Talk:David McDaniel

message: ===Comment from Contessa===
If this is the case, the editor is unaware of it. According to the four close friends of David McDaniel, as related to the editor in a telephone conversation shortly after McDaniel's death, but before his memorial service.  David had fallen in the bathtub, and then, suffering a head injury, had apparently walked through his apartment to the front hallway and fallen again, where he subsequently perished.  Charles Lee Jackson II discovered the body after McDaniel failed to appear at a previously scheduled luncheon the next day.  McDaniel was autopsied and no evidence of foul play was found. His body was cremated and the memorial service was held, probably Nov 3rd, which this editor attended along with various fans and his widow, Joyce Mcdaniel. IF McDaniel perished of autoerotic asphyxiation, the story has been "hushed up" and this editor (who was a close friend of david) was unaware of it. It would, however, explain the hastiness of the autopsy, cremation and burial. McDaniel's service was held at Chapel of the Pines which is located in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los angeles, where McDaniel's cremains are interred. This editor is inclined to believe the less salacious version of events as Charles Lee Jackson II stated that since the door was blocked by McDaniel's body, he (Charles) had to climb through a window to gain entry to the apartment.
===Response from Barry===
CLJII said that the outer door was locked.  The door that was blocked was the door to the bedroom.  You can believe what you like, but Charley reported that he found Dave hanging -- and Lee and I had to clean up the carpet by the bedroom door, where various fluids had dripped as his body decomposed.  And the cause of death is listed by the Coroner as "accidental strangulation"; it is available in LA County public records if you care to look it up.
In any case, I have deleted your question/comment as not germane to the purpose of the Wiki article: to convey information about the subject (Dave) that is of interest to the general public.  Feel free to email me [edress deleted per Wiki policy about editor's real names & contact info] if you want more info.  An intelligent person should be able to figure out my email address from my username.   Bgoldnyxnet 15:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Charlie told me (most likely in 1984) that he was standing; at least, the mental image that stuck with me is that he died leaning against a wall. —Tamfang (talk) 11:44, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Random discussion moved here from the Article

message: CLJII said that the outer door was locked.  The door that was blocked was the door to the bedroom.  You can believe what you like, but Charley reported that he found Dave hanging -- and Lee and I had to clean up the carpet by the bedroom door, where various fluids had dripped as his body decomposed.  And the cause of death is listed by the Coroner as "accidental strangulation"; it is available in LA County public records if you care to look it up.
In any case, I have deleted your question/comment as not germane to the purpose of the Wiki article: to convey information about the subject (Dave) that is of interest to the general public.  Feel free to email me [edress deleted per Wiki policy about editor's real names & contact info] if you want more info.  An intelligent person should be able to figure out my email address from my username.   Bgoldnyxnet 15:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Charlie told me (most likely in 1984) that he was standing; at least, the mental image that stuck with me is that he died leaning against a wall. —Tamfang (talk) 11:44, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Response from Barry

message: Note: I have taken the reference brackets off Coventry, it refers to a shared fantasy world, not to the city in England. Bgoldnyxnet 23:09, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Coventry

message: McDaniel's chairmanship of Westercon XX is noted on the website of the LASFS at http://www.lasfsinc.info///index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=193&Itemid=539
Information provided by Fred Patten, official historian of the LASFS.
Offices held at LASFS are listed on a plaque at the headquarters/clubhouse of the LASFS.  They can also be found in the occasional publication "The Menace of the LASFS" in the fanzine collection of Bruce Pelz, donated to the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Utopian Literature at the Rivera Library, University of California at Riverside.
Many of McDaniel's other publications can also be found in the Eaton Collection, including his Cult publications (Fantasy Rotator, the Official Organ of the Cult) and his SAPSzine Mest. 
His filk songs were published (or re-published) in The Filksong Manual originally published by Bruce Pelz, now available from Lee Gold.
Bgoldnyxnet (talk) 09:56, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Fan Career

message: Might i remind people that WP is not a fansite. any biographical material placed her must come from reliable sources. Additionally, the material must be notable to some measureable degree, at least within the field of science fiction. I am an SF fan myself, but im also a WP editor. most of the content here is unsourced hearsay or trivial for our purposes. the only valid reference is at ISFDB, which simply shows he wrote books. Unless someone can find a source, a printed object with multiple copies in libraries, a lot of this content must be removed. Im sure he was an absolutely fabulous guy, the life of the party, but we arent partying here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:52, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Reliable sources

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A column where? Shaggy? APA-L? —Tamfang (talk) 03:18, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
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