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Earl Holliman

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Earl Holliman contains information that requires the citation of reliable sources. Statements made without substantiation may be removed, so please add at least one. You may wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you.Mgreason (talk) 14:43, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Numkena is the unpublished source between the communication Numkena and Holliman. Musclebug (talk) 03:08, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony Earl Numkena

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Anthony Earl Numkena contains information that requires the citation of reliable sources. Statements made without substantiation may be removed, so please add at least one. You may wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Mgreason (talk) 14:47, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added a citation to IMDB of the cast list of Destination Gobi showing that both Holliman and Numkena appeared in the same movie playing separate roles. Musclebug (talk) 03:02, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony Earl Numkena

you have already been warned about adding content about this alleged "confusion" about Anthony Earl Numkena and Earl Holliman to articles nearly a year ago so just stop already. Until you have a noted reliable source that explicitly states there was in fact some confusion between these two actors - stop adding this to both articles. this is an encyclopedia, not some moronic trivia site to add useless crap to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.72.176.240 (talk) 02:41, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ok, I'll try this again. wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a collection of useless trivia about supposed "confusion" over a name. ONline movie data bases are not reliable sources for content on wikipedia anyway as they are notoriously incorrect. if you want to include this information so badly, you need to find a reliable, third-party source that documents this confusion which would lend some credence to this even being notable to include. as it stands, this "confusion" is just useless trivia that best belongs in the trivia section on imdb or something. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.72.176.240 (talk) 19:02, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One of the sources is the New York Times which uses a picture of Earl Holliman under Anthony Earl Numkena and this is totally incorrect. There is a web wide confusion between both actors due to a movie book that mixed both names together. Anthony Earl Numkena and Earl Holliman personally know this. Prior to inserting the confusion, even Wikipedia got names mixed up. I am was using the Wikipedia so set a known matter straight. Trivia is useless fact. The confusion is not useless fact because Wikipedia does not state that Earl Holliman is not Anthony Earl Numkena and vice versa. If the web is stating Earl Holliman to be Numkena and Wikipedia says nothing about it, then it could be construed to be true.

the New York Times source you bring up is nothing more than a mirror to the AllMovie site which is....an internet database! Try Again! if this trivial bit of information is in fact "a web wide confusion" then you should have no problem finding a book or a magazine that documents this "web wide confusion" as being a notable event and worthy of mention in an encyclopedia. how about you actually going to Holliman's article talk page and providing evidence of this instead of repeatedly adding this trivia to the article just because you and you alone think this is interesting? that is how disputes are resolved - not by you shoving content into the article without presenting a shred of evidence that this tidbit deserves to be included. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.72.176.240 (talk) 22:33, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

wikipedia does not need to correct other internet sites mistakes nor should it point them out. YOu should work on getting yahoo! or whatever other database you come across to correct this "confusion" if you're so concerned about people being confused. IF imdb has this mistake at one point it is obvious someone changed the content or reported it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.72.176.240 (talk) 22:39, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the confusion article does describe how the confusion got started in the first place and the source was Earl Holliman himself. There is evidence of the existance of this confusion and it comes from the multiple "unreliable" Internet databases. Also, it is not me alone who finds this interesting. Anthony Earl Numkena finds this interesting as well. In fact, Anthony brought attention to me about the removal of the confusion article. This confusion has been around for several years probably even before the Wikipedia. Many people thought Earl Holliman was Anthony Earl Numkena. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.110.104.65 (talk) 00:44, 4 August 2011 (UTC) Moreover, it was because of this confusion that Earl Holliman and Anthony Earl Numkena met just a few years ago after Destination Gobi. Not exactly trivial. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.110.104.65 (talk) 00:53, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]