Talk:Steve "Pablo" Davis

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First and foremost, don't carry out a debate about this article, in the article itself. If you must, debate it here.

Second, this article is based almost entirely on hearsay. There appears to be consensus that he did work with Rivera on the DIA murals; the "Pablo Davis Elder Living Center" does exist; and there is an Emmy-winning documentary about him. As for the rest, the only available reference (i.e. the only non-dead link) is the Metro Times interview. Using the subject of the article himself as a reference is not good practice. I could have littered the article with "citation needed" links, but it would have looked silly.

If this article is in fact accurate, it (and its fascinating subject) deserves wider recognition. Let's see if we can make that happen. Mrgate3 (talk) 13:25, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Pablo Davis was 16 years old when Diego Rivera painted the mural in Detroit. Diego never let anyone paint on his work, he certainly would not have allowed a 16 year old to work on a medium which does not allow for corrections or erasure (buon fresco). The actual assistants to Rivera, including Frida Kahlo's companion, Lucienne Bloch, have all insisted that Mr. Davis wove a web of lies into a life story that didn't exist. Some of his make-believe story is based on the life stories of others such as Lucienne Bloch, and Stephen Pope Dimitroff, whose portraits appear in the mural. What Pablo did do, however, was draw on the mural with a pencil one day while talking to a group of listeners.

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Dear Mr./Ms. 216.55.112.115, please respect the talkpage guidelines, and always sign your posts with four tildes. By simply jamming your comment into mine, you made it look like I wrote it. That's very rude.

Now, what to do next is, find a citation for Ms. Bloch's assertions and put it in the article. Here's an example of what I mean:

... Industry mural[1] which is in the central courtyard, Rivera Court, of the Detroit Institute of Arts, although Davis's contribution is a source of controversy[2].

Mrgate3 (talk) 22:16, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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