User talk:Scrabbling2002

David Jones

Hi Scrabbling, you just may be the lantern of enlightenment to help dispel the gloom surrounding this article and the missing information on Tarw's life. The article which Wikipedia is using to cite his birth is here at ESPNscrum.com. It is a trusted site which uses one of the foremost rugby union historians to update its database. The only problem is that they to take information from written sources, so if one book somewhere assumed that he was born in Aberaman or the Dark Side of the Moon, then that information is repeated incorrectly ad infinitum until dispelled by other sources. You could be our other source to break this chain. Now the problem I have had in finding more about Jones is probably the fact that he has the most common name in the valleys, plus we don't have an exact date of birth. As you can see, Census information from my point of view is nearly impossible. Now we can't use personal information to correct this duff information (as maddening as this seems), but a printed obituary will of course over-ride this.

From a personal view point, I would be more then happy to correct any misinformation on this article as I have a real soft spot for Dai Jones and I believe him to be one of the forgotten heroes of Welsh rugby, and his flaws just make him more interesting. You may not know, but Huw Edwards 'History of Wales' series last year, made reference to Tarw as one of the working class heroes of the valleys with an actor representing him at the Parc and Dare theatre. I'm pretty sure he would not have been mentioned without the researches coming across the Wikipedia article.

I will watch your talk page, so if you want a more one-to-one discussion then we could conduct it here. Anything I can do to help inform this article, please let me know. Hope to hear from you soon, FruitMonkey (talk) 08:31, 30 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How

Hi. Thanks for this reply. As I am new to this website I dont know how to send you the supporting docswhich would clarify. I have pasted the images into Word docs. Can i insert here as an embedded image?

?Scrabbling2002 (talk) 19:40, 30 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Scrabbling. If you go to my user page by clicking my FruitMonkey sign off name, you will go to my user page. On the left-hand side there are three or four boxes. In the toolbox section there is an 'Email this user' option. You can contact me there and we can swap information to improve this article. I hope that's okay for you. FruitMonkey (talk) 21:02, 30 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]