Talk:Paul Kollsman

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Date of birth conflict[edit]

+At the top of the article it says that Paul Kollsman was born in 1900. At the bottom, it says that you can look him up under 1910 births. Which one is it? — 64.20.170.254 00:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

POV[edit]

Obvious major POV issue here, with "in what can only be described as an act of cultural vandalism..." — 75.83.69.196 (talk) 20:06, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The simplest fix was to remove the WP:NPOV phrase. — JoeSperrazza (talk) 05:25, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The facts are verifiable, so the statement could be left in the article, with appropriate supporting references. See the comment written by "A. Disgusted Citizen" in October 2011 at https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/lost-hollywood-the-enchanted-hill-of-fred-thomson-and-frances-marion/. It is clear that Paul Allen and his lawyers are pigs; calling them cultural vandals is rather mild. The only ones to gain by having the information suppressed are Mr. Allen and the people he paid to do his dirty work. Might one of those people been the anonymous IP editor, above? — Quicksilver^{T @} 22:04, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Errors of fact[edit]

The Persondata template contained an incorrect date of death, March 17, 1982, conflicting with the September 26, 1982 date shown in the Infobox, and the article said he died in Beverly Hills. I found a New York Times obituary article, dated Wednesday, September 29, 1982, that states Paul Kollsman "died Sunday", making the date September 26, 1982. It also says that he died at "Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles". The incorrect death date may have been copied from the German Wikipedia article, where it is still incorrect as of today. The article also made no mention of the death of his first wife in 1951, or that he remarried and was survived by his second wife, Eva. I tried confirming the birth and death dates via the Social Security Death Index, but it contained no entry for a "Paul Kollsman" dying in California in the range 1981-1982. This isn't all that unusual, as Social Security participation is, in theory, a "voluntary" program, and some people of means like Paul Kollsman probably never "volunteered" themselves into subjugation upon the advice of astute legal counsel. Another possibility is that his death was never formally reported and recorded in the Social Security database. — Quicksilver^{T @} 21:42, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]