Talk:John Comer

Please add category

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Last_of_the_Summer_Wine_characters Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.254.114.119 (talk) 08:01, 9 January 2012 (UTC) John Comer in film "A Taste of Honey". Can someone give more information on this .... I've seen the film several times and don't remember Mr Comer in it. Thanks, Graham. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.25.251.146 (talk) 21:16, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Removed information

Why has so much of the information about John's personal life been removed, under the claim it was uncited. The citation was quite clear, it was an interview given by his brother Tony and published in an article of the parish magazine of the church they both attended? It was also relevant to the article. RexGregorian (talk) 10:49, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

What specific information was removed that was in the parish-magazine article? --Tenebrae (talk) 16:22, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

His date and place of birth, details of his parents, where he was educated, where he was baptised, his early career and work as a bevan boy. All the information about who he was, which was gained from the interviews given by his brother and his widow, and all of which was included in the cited source. RexGregorian (talk) 20:29, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Rex, and thank you for taking the time to discuss. Looking at past versions of the article, I see that only the last sentence, about engineering, in "Early life" was cited to that source. Nothing indicated that the rest of the claims were cited to that source.

But more significantly, looking at this closely now, is that this information is cited to St Ann's Stretford Parish Magazine. Christmas 2007. p. 14. Is the information in this extremely minor, hyperlocal publication currently available to the general public? Per WP:PUBLISH, it needs to be accessible to the public either online in at least one public library; someone's personal copy in their home is not considered accessible. Is it online, or are bound copies available in a library? Conversely, if you own a copy, can the contents be scanned and posted to a public site such as Scribd.com? --Tenebrae (talk) 01:31, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

The magazines should be available in Sale Library in Trafford. But I do have electronic copies on my computer, it was actually me who interviewed both Molly (his widow), and Tony (his brother), they have both died now. I will look at publishing the article online.RexGregorian (talk) 21:37, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

@RexGregorian:, that would be, seriously, quite terrific. This is information not even the BFI has, and Comer deserves to have such basic biographical material available to people researching his work and that of British film and TV in general. I've found the free service Scribd.com to be a good resource for writers to post articles, and Wikipedia editors also are able to cite articles reprinted on a writer's own website. I encourage you wholeheartedly. --Tenebrae (talk) 01:57, 1 June 2016 (UTC)