Talk:Long Dong Silver

"Generally accepted he used a prosthetic sheath?"

What? I've heard that before but nowhere has it been the general consensus. I don't buy it, and the article doesn't seem to cite any sort of proof or reasoning for that claim.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that no human has an 18 inch penis? JDS2005 01:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I have a picture of him without the prosthetic sheath... without it he doesn't come any where close to 18"Avazina 20:32, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avazina (talk • contribs)

Um, where did Clarence Thomas mention Long Dong Silver? And why does this article fail to even mention the fact that he died from AIDS that he contracted from doing gay pornography since really long penises really don't appeal to the majority of heterosexual women? ForestAngel 11:18, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Here's a reference to some porn stars wearing prosthetic sheathes:

"And the wonderfully named freaks of Golden Age porn - King Dong and Long Dong Silver among them - wore prosthetics."

http://www.bizarremag.com/ask_bizarre.php?id=395

Also, it was John Holmes, not LDS, who died of AIDS-related complications, allegedly contracted doing gay porn.

Removing unsourced statement

As per Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons I have removed the unsourced statement about his computer science studies. __meco 15:47, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Problem with penis size information

The information in this article is used as criterion for inclusion in the list at Human penis size#Men famous for their large penis as well as Category:Men with unusually large penis. Now, more than 50 names have been included, and there have been objections raised strong enough that both the list and the category are currently targeted for deletion. Placing this posting uniformly on the talk pages of the articles concerned, I would firstly encourage editors to make sure reliable sourcing is provided to support the claims regarding penis size. Secondly, editors might wish to involve themselves in the discussions taking place at Talk:Human penis size and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. __meco 14:03, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

This article is still pretty unacceptable

This article still contains statements that may be wildly untrue, such as real name and place of origin. I feel it should be pruned drastically if we are unable to procure reliable sourcing for many parts of this article. __meco (talk) 07:51, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Mentioned in the The Big Penis Book

Published 2008 by TASCHEN GmbH, Cologne. ISBN 978-3-8365-0213-9; Chapter "The Myth...", interview with Jay Myrdal the photographer who devised "Long Dong Silver". He writes that the man who played long dong silver was in fact English and a Londoner, and not Bermudian, and that "that Wikipedia thing is complete rubbish" (p. 358). He also says they started photographing using multiple exposures, but that was so time consuming that they switched to a prosthetic. "It was very light, a very delicate foam latex sleeve that fit on over the cock, carefully glued down underneath by the pubes and then made up." (p. 359) The entire thing was done for the "sex fetish" market in the early 80's and didn't last very long. There was no mention in the book about his real name, although Mydral believes he was married with children. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scrambledhelix (talk • contribs) 04:28, June 22, 2008

Interesting. I've tagged the nationality as needing a citation. --Geniac (talk) 16:55, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Nominated for deletion

It reads in here that he is often confused with John Cook, a black man from Bermuda. So far I have not seen that he is being confused with somebody else. All the returns I get from web search direct to John Cook, not someone named Daniel Arthur Mead. Unless the info is actually verified, this article should be deleted.

Norum (talk) 14:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Redirected

This article was utterly worthless, chock-full of unsupported OR, and the only reference was to the controversy over the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. I redirected it there, since there was nothing even close to resembling an article here. Horologium (talk) 06:10, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Coatrack concerns

I have deleted, and suppressed, the article due to its obvious malicious nature as directed toward Justice Thomas. User:Fred Bauder Talk 00:41, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

After off-wiki discussion this has been restored. I have removed the Clarence Thomas references - this is an obvious case of using one article as a Coatrack to hang negative content about another living person, which is covered under WP:COATRACK. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:14, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

I don't see the relevance of mentioning the connection to Thomas' Supreme Court nomination to WP:COATRACK at all. That is not what this is. The information has been fully reinstated. __meco (talk) 15:03, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Some corrections by a novice

I hope I’m not being too adventurous as a novice editor, but this article appears to have several factual errors introduced on 25 September 2011. Examples are:-

• “…photographer Jay Myrdal” is referred to in the following line as “Mrytle”
• “Having been known as being one of the makeup artists for the film The Elephant Man ” is unsupported with references. As far as I know, Christopher Tucker did the film make-up.
• “Myrtle created the prosthetic…” contradicts Myrdal’s own account in The Big Penis Book (cited earlier on this talk page), where he reports that he “went to one of the best prosthetic model makers in England [who] made this superb prosthetic…” (p.358).

The article references a light-weight opinion piece/review (of The Big Penis Book), which has its own stylistic and accuracy problems (e.g. “…the “thing” attached to the 18-inched Long Dong…”!) I understand that Wikipedia encourages the use of secondary sources; but does this not imply that they should have at least some academic rigour? I have taken the liberty of correcting the errors, removing the second-hand references in favour of the original source and (hopefully) introducing some stylistic improvements. I’m a little unsure as to whether or not the citations have been correctly handled, so please have at them if necessary. I also note that search engines show that the erroneous content has been quoted verbatim on many other sites. How that gets fixed I have no idea!Okkid (talk) 01:46, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Daniel Arthur Mead not his birth name

Hello. Long Dong Silver's birth name was not Daniel Arthur Mead. That was the birth name of another porn star Dan Steele/Steel 1,2 who used the name Long Dan Silver in a video or two (apparently in numerous compilations also) in the early 90s where he also wore a very large prosthetic penis. Obviously that led to some confusion due to the similarity between the names Long Dong Silver and Long Dan Silver and it led to Steele/Silver's birth name be wrongly accredited to the individual this article is about. Dan Steele/Steel aka Long Dan Silver aka Daniel Arthur Mead died in October 2013. Here are links to his obituary as well as a report on his arrest on drug charges.3,4,5. I've removed all mentions of Mead from the article. I suspect the DOB is wrong as well and he is likely several years older, and the death date needs a source but have left them in. Wikiuser20102011 (talk) 09:41, 28 December 2014 (UTC)