Talk:DJ Perry

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The "Hoax" question

When I raised the question of whether this article was a hoax, the IMDb link provided in the article came up "no such entry"!The IMDb link has since been corrected, and there is a valid entry for this person. (As it is, the IMDb is known to be a less-than-entirely-reliable source, since they take the subject's word for a number of things.) I am going to remove the hoax tag, but I'm also going to ask for more reliable cites on a couple of assertions, such as the supposed novelizations. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DJ Perry appears to be a real person active in filmmaking, at least in Michigan. He has a filmography on the New York Times website and if you search Google news archive on "DJ Perry" or "D.J. Perry" there are many print articles discussing him as being primarily a Michigan filmmaker. Having said that, his career description on here as of the date of this comment reads like an advertisement and seems to lack decent sources (like any of the print sources I just mentioned) as well as lacking neutral POV. I will try to take out some of the more obvious puff but it really needs to be rewritten with better sources. TheBlinkster (talk) 15:51, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, although I have not looked deeply into the novelizations, Alexander Books as I understand it has released novel versions of other scripts (for example, An Ordinary Killer by Anthony Hornus which was about a murder in Michigan (see Murder of Dawn Magyar#In media). Perry was involved with that movie so it would not be a big reach if he was also releasing novelizations via Alexander Books. TheBlinkster (talk) 15:54, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Needs better sources

I ran across this guy while I was editing the true crime article on Murder of Dawn Magyar. It seems DJ Perry does have some notability as being a Michigan filmmaker involved in a number of independent films, mostly genre stuff like horror or Christian pictures. However, the "Career" section of this article was written like a press release or advertisement for the person, so I took most of that out. There are also better sources available mentioning him than what is quoted in the article, so I have added a refimprove tag. I should note that one of his filmmaking partners, Tony Hornus, seems to have been a reporter and editor for the Owosso, Michigan Argus-Press so be careful of NPOV for anything published by that paper. Hopefully if DJ Perry has any arms-length fans out there who are interested in his work and have the proper NPOV, one of them can clean this article up a little bit. TheBlinkster (talk) 16:41, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]