Talk:Al Martino

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Untitled[edit]

I'm removing the album cover image. It might fall under fair use in an article about the album itself, but not this article. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:31, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"gomed out"???[edit]

Is "gomed out" an encyclopedic term? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.246.235.134 (talk) 20:16, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem[edit]

I'm sorry to say that in this edit, text was pasted into this article from [1]. While the article has been subsequently edited, unfortunately the material was not removed but incorporated into subsequent edits, and it remains an unauthorized derivative of that work. It either needs to be completely rewritten or restored to the version prior to the copyvio. I've blanked the article to give interested contributors an opportunity to determine how best this should be resolved. It will be revisited by an administrator after about a week. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 22:49, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So far as I can tell, the alleged copyvio is covered by this diff. Would it not be better to move the copyvio tag to the Career section, or preferably to that part of the section covered by the questionable edits, in preference to blanking the whole article - which to me seems unnecessary? Ghmyrtle (talk) 00:23, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Expedience is the purpose here, but in response to your request for consistency at the talk page, I'll go ahead and simply revert to the last clean text. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:27, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. I'm working on it at Talk:Al Martino/Temp, but life keeps interrupting me.... Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:43, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know that feeling. You can take your time and just overwrite the current article, since the template is gone. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:45, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In the meantime I've made a few temp edits to update the article - eg pointing out that he died last year.... Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now largely (I hope!) cleaned up, though some more work may be necessary. Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:14, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem[edit]

This article has been reverted to an earlier version as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Text entered in [2] duplicated at least in part material from [3]. Other content added by this contributor may have been copied from other sources and has been removed in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. Content added by other contributors subsequent to the introduction of this material can be restored if it does not merge with this text to create a derivative work. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. ----Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:35, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another daughter, Debbie Martino[edit]

I know for a fact that Al Martino had another daughter, Debbie, born circa 1960, as she was in my carpool to Beechwood School in Haddonfield, New Jersey in kindergarten in the 1965-66 term. At the time, they lived in this house on the corner of Laurel Place & Belmont Drive in Cherry Hill Estates, just down the street from Frankie Avalon; and one block from where I've lived on Hialeah Drive since 1969.

You're quite right, of course, since you knew her personally. For any skeptics, however, this is from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/arts/music/15martino.html

I'll make the edit and thanks for your input.HistoryBuff14 (talk) 00:06, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Volare[edit]

The song Volare recorded by Al Martino in 1975 was actually on the 1976 album Sing My Love Songs. I have the album. In fact, I have both To The Door of the Sun and Sing My Love Songs. Volare does not appear on the To The Door of the Sun album. I tried to make the appropriate edit, but was unable to do so. Also, the studio album discography is missing the 1976 album Sing My Love Songs. I was also unable to make that edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.17.78.138 (talk) 17:43, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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4th child Dana..[edit]

I do not understand why you keep eliminating my contributions of adding daughter Dana.. I sourced my info giving last names.. please help me understand how to correctly format this contribution. 66.61.102.158 (talk) 15:36, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Military service[edit]

I reverted this edit seemingly from his daughter, which had added this text:

==Military Service==
(From his daughter) When he was only 15, he ran away from home and hitchhiked to Louisiana and lived at the Salvation Army. He met a man there who he persuaded to pose as his real father so he could get a signature to enlist at age 16. He joined in Lafayette, La. on Nov. 23, 1943. He got his training in San Diego and Camp Pendleton. He became Signalmen for the Marines and was there for the invasion of Iwo Jima and stationed on Mt. Suribachi. He saw the famous flag go up 'twice' and served until May, 1946. He, as so many others came close to death many times. One of dad’s grim tasks was to bury the dead. So many were unidentifiable. He couldn't place name tags on their feet or grave, he could only place numbers on thousands of crosses. Dad was blinded during battle after a bullet scathed his hand in a foxhole. He had previously switched positions with his Navy buddy who was found shot in the head.
Remarkably, dad carried a camera with him on IWO and took dozens of photos of the island, his navy buddies in combat and at home base. He developed pictures at the hospital camp on Iwo. (The negatives were discovered in my grandmothers attic about 35 years ago.) When dad suddenly passed in 2009, one of his old WWII Navy buddies, (who had gotten the same tattoo with dad on the island) plowed through 2 states to attend dad's funeral so he could place original sand from Iwo in my father's suit lapel. That’s because he was most proud of serving his country. He had a military style funeral and a 21 gun salute.

If others can find reliable sources detailing his military service, information can obviously be added to the article. Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:46, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]