Talk:Dan DeCarlo

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Reason for deleting wikidate overlinkage[edit]

It's per Wikipedia style guidelines. This from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29#Avoid_overlinking_dates

Avoid overlinking dates

If the date does not contain a day and a month, date preferences will not work, and square brackets will not respond to your readers' auto-formatting preferences. So unless there is a special relevance of the date link, there is no need to link it. This is an important point: simple months, years, decades and centuries should only be linked if there is a strong reason for doing so. Make only links relevant to the context for the reasons that it's usually undesirable to insert low-value chronological links.

Usage of links for date preferences

year only. So 1974 → 1974. Generally, do not link unless they will clearly help the reader to understand the topic.
month only. So April → April. Generally, do not link
century. So 20th century → 20th century. Generally, do not link
decade. So 1970s → 1970s. Generally, do not link (Including an apostrophe [1970's] is incorrect)
year and month. So April 1974 → April 1974 Generally, do not link
new year and month. So April 2000 → April 2000 Generally, do not link unless they will clearly help the reader to understand the topic. Presently, articles only exist for combinations from the year 2000 to current
day of the week (with or without other date elements). So Tuesday → Tuesday. Generally, do not link.--Tenebrae 02:16, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright Issues[edit]

Some of the text in this article is copied verbatim from the NY Times obituary here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/nyregion/dan-decarlo-archie-artist-and-creator-of-josie-and-the-pussycats-is-dead-at-82.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm

Whoever looks over this page should probably correct the issue. Clockster (talk) 10:35, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Good catch. --Tenebrae (talk) 15:04, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I only found two sentences from the above-linked page, and I will fix them. --Tenebrae (talk) 15:09, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Official Website[edit]

Doesn't exist, or there's some other problem but the site doesn't come up when the link is clicked. 174.89.28.25 (talk) 02:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch. The site was gone, doubtless since Dan and his wife and children have all passed. I've inserted an archival link, for posterity. --Tenebrae (talk) 03:37, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge[edit]

There is an outstanding merge proposal, not discussed, to merge Josie DeCarlo here. That seems reasonable, given that her notability originates through Dan's cartoons, and both pages benefit from the additional material and context. Klbrain (talk) 11:10, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. Wikipedia guidelines state that notability is not inherited. DeCarlo is not notable outside of her connection to Dan DeCarlo. Also, a lot of the material here duplicates material in Dan DeCarlo.--Tenebrae (talk) 00:06, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done Klbrain (talk) 21:36, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]