Talk:Kirk Hammett

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Contents 1 removed tounge kiss comment 2 Maritial Status Error 3 Plagiarism 4 "11th greatest guitarist of all time" 5 Comic Book Freak 6 References 7 I doubt his wife's name is 'Jack Mehoff' 8 Readded section

[edit] removed tounge kiss comment

Unless there is a real pressing reason to keep this comment in the article, there is no need for it. It certainly doesn't belong in the first paragraph.

Also, without an external link, it's going to be regarded as hearsay. Peyna 15:29:56, 2005-08-15 (UTC) I removed the Rolling Stone reference and the list is high disreputable and frankly stupid in every way.

Irregardless of POV the list ref is verifable text and requires concensus to be removed. Anger22 23:04, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maritial Status Error

It says at the begining of the article that Kirk is divorced but later on it says that hes 'happily married to Lani' Has he actually gotten divorced recently or is this a mistake? --Mike 14:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarism

A lot of this article's content was ripped directly from the band's official website. I kept all of the facts (and even added some), but reworded the entire body of the article so that it was not a complete rip-off. Raijinryu 21:27, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Nice job. Wikipediarules2221 02:34, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "11th greatest guitarist of all time"

I added a short note regarding his rank on the Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Saibot 19:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comic Book Freak

No mention of his hobby as a collector of vintage comic books and horror memorabilia? I think it's quite encyclopedic and biographical.--Jeff79 00:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

The horror thing reminds me of a deleted scene from the Some Kind of Monster DVD where he's having a photo-shoot sitting on his skull-throne and talking about where all the different skulls and bones came from. That's definitely notable. 67.142.130.28 11:41, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Kirk discusses his hobby in detail in a year and a half in the life of Metalica.--Jeff79 08:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

The first reference link points to a blank page and the second is an unresponsively server.

I forgot to sign my edit. Oops! Joetheodd 11:40, 1 July 2007 (UTC) (Stupid web accelerator keeps logging me out -.-)

[edit] I doubt his wife's name is 'Jack Mehoff'

Someone is vandalising this article, someone should make it protected or something like that... Or at least correct the vandalism... I'm not going to do it, I don't know his first wife's name...

Ok, found the ex wife's name, and found the asshole who changed it... Undo'ed but is there a way to report the guy? I'm not good at wikipedia...

Realturka.--Realturka 09:08, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Readded section

An editor, likely not a guitar player, deleted the instrument section. Just about every notable guitar player has a "gear list" section. The section could use some detailed references and some cleanup. But it doesn't warrant deletion as "unencyclopedic". It might seem that way to previous "deletion" editor because they know nothing about guitars. But to a player that type of "technical" info is all they like to read. It's informative and intersting... albeit... only to guitar players. But their interests need not be discriminated against as unencyclopedic simply because another editor unfamiliar witht he subject doesn't understand the lingo... or the significance. 156.34.208.175 (talk) 01:17, 27 December 2007 (UTC)