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John Peck Footnote

It is being overlooked that the oldest son of Gregory Peck considered the options available to youth as he approached draft eligibility, and he chose to enter the Peace Corps. His tour of service to humanity was in the African nation of Malawi. When his time was up, John Peck climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with some friends. This deserves as much recognition as the military service of his brother - with whom this writer had correspondence many years ago. --Edward Chilton — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.82.56.3 (talk) 09:47, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Revisiting Armenian background

Gregory Peck's 1/4 Armenian ancestry is supported by Geni.com, which confirms the account his part Armenian second wife encouraged him to learn the language to rediscover his roots and that his paternal English and Irish ancestry both come from his grandmother. He's also a distinct Thomas Ashe. Geni is a very reliable source and contains lots of background information about Peck, and I believe it is significant enough to site and Armenian background in the article, which seems to have been included in the past. --Steverci (talk) 03:26, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Barev Steverci, the page you have linked to appears looks to me like it contains a copy/pasted earlier version of this article, for instance something created around 2007, based on the language of the intro paragraph and an explanation of Armenian ancestry on his paternal side. (Finding the exact version of the article would take quite a while...) A reliable source by Wikipedia's standards suggests that there is some clear editorial standards and oversight, and I don't know that Geni.com has clear editorial guidelines for its prose. Isn't it mostly a user-contributed site anyway? If so, that would preclude it from being considered reliable for our purposes, like IMDb is typically not considered reliable, and even Wikipedia itself could not be used as a reference. Hope that helps. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:02, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Cyphoidbomb According to Geni's policy, only employees and admins can edit public profiles of famous people; user-contributors mostly make files about their own families. Since this website was created in 2006, it's possible Wikipedia was the one who copied from Geni. Geni doesn't seem to have an edit history like we do, but the link I just gave shows it does in fact have standards and guidelines. --Steverci (talk) 15:14, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Steverci: I don't see where on the page it says that only Geni employees can edit public profiles of famous people. I see the table where under "Public figures" it says that Your Collaborators, Your Relatives, Geni Curators and Geni Employees can edit the profile. That doesn't imply in any way that there is clear editorial oversight (i.e. aggressive fact-checking like newspaper and book publishers perform) over the prose content in the profile. Geni Curators, according to that page, are volunteers, just as we are volunteers, and if the family and "collaborators" are able to edit the article, how is it any different from any other user-contributed site? You could bring this up at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard and ask the community to weigh in on whether or not Geni.com would be suitable for inclusion, if you'd like. But you might want to look at these discussions first: [1][2] and [3]. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:13, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What else is missing?

This page makes no mention of Gregory Peck's role in the old soap opera General Hospital. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.112.29 (talk) 03:53, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

His son's suicide is missing as well. ♆ CUSH ♆ 03:10, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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