Talk:Sean David Morton

Life section needs help

The Life section contains repeats of events, as if two different chronologies were written and never collated. Phrases such as bag and stick sound more like a promotional press release than biography. The section contains two paragraphs on a Stone Saga in which Sean David Morton became involved in Ireland and/or Great Britain, called the Green Stone Saga in the first instance and the Meonia Stone Saga in the second. No where is this saga satisfactorily explained, beyond it having something to do with a precious stone supposedly once lodged in the hilt of the mythical sword Excalibur.

Also, the first line in the article is slightly slanderous: it casts apprehensions on the subject's psychic abilities before his main career as radio host (and author and conference speaker, incidentally) is mentioned. Also, the use of self-described is fine, but if we're allowing the subject to describe himself, then the name of the article needs to be changed to Sean David Morton, which is the name he goes by publicly, as radio host and author.

Please note, in several places this article mentions that SDM was "indicted by the SEC" which is technically incorrect. The SEC does not have the power to issue criminal indictments and all charges from the agency are Civil in nature. I would suggest changing the relevant parts to "SDM was charged by the SEC in a Civil Action ..." or words to that effect. Perhaps an attorney can give a more precise description.50.5.249.78 (talk) 00:48, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

I'll check back later and if no one objects I'll fix the Life section, at least. Hypatea (talk) 21:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I encourage you. I already hacked at it once, and further surgery would be a Good Thing™ El Ingles (talk) 00:05, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

How does it look now? Any better at all? I'm thinking the Credits section needs to be changed a bit, too. Maybe separate sections for Radio Appearnces, Television Work, that sort of thing. There should probably be an expansion on the Controversy section (or whatever it's called currently) to include all the bad blood surrounding Morton and his side of the story as well. Also, he is selling at least three books, that should be mentioned, maybe in a new section? Hypatea (talk) 16:40, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Improved. I've added 2 books. El Ingles (talk) 16:56, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

The wikilink to Now It Can Be Told seems unlikely, to say the least. Anyone know what this should point to? El Ingles (talk) 17:46, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Probably the television series, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278221/ ...Add as an external link at the end of the article, or include as a footnote, I guess? Hypatea (talk) 20:20, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

A large chunk of self promotional material sourced only to Morton's website was added here. I'm removing it. LuckyLouie (talk) 00:00, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Can someone confirm this Morton is the same person here; I ask because the articles state he is 58, not 56: "A married couple from Hermosa Beach are facing federal charges for allegedly conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by passing bogus checks and bonds as a way to escape debt.

Sean David Morton, 58, and his wife, Melissa Ann Morton, 50, were arrested Sunday in San Pedro after disembarking from a weeklong “Conspira-Sea Cruise,” and Nofway (talk) 18:26, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, that is the same Sean David Morton. SyrusStone (talk) 16:37, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

References

Doctorate

I understand that it may be useful to have a section explaining that the "doctor" title is not legitimate. On the other hand, the sources used appear to not to be reliable and to be primary (WP:PRIMARY). The section's text is also the editor's synthesis (WP:SYNTH), not the conclusion of a reliable source. It's therefore possible that it does not meet the requirements of the WP:BLP policy. Moreover, one of the "sources" is actually an external link to the fringe school itself, that we probably don't want to promote. Input welcome, —PaleoNeonate – 14:01, 20 May 2019 (UTC)