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One editor named MezzoMezzo has repeatedly claimed that a living scholar named Gibril Haddad is a "pathalogical liar" and "fantasist" on this talk page. I asked him on a number of occasions (e.g. [1], [2]) to provide evidence of this and he has been unable to do so.
Gibril Haddad is a Senior Assistant Professor of the Sultan Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies. This institute collaborates with other well known academic institutes such as Georgetown University and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He has also made contributions to The Oxford Amnesty Lectures published by Oxford University Press.
The unsourced claim that Haddad is a "pathalogical liar" and "fantasist" is a violation of the following WP:BLP policy, "This policy extends that principle, adding that contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately and without discussion. This applies whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable, and whether it is in a biography or in some other article. Material should not be added to an article when the only sourcing is tabloid journalism. When material is both verifiable and noteworthy, it will have appeared in more reliable sources."
WP:BLPTALK makes clear that "BLP applies to all material about living persons anywhere on Wikipedia, including talk pages, edit summaries, user pages, images, categories, lists, article titles and drafts."
I am therefore requesting that the claims that Haddad is a "pathalogical liar" and "fantasist" be removed from this talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.68.129 ( talk • contribs) 08:13, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Here: Talk:Chris_Packham#Personal_info Jytdog ( talk) 21:48, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
I am the subject of this BLP Neal D. Barnard and would like to suggest edits to keep it objective and useful to readers. May I please list those suggestions here? I am posting on the BLP Noticeboard rather than the article’s Talk page because of what appears to be a pattern of reversion of even neutral well-cited edits, as well as Talk-page comments suggesting strong bias. Also, as one who is new to the Wikipedia editing process, I see that it is advisable to place a template on the Talk page indicating that this article may be discussed here, but I apologize that I could not quite see how to place the template. I value your guidance if there is a better way to handle this and am grateful for your kind consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.100.128.2 ( talk) 18:34, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
It has come to my attention that labeling Dr. David Duke as a "white supremacist, holocaust denier, convicted felon, antisemetic conspiracy theorist" at the very beginning of his introduction, and not what his actual profession is, would be highly libelous. I am sure that you don't put convicted felon on every single person who has a felony charge on Wikipedia.
Aaron Hernandez for example, was the tight end of the Patriots, but his article does not start with "convicted felon" in his opening line. If anything, for Dr. David Duke, I would suggest having a smaller section stating the felony charges, and the holocaust denial. Otherwise, it seems to look very politically charged, immature, and unprofessional. Dr. David Duke was the former Rep for Louisiana and a presidential candidate, as well as a political activist and theorist. I would suggest that the following edits should be made. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.162.104.210 ( talk) 21:42, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I've created "Bir Abu Matar" based on a book in Hebrew I own and on the Wikipedia article in Hebrew on the same subject. The article was tagged as a "Biography of a living person", I'm guessing by a bot and by mistake. This is NOT the name of a person but of an archaeological site in Southern Palestine. Could someone please removed the "Biography" tags or let me know how I can do it? Khayyam 77 ( talk) 12:00, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Two questions about this, the first of which is whether the subject essentially waived her expectation to privacy when mentioning her relationship status in an interview. The second is whether the account removing the sourced content, presumably at the subject's request, has COI and username issues, as it appears to represent the author's publishing firm [5]. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 15:10, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
While clearing up a baseless talk page accusation on Talk:Austrian People's Party, I checked the IP who placed it. [6] The IP is a single-purpose account obsessed with mentioning on articles about living people that they were mentioned in the manifesto of terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, a very serious form of guilt by association. To imply that the words of Australian prime minister John Howard or Japanese prime minister Taro Aso led to a grown man butchering children is moral panic not unlike Marilyn Manson and Columbine.
The IP's talk page rants show that they have a political motive and are WP:NOTHERE. [7] slippery slope fallacy.
I didn't know where to come for this report. I didn't know if I could tag an IP as an SPA, nor if this was a topic for ANI. And I don't know if BLP policy means these edits or talk page posts about living people can be deleted by admins: it's true that Breivik mentioned them but it has very little to do with the people themselves and his post on the John Howard talk page suggests the IP is editing to try to convince people that conservatism leads to terrorism. Anarcho-authoritarian ( talk) 22:54, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
This profile has been created in malice, the sources linked have also been falsified. The whole profile has been created as an online taunt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiwatcherwacky ( talk • contribs) 20:33, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
Recent allegations are being fought over by new editors--part of the problem is the placement and phrasing of those allegations. It needs experienced editors, and it would be a good idea if 0ver C00ked and FollowNPOVandBLP stayed away. Drmies ( talk) 00:42, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
note:this comment has been moved from BLPN talk. Fyddlestix ( talk) 01:27, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
I'm delighted to stay away. 0ver C00ked ( talk) 01:09, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
This article is inaccurate and the context in which these inaccuracies occurs is defamatory. I will allow Wikipedia until Monday, Oct 23, 2017 to delete this article. If this is not done by this deadline, civil action will follow and those who have edited it will be named as defendants. The clock is ticking. If I see the article still there on Monday, these actions will follow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.184.154 ( talk) 19:17, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Former president Barack Obama is replaced with "terrorist muslim". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 179.35.19.162 ( talk) 06:27, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
The Jundo Cohen article has only 2 references, one to the subject's own website, the other to material he wrote about himself on another website.
He also links to his other wikipedia page: Treeleaf Zendo. That page is referenced to his website, and to expired web links.
I assume all of this goes against Wikipedia policy.
I am not confident enough to change the pages but wanted to bring it to your attention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Puthujjana ( talk • contribs) 14:38, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Lisa_Kemmerer ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Per WP:BLPSELF I've come here seeking some assistance with this article. While I'm not the person the article is about, I know the person and I don't want to violate WP:COI by making major changes to the article.
I would like to help improve the article by resolving the issues mentioned at the top. I'm looking for sources for some of the things mentioned in the article to resolve the primary source issue. I don't think I can resolve the close connection issue, and so I've come here for some assistance.
Could someone please make some suggestions on the talk page about what the article needs to resolve the issues? I'd really appreciate it.
Caeruleus pungens ( talk) 20:49, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
When I viewed the page (on 22 Oct 2017), King Felipe VI of Spain was described as an "Inbred Beard Model" and his prime minister was described as a "parcel of cat feces." I imagine that these pages will be vandalized frequently until Spain recognizes Catalonia as an independent state. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.17.250.147 ( talk) 19:10, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Please verify the sources and content on Pooja Jain. Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 14:47, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
The director James Toback is a subject of sexual harassment allegations today in the Los Angeles Times. More eyes on the article are required. Coretheapple ( talk) 19:19, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
C. Marcella Carollo - citation added 22 October 2017 does not list name of this person. Repeatedly added by various users. Potential vandalism.
GalilaeusGalilaeus ( talk) 20:06, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Graduate of New York Law School not New York University— Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.67.210.21 ( talk) 12:11, October 24, 2017
A series of editors with direct conflicts of interest (first the subject herself, then a person who clearly identified himself as a personal friend of hers, and then an anonymous IP number) have persistently been making edits to Nancy Nash over the past two years. The situation is that the Juno Award nomination that she received in 1994, the sole reason she qualifies to have a Wikipedia article at all, ran right into a brick wall of controversy around allegations that she didn't have the moral rights to even record the song she got nominated for. (Bonus history lesson for anybody who thinks cultural appropriation is a new thing that people never argued about before the 2010s!) But even though I was extremely careful to be as fair as possible to both sides of that dispute within the bounds of what could be reliably sourced, Nash appears to be determined to ensure that the article reflects her side of the story only, by adding unsourced and unverifiable and very non-neutral claims that she was 100 per cent in the right and her accuser was just an asshole — for one thing, her version completely wipes out any acknowledgement whatsoever of the properly sourced fact that the single biggest part of what got her accuser's dander up in the first place was that her PR at the time was explicitly claiming that she was the adopted daughter of his dead father (she later went even farther, claiming that he adopted her in a dream.) Instead, she now turns it into an unsourcable claim that the accuser adopted her as his sister himself — which is not what she or any known source about the controversy said at the time — and then turned on her for no discernible or justifiable reason whatosever.
For comparison's sake, this is the last version before her most recent takeover attempt. But having been dealing with this for two years now, I'm getting quite tired of it and would like to ask if somebody unconnected to the dispute can review the prior version and the current one, and figure out how to get back to some semblance of properly sourced neutrality. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 03:19, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Patric Gozzi ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) does not meet notability criteria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LittleRaisin ( talk • contribs) 18:01, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
The information on the wikipedia Michael Cadnum page looks accurate to me--Michael Cadnum. So the cautionary template can be removed. If there is any problem, leave it. But really it may clutter and mislead, since it cautions unnecessarily. Or so it seems to me. Thanks for your help, everyone. MC
This article is a pure self-advertisement about a living person /info/en/?search=Alexander_Haditaghi who is trying to gain some revenue from his popularity. This article existed before and was removed, however it's back again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.84.234.2 ( talk) 18:27, 24 October 2017
Poorly sourced or unsourced statements about alleged crimes are repeatedely added to the page in violation of WP:BLP. Ulner ( talk) 06:42, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to report several people who have Coup d'état this page to spread misleading information about Baked Alaska. If a person is to correct the article, they immediately revert it to their bias version with no explanation whatsoever, completely ignoring the neutral point of view policy. Even though Baked Alaska have denied all the claims himself, tabloid propaganda articles are still being used as valid sources.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Chikicreamdaddy ( talk • contribs) 16:03, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
Got another interesting one for an experienced editor: much of the article reads like a hit piece, other parts read like fluff, and I just blocked a bunch of COI socks. Article needs attention; the lead is already undue. Drmies ( talk) 01:38, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
@drmies and @ryk72 ,
can an experienced editor please get involved and make this article more neutral? The article is completely skewed against the subject. A handful of editors have made a concerted effort to ensure as little exculpatory information as possible gets in.
Shia LaBeouf ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Recently my edits were reverted at this article by Sundayclose, FlightTime, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi and Flyer22 Reborn. I asked why on the talk page but, after two months, have not received a reply.
The subject has been struggling with addiction and a declining career for several years, and has been trolled by /pol/ members over his involvement with the anti-Trump HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US project, which may explain how this article has gotten so out of hand. (Or it might just be the fluff accretion one often sees with GA/FA celeb bios.)
