Talk:Carroll Smith

Wikipedia is not an obituary

This passage has several issues.

Smith succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2003 at his home in Northern California, leaving his daughter Dana, his son Christopher, and his fiancée Ginger.

Carroll's former wife, Jane, died on October 15, 1994 after a fall from a balcony in their home while she was gardening.

Carroll himself notes: "She went doing what she liked best, enjoying the ocean view and gardening...secure in the love of her family and friends and in the respect of her co-workers and students."

First, it reads like an obituary notice in a newspaper.

Second, this is an unusual amount of detail about his former wife's apparently accidental death.

And that's part of the problem. The subtext of mysterious domestic 'accidents' always plays to British murder-mystery paranoia.

Are we including this amount of detail to problematize what appears to be the accepted societal surface narrative?

Some serious editorial questions should be asked, here. — MaxEnt 18:09, 4 December 2022 (UTC)