Talk:William O. Douglas

message: At the top of the article, there is a warning, dated April 2013, that includes the following:
"Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful."
As noted in the article, Douglas has been dead for over 30 years.  Why the concern?
John Paul Parks (talk) 03:13, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Living Person?

message: What does this mean:
While President Gerald Ford was gracious upon Douglas' retirement, the irony is inescapable that his most bitter political enemy was allowed to name his replacement on the Court.
Was Ford his "most bitter political enemy"?  It doesn't explain that in the text does it?  Thanks!
:Re-read the text. Ford, while in Congress, tried to impeach Douglas. -Willmcw 18:49, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Good call, missed that!
I wonder if he is the very William O. Douglas who traveled to Middle East  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Esmatly (talk • contribs) 18:01, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something isn't clear... 

message: I added some stuff on the 1970 impeachment hearings, which was such an embarrassment to everybody. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ericl (talk • contribs).
:Most of the section on the Impeachment Hearings is ridiculously POV.  Clearly needs some editing.--Velvet elvis81 21:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually do have a copy of the House report sitting around someplace, I'll make sure to add appropriate cites when I edit it. Old64mb 03:00, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Impeachment hearings

message: The article itself does a very poor job of dealing with the burial at Arlington.  It is pretty clear that he did not meet the criteria and that, in effect, he was allowed there because of his role as a justice without any real investigation of his "service."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.152.216.213 (talk) 14:37, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm flagging the Controversy section (which is basically the Posner review of Wild Bill) for a couple of reasons.  First, while Murphy's claims are verifiable - he did a hell of a job spending 10 years ferreting the stuff out - Posner basically just summarizes what Murphy argues.  Proper citation should in fact be from Murphy's book, not a secured site containing Posner's review.  And second and more importantly, if this is to not be a Posner POV section, competing quotes from other reviews (to paraphrase the former Douglas law clerk who stated something like "He missed one thing...why did we all love the guy even if he was a jerk?") have to be included to bring it to NPOV.  Murphy's research deserves a section on this article, but it has to be balanced out.  I may take a shot at it a bit later.  Old64mb 03:00, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I'm just going to move it here until someone (or me) takes a whack at making it NPOV and cites the quotations properly.  Old64mb 03:24, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If a person was bad, saying he was bad is not POV. QED, idiot. 208.111.233.208 20:27, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Most of these lies seem trivial to me. Who really cares if he heard Caruso sing or not? Atropos 01:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly; what kind of person would lie about such trivial things? 69.253.222.184 (talk) 07:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: Where is the evidence that Douglas wrote the most dissents? Running a LexisNexis search, it appears to me that Douglas dissented 781 times and Thurgood Marshall dissented 2,390 times. 
Nightkey 16:21, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most Dissents? 

message: Following "The William O. Douglas Wilderness, which adjoins Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state, is named in his honor, as Douglas had both an intimate connection to that area and a deep commitment to environmental protection.[1] Douglas Falls in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina is also named after him."  I note that the exact same info is in the Find a Grave article, which would be a reference.  Maybe somebody wants to address this.  7&6=thirteen (talk) 11:44, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Odd form for this reference/link

message: A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/William Orville Douglas was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 19:33, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bot-created subpage

message: Apologies to all. I did not realize that those extra '=' made subheadings, and just 'corrected' them all - my fault, and I have learned. Dumarest (talk) 14:15, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Level of headings

message: This article is wrong. Douglas retired Tuesday, November 11, 1975.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.10.227.201 (talk) 23:52, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not according to the source cited. Fat&Happy (talk) 01:05, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retirement date 

message: Added a See also link, to new article, William O. Douglas Prize. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 17:05, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added a See also link 

message: The citation form for the Murphy "Wild Bill" book gives the same page citation for all of the refs. But only the first one is correct. The others should ref different pages. What can be done about this? PraeceptorIP (talk) 21:07, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with Murphy "Wild Bill" book cites 

message: The article refers to her as Cathleen Stone, but her name was Cathleen Heffernan when she married Justice Douglas. Her later, married name seems irrelevant to this article. I suggest she should be referred to by the name she had at the time.Asburyparker (talk) 17:00, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third wife 

message: What are all these random italics doing in the lead section? I have tried to removed them, but for some reason cannot. Island Pelican (talk) 19:21, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: . Looks like you introduced the error in Special:Diff/1104934922 by essentially "stealing" the opening italics for Paramount Pictures to use for Skinner. Happens. :)  -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 19:24, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italics