Most pertinently the Legal troubles and controversy section is huge, currently consisting of ten paragraphs. Maybe these three minor events should be chopped:
Early in the morning of November 4, 2007, a security guard asked LaBeouf to leave a Chicago Walgreens, which LaBeouf refused to do. LaBeouf was arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespassing. The criminal charges were dropped on December 12, 2007.
In March 2008, police issued an arrest warrant for LaBeouf after he failed to make a court appearance, which had been in relation to a ticket he had received for unlawful smoking in Burbank, California, in February 2008. When neither LaBeouf nor a lawyer appeared at the court at the 8:30 a.m. hearing, a $1000 bench warrant was issued for his arrest. However, the court commissioner in California recalled this warrant on March 19, 2008, after the actor's attorney arrived a day late to plead not guilty on LaBeouf's behalf, and a pre-trial hearing was set for April 24, 2008. The charge was dismissed, after the actor paid a $500 fine.
In the early hours of February 5, 2011, he was involved in an altercation with another patron at the Mad Bull's Tavern bar in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, which resulted in the actor getting punched in the face. Both LaBeouf and the unnamed patron were placed in handcuffs and questioned by a Los Angeles Police Department officer but later released with no arrest being made. In 2014, LaBeouf was banned from The Local Peasant restaurant in Sherman Oaks after urinating on the wall.
As per usual, the whole section is almost entirely cobbled together from primary sources such as People, TMZ, etc. Really, it should all go until decent secondary sources are found.
The relationship section is also overly detailed, poorly and primary-sourced (including multiple Daily Mails, and the Mirror's
3AM column), and full of tabloidy tidbits such as "I still love her. I think she's a fucking awesome person and an incredible actress. We're still pals. I wouldn't take any of it back, and I don't think she would either. It just ran its course."
and In June 2011, in an interview in Details magazine, he claimed that he and Lucas were "philandering around" before the accident occurred.
There's also an inconsequential section about his support for Jeremy Corbyn, and a section heading titled Sexual assault which, on first viewing, may give the impression that Mr LaBeouf was the perpetrator of said assault. Someone might want to reassess this article's GA status. -- Hillbillyholiday ( talk) 20:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
The Shia LaBeouf discussion might have stalled because we were all involved in an ANI manner on the same day. In that discussion, a number of editors agreed that it is often that such big deletions should be discussed first. At the article's talk page, I noted that "trimming is not an issue, but some of it should probably remain. When I get some good time, I will assess the content and give my opinion on what should be cut and what should remain. At the moment, I am busy with other matters on Wikipedia." I obviously did not get around to doing that. As for sourcing, editors have also been clear that some of the things Hillbillyholiday is requesting secondary sources for don't need secondary sources. If The Guardian reports on something about Shia LaBeouf, we don't need a book source noting that The Guardian reported this, for example. Furthermore, as has been stated before, the vast majority of reliable sources for celebrities are going to be media sources, not book sources or whatever other type of source Hillbillyholiday considers to be a secondary source. Most book sources on celebrities are self-published sources, unauthorized biographies or tell-all books. Unless they are historical and/or political figures, it's only occasionally that one will find one or more decent book sources on a celebrity. Even with as famous as Michael Jackson is, most of the sources in the WP:FA Michael Jackson article are media sources. They are also usually the best sources, given some of the books out there on Jackson.
Anyway, I agree that the Shia LaBeouf personal life material needed significant trimming and that the article's GA status should be reassessed. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 06:09, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
There is a new editor adding highly critical content to David Levy (chess player) which I feel is a serious BLP violation because of its poor sourcing, reliance on original research and primary document, rather than on reliable independent sources. Additional opinions are welcome. Gnome de plume ( talk) 16:33, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the addition of BLP violations to Roy Moore, again. Ideally the article talk page will be sufficient for discussion. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 16:42, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
My father died on February 10, 2012, yet you continue the falsehood that he is alive. Also, the end of your article says he is teaching acting, but includes a reference to a totally different "Reuben Greene." Please remove your article or be prepared to face legal action.
Ruben Green, Jr. Philadelphia, PA16:31, 26 October 2017 (UTC) 159.63.4.3 ( talk)
Footnote 24 ( http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/30/trump-kushner-never-blackmailed-scarborough-source-says.html) cites an unverified source. This news story, posted online by Fox News, has neither a named author nor a named source. Fox News' reporting consistently demonstrates conservative bias; for evidence of this claim, please see the Wikipedia page on the matter ( /info/en/?search=Fox_News_controversies). Unless Fox News can offer evidence that the claims made in this article are true, the article is inadmissible according to the policy on the Wikipedia page "Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons", under "reliable sources" and "challenged or likely to be challenged" (see /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons).
Article is full of libelous and off-topic content. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:14d:8000:7644:fc6a:502b:ec2b:5b75 ( talk) 23:21, October 26, 2017
Semi-protected for a week. Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 03:38, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Noting a pattern of vandalism with respect to this page. There is a continual removal of sourced notable links about this figure and a suppression of positive information, and an insistence on negative information continually made by the same editor User:ScrapIronIV - the history of this page shows that this editor lacks neutrality and objectivity and seems intent on suppressing relevant information. I would suggest another Wiki editor look at this page to insure that the correct information remains and would also look at the aforementioned editor's editing privileges as he/she seems to have a personal vendetta against this subject.
SiphoB ( talk) 04:41, 27 October 2017 (UTC) Tend to agree based on User:ScrapIronIV editing history. Seems to lack neutrality. I have just added some notable sourced information (Best American Poetry Blog and Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism Artist Fellowship). Let's see if these get vandalized or not.
Change was made to page of Mark Halperin immediately following his sexual misconduct allegations labeling him a "conservative author" instead of simply "author." This violates the biographies of living persons policy because the claim as to his political orientation is unsourced and controversial. The timing of this edit and lack of supporting evidence would appear to be politically motivated.
This article is not worthy of a wikipedia article. It's just someone writing about them self.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.138.162 ( talk) 18:36, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
This report relates to Manny_Lehman_(disc_jockey).
The page is not neutrally composed and reads as a sales pitch from a publicist.
I have edited the page to remove an incorrect life achievement. The page listed that he made chart topping remixes for Madonna for the song "what it feels like a girl"... but when you look at the officially released remixes for that song on the wiki page... he is not listed.
He did produce unoffical and unreleased remixes for that song as shown at [1] but they were UNRELEASED... so didnt top the charts.
There are only 5 references throughout the entire page and so the whole page needs a vast amount of citations and verifiable evidence of the information stated there.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Please note that the Controversy section that has been added to Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's biography is full of inaccuracies and has been deliberately placed to cast aspersions on her character. The links that have been placed as 'proof' of the controversy are selective and of dubious extraction. Please contact me if you require further information at <redacted>.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sameirk ( talk • contribs) 05:49, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
Mark Ames ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Someone should check the sources for the accusations that were just added. Tornado chaser ( talk) 19:44, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Gilad Atzmon is a highly controversial figure, subject to tidal waves of abuse, and we are trying to rewrite that page according to WP:NPOV, which I take means also scrupulously documenting everything, even negative, said of him in WP:RS. Sources of this kind are abundant.
WP:BLP states
Never use self-published sources—including but not limited to books, zines, websites, blogs, and tweets—as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article.
Despite this unambiguous rule, some editors are insisting that a a blog on an activist antifascist advocacy website written by Nick Lowles can be used as a sources for Atzmon’s views, and wish to retain this article hosted on Hope not Hate, where the blogger is an executive. In defence of overriding WP:BLP's on blogs, WP:NEWSBLOG is cited. But Hope not Hate is not a newsblog.
The argument over this can be read on the talk page here. Third party independent input would be appreciated. Nishidani ( talk) 12:33, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
Should the above article by subject to BLP policies? If so could someone place the appropriate notice on the talk page? There has been repeated insertion of the same unsourced content (from 3 different IP addresses) in the last week. I wonder if someone could take a look and evaluate.
Thanks. MrBill3 ( talk) 08:57, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
Could somebody familiar with BLP policy please check the Tony Podesta article? I've tried to fix up some issues, but Certified Gangsta keeps reverting them, claiming I'm POV-pushing and " WP:OWN"-ing the article, to say nothing of the BLPCRIME issues. Falling Gravity 03:36, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Michael Finney ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The picture is of Michael Finney the ABC7 BayArea Consumer Specialist, but the text is about a magician who moved out of the State of California in 1978. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.143.67.158 ( talk) 01:53, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Ingrid Detter ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Someone repeatedly amends this page which should read:
Ingrid Detter met her future husband Louis Doimi de Lupis Frankopan when they both studies at Oxford University. The Doimi de Lupis family reverted to the name of Frankopan and title of Prince, after the fall of communism in Croatia in 1991. The Court of Perugia, having previously examined the genealogical tables of the family and the grant of the title of Prince by King Sigismund in 1425, with sanction of anyone who disputes this, confirmed right of the name and titles of the Doimi de Frankopan family, as Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis, in a judgment in 2007. The judgment has executory force in all jurisdictions in Europe and elsewhere. [1], The Doimi de Lupis family was also granted a knighthood by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1855 and 1865 when Croatia was under Austrian hegemony. [2]),
Instead, the editor changes this to:
Ingrid Detter met her future husband, Louis Doimi de Lupis (who later controversially added the name of Frankopan and title of Prince, having previously adopted the title of Count; [3] the Doimi de Lupis family were however granted nobility- in the form of knighthood only- by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1855 and 1865 [4]), when they were both studying at Oxford University (see below on the history of the family name). They married in 1968.
The revised entry is not adequately resourced: the note to Daily Telegraph shows that the newspaper did not suggest that the change of name would be 'vontroversial' but the editor added that. the note to the book about the Frangipani shows unequivocally that the Doimi de Lupis family is a branch of the Frankopan family and has the right to the titles, Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis.
