:Talk:Evan O'Neill Kane

Did I have to pick a less narcissistic doctor?

I noticed that this picture is linked from a discovery Blog. I would be happy to ask them if the photo is in the public domain or where they got it from rick_weinberg@caboces.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rickweinberg (talk • contribs)

:I have moved your comment out of the GA review page because that review has now closed. The photo is credited in the [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/05/03/ncbi-rofl-self-surgery-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/#.U02wkVff1GU Discovery article] you referred to to AP/Wide World Photos so is almost certainly not in the public domain. One can buy a licence [http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-A-PA-USA-APHS451529-Dr-Evan-O-Neill-Kane/f5065acc602945d6bb604d13e9266860/1/0 here]. SpinningSpark 22:27, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Elisha Kent Kane is the guy who was charged with murdering his wife in the Chesapeake Bay. There is no word of their children or his passing that I can tell. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rickweinberg (talk • contribs) 18:11, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

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I have reverted a good swathe of these to the point before mass changes to the article citation style started. This really is not permissible per WP:CITEVAR. The article was created with citations not using cite templates, and that is the style that should be followed unless there is consensus to do otherwise. There is no such thing as "standard markup" as claimed in one of the edit summaries as a reading of CITEVAR will make clear. See also MOS:STYLERET for the more general principle. I know that there is some inconsistency in citation style now, but that is only because later editors have added a few citations with templates. If consistency is the concern, then those citations should be made consistent with the original style.

There are a few other issues that I have with those edits;

• No reason is given for removal of redlinks other than that they were redlinks. Both Railroad worker and Kane Summit Hospital are potentially articles and should be retained per WP:REDDEAL.
• The claim of Kane being the first to use music therapy in surgery has again been tagged as a primary source. This is a failure to read the sources. The Kane source is primary, but is only verifying the statement of Kane's own opinion. The citation for him being first is Salz at the end of the passage.
• The merging of the IP's new source for KCH with the existing one is erroneous. This new url may be the present version of the old page, but it is completely different and missing much of the information in the archive.
• I have a problem with removing the adjective "sensational" from Kane's son's trial. This was far from a run-of-the-mill murder trial as the sources make clear, with crowds gathered outside the courthouse. Just saying "trial" does not do justice to what was going on.

I'm sorry I felt the need to mass revert this, but there were just too many problems to deal with individually. I'll go through the edits later and put back any substantive, useful ones. SpinningSpark 15:45, 15 October 2019 (UTC)