Talk:Gord Downie

message: If the name of band is "The Tragically Hip"; shouldn't "The" always be capitalized even mid-sentence?  Fbax (talk) 20:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: The or the?

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message: Could someone please provide a reliable source with Gord's exact date of death? It's not clear to me whether he died before or after 12:00am Oct 18. Thanks, AdA&D 16:06, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the statement posted on Twitter it was Oct 17th. They used the term "last night". https://twitter.com/thehipdotcom/status/920628509369950208 CommotioCerebri (talk) 16:23, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The night doesn't stop at midnight. Stops at daybreak. One night covers two calendar days (except in the Arctic). CBC says it was Tuesday night, which is clear enough, but attributes this to the tweet, which isn't any clearer to them than it is to us. It's a reliable source's interpretation, though, so it counts as true on Wikipedia. InedibleHulk (talk) 03:56, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

text: InedibleHulk is correct that the phrase is technically ambiguous — people do commonly use "last night" to mean "before waking up this morning", even for the period of time after midnight when it was technically already today rather than yesterday. So it's true that we don't really know whether he died before midnight on Tuesday or in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning, since the statement wasn't actually released until after 9 a.m. Wednesday morning and didn't specify the time of death. But since "Tuesday night" is what most sources are saying, it's what we have to say too unless and until a reliable source actually confirms otherwise. Bearcat (talk) 22:38, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Globe and Mail states the date of death was October 17 . Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 23:18, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think an Obituary published in a national news paper would be considered a reliable source for the date of death. CommotioCerebri (talk) 14:05, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death date 

message: This has been posted as both Toronto and Kingston.  Without a reference source, we are not in a position to state which is correct.  I've removed "Kingston" from the infobox. An interview with the father of Paul Langlois suggests that Paul left for Toronto on hearing the news of Downie's death, but that probably is not sufficient, either.  Risker (talk) 04:51, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The link you provide is to a youtube video. I have taken the liberty of inserting the NYT reference you provided in the article. Regards,   Aloha27  talk  05:20, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for correcting the link.(This is the correct link.)  The reference should be used in both places. There is absolutely no reason for it not to be in the infobox, where the place of death is being changed repeatedly.  Even neophytes tend not to try to change information that has a reference source.  Risker (talk) 05:45, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of death