Talk:Dick Liddil

Can somebody help me expand the page?

Thank you. I'm a bit busy this week. Lhw1 (talk) 02:20, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Just the facts please

User Lhw1 has admitted adding information from the fictional novel, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in regards to "Dorothy Evans." He wrote the following quote at this |discussion page on the film.

"I agree there should be a historical accuracy section. By the looks of it, this movie is the most historically accurate Jesse James movie to date. There is very little you can say to criticize the accuracy except for the little details. However, evaluating this would be difficult considering there is very little known about the supporting roles. There is no online source that says there ever was a "Dorothy Evans" per se, but Ron Hansen has done his fair share of historical research before writing this novel and I can say with certainty that there was a Dorothy Evans in Creede, 1892. Although the dialogue is fictionalized, the documented events in the movie are as accurate as they could be." Lhw1 (talk) 13:00, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

There is a possibility he did the same on this article. From this users contributions it is easy to see he is a big film fan and I had my suspicions that he has been adding fictional information from the novel to non-fictional articles. From the quote above I feel my suspicions are correct. I have tried several times to get a response from this user with no success. If someone has the time it would be a good idea to go through his contributions for this article and delete the fictional material. Jeff Smith (talk) 06:06, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

You must be misunderstood. This particular article is all referenced, as is Charles Ford (outlaw) and so on, so why would you be under the suspicion that this is falsified? The bulk of this page wasn't even written by me. Nor are the other pages. The only possible fictional addition I have made was the Dorothy Evans segment, which I hoped someone would help me gather information on through genealogical research and such, because I was under the impression that this was a from a reputable biographical resource, which the author claimed to do an impeccable amount of research on. So please do keep on maintaining these pages with care. If you deem some information unfit, then feel free to delete it. But 99.9% of my contributions are entirely truthful and I do not intend to cause any harm or vandalism to these articles. Movies have simply persuaded me to do extra research in order verify the historical accuracies of events portrayed such films. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford has actually proven itself to be one of the most incredibly accurate biographical films I have ever had the pleasure of watching. But I know movies are movies, and reality is reality, so I hope you understand where I'm coming from. Just because I love films does not mean I purposefully vandalize with fiction. Lhw1 (talk) 08:50, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Date of death

These sentences seem contradictory: "Liddil died of a stroke in July 1905... The actual date of ... Liddil's death is July 13, 1901". How can his death and "actual" death have occurred on different dates? Should "actual" be "official" instead? Obstruction (talk) 19:20, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

If he was born in 1852 and died in 1901, then how could he be 72 years old at the time of his death. Also, if he was born in 1852, and arrested in the mid 50's for horse stealing, was he only 3 years old? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.117.77.213 (talk) 13:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Mark in Iowa says: I think Dick's bio page needs lots of help on this part. I'm concerned about his being arrested in the 1890s for the murder of Wood Hite, then dying of a heart attack three months later, in 1901.