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119: 95: 352: 129: 218: 733:, it sounds as if we can at least say "Kirkman spent at least part of his childhood in Kentucky." We can't say he was raised in Cynthiana since in rural areas there may be many small or even unincorporated towns that send their children to a central district school. Also, we can't infer the year form this since students have been known to be double-promoted, to start kindergarten a year late or a year early, etc. -- 534: 415: 384: 230: 290: 266: 64: 425: 554: 757:, as you can't cite one Knowledge article as a source in another. Now if that material in the Tony Moore article was sourced, that would be fine, but it's not. All of the information in the early life section, as well as Moore's birth info, is unsourced. I've moved that material to that article's talk page until it can be sourced. 300: 762:
In the second placed, your assertion about Kirkman's age is based on an assumption. Just because he went to school with Moore doesn't mean that Kirkman was born in the same year, let alone that we know the specific time of year he was born. Two people in the same class can be born at different times
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it says, "Moore was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and was raised in the small town of Cynthiana" & "In 7th grade History class, Moore met Robert Kirkman..." - since we have zero info in this article about Robert's early life, we can infer from these statements that he lived out at least a portion
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Okay, I bit the bullet and bought the $ .95 "free" 3-day trial on USA People Search... it appears the Comic Vine date was off by 15 days. According to USA People Search, he was born 11/15/1978.
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of year, so that one of them could've been born in 78, and the other in 77 or 79, for all we know, so merely knowing that usa-people says he's 32 doesn't confirm when he was born. As
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But the source for that bit at the end about naming his kid Peter Parker Kirkman was from the letters page of Invincible #35. At least that's where I first read it. --
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on USA People Search and enter State: Kentucky, you get a "Robert F. Kirkman", Age 32, with past residences in Cynthiana, Lexington, etc. I understand
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I gather from comics-db.com that #35 was published in August. There's a "Buy My Books" column from June about P.P.K. I'll add it to the article. --
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issue), and it's not as prevalent in his work as the article implies. And the "What If" item is extremely reductionist. Maybe if you'd only read
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Off my 15 days in which direction? If we can plug the People Search date into Google, it might also turn up a free confirming reference.
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I don't find either item to be a fair statement. The copy/paste thing is hardly unique to Kirkman (it's the comics equivalent of a
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the same age as Tony Moore." With very limited fine tuning on my part, USA People Search led me to a match. As I said above, from
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but this kind of circumstantial evidence is strong enough to give the above "user-generated" birthdate the benefit of the doubt.
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of his younger days in Kentucky and is approx. the same age as Tony Moore (born December 20, 1978). Guess what? The
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I'm afraid we can't use wikia as references. Without having seen Comic Vine, but assuming it's
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to archive the page with the relevant info, so that others can verify it without membership?
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confirms the Kentucky connection (under "Robert Kirkman's home town") and if you look up
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still applies, there's no basis for concluding that the Comic Vine info is correct.
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Just so you know, there's strong circumstantial evidence that the Comic Vine date
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is much more than that, and he's written plenty of other stuff too.
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the mini series is six issues instead of four, so i fixed it.
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