A fact from Death of Jeannie Saffin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 December 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the death of Jeannie Saffin has been cited as an example of spontaneous human combustion, due to witness reports that flames were coming from her mouth and she was roaring like a dragon?
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"Don Carroll has stated that Jeannie had flames coming from her mouth and made roaring noises like a dragon". What the fuck is nonsense like this doing on Wikipedia? How can anyone possibly know what a dragon's roar would sound like? That garbage like this makes it into DYK only confirms the irrelevance of it to encyclopaedic content... AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:58, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Why is it nonsense? It was nonsense when Carroll said it for the reason given, but it can be argued that Carroll's statement was an imprecise, non-pedantic, statement meant to be understood as "... made roaring noises like what people imagine when they think of a dragon." In any case, the statement is only reporting what Don Carroll said. SDCHS (talk) 09:07, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
By going to the references section, one can find out that Heymer and Arnold wrote books on spontaneous human combustion. Unfortunately, in this article they just appear out of the blue in the third paragraph with no explanation of who they are or why we should be at all interested in what they have to say. SDCHS (talk) 09:07, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
