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Is it up to us to decide which birth defects are 'snazzy' and which are not? I'm going to edit out any personal bias until we can verify from educational or scientific sources that Doc Hammer's birth defect is really 'snazzier' than say, Down's Syndrome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smith Jones ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
vitiligo of the scalp causes hair color changes? That's not even possible... someone want to fix that? It is funny though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.193.42.122 ( talk • contribs) 19:22, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm certain his date of birth is incorrect. I lived in the same college dormitiry with him and Ben Edlund when I was 18. A birthdate of 1976 would make him seven years younger than me and 11 at the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.240.46.100 ( talk • contribs) 20:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
The birthdate database ( http://www.birthdatabase.com) lists Eric A Hammer's birthdate as 02-02-67. Intelius.com's public records also list an Eric A Hammer (member of the same household and relative of Lisa Hammer) with the same 02-02-67 birthdate and a current age of 42. Ben Edlund was Doc's college roommate in 1987. If Doc were born in 1976, he would have been 11 years old when he attended college and roomed with Edlund. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ExquisiteMercury ( talk • contribs) 17:49, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I strongly believe it's 1966: [2]. NNDB is pretty accurate most of the time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WestBounce ( talk • contribs) 20:33, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Well if ain't already been over a year, huh? Unlikely they would get a public record wrong: http://www.peoplefinders.com/d/Eric+Hammer/1-273470527 I knew it had to be either 66 or 67. I think this is legitimate enough. WestBounce ( talk) 19:39, 30 May 2013 (UTC)WestBounce
I recently created an article about Hammer's current band, Weep. In doing so I ran some searches for freely-licensed images of Hammer that could be used here on Wikipedia, and created a category at Wikimedia Commons to house them: commons:Category:Doc Hammer. I've added an external Commons link at the bottom of this article.
There's been a bit of a brouhaha over at the Weep article over the image of Hammer that I chose to use. You can read that article's talk page for the details, but in a nutshell Hammer complained on Facebook about the photo used to represent him. One of his complaints was that it's not a very flattering photo...unfortunately that's a consequence of us only being able to use freely-licensed images; we have to take whatever people are willing to license for free use, and that usually means less-than-headshot-quality images. The reason I bring this up here is that the photo in this article's infobox is from the same set as the one in the Weep article, and it's not a particularly great photo of him either: He's mid-sentence, with his eyes squinted, so the look on his face is a bit odd, and his face is partly obscured by the microphone. File:Dochammer2010.jpg was recently uploaded to Commons, and might be a better one to use: his expression is neutral (at least he's not mid-sentence), the mic isn't blocking any part of his face, and you can even see some of his tattoos. It's not as high-res as the one currently in the infobox, but I figured I'd put it up for consideration to see if anyone feels like it's a better shot that could be used for the infobox.
As a related note, in sourcing the Weep article I turned up a rather lengthy interview with Hammer where he discusses his fashion, painting, and band. Here it is:
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link)This would be a good source to use in expanding this article. If a referenced section about his painting were written, it might be appropriate to illustrate that section with a fair-use image of one of his paintings. As another thought, if some referenced content about his voice work on The Venture Bros. were written (ie. not just which characters he voices, but how he comes up with voices for the characters and how he produces the voices), it might be appropriate to illustrate that using 1 or 2 fair-use audio samples. Just some thoughts. -- IllaZilla ( talk) 23:04, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
If there are no objections in the next day or so I'm going to be bold and change the infobox image to File:Dochammer2010.jpg. -- IllaZilla ( talk) 07:15, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
I've been looking for some sources to expand the article. I'm going to save them here as I find them.
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Is it up to us to decide which birth defects are 'snazzy' and which are not? I'm going to edit out any personal bias until we can verify from educational or scientific sources that Doc Hammer's birth defect is really 'snazzier' than say, Down's Syndrome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smith Jones ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
vitiligo of the scalp causes hair color changes? That's not even possible... someone want to fix that? It is funny though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.193.42.122 ( talk • contribs) 19:22, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm certain his date of birth is incorrect. I lived in the same college dormitiry with him and Ben Edlund when I was 18. A birthdate of 1976 would make him seven years younger than me and 11 at the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.240.46.100 ( talk • contribs) 20:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
The birthdate database ( http://www.birthdatabase.com) lists Eric A Hammer's birthdate as 02-02-67. Intelius.com's public records also list an Eric A Hammer (member of the same household and relative of Lisa Hammer) with the same 02-02-67 birthdate and a current age of 42. Ben Edlund was Doc's college roommate in 1987. If Doc were born in 1976, he would have been 11 years old when he attended college and roomed with Edlund. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ExquisiteMercury ( talk • contribs) 17:49, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I strongly believe it's 1966: [2]. NNDB is pretty accurate most of the time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WestBounce ( talk • contribs) 20:33, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Well if ain't already been over a year, huh? Unlikely they would get a public record wrong: http://www.peoplefinders.com/d/Eric+Hammer/1-273470527 I knew it had to be either 66 or 67. I think this is legitimate enough. WestBounce ( talk) 19:39, 30 May 2013 (UTC)WestBounce
I recently created an article about Hammer's current band, Weep. In doing so I ran some searches for freely-licensed images of Hammer that could be used here on Wikipedia, and created a category at Wikimedia Commons to house them: commons:Category:Doc Hammer. I've added an external Commons link at the bottom of this article.
There's been a bit of a brouhaha over at the Weep article over the image of Hammer that I chose to use. You can read that article's talk page for the details, but in a nutshell Hammer complained on Facebook about the photo used to represent him. One of his complaints was that it's not a very flattering photo...unfortunately that's a consequence of us only being able to use freely-licensed images; we have to take whatever people are willing to license for free use, and that usually means less-than-headshot-quality images. The reason I bring this up here is that the photo in this article's infobox is from the same set as the one in the Weep article, and it's not a particularly great photo of him either: He's mid-sentence, with his eyes squinted, so the look on his face is a bit odd, and his face is partly obscured by the microphone. File:Dochammer2010.jpg was recently uploaded to Commons, and might be a better one to use: his expression is neutral (at least he's not mid-sentence), the mic isn't blocking any part of his face, and you can even see some of his tattoos. It's not as high-res as the one currently in the infobox, but I figured I'd put it up for consideration to see if anyone feels like it's a better shot that could be used for the infobox.
As a related note, in sourcing the Weep article I turned up a rather lengthy interview with Hammer where he discusses his fashion, painting, and band. Here it is:
{{
cite web}}
: Missing or empty |url=
(
help) (14.3 MB)), Auxiliary Magazine, pp. 37–41, retrieved 2010-11-27 {{
citation}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help); templatestyles stripmarker in |format=
at position 1 (
help)CS1 maint: date and year (
link)This would be a good source to use in expanding this article. If a referenced section about his painting were written, it might be appropriate to illustrate that section with a fair-use image of one of his paintings. As another thought, if some referenced content about his voice work on The Venture Bros. were written (ie. not just which characters he voices, but how he comes up with voices for the characters and how he produces the voices), it might be appropriate to illustrate that using 1 or 2 fair-use audio samples. Just some thoughts. -- IllaZilla ( talk) 23:04, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
If there are no objections in the next day or so I'm going to be bold and change the infobox image to File:Dochammer2010.jpg. -- IllaZilla ( talk) 07:15, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
I've been looking for some sources to expand the article. I'm going to save them here as I find them.