Talk:Tiger Sarll

Issues

@SALVAHOUSE: Some issues with the article draft:

• When you re-use a cite, you don't need to provide the full cite each time. Instead, use the {{Rp}} (or {{R}}) template to re-use the template and specify the various page numbers. I did this already, so you can see what I did.
• It's likely that a reviewer will have a problem with the fact that most of the article is based on a single book, and that it is not available online to be reviewed to verify that it complies with WP:COPYVIO rules (i.e. that it is summarized, not copied). I'll note that the reference pages are largely in order, meaning that the article has an organization similar to the book. Some of that is unavoidable, I guess, but it definitely contributes to any copyvio concerns.
• The bib info for the book both at oclc and google books shows that the 1964 edition that you cited was published by "Adventurers Club", while the 1961 edition was published by Cassell (the publisher you cited). Can you confirm which edition of the book you used, and which publisher it is (I realize "Adventurers Club" could be a imprint of Casell)?
• The subject of an article is referred to by their surname, not their given name. Almost all of the instances of "Tiger" in the article need to be "Sarll" instead (not "Capt. Sarll" either).
• The lead said "Reis 'Tiger' Sarll (23 September 1882 – 27 February 1881)" which says he died before he was born. Or was this intended to show an ambiguity in his birth date? I left a {{Citation needed}} tag at the end of the article, where his death year was mentioned, changed it to match the death date shown in the infobox, and change the lead to reflect that as well. Please add his birth date and place to the "Early Years" section and cite it and cite the death date at the end of the article where the {{Citation needed}} is.

—[AlanM1 (talk)]— 00:28, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1: Thank you so much for taking the time to look through this I really really appreciate it.--SALVAHOUSE (talk) 17:48, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

• Thank you for adding this in for me, it makes a lot more sense now, I thought that it was interesting that only my article had a reference list like that.
• With regards too the book is there a world where I could send the reviewer the relevant pages? Is this s copyright breach if it's private? I could scan the whole book but that will take time, but im willing if it gets the article published. The order of the refs are due to the virtue of the book being very like a wiki article i.e significant events broken down into separate blocks. In fact, I wrote the article because the book was so easy to use as a reference.
• I took the publishing info straight from the front of the book. "Adventurers Club" seemed to be more like a collection of books in a series rather than a publisher. Ill double check this though.
• Thought so, re the name, I'll change that then.
• Ill look into your note about the birth and death, sounds like an error on my part.

Thank you so much for your notes, --SALVAHOUSE (talk) 00:41, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1: I have gone through, I have changed the death to just the year as I can find no solid obituary for Sarlls death. But I have found a few more Refrences about his film work and added them in.--SALVAHOUSE (talk) 17:48, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

@SALVAHOUSE: With regard to the book (for now), Amazon happens to have both editions used. Is it the 1961 edition with the mostly darkish-green spine shown here, or the 1964 edition with the yellow spine shown here? The former definitely says Cassell at the bottom of the spine. The latter, if I magnify it and squint real hard , I can see what might say "The Adventurers Club" at the bottom of the spine, which could explain how that got into the bib info as the publisher for that edition, even if it still says Cassell inside. I checked the publisher's site (now Octopus), but they haven't bothered with any of the back catalog of their acquisitions, so out of luck there. Is the yellow-spine 1964 book the one you have, and does it say "The Adventurers Club" on the spine, but Cassell inside?

Don't scan anything for now – I don't think it's necessarily how it's handled. The reviewer(s) will comment/request as needed – I just wanted to make you aware of the potential concern. If you can find additional sources about him for corroboration/color of some of the more unusual stuff, that would be good.

As far as obits, I'm not finding anything in newspaper archive, but there is probably a death registration at Ancestry.com if you happen to have an account there. Meanwhile, I've asked at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request/Archive_89#Tiger Sarll at Ancestry.com. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 06:50, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1: Hi there, sorry very busy at the moment. thank you for all the hours you have put in. Its really improved the article. Yeah is the Dark green Edition of the book but maybe a later reprint, Ill check again, maybe im missing something. It says Cassel inside. Thank you for waring me about the concerns with having a single source. Tiger Sarll is fairly amazing but little known it seems. Had a search on Ancestry.com but it seems you have found the Death! --SALVAHOUSE (talk) 17:48, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

@SALVAHOUSE: So the GRO death reg in Q3 1977 is confirmed and I've added the cite to the article and cleaned up other related issues. The bioscope source is the only one that gave his age as 94, and that was in a user comment (by his nephew), so I've removed it until/unless we can get an exact date of death. I sent an email to the nephew, who says he provided the headstone, seeking further info, but it unfortunately bounced (it was posted 10 years ago, and he was born in 1922).