The addition of the word 'only' to the grant of a knighthood is unprofessional and disparaging. [5]) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saluspopuli ( talk • contribs) 15:29, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
References
Someone repeatedly amends this page, recently renamed as 'Frankopan' from previously House of Frankopan where a section now reads 'controversially name claiming':
Revised (disputed) version of
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Although the House of Frankopan ended in the 17th century there were unsuccessful attempts of seizing their name and holdings in the centuries that followed. The newest such a case is claim by some members of the Dojmi di Delupis (Croatian version of the name) / Doimi de Lupis (Italian version of the name) family, originally a 13th century minor nobles (knighthood) from the island of Vis who were never connected to the Frankopans in historical documents. In the year 2000 Louis Doimi de Lupis, by then a British citizen, changed his surname to Doimi de Frankopan Šubić Zrinski under British Civil law, adding several names of ancient Croatian noble families that combined in such a fashion were historically never attributed to any member of mentioned noble families. Subsequently the Croatian Nobility Association expelled the Doimi de Lupis family from their membership calling the name reverting a falsification. [1] Additionally, John Kennedy, editor of directory of Europe's royalty and nobility Almanach de Gotha, stated that the use of the name Frankopan by Doimi de Lupis family is "more aspirational than inherited". [2] In the late 1990s, trying to save the reputation of his family name, Louis's cousin Mirko Jamnicki-Dojmi di Delupis wrote an open letter where he denounced claims over Frankopan, Šubić and Zrinski names by his family and presented the family tree of Dojmi di Delupis containing 129 names from the year 1200 onwards. [3] In 1990s the wife of Louis Doimi de Lupis Swedish lawyer Ingrid Detter bought the Ribnik Castle (once propriety of the Frankopans, the Counts of Krk) for the price of 1,6 million kunas. [4] Having previously adopted the title of Count, Louis Doimi de Lupis together with his wife and children eventually started to use the title of Prince (a royal title never held by the Frankopans) claiming that an Italian court [5] verification needed dubious – discuss gave them the right to use the name of Croatian noble family the Frankopans as well as the style of Prince/Princess in the late 2000s. The Frankopan's historical title knez [6] was (at the time) high feudal hereditary title [7] which was translated as conte in Italian historical sources [8] and is equivalent of Count in English. Apart from the sources where certain members of Doimi de Lupis family claim to be Croatian princes [9] [10] [11] it is possible to find online sources where they are styled as "Prince/Princess ... of Croatia" [12] [13] [14] [15] which is a royal title that only the heir apparent of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine could legitimately claim. References
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The entry should read, changing the title 'controversial name claiming', to 'living members of the Frankopan Family':
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The Frankopan family is not extinct but was declared 'enemies of the people' during communism in Croatia. The Doimi de Lupis family, living in exile in England, reverted to the name of Frankopan and title of Prince, after the fall of communism in Croatia in 1991. In 1992 Louis Doimi de Lupis Frankopan founded the Croatian Nobility Council, drafted their Statutes and incorporated Council as a private association under Croatian law. Following a dispute about 'pre-plemstvo' members, that is families so old that they had refrained from having their titles confirmed by the Austrian overlords, he resigned from the Association. The Court of Perugia, having previously examined the genealogical tables of the family and the grant of the title of Prince by King Sigismund in 1425, with sanction of anyone who disputes this, confirmed right of the name and titles of the Doimi de Frankopan family, as Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis, in a judgment in 2007. The judgment has executory force in all jurisdictions in Europe and elsewhere. [1], The Doimi de Lupis family was also granted a knighthood by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1855 and 1865 when Croatia was under Austrian hegemony. [2]), |
The revised entry is not adequately resourced and refers to tabloid gossip, an 'open letter' by an invented 'cousin', and several disparaging newspaper articles and numerous offensive and irrelevant remarks.
The original entry, repeatedly removed by this editor, refers to official court documents and published authoritative material. Saluspopuli ( talk) 16:02, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Richard Ayoade ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Hi, we have a problem on the above page where trolls are repeatedly miscatorising the ethnicity of Richard as being English. The article states he is of Norwegian and Nigerian ethnicity, but in the first paragraph some user is repeatedly using the term English to refer to his Ethnicity. Can someone assist as this is grossly inaccurate and can only be trolling. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Margolis-Marmite ( talk • contribs) 13:08, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
I love the way you dismiss the importance of ethnicity to millions of ethnic English people. Im guessing you'd never do this to a Jew. Margolis-Marmite ( talk) 18:01, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
Would someone please take a look at Rob Moore (property investor) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Progressive Property ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? There are questionable sources that are being repeatedly added. Someone claiming to be Rob Moore left this note on my talk page. Thank you Jim1138 ( talk) 21:01, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
Sun Liangang ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Poorly written self-promoting unsourced page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.241.38.109 ( talk) 10:59, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
Michael Yeung Ming-cheung controversies ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I came across this in the new pages feed. I don't quite think it qualifies for G10 as an attack page, but its basically a page devoted to controversies caused by Michael Yeung Ming-cheung, a Catholic bishop in China. Bringing it here to see what others think the best way to deal with it is. TonyBallioni ( talk) 16:00, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
I see that there have been some contentious issues with Matthew Sweetman regarding items he published on Jerome Lyle Rappaport's page. Mr. Sweetman claimed he was a friend of the Rappaports when in fact he is not. He is not a close member of the family - most of the items he posted he obtained illegally. Mr. Sweetman is a minor and a stalker - the only way he could have obtained most of these items is if broke into Mr. Rappaport's home. A signature from a personal letter in Mr. Rappaport's home seems like it was scanned an put on this page - Mr. Sweetman has never been invited to Mr. Rappaport's personal office and would never have been allowed to sift thru his drawers or allowed to scan anything.. Mr. Rappaport does not have a daughter Debbie.
I am not sure how to do the edits or how to have the page go back to what it was before he made the changes. I am also confused as to why a 90 year old man would be punished and not be able to have items removed because of a boy's actions.
My guess is the reason Matthew became hostile is because most of the items he had edited and written are slanderous and not only to Jerome Lyle Rappaport but more importantly to his children.
Please let me know what the next steps are.
Jannelle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jannellecioffi ( talk • contribs) 02:24, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
My apologies in advance for the length of this post -- I have made it as brief as possible considering the complexity of the issue.
Luke Dittrich is not an objective, reliable source, and therefore, all reference to his article should be removed from Wikipedia, for reasons more fully elaborated on my talk page than is appropriate for posting here. This request is supported by Wikipedia’s policy to immediately remove “poorly sourced” and sensationalist material when posting information about living persons. Despite the reputation of Esquire, the Dittrich article was not properly fact-checked and should not be considered a reliable source.
Briefly:
A clearly supported distortion of Dittrich’s assertions in the original article is an excerpt from a discussion between myself and His Holiness the Dalai Lama at a Maitripa College graduation ceremony. As confirmed by others, Dittrich distorts the meaning of what the Dalai Lama actually said, alluding that His Holiness questioned my honesty when describing “extremely hidden phenomena,” noting that I “fidgeted” while His Holiness “wagged a finger in my direction.” In all actuality, His Holiness states the opposite – “and in this particular case, there seems no reason to lie.” This demonstrable distortion and fabrication is a direct contradiction of the recorded discussion, and is widely available via YouTube. https://www.dailygrail.com/2013/07/esquire-expose-has-its-own-selective-editing/
Distortion of facts appears to be routine for Dittrich. In August 2016, 200 Scientists, many from MIT, wrote letters of protest around serious problems in Dittrich's book, Patient HM, further questioning his abilities as an objective journalist or author, as reported in Scientific American: "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology brain sciences department and, separately, a group of some 200 neuroscientists from around the world have written letters to The New York Times claiming that a book excerpt in the newspaper’s Sunday magazine this week contains important errors, misinterpretations of scientific disputes, and unfair characterizations of an MIT neuroscientist who did groundbreaking research on human memory." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mit-challenges-the-new-york-times-over-book-on-famous-brain-patient/
The full argument on my talk page elaborates in detail how the rest of Dittrich’s handling of my story was similarly filled with distortions, twisting of facts, and misinterpretation. Detailed review of Robert Mays' rebuttal of Dittrich’s article details many other inaccuracies. While the IANDS article is not deemed by Wikipedia to be a mainstream, fact-checked source, nonetheless, it is a detailed resource that documents the distortions and includes primary sources. I am not requesting a link to this article be posted on my page, but simply that it may be used to support my claim that Dittrich himself is not a reliable source. https://iands.org/ndes/more-info/ndes-in-the-news/970-esquire-article-on-eben-alexander-distorts-the-facts.html
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ealexander3 ( talk • contribs) 15:53, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
Can I get some extra eyes on this? An already established real-world dispute over whether or not Moon accidentally ran over and killed his chauffeur Neil Boland in 1970 has now turned up here. In a nutshell, he admitted guilt, was acquitted as an accident, there are few living witnesses left, opinion is divided as to whether he actually did it or not. I have discussed this a bit at User talk:Ritchie333#Death of Keith Moon's driver and explained my views on it. Obviously Moon isn't a living person, but his surviving family members are, so some diplomacy is called for. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:41, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is now late. http://glonews360.com/confirmed-mdc-leader-morgan-richard-tsvangirai-dies-from-food-poisoning/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.246.54.254 ( talk) 11:30, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Article appears to have become a glossy resume. Do political figures get to have lengthy 'endorsement' list sections, sourced to their websites? 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 16:44, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
John Draper ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
There's an edit war leading to semi-protection over a section making allegations about behaviour. It needs checking out for compliance with WP:RS, WP:UNDUE among others. Nthep ( talk) 13:46, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Could someone check this bio with respect to WP:BLPPRIMARY? Sorry I can't look at it more at the moment. Best, -- joe decker talk 01:58, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Milo Yiannopoulos ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Milo Yiannopoulos#RfC: Should the article include text/sources analyzing Yiannopoulos's statements on pedophilia?. A permalink for it is here. The discussion concerns whether or not to mention that sources note that Yiannopoulos's definition of pedophilia is technically correct, but also that the term is used more broadly than the technical definition (to include adults engaging in sexual activity with minors, or specifically committing child sexual abuse). Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 21:02, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Can we get a few more eyes on one of these articles. We have a National Enquirer article from Wednesday being regurgitate everywhere what do others think. Pls see Talk:Corey Haim/Archives/2021#Charlie Sheen rape allegations. - Moxy ( talk) 02:32, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello, would it be possible to change order of the content on Fiona Graham's page? I think that part of the "Wanaka Gym court case" has nothing to do with her geisha career, and it is not appropriate to be placed just below geisha activities. Would you be able to move this section to the end of the entire content? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilly1985 ( talk • contribs) 03:38, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
He's been in the news in the wake of the fall of several prominent media men recently, so his article has been getting a lot of attention lately, editors equating some of the past allegations/accusations as full blown convictions of sexual assault. I've toned some of it down where I haven't seen much in the way of new sources supporting that ("lurid stories circulating since 2001" doesn't strike me as very reliable). My main questions right now: does it belong in the lede and where does the topic itself go within the article? Past talk pages had consensus it should follow "Style" but in the wake of his losing some jobs with magazines etc., it's moved up higher. I don't know enough about Biography articles to say. ZarhanFastfire ( talk) 04:52, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
There is a user who insists on including Laura Bush's commentary on the section regarding HW's sexual misconduct, in addition to Bush's statement through his spokesman (which no one disputes should belong). I think this is clearly unjustified: Laura A) isn't speaking on behalf of HW, B) has no particular expertise in the subject matter, C) had no direct observation of what's been alleged. Her views are no more relevant than anyone else's. This user insists that her views deserve mention because she's his daughter-in-law, but last I checked, being related to someone (let alone indirectly) doesn't make your views on their life relevant enough to be included in the article. Thoughts? Fixed245 ( talk) 23:54, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
- If her opinion did not matter; why would a journalist of a major news network (CNN) ask her for her comment on the incident? Shouldn't they have approached a spokesman instead?
