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There is no mention of Matt Damon's narration of the Academy Award Winning documentary, Inside Job. I believe this should be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.249.85 ( talk) 23:17, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm following up on the request to reassess the Matt Damon article... and I'm going to start with comments on the talk page that are said to be wrong or in error first:
If there is concern, though, about the list of requests for additions that have not been made, I can type up a list and repost it here (without having to weed through a number of postings). If I don't hear, though, I'll assume "archived" is ok.-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 13:50, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
There are a number of ways in which the article has adapted well as Damon's life has advanced professionally and personally since the GA review version in 2008. The section break-down is particularly good, like breaking out the phases of his acting career from that of a producer -- breaking out his philanthropic career from his personal life -- and creating an "In the media" section. Much of the content is well-written with inline citations to reliable sources, but there is some uncited content and some content has citations to non-reliable sources. There are some areas for improvement in the content, too.
In it's current state, it doesn't seem to pass GA article criteria regarding verifiable, reliable sources; "clear and concise prose"; and "without going into unnecessary detail". And again, I don't know yet about copyright violations.
Because there is a lot that is well-written with good sources, I don't think it will take a lot of work to get it into better shape. I am happy to help with editing and clarifying opportunities for improvement. Is anyone else willing to help out? Or, did you just want the input?-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 13:48, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
It's been pretty quiet on the talk page, so - unless someone gives me another preference -- I'll move ahead using a Matt Damon page in my user space to perform copy edits and improve citations. I was going to start with "Early life" first.
Would anyone like to discuss potential changes first, or wait til I have an updated draft in workspace?
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 20:43, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I am not finding anything from a reliable source (HighBeam, books, web) that says that Matt Damon is of Scottish, English, Swedish and Finnish heritage. Robert Battle has published four or so genealogy books, but I have no idea whether Damon is in any of them.
This statement: "but had a "terrifying" first two years due to his short stature.[18)" has to be totally bogus. First, the reference says nothing about Damon's height and second, he's 5'10". That ain't short. 73.221.170.109 ( talk) 01:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)M. Schuyler
The source provided comes from an uncited personal genealogy page with a link to a message forum to an email. i.e., not a reliable source.
Is there a reliable newspaper article, magazine article or book that has this information that I'm missing? A quote from Damon in an article would be golden, for instance!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 21:01, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
There are a number of talented contributors to the article that may be able to finesse some of my edits, but I think it now passes the open GA article criteria issues regarding verifiable, reliable sources; "clear and concise prose"; and "without going into unnecessary detail".-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 19:51, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
@ Mad Hatter:I'm not sure that I understand the edits in this revision where there were chunks of text removed. There was no edit summary - so I'm assumed that it may have been either a good-faith error - or perhaps vandalism.
It looked like you wanted to move an image down into the awards section, so I took are of that, but made it a gallery so it doesn't "sandwich" the text MOS: Images.
I returned it but will look over the edits to see if there are corrections, etc. Any feedback in the meantime, though, is helpful!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 17:25, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
@ CaroleHenson: Sorry, I wanted it to move it down, that I forgot it, ultimately :). I also wanted to move the footprints at the awards section. Thanks for fixing it up. Didn't want to look as vandalism. As you may have noticed, my edits before were to try to fix the sections and the years in them. Thanks for fixing my work! Thanks for contributing to it! The Mad Hatter ( talk)
@ CaroleHenson: Hey, I made another edit, because the lines of commercially and critically successful films are kind of overlapping into one another. Also felt that Green Zone might also be considered a flop. Look it up, don't wanna stand out as a deletor, but some of it really needs a work Carole. Respect: The Mad Hatter ( talk)
@ CaroleHenson: Hello Carole, I made another edit. Since his "Early life" and "Early years" in acting are repeating each other in the Harvard last section, since that are his debut years in acting, decided to be bold and move them downwards, so that there is no overlapping. Look again at the intro section, I still think it neeeds polishing and tweaking. All the best: The Mad Hatter ( talk)
Are there reliable, secondary sources for this information?
