an undisputed fact.  Anyone reading this discussion page will know that nothing could be further from the truth, which is highlighted just three sentences later!
I have only just begun researching the origins of Monopoly and in many ways was not surprised at all to learn that the details of its origins is shrouded in so much controversy and apparent supression.  The article Monopoly (board game) is considerably biased in favour of the Parker Brothers position.
Personally, I find it exceedingly apt that Parther Brothers was able to monopolise a game called Monopoly so successfully!
PS.  First sentence changed in lieue of above justification.
--Simonmetcalf (talk) 06:09, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charles Darrow and the controversy of ''Monopoly'''s origins 

message: The birthday was changed:
* on 16. July 2005 the birthday 10. August 1889 was inserted
* on 15. May 2008 the date was changed from 10. August 1889 to 11. August 1879
* on 10. August 2008 the date was changed from 11. August to auf 10. August 1879
Both changes were done without sources. So I think the first date was correct. If you have a good source for another date please insert the source. Greetings --Heiko (talk) 09:35, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  birthday 

message: There's a sentence in the article that reads: "During the ten year suit, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Darrow had copied down the rules directly (even the misspelling of Marven Gardens as "Marvin Gardens") from the game produced by Charles Todd.[8]"  However, in the citation (http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1441&context=llr) which discusses the courts rulings, I couldn't find any mention of Marven Gardens being copied misspelled.  I'm not sure the best way to resolve this... perhaps put "Citation needed" within the parentheses?  ScooterJohn (talk) 19:45, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marven vs Marvin citation 

message: In  of the page, there is the following claim that has needed a citation since November 2013:
Basically, I could only find the information on page 49 of Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game--And How It Got That Way, from which it looks like the text was paraphrased. However, I couldn't find where the author's source for that was, and I couldn't find any more authoritative sources on this in Google Books.
If anyone can find an authoritative source for either the 52 errors or 3 errors number, that would be great, but otherwise I've removed the claim and just said that the game was initially rejected. AllenZh (talk) 21:42, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed unsourced claim about number of "fundamental errors" named by [[Parker Brothers]]