A. She is speaking on behalf of HW because of the direct question asked by the journalist at CNN - who asked her because he is Bush's daughter-in-law.
B. She is a woman and has an understanding of what woman goes through. Furthermore, she is related to HW therefore understands and has expertise on who the individual is.
C. If that excuse is used, than the spokesman has no right to speak because he had no direct observation as well. The spokesman view and the daughter-in-law's view are equal in importance.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:92C0:D700:28D1:199C:8720:4C07 ( talk) 01:23, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
COntnet dispute over allegations-- serious BLP vs "well known". Would appreciate more review. -- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 17:35, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
Largely promotional biography that appears to have been created and tended by a WP:COI account. It's been nominated for deletion via AfD, but regardless of outcome, this could use more eyes. Thanks, 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 04:08, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Brian Hanley (biohacker) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Brian Hanley (Biohacker) This article reads as another hit piece by Antonio Regolado who wrote the MIT Technology Review article. It references his article, repeats his libellous materials from the article, and is done in his lexical style, despite certain breadcrumbs that suggest Romania was the source. There is an open complaint with MIT's legal department regarding the MIT article. The MIT Tech Review article is libellous, grossly misrepresents myself, my work, and what I told Mr. Regolado. The talk section also reads as something that he would have originated. I have blog articles critical of biohacking. Most recently, I voiced my concerns about Josiah Zayner, both for him and for his public [1]. See item 1 in cite regarding the open complaint. See summation at the end about self-experimentation by sientists. See the rest of the cited article that discusses my concerns with the biohacking movement and what Zayner is doing.
I have been critical of amateur gene therapy, AKA biohacking, predating the MIT Technology review article by Mr. Regolado. In 2015 I expressed my concerns about a claimed telomerase experiment [2] over a year before the MIT Tech Review article came out.
I have quite a few publications, popular [3] [4], and academic [5].
The entire Wikipedia entry should be deleted, as the title is, itself, a libel and there is no way to change it. I can supply the text of the complaint to MIT's legal department if you want to contact me by email. Ymandelbrot ( talk) 00:38, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
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Gyadari Balamallu simply known as Balamallu is the present chairman of Telangana state industrial infrastructure corporation (TSIIC). He got originated from siddipet, Telangana. He got married to Karuna Sri Gyadari. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kupoireddy Sai Charan ( talk • contribs) 10:56, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Vladimir Plahotniuc ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Looks like some very controversial info is being edit warred in/out of this article almost daily lately, eg [13] regrettably I lack time to sort out what is or isn't properly sourced or a BLP vio right now. Please take a look & help watch. Fyddlestix ( talk) 13:34, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
I started watch this last month, back-forth, back-forth, but see it is in controversy section and is cited so I support including infromation. I added info back in that Penfold included. Is this allowed to copy from Penfold usewr to add back in, or this is plagiat? I see this as ok, but will stop if not ok to use Penfold writing to cut and paste back into article. I read the citations and infomration looks correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.158.1.66 ( talk) 12:23, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Philippe DioGuardi ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
This seems very self-serving, as though written as a piece of advertising by the person who is the subject of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonic the Jack ( talk • contribs) 18:08, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
This is really more of a question, and hopefully the right place to post this. I came across this edit, which removed the female birth name of a trans man with a rationale regarding privacy. I looked through WP:BLP, MOS:GENDERID, and even WP:Gender identity, and I'm not sure which way to go on this. Cannolis ( talk) 19:23, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Is it OK to describe "assaults" in way that is not making clear whatever there are obviously scripted events called "assaults" or actual real-world assaults?
I started /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Good_article_reassessment/Gail_Kim/1 but I am not sure whatever these mentions should be also removed from article and not inserted without clarification (I have limited knowledge about acting so for now I made no edits to article) Mateusz Konieczny ( talk) 09:52, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
I am not sure if recent addition to this article, sourced from an affidavit, meets WP:BLP. Tornado chaser ( talk) 15:16, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Mukund Purohit ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Eyes are needed at this article. A lot of POV language and poor sourcing. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 03:38, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
One off IP vandalism of BLP. I have done a revert as per this but it might need a full rollback and hide. Eno Lirpa ( talk) 12:10, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I have seen in the article about José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, a paragraph called controversy that can be libelous and affect the image of Mr. Salafranca. According to the rules of the European Parliament is the secretariat of the Delegations and the hosting countries the persons in charge of the preparation of the trips and then they have to be approved by the Parliament, for this reason, Mr. Salafranca wasn't responsible of the expenditure of the trip and the controversy paragraph can give the impression of it.
This is why either that paragraph should be edited adding the whole scope or deleted.
Thank you
Someone not involved could look at latest iteration and see if it needs reversion or even revdel. -- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 19:55, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Done --
Dlohcierekim (
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20:10, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
David Stronach's life is misrepresented in his biography. The sentence: "The family fled to Israel at the time of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and moved to the United States shortly afterwards" is incorrect. The family relocated to the US after the revolution, and eventually ended up at the University of California. As he is a relative of mine, I was able to verify that the posting in Wikipedia is incorrect. I tried to update this last night and it was rejected -- whoever rejected it is not in position of the correct information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshstrohbaum ( talk • contribs) 17:50, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Nguyễn Minh Tú ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
There has been a lot of fabrication with regards to Nguyễn Minh Tú real birth year. 2 wiki contributors are refusing to use factual and are relying on unreliable articles to state her birth year is either 1992 or 1993. Today is 14 November which is her birthday, and in her own social media, she states she is celebrating her 26th birthday which means her real birth year is in fact 1991. When we try to correct the wiki page, the 2 contributors keep changing it and citing unreliable online portals as a reference, despite being told and written to that we are correcting the information based on facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.127.40.70 ( talk) 13:27, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Dianna_Cowern&diff=prev&oldid=808489278
Attempting to use Wikipedia to send inappropriate videos to the subject of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.67.31.130 ( talk) 19:14, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Spartan Race is an endurance event with a disputed past, seemingly involving the co-founders trying to sue each other into oblivion. Over the past couple years, a number of editors have tried to evaluate the poorly documented history of the race, most recently here, resulting in the reasonably sourced article we currently have. Despite good-faith efforts and a number of indefinite blocks, since at least 2015 an individual has been trying to push a POV that Julian Kopald is one of the original founders but has not been able to provide any kind of source, other than a long list of websites similar to "josephdesena [dot] exposed" and "joetherat [dot] com" (not linked because clearly BLP violations; Joe De Sena is one of the documented co-founders). It's likely this editor is Kopald and that he created these websites himself, and since being blocked for legal threats in August he's been using throwaways and IPs to continue disrupting the article.
Based on a published correction in one of the only sources that covers the legal dispute (that the co-founders settled out of court, later corrected to indicate that one refused to settle) and Kopald's legal nonsense on this site, my feeling is that Kopald threatens lawyers against anyone who publishes an origin of the site that doesn't include his name. And the quality of the sources that Kopald himself repeatedly offers makes me think that his story is not entirely truthful. The most recent time a list of sources was offered for this ( here) and I tried to respond with a line-by-line rebuttal, another IP likely used by Kopald responded with more insults and threats, while another user suggested that at least one of the sources might possibly be useful. I'm here because I think we need an outside look at these sources, listed behind the link in this paragraph.
My feeling is that any mention of Kopald in any marginally reliable source (such as this) is in passing at best, and very light on useful details. And given the obvious dispute, I think we need better sourcing. Pinging Jsslee and ScrapIronIV who have participated in recent discussions. Any input from the BLP experts is well appreciated. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 02:13, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Marco Iannuzzi ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
This page is this financial sales guy's CV. Philanthropy is generally characterized by giving money, not self promotional efforts such as being the emcee for events where you desire personal recognition. Way too many unverified sources. Kudos to him for trying though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.166.14.244 ( talk) 23:20, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia at it's best, I guess? 93.93.67.179 ( talk) 23:11, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
The editor who recently expanded this list seems to be using the article to right great wrongs. I can find no discernible criteria for including incidents in the list, so I have removed the entire section pending discussion. It includes unproven allegations of sexual assault by named, living people. If that's not a BLP issue, I don't know what is. World's Lamest Critic ( talk) 04:32, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
See talkpage history (and most of previous discussion on this is in Archive 2). This has been an ongoing problem over the years with various IP editors attempting to insinuate or otherwise state Page has committed a crime. Leaving aside the legalities for the moment, BLP is very clear on what we can and cant do, and stating someone has committed a serious crime when they have not been arrested, charged or convicted of such is something we cant do.