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 22:27, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
How notable is it that he attended this game - an addition made by User:50.143.155.35?
I get that there's an interest and that he's come to more than one game, but what would this article look like if all of his interests were recorded? So, that's why I'm asking what makes this more notable than other interest he may have (partial ownership, other)?-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 21:26, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
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According the material presented to Ben Affleck in Season 2,episode 4 of " Finding Your Roots." Damon and Affleck are Tenth Cousins,once removed. Sochwa ( talk) 19:41, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Having select films that an actor is known for in the filmography section is pretty common when there is another page for their credits. See George Clooney, Robin Williams, Robert Downey Jr. or look at Julianne Moore for a non-list version. It's better than having the section blank with just the redirect to the filmography page. LADY LOTUS • TALK 18:50, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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C'omn, you knew someone was going to bring up this matter sooner or later as far as this article goes. As we know, Damon's "People shouldn't know anything about your sexuality." comment, which tied into his view on gay actors coming out, has gotten a lot of media attention, as seen here, here, here and here. Having checked this article's edit history to see what was added at the time of the media attention, I'm surprised to see that nothing has been added or reverted on this matter yet (unless I missed some random IP additions, where they added a poor mention of it). I wouldn't feel that this topic needs addressing in this article, if it weren't for the fact that it sparked a cultural debate, with even Ellen Page weighing in on it. So I definitely think that a paragraph or two about this should go in the "In the media" section. Flyer22 ( talk) 08:38, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Okay, in the absence of any valid objections, I will add content on this matter to the "In the media" section in a few days; I will keep the WP:Neutral policy, including its WP:Due weight section, in mind when doing so. Flyer22 ( talk) 21:26, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Courage Under File in 1996 is missing from his Filmography. Tony ( talk) 06:42, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
I also noticed that the Filography is missing Saving Private Ryan (1998) CatGrass ( talk) 05:01, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
@ Bovineboy2008 @ Checkingfax Thank you for reviewing my edit, but I would like to know your reason for reverting it. The character's actual name is David Webb and one of the character's major goals in the first film is to learn who he is. Thank you. -- SLV100 ( talk) 07:45, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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10:22, 12 March 2016 (UTC)Do we have to keep a record of his romantic relationships here? They aren't significant enough to be mentioned. As you can see there's no mention of Damon on Minnie Driver and Winona Ryder's articles. It was removed by other users because no significance was indicated. I think we should do the same thing here, but instead of removing the material I decided to discuss it first. Keivan.f Talk 03:04, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
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okay so theres this fairly popular podcast made by jennamarbles (called the jenna julien podcast) that a) has a long-running joke about damon's movie stuck on you being an Incredible cinematographic masterpiece and b) now has a conspiracy theory about damon being exposed as 14 years old. i just feel as if this article about him should address these jokes, or at least that he has been #exposed as today being his 14th birthday Breezeham ( talk) 03:49, 3 October 2017 (UTC) i hate myself so much for this lo siento mucho Breezeham ( talk) 03:54, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
In his statement about Harvey Weinstein, Damon referred to himself as the "father of four daughters." Since he obviously acknowledges his stepdaughter's existence, shouldn't his page? ("Children = 4 (including one stepchild)")
Shouldn't the opening paragraph also be modified from "they have three daughters together" to something like "they have four daughters together, (including a daughter from Luciana's previous marraige)" or something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.169.34.6 ( talk) 16:23, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
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Matt Damon's interview with ABC news, the resultant backlash should be added.
[1] There's been quite a response on twitter, both good and bad.
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The "Controversy" section should be changed to "Controversies" because there's more than one.
