Talk:Jessica McClure

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Contents 1 Biography assessment rating comment 2 broke/bad link 3 Authenticity of Jessica's blog 4 Morales now 5 How did she get down there? 6 Man with no collarbone 7 Cultural Refs 8 Relevance?

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

WikiProject Biography Assessment

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 00:27, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] broke/bad link

If you go to the external link http://www.caver.net/j/jrescue.html all you get is some stupid site saying you dont have permission to go there and your IP address is recorded. Walmartshopper67 00:37, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Authenticity of Jessica's blog

I am not positive the blog at roadoflife.blogspot.com is truly by Jessica McClure. There are several reasonable links to the blog, and the content looks legitimate. One resource to double check is the Museum of Web Hoaxes, which apparently had something to say about this blog. Unfortunately that site is offline at this time, I will try to follow up later. Nelson 16:43, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

A lot of this article is word for word from People magazine.... plagiarism? 69.142.21.24 16:43, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I see you reverted my link; I think that's appropriate unless this can be verified. Particularly given this blog entry, "I'm really tired of being called Baby Jessica who fell in the well. ... Now I'm sooo tired of having people think I'm her." Nelson 16:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Morales now

If she's taken her husbands last name, do we need to change the title of the page?

• I don't think so, unless she becomes famous for something else after taking her married name. Compare Donna Rice Hughes, the activist against pornography on the Internet; we don't even have a redirect at her married name (although we should), because she first became famous for something else under her birth name. --Metropolitan90 05:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Note, the applicable guideline is Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) although it might not answer this question unambiguously. --Metropolitan90 05:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How did she get down there?

Does anyone know how she got into the well? Did she just walk into it? Captain Jackson 21:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

If memory serves, she was playing in someone's backyard with other children. The well was covered with a flowerpot, but one of the other kids moved it. Yes, she just walked in. It was so narrow, no one assumed you could fall in.

Czolgolz 17:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Since I was only 1 when this happen, did anything ever happen with the parents? Like from Social Services? What kind of parents leave their child unattended when there is an open well at ground level in the yard? Sounds to me like they should have been investigated for neglect. TJ Spyke 20:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I think people back then had a little more sense and didn't go off the deep end with lawsuits and formal inquiries every time a parent had a minor lapse in judgement. Accidents are inevitable. Trying to send someone to jail or bankrupt them everytime they occur accomplishes nothing at all, and just ends up hurting families and costing money. QuinnHK 16:57, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Man with no collarbone

While it was discussed sending him in, I'm almost sure they ended up not using him.

Czolgolz 17:37, 25 April 1987 (UTC)

Sounds like the story about the sailor who was also afflicted, whose job it was to crawl into the 16 inch guns on the battleship to clean tand inspect them. When he retired, they had trouble finding another worker of his caliber. 67.162.79.243 19:34, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, and whoever did the well-wishers comment - brilliant. No mention of the historic fake nude photos of her a couple years back? Oh well. Tarkaan 23:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Caliber...ouch, that's some painful punny stuff, there! - Ageekgal (talk) 16:15, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural Refs

I removed the 'cultural references' section as none of them were cited and most had nothing more than a passing relationship to the article. --Chuck Sirloin 03:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Relevance?

I have removed the reference to her husband being an "ex-convict" for two reasons. First, I do not know what that is. Once one is convicted, one is always a convict, even if no longer incarcerated. :)

More importantly, how is his history relevant to the facts of her life that make her worthy of a Wikipedia entry? Freesafetyblitz (talk) 21:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)