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I removed Mark's exact birthdate because of the following I read on referencing famous people:
Privacy of birthdays
Wikipedia includes exact birth-dates for some famous people, but including this information for most living people should be handled with caution. While many well-known living persons' exact birthdays are widely known and available to the public, the same is not always true for marginally notable people or non-public figures. With identity theft on the rise, it has become increasingly common for people to consider their exact dates of birth to be private information. When in doubt about the notability of the person in question, or if the subject of a biography complains about the publication of his or her date of birth, err on the side of caution and simply list the year of birth rather than the exact date. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Privacy_of_birthdays
I know they can find it on IMDB, but there isn't really anything we can do about that. I personally think that adding Mr. Evanier's exact birthdate just because another website has it is like when your parents used that timeless phrase, "Well if everyone else was jumping off a bridge..." heh. :P That's why I edited it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The One Watcher ( talk • contribs) 18:37, May 4, 2007.
>1. We're currently listing your exact date of birth. Normally >Wikipedia policy is to no give exact dates of birth for living >people for privacy reasons. However, you appear to knowingly >expose your exact date of birth here on Home Theater Forum >http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/member.php?u=40482 . Would >you prefer Wikipedia not list your exact date of birth? ME: No, it's fine.
There are now two different birth dates in the article. The one in the infobox is different to the one in the text. March is the right one ? -- Ilion2 19:11, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
The blog "Is Mark Evanier Mentally Ill?" (IMEMI) is a comic art fan blog that occasionally takes potshots at Evanier. It's hardly a source of studied analysis. Checking the front page today, the only reference to Evanier is the text "ON THIS THANKSGIVING I MUST GIVE PROPS TO THE BIGGEST TURKEY OF THEM ALL, MARK EVANIER," and an unflattering photo of him. Poking around, I'm finding insults, very brief snarky comments on quotes from Evanier, and some general whining. How is this a useful general reference site for Wikipedia? To appear in the "External Links" section, someone following the link should arrive at a page directly relevant to the topic (Evanier, in this case). IMEMI clearly fails. — Alan De Smet | Talk 04:41, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm assembling resources to help source books on comics, this includes Kirby King of Comics. ( Emperor ( talk) 15:58, 8 March 2009 (UTC))
On Wikipedia, a lot of notable people with uncommon or unusual names receive IPA pronunciation after the initial name. As I have heard Mr. Evanier's name pronounced multiple ways and I can find no source for its pronunciation, I believe that this would improve his article. 69.27.233.254 ( talk) 19:05, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
The following comment was posted at WP:BLPN; it is more appropriately dealt with here. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 12:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
You need an article on novelist and biographer David Evanier. If it were up to me, I'd cut the comic book guy out completely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.162.253.101 ( talk) 00:04, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
Some beat me to it, and I recall that Wikipedia can frown on self-referenced statements, but Mark Evanier did request a number of corrections on his blog today, here. If someone wants to find or add appropriate references for these corrections, that would be great. Otherwise, this comment will have to do in the meantime. HalJor ( talk) 20:24, 13 July 2018 (UTC)