Also, if you're going to be fair to women then you have to be fair to visible minorities too and add this incident in 2015 to Damon's controversies:
When independent African-American filmmaker, Effie Brown, suggested that a white woman and a Vietnamese-American man co-direct a proposed film, Damon interrupted the Brown to explain to her what diversity means in Hollywood saying "When we’re talking about diversity you do it in the casting of the film not in the casting of the show." Damon alleges his words were taken out of context on a show that he was executive producer and then apologised. [1] [2] [3] 5.32.55.154 ( talk) 04:19, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
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Early lif and education to Early Life and education Kdizzle98 ( talk) 09:28, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
Change section title in contents and at the top of section from "Early lif and education" to "Early life and education". Mcrooney ( talk) 15:21, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
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Please update 'Selected filmography' tab to add new movie: Downsizing (2018) [Reference Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389072/] Rcmola ( talk) 11:48, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
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CBS Sunday Morning reported in July 2021 that Damon has 4 daughters, not 3 children. 162.255.169.4 ( talk) 22:25, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
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Filmography
All Matt Damon films can be found in below page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Damon_filmography Ranjith Thazhathepurath ( talk) 03:09, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
The section Pubic image in its entirety is as follows:
"Comedian Jimmy Kimmel had a running gag on his ABC television show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he apologized for not being able to interview Damon at the end of each show. It culminated in a planned skit on September 12, 2006, when Damon stormed off after having his interview cut short. Damon appeared in several of E! Entertainment's top ten Jimmy Kimmel Live! spoofs. On January 24, 2013, Damon took over his show and mentioned the long-standing feud and having been bumped from years of shows. It involved celebrities who were previously involved in the "feud", including Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, and Sarah Silverman."
There is no way that a reader who doesn't already know all about this will have any idea what feud (or "feud") is referred to here.
I hope that someone can fix this, someone who is knowledgeable about this subject and who also is capable of writing clearly. 2601:200:C000:1A0:AC8F:FBEF:B6C7:8E7D ( talk) 01:20, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
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i want to upload a photo of young matt damon. I think he looks better there Matt Damon11 ( talk) 21:15, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
So if he doesn't have any degree from Harvard, he doesn't have any education from Harvard, does he? So why write "Harvard" under "Education"? He's a drop out. 188.113.81.146 ( talk) 21:37, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
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PLease fix a typo in the `Early life and education` section. Pleae change `Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusettsm on October 8, 1970` to `Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 8, 1970`. 2001:569:77F1:AE00:298B:4881:1C34:516B ( talk) 19:56, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
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Regret: JOHN MELLENCAMP’S boring child. 76.23.217.246 ( talk) 05:26, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Yesterday, I restored the paragraph about Damon's comments on homophobic language, which seem to me relevant to his public image, especially coming so soon after his statements about Me Too. Am not totally clear that this information should be under the Personal life header, so I've put them under "Comments on sexual harassment and homophobia" as a subhead to at least seperate them out a bit. But they clearly have impacts on his activism (he made business decisions about an diversity rider that—at least as the text of the article implies—are probably related to the response to his statements about Me Too. And certainly views about feminism and homophobia have a political valence, but don't really fit in with the "capital p" Politics that are the subject of the political views subheader. If anyone can direct me to styleguide resources on how to divide up these sections better on a celebrity biography, that would be much appreciated. The critiques under WP:CSECTION that another user have pointed out are noted, but I still think this information about statements Damon made which caused controversy are relevant to this bio in some form. Handpigdad ( talk) 21:13, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
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i found no Filmography nor mention of the ultimate Damon-Affleck `99 collaboration, "Dogma"
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Remove the red links of IFC (American TV network) on 85 reference! 2804:7F2:5AD:51C1:25F5:6593:9BEC:9290 ( talk) 03:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
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In the current text under personal life, it says they live in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. It should say they in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. 2600:8801:111A:4900:647E:CA20:C704:D0E4 ( talk) 01:32, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
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There is no mention of Matt Damon's narration of the Academy Award Winning documentary, Inside Job. I believe this should be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.249.85 ( talk) 23:17, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm following up on the request to reassess the Matt Damon article... and I'm going to start with comments on the talk page that are said to be wrong or in error first:
If there is concern, though, about the list of requests for additions that have not been made, I can type up a list and repost it here (without having to weed through a number of postings). If I don't hear, though, I'll assume "archived" is ok.-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 13:50, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
There are a number of ways in which the article has adapted well as Damon's life has advanced professionally and personally since the GA review version in 2008. The section break-down is particularly good, like breaking out the phases of his acting career from that of a producer -- breaking out his philanthropic career from his personal life -- and creating an "In the media" section. Much of the content is well-written with inline citations to reliable sources, but there is some uncited content and some content has citations to non-reliable sources. There are some areas for improvement in the content, too.
