Talk:Mike Road

Dead?

According to this link > http:// www.tvrage.com/person/id-8574/Mike+Road he died back in April of this year. Really surprised no media has picked up on this and I'm very skeptical of these actor name listing sites that seem to be run and edited by any ordinary person out there. After the whole carry on with Margie Hines being declared dead in 2011 on the Behind The Voices website (which turned out to be nonsense), can we trust this link? Thoughts please? --Jkaharper (talk) 05:17, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

It is a bit of a dilemma. According to an IMDb user, Mike Road was a very private person and therefore doesn't appear in any obituaries. So the user ensures us that Mike really did die earlier this year. I believe his/her claim, but without a reliable source, how do we proceed from here? If his Wikipedia page says that he's still alive, then that might be misinformation as well. What about adding a "possibly living" category? OscarLake (talk) 16:03, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Cheers for the response. Yeah I agree whilst the information on IMDb sounds reliable we can't use it per Wiki policy. Seeing as he's over 90 and there has been no evidence of him being alive for years, I'm more than happy to go with your idea of using the Possibly living category. If there are no more replies to this section within the next few days I'll go ahead and add it. Cheers! --Jkaharper (talk) 17:55, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

It's not just the fact that he was private and didn't care for publicity. It's that actors who have become quite active in animation or active only in animation and voice over have been snubbed by newspapers and other things we would call "reliable sources". Joan Gerber died in August 2011 and Philip L. Clarke died in April 2013, and in a short amount of time so did Mike Road. But just like the Emmys snubbed Jack Klugman of an individual tribute, the "reliable sources" have snubbed all of these fine talents of tributes. The only source for Road's passing is this, But it is a blog. Radiohist (talk) 15:54, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Joan Gerber is dead according to IMDb, surely that holds up as a "good enough" source? With regards to Mike Road, this blog seems to have a definitive answer > http://xenorama.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/rip-mike-road-1918-2013.html. However, blogs are not allowed to be used as sources on Wikipedia whatsoever - regardless of how professional or how much expertise they carry within them with regards to certain fields (which is why I think the "no blogs whatsoever" rule is silly). Regardless, the source looks trustworthy, and I'm proposing we add the date of death using website sources here > http:// www.tvrage.com/person/id-8574/Mike+Road, and here > http://kryptonradio.com/2013/09/19/obituary-our-childhood/... Thoughts? --Jkaharper (talk) 17:53, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, add the sources and declare him as dead. Also, Wikipedia rules are not supposed to be followed 100%, so don't hesitate to use blogs in the future if necessary. OscarLake (talk) 07:30, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Re: "private person." I've heard from two different sources, one at Hanna-Barbera and the other a relative of Mike's, that he retired after having a stroke that affected his speech. This is just FYI for anyone curious enough to look in the "Talk" section. It's doubtful we'll ever find anything usable as a source. ClassicCraig (talk) 17:58, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Unpublished Novel

In 1947, Mike Road authored an unpublished manuscript largely based on his personal love life. I have a copy in my possession and was considering adding a line to his wikipedia page. But I don't have a source to cite, as the novel was never published (and doesn't appear to be named) and I doubt there's a reference to it anywhere online. The typed manuscript is dated December 10, 1947, and I have accompanying documentation from his daughter talking about the parallels between the fiction storyline in the novel and the events of Road's relationship with his first wife, Norma Lehn. So, instead of adding this information to the actual article, I'll have to make do with adding it here instead. In the future, I'll put info on the novel online, and maybe that will be enough to provide a citation to add this into the wikipedia article. — Eric Herboso 02:23, 12 July 2020 (UTC)