Talk:Grant Napear

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This was removed and is true: Napear recently threatened to sue the owner of Sacramento Kings weblog Sactown Royalty after the site discovered Napear's childhood nickname "Peaches" and sold a commemorative t-shirt with the name to benefit homeless animals.

References: T-shirt, including charity reference: http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2008/3/11/20308/6236 Legal Threat: http://www.sactownroyalty.com/story/2008/4/4/103311/8054#4852994 Post about the legal threat: http://www.sactownroyalty.com/story/2008/4/4/103311/8054

The text above is not vandalism and should be allowed to stay.

Grant Napear's nickname is Peaches. He simply doesn't have a decision in this matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheChinaMan56 (talk • contribs) 05:11, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Your statements are incorrect and I believe you are misinformed about what is and is not allowed here at Wikipedia. Specifically there is a [Wikipedia:BLP#Reliable_sources|standard of reliability] in the material and in sources of that material for living persons. This policy applies to all Wikipedia material but it is enforced particularly strictly for living persons so as not to incur libel.

First and foremost, Sactown Royalty, while a nice community, is not a research-quality reference. This is not per me, this is per [Wikipedia:V#Questionable_sources|the Wikipedia rules for verifiability]. Secondly, even at Sactown Royalty no one is even familiar with the source of the nickname, not to mention its origin myth. Just because Grant doesn't want Sactown Royalty to be profiting from his likeness neither supports or rejects the origin myth or the name itself.

Beyond that you are factually incorrect. In a direct interview with Napear by Tom Ziller, by far one of the largest promoters of the "Peaches" label, Napear directly denied and countered Ziller's question with regards this nickname.

Further, your belief that Napear explicitly threatened to sue is demonstrably incorrect.

Please educate yourself and refrain from including this material until you can source it as neither your nor I have a decision in -that- matter. Thanks. Ogre lawless (talk) 17:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop suggesting that Napear threatened to sue either Sactown Nation or Tom Ziller -- the citation provided offers no direct evidence that this was the course that would be taken. Ogre lawless (talk) 00:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]