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So did 100 of his films win awards, or does "100 award-winning films" mean that maybe just a few of them won awards? 74.198.148.18 ( talk) 20:56, 17 June 2010 (UTC) reply

no, he has over 100 films that have won awards (list on IMDB) 23:10, 30 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.49.128.220 ( talk)

I came across this article while checking recent changes and noticed that a dispute over its content has escalated into an edit war in the last three days. In the interest of stopping this disruptive editing and providing clarity to any other univolved editors, I will show the history of the dispute and analyze the point-of-view issues in both dueling versions of the article.

• On 23 March 2013, a Canadian IP address first wrote in the article lead that Kirk shaw has been deemed an unfair engager by the Writers Guild of Canada., citing the Writers Guild of Canada website.
• On 7 March 2014, User:Insightfilmstudios2 moved this information from the lead to the Career section, where it was less likely to be read by readers skimming the article. Note that Kirk Shaw is the founder of Insight Film Studios, as stated in the article.
• On 14 December 2021, a different Canadian IP address wrote in the lead that Kirk Shaw has been identified by the Writers Guild of Canada and the Writers Guild of America as an Unfair Engager., citing the websites of both Writers Guilds. This sentence was removed on 5 June 2022 by a Queens, New York IP address.

• On 31 January 2024, a Canadian IP address swapped the critical sentence that had been in the Career section since 2014 for the following two sentences in the lead: Shaw has been deemed an unfair engager by the Writer's Guild of Canada 13 times. ^[1] He is also on the Writer's Guild of America strike/unfair list. ^[2]
• On 3 April 2024, User:Ambitious KK removed this new paragraph, leaving no content critical of Kirk Shaw in the article. On 2 May, Canadian IP address No. 2 undid Ambitious KK's deletion.
• On 15–16 May, Canadian IP address No. 3 added more details to the paragraph about the Writers Guilds' criticism, as well as a new paragraph about Kirk Shaw's son, Christos: Shaw helped kickstart the acting career of his nepo baby, Christos Shaw. Despite providing his son with numerous film roles, Christos' acting career never took off. Currently, Christos shills soap to his declining TikTok audience under the guise of daily vlogs.
• On 13 June, Canadian IP address No. 4 deleted two lead paragraphs entirely, moved two others to the Career section, and added the following sentence to the lead: In the 2000s, Shaw was one of the few producers who was willing to work with Steven Seagal following his Hollywood blacklist due to an ever-increasing pile of allegations including sexual assault ^[3], coworker abuse, and more. After these edits, five of seven sentences remaining in the lead were critical of Kirk or Christos Shaw.
• On 11 July, Canadian IP address No. 5 added the following unsourced sentence: As of July 10, 2024 Shaw, along with Executive Producer Jonathan Baker have failed to pay hundreds of film crew, suppliers, and many staff of the production of "Fate".
• From 06:20 to 06:34 on 21 July, Canadian IP addresses No. 6 and No. 7 moved the lead paragraph about the Writers Guilds' criticism to the Producer section and deleted all other critical paragraphs entirely. Both IP addresses described their edits as removing "slander" in the edit summaries.
• From 18:03 to 18:40 on 21 July, Canadian IP address No. 8 restored all of the previous critical content to the lead and added yet another critical paragraph to it: In 2009, under Shaw's leadership, Insight Studios was forced to shut down following a dispute with the Canada Revenue Agency and lawsuits from at least two companies seeking payment of debts. ^[4]
• At 04:14 on 22 July, User:Ambitious KK removed all negative content from the article; at 20:13 Canadian IP address No. 9 restored it all.
• At 03:51 on 23 July (today), User:Ambitious KK removed all negative content again; at 06:09, Canadian IP address No. 10 restored it all again.

• Pro-Shaw: Ambitious KK, 2604:3D08:4F80:1950:EDE1:AD7E:ADD7:2F2C, and 2604:3D08:4F80:1950:5517:8DB9:D311:1DF2
• Anti-Shaw: 2001:569:516C:4A00:E541:C83F:F027:EAA8, 2001:569:7DDA:B900:C196:B688:55FE:8DC2, 2001:569:7DDA:B900:58D8:D1BB:FD10:70CE, 2001:569:7DDA:B900:B9EF:2617:3213:15EC, 2001:569:6FE9:BECA:536:BD41:3376:31E, 2001:569:7DDA:B900:B935:A510:A318:D294, 2001:569:7DDA:B900:1800:25E9:589F:B345, and 2001:569:5164:5E00:70BA:A73A:1915:8071
• The pro-Shaw and some of the anti-Shaw IP addresses geolocate to Richmond, British Columbia.

The latest pro-Shaw version of the article reads like ten different press releases mashed together; see the tags that I applied to the article during one of its pro-Shaw iterations. The most egregious part is this 2012 boilerplate quote from Shaw:

I'm very excited to be joining Odyssey. The entertainment industry is in the midst of a great transformation and Odyssey Media is perfectly positioned to lead the change. I know I can tailor cast, funding sources and filming locations around the globe to match the unique requirements of a variety of feature films Odyssey currently has in the works, as well as, bring my projects to Odyssey by leveraging short-term funding to back pay-or-play deals for actors, cash-flow prep and to confidently secure optimum distribution value.

Someone just hired for a new job is excited to start working and thinks he will be good at it. In other news, the sky is blue. Why is this in the article? What does it indicate about Shaw's character, reputation, or accomplishments? What are "pay-or-play deals", "cash-flow prep", or "optimum distribution value"? Is the average encyclopedia reader expected to know automatically what these phrases mean?

The anti-Shaw edits dump in a pile of criticism without addressing any of the article's flaws, much like flavoring moonshine with manure. Some of the content in these edits violates Wikipedia policy on biographies of living persons (BLP):

All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source. Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—must be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion. Users who persistently or egregiously violate this policy may be blocked from editing.

Content in a BLP must adhere to three core policies: neutral point of view, verifiability, and no original research. The unsourced paragraph calling Christos Shaw a "nepo baby" who "shills" soap on TikTok egregiously violates all three. Huntthetroll ( talk) 21:23, 23 July 2024 (UTC) reply

Is Shaw even notable per wikipedia policy? The article does read like self promotion for the most part but the sourcing doesn't have any reliable third party sources that discuss the subject in depth.. the sources we do have are primarily minor blurbs that talk about certain films being produced and some company press releases.. in addition there is a list of unnotable and unsourced awards from minor film festivals (most of which are for the films and not Shaw) and that long paragraph that is just a quote about him joining a new company. I'm inclined to just nominate the article for deletion... which would end this edit war. Spanneraol ( talk) 21:37, 23 July 2024 (UTC) reply