Talk:Billy Mays

Advertising

Wikipedia is not for advertising! This article contains numerous external links to promotional websites, only a couple of the products mentioned have their own articles (I haven't look at them) but the rest are direct external links to promotional websites, e.g. http://www.mightyputty.com/

I've marked the site with the spam tag until somebody can look further into this.

--204.116.124.68 (talk) 08:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Anyone else ever have the urge to beat the hell out of this guy?

Salary

$330 mill sounds like a lot for a cleaning product whore. Maybe some proof?

While you opinion is valuable, it loses its value when you use the type of language you did. Please watch what you say and how you say it. Cbreseman (talk) 13:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

NPOV

There is an unsourced statement that is debatable whether it represents a NPOV. It references his "demeaning tone", yet there is no source that says this is the reason he has appeared in less commercials, so I'm led to believe it's an opinionated statement. 69.117.70.39 02:18, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Deleted and recreated

I have deleted this article and recreated it as a stub. The bulk of the biographical content was a copyright violation of this article. Additionally, the article contained startling WP:BLP violations. From this point forward, the addition of any unsourced material will be reverted without comment. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 23:21, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Ref 3

Is broken. Trevor GH5 23:49, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

POV

"...has gained Mays a substantial amount of recognition and a rapidly growing legion of channel changers whenever his fingernails on a blackboard voice eminates from the television screen." How un-biased.65.6.213.12 (talk) 01:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Has this page been vandalized? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.33.182.117 (talk) 21:42, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Un-biased? No. Hilarious? Yes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.137.7 (talk) 06:10, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Deleted Salary information

According to one of the external newspaper articles linked to from this article, $330 million was the revenue of his employer, not his personal salary. 96.233.103.109 (talk) 12:24, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Stalker-ish info on his home?

Does anybody else think that tracking down, and subsequently posting a link to the appraisal of his house is a little, stalkerish? Just because its public info doesnt mean we should necessarily post it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.225.123.235 (talk) 02:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Well here is his phone number too 813-920-8780. He posted that online himself as he is selling his home now for 3.8 million. http://www.homes.com PropId=54480547 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.202.33.20 (talk) 05:06, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Ghost hunter??

I remember seeing Billy Mays on a Sci-Fi channel production about ghost hunters, where he (using his name Billy Mays) still claimed to have been a ghost hunter. I always wanted to find more info online about that, because it was hilarious, but never can. It could be an interesting foot note to the article if someone can find it somehow.

The show focused around a lady being haunted by "real" ghosts in her house, with it sitting on her kids bed, blood dripping from the walls (in droplets), and when they went into the attic Billy Mays somehow ended up getting hung by a rope hanging in there. Then it went on with Billy and the other ghost hunters at their house with things turning on and off and windows breaking and finding scissors under their pillows and stuff.

I remember thinking it was real when I was younger, then I saw him on informercials. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.113.60.50 (talk) 20:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Bear

Wrestled a black bear? Citation please. Ulgar (talk) 19:05, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to remove that. It is unsourced and just has the feel of something someone stuck in as a joke/vandalism to see how long it would last before someone removed it. Mantisia (talk) 01:29, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Polar Bear Club

I suspect the mention of membership in the Lake Robinson Polar Bear club is a piece of vandalism that has flown under the radar. I can't find any reference to this on Google that doesn't seem connected to this Wikipedia article. Just in case I'm wrong, I'll leave it up for another day or so to give someone a chance to provide a citation. Mantisia (talk) 01:45, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

New source

The Washington Post did an extensive article about Mays. There could be some useful information here for this article. --Oakshade (talk) 15:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)