Talk:Henry Blofeld

Biography assessment rating comment

The article may be improved by following the WPBiogaphy 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 03:26, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Related to John Blofeld? Both have Calthorpe in the name... Wooster (talk) 14:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

he has an older brother John who is/was a judge —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnybriggs (talk • contribs) 21:22, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Brother John Christopher Calthorpe Blofeld, b. 1932. The other John Blofeld is likely a relative though. Ashiyura (talk) 16:47, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

The Ernst Stavro Blofeld page contradicts

That page says that the villain is NOT named after Blowers' father. Hmmm.

It is true that the villain is NOT named after Blower's father. The author and Buddhist scholar John Blofeld (who is in fact distantly related to Blowers) knew Fleming through a gentlemen's club. This tell us that Fleming was acquainted with both these branches of the Blofeld family, however it seems most likely that John Blofeld's father was the inspiration for the name, as his name was Ernst Blofeld. This should be rectified to show uniformity across these pages — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.90.37.18 (talk) 15:07, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

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Image is book cover. Reference to this now made in article. PaddyBriggs 07:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Blofeld controversy

I have a vague recollection of Blowers getting into trouble some years ago for describing fans watching events at Headingly from an overlooking roof (or something) as being in the "Jewish stand", which he apologised for. Am I right? We shouldn't include unsourced negativity per BLP but balance dictates that if he's been in hot water we should mention it. --Dweller (talk) 11:01, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the following text from the article. Although it is well-sourced and I don't dispute its accuracy, I feel that its inclusion gives undue weight to a minor, isolated incident. I also don't see the benefit of repeating the remark and rebroadcasting it to a wider audience, thus causing further potential offence. Dricherby (talk) 22:05, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

In 1995, Blofeld was censured for an antisemitic comment made on-air at Headingley:

He referred to onlookers watching a match from the balcony of a tall building outside the ground at Headingley as being at “the Jewish end”

Blofeld and the BBC both apologised for a comment that was "not spawned by malice".

I'm going to reinstate it. The comment about UNDUE does not stand up in an article of this length and on the other comments, I refer to WP:NOTCENSORED --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 14:25, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

References

Have you ever heard him pronounce 'Cloisters'?

Have you ever heard him pronounce 'Cloisters'? He is well known for saying the word like it rhymes with 'poseurs'. Very strange. 87.113.95.177 (talk) 15:05, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

References

I've put several tags on this article for citation needed. For a BLP, there is lots which is unreferenced and I do not have the sources to sort it out. There are bits and pieces from newspaper articles, but it really needs his autobiography. Some of the playing career details could be found at CricketArchive if anyone is so inclined. Sarastro1 (talk) 23:09, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Citation needed

I find it incredibly annoying that details in Wikipedia articles that are universally known to be true are annotated as "citation needed". Anyone who has ever listened to Test Match Special must have heard Blofeld saying "my dear old thing" hundreds, if not thousands, of times. Why, oh why, does it need a citation? One might just as well say a citation is needed to say that Obama is President of the USA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyAustria (talk • contribs) 00:34, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. SmokeyTheCat 08:54, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

My response is a little late, but I found a suitable reference written by his colleague, Vic Marks. I have added it to the article. Axl ¤ [Talk] 11:42, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

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