The problem is there is no acceptable physical relationship between a 14 year old and a man of his age (at that time). The article currently mentions it, in what is on the surface appears to be a 'neutral' wording, but since there is nothing neutral about the act itself, comes across as whitewashing. I am at a loss at this point, I am half-tempted to remove all mention of Maddox altogether as it is extremely frustrating to have to defend according to WP policy what is otherwise indefensible. I doubt this would stick as it is well sourced and has been covered over an extended period of time (and more can be found) both in biographies as primary recollections from two of the individuals involved and by the media in general. So there we are. Thoughts? Only in death does duty end ( talk) 12:12, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Given the following, Hammer of the Gods absolutely should not be used as a source, nor should articles that quote it:
Catfish Jim and the soapdish 13:48, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Tarah Wheeler ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The article seems like a self-promoting advertisement. It contains untrue statements presented as facts without substantial citations. Example - "After a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign...". The citations for this statement don't verify this claim.
The article also contains a lot of redundant text like "She gave advice to women technologists on interview techniques and salary negotiation, when she was a systems architect at mobile encryption firm Silent Circle."
On removing all the unverifiable and poorly sourced claims and redundant statements, the whole article can be condensed down to one line - "Tarah Wheeler is an advocate for diversity in tech".
In all honesty, I don't think this page even should be there. The person concerned doesn't have enough notability to warrant an article. Iamoaf ( talk) 14:56, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Sikandar Shaheen was one of the most versatile actor, who had a masters degree in English literature. Sikandar Shaheen also appeared in a film Bobby (1984) which was a diamond jubilee super hit film with Sri Lankan actress Sabeeta in leading role and Javed Sheikh as hero. Mohammad Ali was in supporting role as well. Sikandar Shaheen died on June 9, 2004 in Lahore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Muhammad Ashiq Ali ( talk • contribs) 15:52, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
This may need more eyes because of sensitive topic and potential BLP issues. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 23:32, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Despite the posts here and the involvement of several experienced editors, the article continued to report as fact what were only allegations. I have, I hope, corrected that. But the name of the article itself implies a series of events which were not proved against most of the targets, for most of the offenses. Kablammo ( talk) 19:24, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
The introduction was a bunch of gibberish. For months it’s been removed and readded. The article falsely claimed that scandals had to involve a violation of law, which is not true for many Obama administration scandals. A terming of alleged legal but improper conduct as illegal is a major BLP offense. That introduction is not worthy to be part of an encyclopedia. 2606:A000:6444:4700:59D0:5215:432B:C56 ( talk) 02:15, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
An IP editor has been repeatedly trying to remove/whitewash sourced negative material from Mikhail Blagosklonny and from the associated article Oncotarget. The IP claims the source is unreliable but the consensus at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 197#Retraction Watch on the same source for other BLPs is that it's reliable (and it's used similarly on many other BLPs). More eyes on the articles would be welcome. — David Eppstein ( talk) 19:06, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications.Emphasis in the original. Continuing to edit-war to remove the information cited to this source has every appearance of tendentious editing. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 20:09, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
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Never use self-published sources as third-party sources about living people, even if the author is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer.Second emphasis mine.
Never use self-published sources—including but not limited to books, zines, websites, blogs, and tweets—as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article.Emphasis mine. 40.134.67.50 ( talk) 20:24, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Lets please clean up the process on this - it is a total mess
We will only address Beall and Retraction/Scientist in regard to the BLP here - Oncotarget and academic journal guidelines are not part of this Discussion - however, anywhere the BLP is mentioned, BLP guidelines must be applied.
Wiki guides us on this by stating that biography of living persons must be the highest quality sources, and if you cannot find multiple reliable third-party sources documenting the allegation or incident, leave it out
As the other editor has mentioned the burden of proving that it is a high quality source is on the editor who adds or restores the material and I firmly believe you have not proven that these are high quality sources - you are mearly referencing a bunch of coverage about a group of poor sources. Moreover, even if I agree with you that these are of the highest quality of sources, there are still not multiple third-party sources making the same claims. Even tho its your job to prove this I will give you some guidance...
Overall, all of these sources present little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines which are exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering and sensationalism attributing material to anonymous sources and using weasel words: (sign of poor source)
1. Both Retraction and Beall cite anonymous sources for their claims on this BLP subject this gives me a reasonable doubt as to their authenticity (sign of poor source)
2. Beall's List uses nothing but weasel words i.e. Possible, potential and probable. (sign of poor source)
3. The article from the Scientist contains multiple inaccuracies and it is apparent that the article involved no independent reporting. The writer has merely incorrectly paraphrased portions of a Retraction Watch article and placed an outsized reliance on a defunct website. Since it was published they have issued corrections on their article.
1 2 and 3 show that these sources are miles away from "high quality" sources needed for BLP pages - if good sources at all, they are an excellent example of circular reporting and basically repeating gossip. Ivan Oransky, a founder of Retraction Watch is also the deputy editor of The Scientist and the coverage of Retraction Watchlist article was a poor attempt to create a third party source. Overall, the body of these three sources applied to this issue are poor sources, if sources at all.
Moreover, even if we agree with you that Beall, Retraction and Scientist are of the highest quality of sources, there are still not multiple third-party sources making the same claims.
1. Beall is claiming (from an anonymous source) that Oncotarget peer review is questionable and BLP subject is gaming the system - noone else has ever claimed that. (sign of poor source)
2. The Scientist is not making the same claim as Retraction - it was literally two different claims all together (albeit due to the fact of thee poor editorial quality of the Scientist article which is highlighted by the subsequent correction)
To momentarily step away from BLP policy - one of Wiki's five main pillars concludes that to remain neutral an editor must cite notable sources especially when controversial, and goes on to specifically say about BLP that we must remove immediately any contentious material about a living person that is a conjectural interpretation of a source (The Scientist) relies on self-published sources (Beall) or relies on sources that fail in some other way to meet Verifiability standards (anonamoys sources in Retraction and Beall's post) - however, Wiki makes perfectly clear Never use self-published sources as sources of material about a living person
Putting comments like these from such bottom end sources on BLP pages is reckless
I have created a Wiki account and will continue to monitor this issue @MakinaterJones — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.139.102.133 ( talk) 22:51, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
Mark Schwahn ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Whether or not the amount of content about the Schwahn sexual harassment allegations is WP:Undue needs some looking at. I state this because he is not as famous as Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and others affected by the Weinstein effect. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 21:04, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
He is only a suspect in the Killing of Nabra Hassanen.It is violation of WP:BLPCRIME to say he is the murderer or use a copyrighted image in the article under fair use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oathsparty ( talk • contribs) 04:45, 20 November 2017 (UTC) Further the title :Darwin Martinez Torres, murderer of Nabra Hassanen is wrong he is only a suspect — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oathsparty ( talk • contribs) 04:59, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
The Boston Herald article seems to have been made into a WP:COATRACK for criticism of sportswriter Ron Borges, mostly introduced with this one-off edit a few months ago, duplicating similar content on the biography page. An anon tried to remove it a while ago, but was reverted for vandalism by Materialscientist. The amount of space spent on Borges seems grossly undue at the very least, and I have reason to believe the account responsible belongs to a rather persistent hoaxer whose work I’ve seen before, making me suspicious that the content is mostly fabricated. However, I know nothing about either subject, so I’m asking here for more eyes on both articles, with a view to removing (and possibly hiding) the content.— Odysseus 147 9 02:30, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
My name is Mary Hayashi and I am a former California politician. I was told to post here regarding concerns about the Wikipedia page about me, which includes two dedicated "Shoplifting" sections. [15]
In 2012 I walked out of a high-end retail store in San Francisco, but had forgotten about a blouse, skirt, and pants (worth $2,500) in my bag that I had not paid for. [16] As a result, two years later my competition for the Democrat seat launched a smear campaign called "Mug Shot Mary" with its own website and promised to make sure everyone knew about the incident. [17] The current Wikipedia page says I claimed to have a brain tumor that caused me to shoplift, but I have denied this. The case was eventually dismissed on March 5, 2015, but by then the political campaign was long over and the press did not cover the dismissal.
While this incident was unfortunately a part of the 2014 political race, the Wikipedia page contains more than 10 paragraphs about this situation and two sentences about the entire 2014 campaign. I have been told this violates Wikipedia's policy here against an article that is "temporarily unbalanced" and that someone here might be able to help. Aunt Mary San ( talk) 16:08, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Janet O'Sullivan ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
There was a recent article about the subject which suggested she celebrated the death of a pro life campaigner. It has been suggested on twitter that this was done to discredit her. While I suspect that some version will end up in the article on wikipedia about it the current wording and placement seems likely to cause pain and damage to an otherwise low profile individual who is currently not campaigning. The link to the diff is [18]. I would appreciate someone more experienced with BLP and low profile individuals taking a look and giving a recommendation please. ☕ Antiqueight haver 22:27, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
David Cassidy ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
You have him listed as died today!!!!!! and he is still alive!!! I mean really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.159.9 ( talk) 19:22, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
Greg Osby ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The information that is repeatedly posted on this is not accurate, useful or relevant. It is also offensive. Especially since these are unproven ALLEGATIONS. This information is libelous, defaming and potentially unlawful. Jazzjock251 ( talk) 05:09, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Eyes welcome, — Paleo Neonate – 03:28, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks all, — Paleo Neonate – 11:27, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
This has in recent days become an extended resume/promo for the subject, with a mix of unsourced and poorly sourced content cultivated by a few [[WP:SPA]s. Needs a lot of attention, and perhaps a return to stub format. 2601:188:180:11F0:885A:A64B:EED6:3A14 ( talk) 00:49, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
[22] — please chime in. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 20:05, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Also [23]. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 20:08, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Emmerson Mnangagwa ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
People keep adding to Emmerson Mnangagwa's infobox that he is "President (designate)". As far as I can see we have no source saying this is the case - ZANU-PF sources have said they expect him to be made president on Friday, but an expectation doesn't seem to me to constitute a formal post that should be in an infobox. ( Zimbabwe simply has the position as 'vacant'). I'm out of reverts, largely to IP editors, so thought I'd see if anyone else thought this was an issue. TSP ( talk) 13:14, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Since Nov 12 NeuroWIKI99 has made a series of edits in which he/she has used the edit summary to make personal attacks against Neurorel. Note that NeuroWIKI99 is attempting to add information about Neurorel in the edit summaries. These are the only contributions NeuroWIKI99 has made.Here is the most recent example:
Neurorel ( talk) 17:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
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One editor named MezzoMezzo has repeatedly claimed that a living scholar named Gibril Haddad is a "pathalogical liar" and "fantasist" on this talk page. I asked him on a number of occasions (e.g. [1], [2]) to provide evidence of this and he has been unable to do so.