In it's current state, it doesn't seem to pass GA article criteria regarding verifiable, reliable sources; "clear and concise prose"; and "without going into unnecessary detail". And again, I don't know yet about copyright violations.
Because there is a lot that is well-written with good sources, I don't think it will take a lot of work to get it into better shape. I am happy to help with editing and clarifying opportunities for improvement. Is anyone else willing to help out? Or, did you just want the input?-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 13:48, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
It's been pretty quiet on the talk page, so - unless someone gives me another preference -- I'll move ahead using a Matt Damon page in my user space to perform copy edits and improve citations. I was going to start with "Early life" first.
Would anyone like to discuss potential changes first, or wait til I have an updated draft in workspace?
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 20:43, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I am not finding anything from a reliable source (HighBeam, books, web) that says that Matt Damon is of Scottish, English, Swedish and Finnish heritage. Robert Battle has published four or so genealogy books, but I have no idea whether Damon is in any of them.
This statement: "but had a "terrifying" first two years due to his short stature.[18)" has to be totally bogus. First, the reference says nothing about Damon's height and second, he's 5'10". That ain't short. 73.221.170.109 ( talk) 01:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)M. Schuyler
The source provided comes from an uncited personal genealogy page with a link to a message forum to an email. i.e., not a reliable source.
Is there a reliable newspaper article, magazine article or book that has this information that I'm missing? A quote from Damon in an article would be golden, for instance!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 21:01, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
There are a number of talented contributors to the article that may be able to finesse some of my edits, but I think it now passes the open GA article criteria issues regarding verifiable, reliable sources; "clear and concise prose"; and "without going into unnecessary detail".-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 19:51, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
@ Mad Hatter:I'm not sure that I understand the edits in this revision where there were chunks of text removed. There was no edit summary - so I'm assumed that it may have been either a good-faith error - or perhaps vandalism.
It looked like you wanted to move an image down into the awards section, so I took are of that, but made it a gallery so it doesn't "sandwich" the text MOS: Images.
I returned it but will look over the edits to see if there are corrections, etc. Any feedback in the meantime, though, is helpful!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 17:25, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
@ CaroleHenson: Sorry, I wanted it to move it down, that I forgot it, ultimately :). I also wanted to move the footprints at the awards section. Thanks for fixing it up. Didn't want to look as vandalism. As you may have noticed, my edits before were to try to fix the sections and the years in them. Thanks for fixing my work! Thanks for contributing to it! The Mad Hatter ( talk)
@ CaroleHenson: Hey, I made another edit, because the lines of commercially and critically successful films are kind of overlapping into one another. Also felt that Green Zone might also be considered a flop. Look it up, don't wanna stand out as a deletor, but some of it really needs a work Carole. Respect: The Mad Hatter ( talk)
@ CaroleHenson: Hello Carole, I made another edit. Since his "Early life" and "Early years" in acting are repeating each other in the Harvard last section, since that are his debut years in acting, decided to be bold and move them downwards, so that there is no overlapping. Look again at the intro section, I still think it neeeds polishing and tweaking. All the best: The Mad Hatter ( talk)
Are there reliable, secondary sources for this information?
