Talk:John Walton (darts player)

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There have been at least two edits requesting names of children to be removed as "they do not want them plastering all over the article" - (however they are happy to plaster their IP address?)

Regardless of that, I don't know the policy on this and should there be any changes made? It appears that there is some kind of animosity towards Walton either from his children or from hoax edits. If it is a genuine request, they should be taken seriously? Any thoughts? Seedybob2 20:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They are not hoax edits they are from the mother of his children and me his eldest daughter. i don't care about IP address as i never use the same PC. John Biy Walton has never cared about his children and therefore why should he be able to use are names on any website???? John boy walton is a crap father and even more so got the dates of birth of his own children wrong.... why should a man that never calls or sends his kids a brithday card have any right to use there names on a website????? you should respect the wishes of his children even tho we do not class are selevs as anything to do with him any more as he never pays any intrest in us or shows he cares... as far as i am concerned this man no longer exists to me

Thank you

Katie Ellen Walton

—Preceding comment added by 86.151.94.101 (talk) 20:17, July 15, 2007 86.151.94.101(UTC)

Hi Katie, I appreciate that the circumstances surrounding your relationship and your mother's relationship with JW have been very distressing. The issue regarding this page is that wikipedia is designed to be a reference encyclopedia which should present an unbiased (see WP:NPOV) biography of famous people.

The article however has been littered with vandalism edits over the last few years including the most recent in August 2010, "Personal Life John Walton has 5 children that he never sees or helps out when they need it" which may be 100% true, but is more appropriate in a tabloid newspaper than on a purely encyclopedic article. Strangely, if such a story was published by a newspaper and available as online then it would be appropriate to include some reference to it in the article.

John hasn't written the article himself so he isn't "using" your names on the site - they will have been taken from an article that appeared in a paper or interview a few years ago and put in here by a wikipedia editor. The private life of famous people is of interest to wikipedia readers and that's why info such as wife, children are often included in their articles.

Would this be appropriate??

Walton has five grown-up children from his first marriage, three boys and two girls. He married his second wife, Sally on June 9, 2001 - the year he won the world championship.

People could make their own interpretation of him from this - I would personally ask the question about his second wife marrying him "just for the money", but it would be highly inappropriate to put that into the article itself!

Seedybob2 (talk) 11:33, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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