Gibril Haddad is a Senior Assistant Professor of the Sultan Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies. This institute collaborates with other well known academic institutes such as Georgetown University and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He has also made contributions to The Oxford Amnesty Lectures published by Oxford University Press.
The unsourced claim that Haddad is a "pathalogical liar" and "fantasist" is a violation of the following WP:BLP policy, "This policy extends that principle, adding that contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately and without discussion. This applies whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable, and whether it is in a biography or in some other article. Material should not be added to an article when the only sourcing is tabloid journalism. When material is both verifiable and noteworthy, it will have appeared in more reliable sources."
WP:BLPTALK makes clear that "BLP applies to all material about living persons anywhere on Wikipedia, including talk pages, edit summaries, user pages, images, categories, lists, article titles and drafts."
I am therefore requesting that the claims that Haddad is a "pathalogical liar" and "fantasist" be removed from this talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.68.129 ( talk • contribs) 08:13, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Here: Talk:Chris_Packham#Personal_info Jytdog ( talk) 21:48, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
I am the subject of this BLP Neal D. Barnard and would like to suggest edits to keep it objective and useful to readers. May I please list those suggestions here? I am posting on the BLP Noticeboard rather than the article’s Talk page because of what appears to be a pattern of reversion of even neutral well-cited edits, as well as Talk-page comments suggesting strong bias. Also, as one who is new to the Wikipedia editing process, I see that it is advisable to place a template on the Talk page indicating that this article may be discussed here, but I apologize that I could not quite see how to place the template. I value your guidance if there is a better way to handle this and am grateful for your kind consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.100.128.2 ( talk) 18:34, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
It has come to my attention that labeling Dr. David Duke as a "white supremacist, holocaust denier, convicted felon, antisemetic conspiracy theorist" at the very beginning of his introduction, and not what his actual profession is, would be highly libelous. I am sure that you don't put convicted felon on every single person who has a felony charge on Wikipedia.
Aaron Hernandez for example, was the tight end of the Patriots, but his article does not start with "convicted felon" in his opening line. If anything, for Dr. David Duke, I would suggest having a smaller section stating the felony charges, and the holocaust denial. Otherwise, it seems to look very politically charged, immature, and unprofessional. Dr. David Duke was the former Rep for Louisiana and a presidential candidate, as well as a political activist and theorist. I would suggest that the following edits should be made. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.162.104.210 ( talk) 21:42, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I've created "Bir Abu Matar" based on a book in Hebrew I own and on the Wikipedia article in Hebrew on the same subject. The article was tagged as a "Biography of a living person", I'm guessing by a bot and by mistake. This is NOT the name of a person but of an archaeological site in Southern Palestine. Could someone please removed the "Biography" tags or let me know how I can do it? Khayyam 77 ( talk) 12:00, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Two questions about this, the first of which is whether the subject essentially waived her expectation to privacy when mentioning her relationship status in an interview. The second is whether the account removing the sourced content, presumably at the subject's request, has COI and username issues, as it appears to represent the author's publishing firm [5]. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 15:10, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
While clearing up a baseless talk page accusation on Talk:Austrian People's Party, I checked the IP who placed it. [6] The IP is a single-purpose account obsessed with mentioning on articles about living people that they were mentioned in the manifesto of terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, a very serious form of guilt by association. To imply that the words of Australian prime minister John Howard or Japanese prime minister Taro Aso led to a grown man butchering children is moral panic not unlike Marilyn Manson and Columbine.
The IP's talk page rants show that they have a political motive and are WP:NOTHERE. [7] slippery slope fallacy.
I didn't know where to come for this report. I didn't know if I could tag an IP as an SPA, nor if this was a topic for ANI. And I don't know if BLP policy means these edits or talk page posts about living people can be deleted by admins: it's true that Breivik mentioned them but it has very little to do with the people themselves and his post on the John Howard talk page suggests the IP is editing to try to convince people that conservatism leads to terrorism. Anarcho-authoritarian ( talk) 22:54, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
This profile has been created in malice, the sources linked have also been falsified. The whole profile has been created as an online taunt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiwatcherwacky ( talk • contribs) 20:33, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
Recent allegations are being fought over by new editors--part of the problem is the placement and phrasing of those allegations. It needs experienced editors, and it would be a good idea if 0ver C00ked and FollowNPOVandBLP stayed away. Drmies ( talk) 00:42, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
note:this comment has been moved from BLPN talk. Fyddlestix ( talk) 01:27, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
I'm delighted to stay away. 0ver C00ked ( talk) 01:09, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
This article is inaccurate and the context in which these inaccuracies occurs is defamatory. I will allow Wikipedia until Monday, Oct 23, 2017 to delete this article. If this is not done by this deadline, civil action will follow and those who have edited it will be named as defendants. The clock is ticking. If I see the article still there on Monday, these actions will follow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.184.154 ( talk) 19:17, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Former president Barack Obama is replaced with "terrorist muslim". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 179.35.19.162 ( talk) 06:27, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
The Jundo Cohen article has only 2 references, one to the subject's own website, the other to material he wrote about himself on another website.
He also links to his other wikipedia page: Treeleaf Zendo. That page is referenced to his website, and to expired web links.
I assume all of this goes against Wikipedia policy.
I am not confident enough to change the pages but wanted to bring it to your attention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Puthujjana ( talk • contribs) 14:38, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Lisa_Kemmerer ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Per WP:BLPSELF I've come here seeking some assistance with this article. While I'm not the person the article is about, I know the person and I don't want to violate WP:COI by making major changes to the article.
I would like to help improve the article by resolving the issues mentioned at the top. I'm looking for sources for some of the things mentioned in the article to resolve the primary source issue. I don't think I can resolve the close connection issue, and so I've come here for some assistance.
Could someone please make some suggestions on the talk page about what the article needs to resolve the issues? I'd really appreciate it.
Caeruleus pungens ( talk) 20:49, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
When I viewed the page (on 22 Oct 2017), King Felipe VI of Spain was described as an "Inbred Beard Model" and his prime minister was described as a "parcel of cat feces." I imagine that these pages will be vandalized frequently until Spain recognizes Catalonia as an independent state. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.17.250.147 ( talk) 19:10, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Please verify the sources and content on Pooja Jain. Thanks -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 14:47, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
The director James Toback is a subject of sexual harassment allegations today in the Los Angeles Times. More eyes on the article are required. Coretheapple ( talk) 19:19, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
C. Marcella Carollo - citation added 22 October 2017 does not list name of this person. Repeatedly added by various users. Potential vandalism.
GalilaeusGalilaeus ( talk) 20:06, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Graduate of New York Law School not New York University— Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.67.210.21 ( talk) 12:11, October 24, 2017
A series of editors with direct conflicts of interest (first the subject herself, then a person who clearly identified himself as a personal friend of hers, and then an anonymous IP number) have persistently been making edits to Nancy Nash over the past two years. The situation is that the Juno Award nomination that she received in 1994, the sole reason she qualifies to have a Wikipedia article at all, ran right into a brick wall of controversy around allegations that she didn't have the moral rights to even record the song she got nominated for. (Bonus history lesson for anybody who thinks cultural appropriation is a new thing that people never argued about before the 2010s!) But even though I was extremely careful to be as fair as possible to both sides of that dispute within the bounds of what could be reliably sourced, Nash appears to be determined to ensure that the article reflects her side of the story only, by adding unsourced and unverifiable and very non-neutral claims that she was 100 per cent in the right and her accuser was just an asshole — for one thing, her version completely wipes out any acknowledgement whatsoever of the properly sourced fact that the single biggest part of what got her accuser's dander up in the first place was that her PR at the time was explicitly claiming that she was the adopted daughter of his dead father (she later went even farther, claiming that he adopted her in a dream.) Instead, she now turns it into an unsourcable claim that the accuser adopted her as his sister himself — which is not what she or any known source about the controversy said at the time — and then turned on her for no discernible or justifiable reason whatosever.
For comparison's sake, this is the last version before her most recent takeover attempt. But having been dealing with this for two years now, I'm getting quite tired of it and would like to ask if somebody unconnected to the dispute can review the prior version and the current one, and figure out how to get back to some semblance of properly sourced neutrality. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 03:19, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Patric Gozzi ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) does not meet notability criteria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LittleRaisin ( talk • contribs) 18:01, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
The information on the wikipedia Michael Cadnum page looks accurate to me--Michael Cadnum. So the cautionary template can be removed. If there is any problem, leave it. But really it may clutter and mislead, since it cautions unnecessarily. Or so it seems to me. Thanks for your help, everyone. MC
This article is a pure self-advertisement about a living person /info/en/?search=Alexander_Haditaghi who is trying to gain some revenue from his popularity. This article existed before and was removed, however it's back again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.84.234.2 ( talk) 18:27, 24 October 2017
Poorly sourced or unsourced statements about alleged crimes are repeatedely added to the page in violation of WP:BLP. Ulner ( talk) 06:42, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
I'd like to report several people who have Coup d'état this page to spread misleading information about Baked Alaska. If a person is to correct the article, they immediately revert it to their bias version with no explanation whatsoever, completely ignoring the neutral point of view policy. Even though Baked Alaska have denied all the claims himself, tabloid propaganda articles are still being used as valid sources.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Chikicreamdaddy ( talk • contribs) 16:03, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
Got another interesting one for an experienced editor: much of the article reads like a hit piece, other parts read like fluff, and I just blocked a bunch of COI socks. Article needs attention; the lead is already undue. Drmies ( talk) 01:38, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
@drmies and @ryk72 ,
can an experienced editor please get involved and make this article more neutral? The article is completely skewed against the subject. A handful of editors have made a concerted effort to ensure as little exculpatory information as possible gets in.
Shia LaBeouf ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Recently my edits were reverted at this article by Sundayclose, FlightTime, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi and Flyer22 Reborn. I asked why on the talk page but, after two months, have not received a reply.
The subject has been struggling with addiction and a declining career for several years, and has been trolled by /pol/ members over his involvement with the anti-Trump HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US project, which may explain how this article has gotten so out of hand. (Or it might just be the fluff accretion one often sees with GA/FA celeb bios.)
