User talk:Richard Pacheco

Richard Pacheco article

(Moved from User talk:24.7.106.27, AnonEMouse (squeak) 20:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Why do you think his birthdate is May 5? The IMDB link says May 7. AnonEMouse (squeak) 18:53, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. You are "Richard Pacheco". Nice to meet you, Mr. P. Honored, in fact. I just wrote your article a few days ago, and here you are, in person, writing in to correct it.

That certainly explains why you might want to correct the article info ... but creates a slight problem. See, this is the wild and wooly Internet, where the number of Richard Pacheco fans (say, a few hundred) with a mischievous sense of humor (say, a few dozen) may be expected to be somewhat greater than the number of actual Richard Pachecos (one). All we Wikipedia editors know is that some guy claiming to be RP changed the article's date of birth from what the IMDb says to something else. Not that the IMDb is perfect, it's just written by commitee too, but it is, at least, something. We'd love to get the right date, but we can't very well ask you for your driver's license over the Web.

There seems to be a few solutions, though - if you can point to a verifiable source, somewhere, that says the date of birth is May 5, I'll be glad to accept that. It doesn't have to be an official government document, but something better than an anonymous edit, forum post, or email. A magazine article would be fine. If there were an official RP web site, the way many stars have, that would be the easiest, since you could just put up a page saying so. Or, I imagine Luke Ford would be able to vouch for you being you, and would be glad to put up a paragraph about "oh, those dumb, Wikipedians getting it wrong again", the way he did writing about Brandy Alexandre vs Wikipedia.

Or, I understand there are a couple of on-web columns that RP writes, for The Here and There or Libido, or anything else. Those would qualify as magazine articles.

Or you may be able to think of something else that would qualify as a verifiable source. Put up a page or a paragraph saying "this is true", that anyone can read, and it will be happily cited in the article as a reasonably reliable reference source.

We (or I, at least) will do our best to get the facts right, with your help. Meanwhile, for the other thing, fixing other facts. There's a policy page, Wikipedia:Autobiography, that you really should read; it doesn't outright ban, but discourages people from writing about themselves - it's hard to be uninvolved. Thanks, AnonEMouse (squeak) 20:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- By the way, if I didn't mention so above - welcome to the Wikipedia! AnonEMouse (squeak) 20:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

Now that you're here, maybe you could clarify a few points I didn't understand, and possibly got wrong, while writing the article the first time.

How is it that you started "In the early '70s'", in Candy Stripers, which is dated 1978? Did it sit on some producer's shelf for a few years, or does IMDb have the date wrong?
If you essentially stopped acting in 1984, how did you get an acting award for Sensual Escape in 1989? Was it one of the rare films when you could use a condom?
Do you recall the Playgirl issue exact date(s)? The Donahue show(s) dates?
Any info on the NY Critics awards on the Web?

Thanks. AnonEMouse (squeak) 12:44, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]