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 22:27, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
How notable is it that he attended this game - an addition made by User:50.143.155.35?
I get that there's an interest and that he's come to more than one game, but what would this article look like if all of his interests were recorded? So, that's why I'm asking what makes this more notable than other interest he may have (partial ownership, other)?-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 21:26, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
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According the material presented to Ben Affleck in Season 2,episode 4 of " Finding Your Roots." Damon and Affleck are Tenth Cousins,once removed. Sochwa ( talk) 19:41, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Having select films that an actor is known for in the filmography section is pretty common when there is another page for their credits. See George Clooney, Robin Williams, Robert Downey Jr. or look at Julianne Moore for a non-list version. It's better than having the section blank with just the redirect to the filmography page. LADY LOTUS • TALK 18:50, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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C'omn, you knew someone was going to bring up this matter sooner or later as far as this article goes. As we know, Damon's "People shouldn't know anything about your sexuality." comment, which tied into his view on gay actors coming out, has gotten a lot of media attention, as seen here, here, here and here. Having checked this article's edit history to see what was added at the time of the media attention, I'm surprised to see that nothing has been added or reverted on this matter yet (unless I missed some random IP additions, where they added a poor mention of it). I wouldn't feel that this topic needs addressing in this article, if it weren't for the fact that it sparked a cultural debate, with even Ellen Page weighing in on it. So I definitely think that a paragraph or two about this should go in the "In the media" section. Flyer22 ( talk) 08:38, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Okay, in the absence of any valid objections, I will add content on this matter to the "In the media" section in a few days; I will keep the WP:Neutral policy, including its WP:Due weight section, in mind when doing so. Flyer22 ( talk) 21:26, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Courage Under File in 1996 is missing from his Filmography. Tony ( talk) 06:42, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
I also noticed that the Filography is missing Saving Private Ryan (1998) CatGrass ( talk) 05:01, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
@ Bovineboy2008 @ Checkingfax Thank you for reviewing my edit, but I would like to know your reason for reverting it. The character's actual name is David Webb and one of the character's major goals in the first film is to learn who he is. Thank you. -- SLV100 ( talk) 07:45, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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10:22, 12 March 2016 (UTC)Do we have to keep a record of his romantic relationships here? They aren't significant enough to be mentioned. As you can see there's no mention of Damon on Minnie Driver and Winona Ryder's articles. It was removed by other users because no significance was indicated. I think we should do the same thing here, but instead of removing the material I decided to discuss it first. Keivan.f Talk 03:04, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
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okay so theres this fairly popular podcast made by jennamarbles (called the jenna julien podcast) that a) has a long-running joke about damon's movie stuck on you being an Incredible cinematographic masterpiece and b) now has a conspiracy theory about damon being exposed as 14 years old. i just feel as if this article about him should address these jokes, or at least that he has been #exposed as today being his 14th birthday Breezeham ( talk) 03:49, 3 October 2017 (UTC) i hate myself so much for this lo siento mucho Breezeham ( talk) 03:54, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
In his statement about Harvey Weinstein, Damon referred to himself as the "father of four daughters." Since he obviously acknowledges his stepdaughter's existence, shouldn't his page? ("Children = 4 (including one stepchild)")
Shouldn't the opening paragraph also be modified from "they have three daughters together" to something like "they have four daughters together, (including a daughter from Luciana's previous marraige)" or something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.169.34.6 ( talk) 16:23, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
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Matt Damon's interview with ABC news, the resultant backlash should be added.
[1] There's been quite a response on twitter, both good and bad.
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The "Controversy" section should be changed to "Controversies" because there's more than one.