Most pertinently the Legal troubles and controversy section is huge, currently consisting of ten paragraphs. Maybe these three minor events should be chopped:
Early in the morning of November 4, 2007, a security guard asked LaBeouf to leave a Chicago Walgreens, which LaBeouf refused to do. LaBeouf was arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespassing. The criminal charges were dropped on December 12, 2007.
In March 2008, police issued an arrest warrant for LaBeouf after he failed to make a court appearance, which had been in relation to a ticket he had received for unlawful smoking in Burbank, California, in February 2008. When neither LaBeouf nor a lawyer appeared at the court at the 8:30 a.m. hearing, a $1000 bench warrant was issued for his arrest. However, the court commissioner in California recalled this warrant on March 19, 2008, after the actor's attorney arrived a day late to plead not guilty on LaBeouf's behalf, and a pre-trial hearing was set for April 24, 2008. The charge was dismissed, after the actor paid a $500 fine.
In the early hours of February 5, 2011, he was involved in an altercation with another patron at the Mad Bull's Tavern bar in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, which resulted in the actor getting punched in the face. Both LaBeouf and the unnamed patron were placed in handcuffs and questioned by a Los Angeles Police Department officer but later released with no arrest being made. In 2014, LaBeouf was banned from The Local Peasant restaurant in Sherman Oaks after urinating on the wall.
As per usual, the whole section is almost entirely cobbled together from primary sources such as People, TMZ, etc. Really, it should all go until decent secondary sources are found.
The relationship section is also overly detailed, poorly and primary-sourced (including multiple Daily Mails, and the Mirror's
3AM column), and full of tabloidy tidbits such as "I still love her. I think she's a fucking awesome person and an incredible actress. We're still pals. I wouldn't take any of it back, and I don't think she would either. It just ran its course."
and In June 2011, in an interview in Details magazine, he claimed that he and Lucas were "philandering around" before the accident occurred.
There's also an inconsequential section about his support for Jeremy Corbyn, and a section heading titled Sexual assault which, on first viewing, may give the impression that Mr LaBeouf was the perpetrator of said assault. Someone might want to reassess this article's GA status. -- Hillbillyholiday ( talk) 20:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
The Shia LaBeouf discussion might have stalled because we were all involved in an ANI manner on the same day. In that discussion, a number of editors agreed that it is often that such big deletions should be discussed first. At the article's talk page, I noted that "trimming is not an issue, but some of it should probably remain. When I get some good time, I will assess the content and give my opinion on what should be cut and what should remain. At the moment, I am busy with other matters on Wikipedia." I obviously did not get around to doing that. As for sourcing, editors have also been clear that some of the things Hillbillyholiday is requesting secondary sources for don't need secondary sources. If The Guardian reports on something about Shia LaBeouf, we don't need a book source noting that The Guardian reported this, for example. Furthermore, as has been stated before, the vast majority of reliable sources for celebrities are going to be media sources, not book sources or whatever other type of source Hillbillyholiday considers to be a secondary source. Most book sources on celebrities are self-published sources, unauthorized biographies or tell-all books. Unless they are historical and/or political figures, it's only occasionally that one will find one or more decent book sources on a celebrity. Even with as famous as Michael Jackson is, most of the sources in the WP:FA Michael Jackson article are media sources. They are also usually the best sources, given some of the books out there on Jackson.
Anyway, I agree that the Shia LaBeouf personal life material needed significant trimming and that the article's GA status should be reassessed. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 06:09, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
There is a new editor adding highly critical content to David Levy (chess player) which I feel is a serious BLP violation because of its poor sourcing, reliance on original research and primary document, rather than on reliable independent sources. Additional opinions are welcome. Gnome de plume ( talk) 16:33, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the addition of BLP violations to Roy Moore, again. Ideally the article talk page will be sufficient for discussion. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 16:42, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
My father died on February 10, 2012, yet you continue the falsehood that he is alive. Also, the end of your article says he is teaching acting, but includes a reference to a totally different "Reuben Greene." Please remove your article or be prepared to face legal action.
Ruben Green, Jr. Philadelphia, PA16:31, 26 October 2017 (UTC) 159.63.4.3 ( talk)
Footnote 24 ( http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/30/trump-kushner-never-blackmailed-scarborough-source-says.html) cites an unverified source. This news story, posted online by Fox News, has neither a named author nor a named source. Fox News' reporting consistently demonstrates conservative bias; for evidence of this claim, please see the Wikipedia page on the matter ( /info/en/?search=Fox_News_controversies). Unless Fox News can offer evidence that the claims made in this article are true, the article is inadmissible according to the policy on the Wikipedia page "Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons", under "reliable sources" and "challenged or likely to be challenged" (see /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons).
Article is full of libelous and off-topic content. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:14d:8000:7644:fc6a:502b:ec2b:5b75 ( talk) 23:21, October 26, 2017
Semi-protected for a week. Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 03:38, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Noting a pattern of vandalism with respect to this page. There is a continual removal of sourced notable links about this figure and a suppression of positive information, and an insistence on negative information continually made by the same editor User:ScrapIronIV - the history of this page shows that this editor lacks neutrality and objectivity and seems intent on suppressing relevant information. I would suggest another Wiki editor look at this page to insure that the correct information remains and would also look at the aforementioned editor's editing privileges as he/she seems to have a personal vendetta against this subject.
SiphoB ( talk) 04:41, 27 October 2017 (UTC) Tend to agree based on User:ScrapIronIV editing history. Seems to lack neutrality. I have just added some notable sourced information (Best American Poetry Blog and Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism Artist Fellowship). Let's see if these get vandalized or not.
Change was made to page of Mark Halperin immediately following his sexual misconduct allegations labeling him a "conservative author" instead of simply "author." This violates the biographies of living persons policy because the claim as to his political orientation is unsourced and controversial. The timing of this edit and lack of supporting evidence would appear to be politically motivated.
This article is not worthy of a wikipedia article. It's just someone writing about them self.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.138.162 ( talk) 18:36, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
This report relates to Manny_Lehman_(disc_jockey).
The page is not neutrally composed and reads as a sales pitch from a publicist.
I have edited the page to remove an incorrect life achievement. The page listed that he made chart topping remixes for Madonna for the song "what it feels like a girl"... but when you look at the officially released remixes for that song on the wiki page... he is not listed.
He did produce unoffical and unreleased remixes for that song as shown at [1] but they were UNRELEASED... so didnt top the charts.
There are only 5 references throughout the entire page and so the whole page needs a vast amount of citations and verifiable evidence of the information stated there.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Please note that the Controversy section that has been added to Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's biography is full of inaccuracies and has been deliberately placed to cast aspersions on her character. The links that have been placed as 'proof' of the controversy are selective and of dubious extraction. Please contact me if you require further information at <redacted>.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sameirk ( talk • contribs) 05:49, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
Mark Ames ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Someone should check the sources for the accusations that were just added. Tornado chaser ( talk) 19:44, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Gilad Atzmon is a highly controversial figure, subject to tidal waves of abuse, and we are trying to rewrite that page according to WP:NPOV, which I take means also scrupulously documenting everything, even negative, said of him in WP:RS. Sources of this kind are abundant.
WP:BLP states
Never use self-published sources—including but not limited to books, zines, websites, blogs, and tweets—as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article.
Despite this unambiguous rule, some editors are insisting that a a blog on an activist antifascist advocacy website written by Nick Lowles can be used as a sources for Atzmon’s views, and wish to retain this article hosted on Hope not Hate, where the blogger is an executive. In defence of overriding WP:BLP's on blogs, WP:NEWSBLOG is cited. But Hope not Hate is not a newsblog.
The argument over this can be read on the talk page here. Third party independent input would be appreciated. Nishidani ( talk) 12:33, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
Should the above article by subject to BLP policies? If so could someone place the appropriate notice on the talk page? There has been repeated insertion of the same unsourced content (from 3 different IP addresses) in the last week. I wonder if someone could take a look and evaluate.
Thanks. MrBill3 ( talk) 08:57, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
Could somebody familiar with BLP policy please check the Tony Podesta article? I've tried to fix up some issues, but Certified Gangsta keeps reverting them, claiming I'm POV-pushing and " WP:OWN"-ing the article, to say nothing of the BLPCRIME issues. Falling Gravity 03:36, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Michael Finney ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The picture is of Michael Finney the ABC7 BayArea Consumer Specialist, but the text is about a magician who moved out of the State of California in 1978. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.143.67.158 ( talk) 01:53, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Ingrid Detter ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Someone repeatedly amends this page which should read:
Ingrid Detter met her future husband Louis Doimi de Lupis Frankopan when they both studies at Oxford University. The Doimi de Lupis family reverted to the name of Frankopan and title of Prince, after the fall of communism in Croatia in 1991. The Court of Perugia, having previously examined the genealogical tables of the family and the grant of the title of Prince by King Sigismund in 1425, with sanction of anyone who disputes this, confirmed right of the name and titles of the Doimi de Frankopan family, as Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis, in a judgment in 2007. The judgment has executory force in all jurisdictions in Europe and elsewhere. [1], The Doimi de Lupis family was also granted a knighthood by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1855 and 1865 when Croatia was under Austrian hegemony. [2]),
Instead, the editor changes this to:
Ingrid Detter met her future husband, Louis Doimi de Lupis (who later controversially added the name of Frankopan and title of Prince, having previously adopted the title of Count; [3] the Doimi de Lupis family were however granted nobility- in the form of knighthood only- by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1855 and 1865 [4]), when they were both studying at Oxford University (see below on the history of the family name). They married in 1968.
The revised entry is not adequately resourced: the note to Daily Telegraph shows that the newspaper did not suggest that the change of name would be 'vontroversial' but the editor added that. the note to the book about the Frangipani shows unequivocally that the Doimi de Lupis family is a branch of the Frankopan family and has the right to the titles, Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis.
