Talk:Leo Ford

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"Hand in Glove" single cover model not Leo Ford

Although the article currently states that Leo Ford "was the butt cover model for one of The Smiths albums" and gives four references for this fact, it is demonstrably incorrect. The cover of a Smith's single (not album) uses an image of the torso of a nude man lying on a bed. The man's face is not visible. The model for that photo was not Leo Ford, but George O'Mara, as conclusively shown here. I would correct it myself, but I am wary of removing the references. Can please someone fix it? Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 17:35, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

What's astonishing is that even if it was his ass, in what universe would that establish "encyclopedic" notability? At any rate, the clear answer is to start the George O'Mara bio, source if to the morrissey-solo link, then slap "contradict other" tags on both articles. Problem solved!Bali ultimate (talk) 20:01, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree that this is not encyclopedic content. Not because it is non-notable, however. This falls under WP:NOTGOSSIP as this is a rumor; officially the model for the album cover is not identified. In that case, sources are irrelevant. There are plenty of published sources that say that 9/11 was an inside job, the Moon Landing was a hoax, Jimmy Hoffa is buried at the 50 yard line at Giants' Stadium, and so on but none of them are appropriate Wikipedia content. Because of this, I've removed the content from the article. --NINTENDUDE⁶⁴ 14:16, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia reports what reliable sources say. When reliable sources report disproven theories, they become part of human knowledge, and are included in Wikipedia. Our job is to inform, and if something popularly believed, or reported as true, isn't true, it's a contribution to human knowledge to so report. All your examples are already mentioned and properly debunked in Wikipedia: Moon landing conspiracy theories; 9/11 conspiracy theories, Jimmy_Hoffa#Recent_events. So your judgment about these things is clearly at variance with other Wikipedia editors. - Outerlimits (talk) 14:32, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

No it's not, since those are their own articles. The Jimmy Hoffa reference probably shouldn't be in there; aside from the fact that it seems shoehorned in there, Mythbusters is a television show, not a reliable source. Regardless, this clearly falls under WP:NOTGOSSIP. If the controversy over the album cover is notable, it should have its own article. --NINTENDUDE⁶⁴ 15:10, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Orientation

Can anyone offer a citation for his actual orientation? I'd like possibly ad him to the list of bisexual people, but I need a citation to do it. Also it, it would be nice to narrow the LGBT categories. Asarelah (talk) 21:33, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Request for Comments

There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages.

The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.

Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:21, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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