Also, if you're going to be fair to women then you have to be fair to visible minorities too and add this incident in 2015 to Damon's controversies:
When independent African-American filmmaker, Effie Brown, suggested that a white woman and a Vietnamese-American man co-direct a proposed film, Damon interrupted the Brown to explain to her what diversity means in Hollywood saying "When we’re talking about diversity you do it in the casting of the film not in the casting of the show." Damon alleges his words were taken out of context on a show that he was executive producer and then apologised. [1] [2] [3] 5.32.55.154 ( talk) 04:19, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
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Early lif and education to Early Life and education Kdizzle98 ( talk) 09:28, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
Change section title in contents and at the top of section from "Early lif and education" to "Early life and education". Mcrooney ( talk) 15:21, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
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Please update 'Selected filmography' tab to add new movie: Downsizing (2018) [Reference Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389072/] Rcmola ( talk) 11:48, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
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Matt Damon Apologizes for Diversity Comments on ‘Project Greenlight’
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CBS Sunday Morning reported in July 2021 that Damon has 4 daughters, not 3 children. 162.255.169.4 ( talk) 22:25, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
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Filmography
All Matt Damon films can be found in below page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Damon_filmography Ranjith Thazhathepurath ( talk) 03:09, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
The section Pubic image in its entirety is as follows:
"Comedian Jimmy Kimmel had a running gag on his ABC television show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he apologized for not being able to interview Damon at the end of each show. It culminated in a planned skit on September 12, 2006, when Damon stormed off after having his interview cut short. Damon appeared in several of E! Entertainment's top ten Jimmy Kimmel Live! spoofs. On January 24, 2013, Damon took over his show and mentioned the long-standing feud and having been bumped from years of shows. It involved celebrities who were previously involved in the "feud", including Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, and Sarah Silverman."
There is no way that a reader who doesn't already know all about this will have any idea what feud (or "feud") is referred to here.
I hope that someone can fix this, someone who is knowledgeable about this subject and who also is capable of writing clearly. 2601:200:C000:1A0:AC8F:FBEF:B6C7:8E7D ( talk) 01:20, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
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i want to upload a photo of young matt damon. I think he looks better there Matt Damon11 ( talk) 21:15, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
So if he doesn't have any degree from Harvard, he doesn't have any education from Harvard, does he? So why write "Harvard" under "Education"? He's a drop out. 188.113.81.146 ( talk) 21:37, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
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PLease fix a typo in the `Early life and education` section. Pleae change `Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusettsm on October 8, 1970` to `Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 8, 1970`. 2001:569:77F1:AE00:298B:4881:1C34:516B ( talk) 19:56, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
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Regret: JOHN MELLENCAMP’S boring child. 76.23.217.246 ( talk) 05:26, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Yesterday, I restored the paragraph about Damon's comments on homophobic language, which seem to me relevant to his public image, especially coming so soon after his statements about Me Too. Am not totally clear that this information should be under the Personal life header, so I've put them under "Comments on sexual harassment and homophobia" as a subhead to at least seperate them out a bit. But they clearly have impacts on his activism (he made business decisions about an diversity rider that—at least as the text of the article implies—are probably related to the response to his statements about Me Too. And certainly views about feminism and homophobia have a political valence, but don't really fit in with the "capital p" Politics that are the subject of the political views subheader. If anyone can direct me to styleguide resources on how to divide up these sections better on a celebrity biography, that would be much appreciated. The critiques under WP:CSECTION that another user have pointed out are noted, but I still think this information about statements Damon made which caused controversy are relevant to this bio in some form. Handpigdad ( talk) 21:13, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
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i found no Filmography nor mention of the ultimate Damon-Affleck `99 collaboration, "Dogma"
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Remove the red links of IFC (American TV network) on 85 reference! 2804:7F2:5AD:51C1:25F5:6593:9BEC:9290 ( talk) 03:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
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In the current text under personal life, it says they live in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. It should say they in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. 2600:8801:111A:4900:647E:CA20:C704:D0E4 ( talk) 01:32, 12 June 2024 (UTC)