I did an extensive search at Newspapers.com and NewspaperArchive.com (which has more international, especiall UK, coverage), and didn't find anything particularly useful for the article. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 15:33, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1: Thank you. Yes I had a deep trawl through Jstor and had no luck. --SALVAHOUSE (talk) 17:48, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks to folks at WP:RX, I found the entry in the index to wills and administrations with the date of 8 July 1977, which I've added and cited. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 20:36, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1: Thats amazing! well found. Probate search, Thats a such a useful resorce, great for future articles. I found two books that mention him in passing during his film career and I have added them in, but I might see if I can get in touch with relatives of his to gather a bit more info. They are discussing his potential title of Baron here: https://genealogyregister.com/S/Sarll/forum.cgi/read/9 --SALVAHOUSE (talk) 17:48, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Maintenance tags

@SALVAHOUSE (or anyone else interested): The draft had many links that pointed to dab pages, most of which I resolved. The ones I could not now have maintenance tags {{Which?}}, {{Clarify}}, etc., with reason parameters that explain the problems. Please have a look. I unlinked some terms, like "Colonel White" and "Morley House", because it does not appear that we have (or are likely to have in the future) an article about that subject; there are articles by those names, but they refer to other people/places. When you resolve an issue, please remove the template. It might be worth leaving the couple of <-- Do not link ... --> comments so others don't come along and accidentally link those terms to the wrong articles (as they were before I unlinked them). (BTW, it seems there was a template that made that sort of notation cleaner; anyone know what it is?) —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 22:52, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1 Thank you, I linked them without thinking perhaps, I'll be more careful in future. There where cases in the book where evens where misspelt, such as battles and people names, Perhaps a relic of when it was written? --SALVAHOUSE (talk) 17:50, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1 Had a crack at them, solved most and provided info where it was warranted, ill let you make that call if its enough or if you would like more. there are a few I can't work out at all, his school was very hard and I cant seem to find a clear answer here. There was an old school but it changed its name to Clifton after Tiger would have attended... more research it seems. --SALVAHOUSE (talk) 01:15, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Commons files used on this page or its Wikidata item have been nominated for deletion

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• Capt. Tiger Sarll.jpg
• Tiger Sarll hypnotising a alligator.jpg
• Tiger Sarll on 'This Is Your Life'.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 13:08, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Alligator length

25 foot alligators would be a big story, the longest known are 19 foot. Similarly with 35 foot pythons, that would be over ten metres. There are other bits that seem a little fishy to me. But those two were checkable. A three foot baby would also be a new record. ϢereSpielChequers 19:57, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

• From a quick google search Aligators and Pythins do grow to and can exceed these lengths mentioned. Feel free to edit the article of course if you think this is spurious. Thanks SALVAHOUSE (talk) 12:57, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

My quick Google search didn't come up with any reliable sources that could be used to update American_alligator#Reported_Sizes, can you give me a dif on an alligator that was longer than even the longest salt water crocodile? If these inflated claims come from the same source as other parts of the article then much of this needs to go or be rephrased as improbable claims made about Sarrl. ϢereSpielChequers 21:15, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

On second thoughts I think that deletion is our best and safest option. ϢereSpielChequers 10:21, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Pythons

The article refers to Sarll catching "pythons" in the "Mexican jungle". This cannot be right, as Sarll can hardly have been catching Old World animals in a New World environment, so unless he was visiting a pet shop in the wilderness, the "up to 17 pythons a day" he imprisoned there must be a lie or a taxonomic error. (Possibly both.) Pythons are not naturally found in the Americas. GPinkerton (talk) 17:58, 5 September 2020 (UTC)