Talk:John Elliot (songwriter)

Mistaken identity

1. The original article for John Elliot (songwriter) created in 2005 [1] was about John Elliot (aka John M. Elliot aka Jack Elliot and sometimes (mis?)spelled as John M. Elliott), who died in 1972 and was this person: [2] [3], [4], [5]. It was subsequently stubbed and cleaned up but still about that person.
2. Then Frongle over-wrote the article in 2008 with information about Jack Elliott (composer) [6], a completely different person who died in 2001. Note that the last names are spelled differently. The Elliot of John Elliot (songwriter) has only one "T", while the composer has two. Frongle appears to have taken his information from the wrong biography on IMDb (i.e. the one for Jack Elliott) [7].
3. Meanwhile in 2006, Alanelliott had expanded the stub of Jack Elliott (composer) [8].
4. In 2008 Alanelliott tried to correct the error in John Elliot (songwriter) [9] but was repeatedly reverted as a vandal and that's where we are today.

The whole issue has been compounded by people editing IMDb using the Wikipedia articles as sources and mixing up the two people there too. Another demonstration of why IMDb is not a reliable source. I'm going to re-write John Elliot (songwriter) to reflect who he really is. Voceditenore (talk) 09:34, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

• Update: I've now re-written the article and also created redirect pages for the other common forms of this person's name in reference works: Jack Elliot (songwriter) and Jack Elliott (songwriter) - Voceditenore (talk) 17:05, 10 April 2010 (UTC)