Talk:Michael Stone (loyalist)

message: :born ... Birmingham, England, moved to Belfast at 5 months old
I reverted the above information which was added by an anon IP.  It may be correct, but I couldn't find any evidence for it, so it needs a citation. Richard W.M. Jones 22:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted the same just now.  Please, anon IPs, add a verifiable reference if it's true. Richard W.M. Jones 22:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace 

message: But others from Northern ireland are refered to as Irish...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.149.35.102 (talk) 19:03, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Funny how this guy is "British"

message: Can I just say two things:
1. WTF?!?
2. Yeooooooooooooooo!--feline1 12:02, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stormin' Stormont

message: There's nothing in the article about Stone claiming his attack on Stormont was art, and the acting out of a "real" terror attack. Should it be added?
definitely, hes an artist not a killer  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.86.99.11 (talk) 20:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Stormont Attack = Art

message: I'm surprised that we can't mention in the article that Stone is a good example of what is colloquially known as a spide. If wikipedia can have an article on the term spide, surely that term becomes usable in other articles? I appreciate that (i) it's a subjective judgement and (ii) a pejorative term - but does this mean the article cannot note that many of Stone's countrymen would apply the term to him? --feline1 15:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What sort of "source" would you need. I, for example, am born in raised in NornIrond, and thus have been using that slang term all my life. I would call Michael Stone a spide. How else can slang from dialects be "sourced" other than by people who use that dialect?--feline1 16:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The kind of source that I'd need would be a reliable source. Plenty of slang words can be properly sourced — look at Scanger for examples. If you can't source it, it doesn't belong in Wikipedia. Demiurge 16:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean if *one* cannot source it, it doesn't belong in wikipedia. My personal abilities to source things are irrelevant. --feline1 23:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Huh? Is this a joke?! Stu ’Bout ye! 09:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it is performance art :) --feline1 11:20, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ha! If you had called Johnny Adair a spide on his page, I might have agreed! Stu ’Bout ye! 11:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well he's a spide too. But I imagine some busybody would require me to reference Stephen Nolan saying so in BBC Radio Ulster before wikipedia could acknowledge the fact :0/--feline1 12:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Spide?

message: The article states that Stone was arrested at the age of 16 for firearms possession and membership in the UDA, but the UDA was not outlawed until 1992. When Stone was 16 years old in 1971, the UDA was still legal.jeanne (talk) 13:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Membership of the UDA

message: hehe. Well, I'm not going to remove that! I don't know how yer man on UTV kept a straight face reporting that last night. It deserves a complete quote here; about Stone trying to kill Adams and McGuinness as his artistic means to say goodbye to the paramilitary Michael Stone and signal the arrival of the artist, Michael Stone. Inspired- maybe he is actually an artist (or else his insanity-conscious lawyer is- ahem). 193.203.136.185 (talk) 06:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Artist

message: TBH, the (loyalist paramilitary) disambiguator seems a bit POV-ish to me as a non-expert. So what's the difference? 78.34.145.215 (talk) 17:44, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  loyalist paramilitary ... or simply ... terrorist ? 

message: The article says that the Milltown attack was in retaliation for the IRA's Enniskillen Remembrance Day bombing in November 1987. However, UDA South Belfast brigadier John McMichael was blown up in December 1987 by an IRA booby-trap car bomb planted by an ASU led by Sean Savage. Couldn't the attack also have been carried out in retaliation for McMichael's killing?--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 18:29, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Retaliation

message: Where did the section on his early life disappear to? I presume he did have a life prior to the Milltown Massacre or was he just magically conjured from out of nowhere the day of the shootings?--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 08:10, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Early years

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Funny how often an article's text, if read all in one go, appears hopelessly contradictory.  So one place says he has had 9 children from 2 marriages.  Another place says 3 children from 1st marriage, then 2 more from 2nd marriage. Shenme (talk) 01:47, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  3 + 2 = 9 ?