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editThe article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 04:51, 17 July 2007 (UTC) "In short, Oliphant's pandering to leftist views is what's wrong with America today." Is this appropriate to this article? It hardly seems unbiased or neutral. Rheubie 07:56, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- . . . especially when he seems to have jumped the fence in the 2008 campaign, attacking Hillary Clinton at every opportunity, depicting Bill Clinton as a bibb-overalled hillbilly (about as far from the truth as it's possible to get), and submitting anti-Obama cartoons far more often than anti-McCain. --Michael K. Smith (talk) 20:05, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Broken link
editSource [1] is a broken link. Somebody fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.67.106.244 (talk) 21:26, 14 January 2010 (UTC) '
- fixed 205.153.50.41 (talk) 02:04, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table . . . Will They?
editWhat is the context of this cartoon? What was thought significant about it at the time? Drutt (talk) 04:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Birth year?
editArticle lists 1934, category (and some other sources) say 1935. Anybody know what's considered most official? Wencer (talk) 01:05, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
- 24 July 1935 is confirmed - see "Family Notices". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 26 July 1935. p. 20. Retrieved 17 July 2012. Doug butler (talk) 10:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Punk Citation Needed
editThere's a [citation needed] tag alongside the statement about Oliphant's trademark penguin. What needs to be supported? Surely not the fact that the character occasionally makes a comment on the subject, which can be verified by simple inspection. Doug butler (talk) 22:16, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
The News and The Advertiser
editI placed a "citation needed" tag on the line that asserts Oliphant was a copy boy for the Adelaide News. The CNN citation says he was a copy boy then staff artist, but does not mention The News (its proper title), which is what I suspect may be in error. The Advertiser is now owned by News Limited (or rather News Corp Australia), and The News is long gone, but in those days it was the morning broadsheet in bitter competition with the afternoon tabloid News. Although not impossible that he may have "jumped ship" for the opposition, I feel it more likely that he started with The Advertiser and developed his skills within the collegiate atmosphere of that organization. Doug butler (talk) 00:10, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
Feud
editIs it worth mentioning Oliphant's feud with Berke Breathed? DS (talk) 22:25, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Punk
editI can't dispute the assertion that "Punk" was modeled on the Adélie penguin, but the little fellow that stared it all was almost certainly what we call a fairy penguin (Eudyptula minor), once common on the south coast of South Australia but now rare thanks to rats, foxes and young boys. Doug butler (talk) 22:00, 30 March 2020 (UTC)