The addition of the word 'only' to the grant of a knighthood is unprofessional and disparaging. [5]) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saluspopuli ( talk • contribs) 15:29, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
References
Someone repeatedly amends this page, recently renamed as 'Frankopan' from previously House of Frankopan where a section now reads 'controversially name claiming':
Revised (disputed) version of
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Although the House of Frankopan ended in the 17th century there were unsuccessful attempts of seizing their name and holdings in the centuries that followed. The newest such a case is claim by some members of the Dojmi di Delupis (Croatian version of the name) / Doimi de Lupis (Italian version of the name) family, originally a 13th century minor nobles (knighthood) from the island of Vis who were never connected to the Frankopans in historical documents. In the year 2000 Louis Doimi de Lupis, by then a British citizen, changed his surname to Doimi de Frankopan Šubić Zrinski under British Civil law, adding several names of ancient Croatian noble families that combined in such a fashion were historically never attributed to any member of mentioned noble families. Subsequently the Croatian Nobility Association expelled the Doimi de Lupis family from their membership calling the name reverting a falsification. [1] Additionally, John Kennedy, editor of directory of Europe's royalty and nobility Almanach de Gotha, stated that the use of the name Frankopan by Doimi de Lupis family is "more aspirational than inherited". [2] In the late 1990s, trying to save the reputation of his family name, Louis's cousin Mirko Jamnicki-Dojmi di Delupis wrote an open letter where he denounced claims over Frankopan, Šubić and Zrinski names by his family and presented the family tree of Dojmi di Delupis containing 129 names from the year 1200 onwards. [3] In 1990s the wife of Louis Doimi de Lupis Swedish lawyer Ingrid Detter bought the Ribnik Castle (once propriety of the Frankopans, the Counts of Krk) for the price of 1,6 million kunas. [4] Having previously adopted the title of Count, Louis Doimi de Lupis together with his wife and children eventually started to use the title of Prince (a royal title never held by the Frankopans) claiming that an Italian court [5] verification needed dubious – discuss gave them the right to use the name of Croatian noble family the Frankopans as well as the style of Prince/Princess in the late 2000s. The Frankopan's historical title knez [6] was (at the time) high feudal hereditary title [7] which was translated as conte in Italian historical sources [8] and is equivalent of Count in English. Apart from the sources where certain members of Doimi de Lupis family claim to be Croatian princes [9] [10] [11] it is possible to find online sources where they are styled as "Prince/Princess ... of Croatia" [12] [13] [14] [15] which is a royal title that only the heir apparent of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine could legitimately claim. References
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The entry should read, changing the title 'controversial name claiming', to 'living members of the Frankopan Family':
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The Frankopan family is not extinct but was declared 'enemies of the people' during communism in Croatia. The Doimi de Lupis family, living in exile in England, reverted to the name of Frankopan and title of Prince, after the fall of communism in Croatia in 1991. In 1992 Louis Doimi de Lupis Frankopan founded the Croatian Nobility Council, drafted their Statutes and incorporated Council as a private association under Croatian law. Following a dispute about 'pre-plemstvo' members, that is families so old that they had refrained from having their titles confirmed by the Austrian overlords, he resigned from the Association. The Court of Perugia, having previously examined the genealogical tables of the family and the grant of the title of Prince by King Sigismund in 1425, with sanction of anyone who disputes this, confirmed right of the name and titles of the Doimi de Frankopan family, as Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis, in a judgment in 2007. The judgment has executory force in all jurisdictions in Europe and elsewhere. [1], The Doimi de Lupis family was also granted a knighthood by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1855 and 1865 when Croatia was under Austrian hegemony. [2]), |
The revised entry is not adequately resourced and refers to tabloid gossip, an 'open letter' by an invented 'cousin', and several disparaging newspaper articles and numerous offensive and irrelevant remarks.
The original entry, repeatedly removed by this editor, refers to official court documents and published authoritative material. Saluspopuli ( talk) 16:02, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Richard Ayoade ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Hi, we have a problem on the above page where trolls are repeatedly miscatorising the ethnicity of Richard as being English. The article states he is of Norwegian and Nigerian ethnicity, but in the first paragraph some user is repeatedly using the term English to refer to his Ethnicity. Can someone assist as this is grossly inaccurate and can only be trolling. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Margolis-Marmite ( talk • contribs) 13:08, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
I love the way you dismiss the importance of ethnicity to millions of ethnic English people. Im guessing you'd never do this to a Jew. Margolis-Marmite ( talk) 18:01, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
Would someone please take a look at Rob Moore (property investor) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Progressive Property ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? There are questionable sources that are being repeatedly added. Someone claiming to be Rob Moore left this note on my talk page. Thank you Jim1138 ( talk) 21:01, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
Sun Liangang ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Poorly written self-promoting unsourced page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.241.38.109 ( talk) 10:59, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
Michael Yeung Ming-cheung controversies ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I came across this in the new pages feed. I don't quite think it qualifies for G10 as an attack page, but its basically a page devoted to controversies caused by Michael Yeung Ming-cheung, a Catholic bishop in China. Bringing it here to see what others think the best way to deal with it is. TonyBallioni ( talk) 16:00, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
I see that there have been some contentious issues with Matthew Sweetman regarding items he published on Jerome Lyle Rappaport's page. Mr. Sweetman claimed he was a friend of the Rappaports when in fact he is not. He is not a close member of the family - most of the items he posted he obtained illegally. Mr. Sweetman is a minor and a stalker - the only way he could have obtained most of these items is if broke into Mr. Rappaport's home. A signature from a personal letter in Mr. Rappaport's home seems like it was scanned an put on this page - Mr. Sweetman has never been invited to Mr. Rappaport's personal office and would never have been allowed to sift thru his drawers or allowed to scan anything.. Mr. Rappaport does not have a daughter Debbie.
I am not sure how to do the edits or how to have the page go back to what it was before he made the changes. I am also confused as to why a 90 year old man would be punished and not be able to have items removed because of a boy's actions.
My guess is the reason Matthew became hostile is because most of the items he had edited and written are slanderous and not only to Jerome Lyle Rappaport but more importantly to his children.
Please let me know what the next steps are.
Jannelle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jannellecioffi ( talk • contribs) 02:24, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
My apologies in advance for the length of this post -- I have made it as brief as possible considering the complexity of the issue.
Luke Dittrich is not an objective, reliable source, and therefore, all reference to his article should be removed from Wikipedia, for reasons more fully elaborated on my talk page than is appropriate for posting here. This request is supported by Wikipedia’s policy to immediately remove “poorly sourced” and sensationalist material when posting information about living persons. Despite the reputation of Esquire, the Dittrich article was not properly fact-checked and should not be considered a reliable source.
Briefly:
A clearly supported distortion of Dittrich’s assertions in the original article is an excerpt from a discussion between myself and His Holiness the Dalai Lama at a Maitripa College graduation ceremony. As confirmed by others, Dittrich distorts the meaning of what the Dalai Lama actually said, alluding that His Holiness questioned my honesty when describing “extremely hidden phenomena,” noting that I “fidgeted” while His Holiness “wagged a finger in my direction.” In all actuality, His Holiness states the opposite – “and in this particular case, there seems no reason to lie.” This demonstrable distortion and fabrication is a direct contradiction of the recorded discussion, and is widely available via YouTube. https://www.dailygrail.com/2013/07/esquire-expose-has-its-own-selective-editing/
Distortion of facts appears to be routine for Dittrich. In August 2016, 200 Scientists, many from MIT, wrote letters of protest around serious problems in Dittrich's book, Patient HM, further questioning his abilities as an objective journalist or author, as reported in Scientific American: "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology brain sciences department and, separately, a group of some 200 neuroscientists from around the world have written letters to The New York Times claiming that a book excerpt in the newspaper’s Sunday magazine this week contains important errors, misinterpretations of scientific disputes, and unfair characterizations of an MIT neuroscientist who did groundbreaking research on human memory." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mit-challenges-the-new-york-times-over-book-on-famous-brain-patient/
The full argument on my talk page elaborates in detail how the rest of Dittrich’s handling of my story was similarly filled with distortions, twisting of facts, and misinterpretation. Detailed review of Robert Mays' rebuttal of Dittrich’s article details many other inaccuracies. While the IANDS article is not deemed by Wikipedia to be a mainstream, fact-checked source, nonetheless, it is a detailed resource that documents the distortions and includes primary sources. I am not requesting a link to this article be posted on my page, but simply that it may be used to support my claim that Dittrich himself is not a reliable source. https://iands.org/ndes/more-info/ndes-in-the-news/970-esquire-article-on-eben-alexander-distorts-the-facts.html
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ealexander3 ( talk • contribs) 15:53, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
Can I get some extra eyes on this? An already established real-world dispute over whether or not Moon accidentally ran over and killed his chauffeur Neil Boland in 1970 has now turned up here. In a nutshell, he admitted guilt, was acquitted as an accident, there are few living witnesses left, opinion is divided as to whether he actually did it or not. I have discussed this a bit at User talk:Ritchie333#Death of Keith Moon's driver and explained my views on it. Obviously Moon isn't a living person, but his surviving family members are, so some diplomacy is called for. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:41, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is now late. http://glonews360.com/confirmed-mdc-leader-morgan-richard-tsvangirai-dies-from-food-poisoning/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.246.54.254 ( talk) 11:30, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Article appears to have become a glossy resume. Do political figures get to have lengthy 'endorsement' list sections, sourced to their websites? 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 16:44, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
John Draper ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
There's an edit war leading to semi-protection over a section making allegations about behaviour. It needs checking out for compliance with WP:RS, WP:UNDUE among others. Nthep ( talk) 13:46, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Could someone check this bio with respect to WP:BLPPRIMARY? Sorry I can't look at it more at the moment. Best, -- joe decker talk 01:58, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Milo Yiannopoulos ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Milo Yiannopoulos#RfC: Should the article include text/sources analyzing Yiannopoulos's statements on pedophilia?. A permalink for it is here. The discussion concerns whether or not to mention that sources note that Yiannopoulos's definition of pedophilia is technically correct, but also that the term is used more broadly than the technical definition (to include adults engaging in sexual activity with minors, or specifically committing child sexual abuse). Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 21:02, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Can we get a few more eyes on one of these articles. We have a National Enquirer article from Wednesday being regurgitate everywhere what do others think. Pls see Talk:Corey Haim/Archives/2021#Charlie Sheen rape allegations. - Moxy ( talk) 02:32, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello, would it be possible to change order of the content on Fiona Graham's page? I think that part of the "Wanaka Gym court case" has nothing to do with her geisha career, and it is not appropriate to be placed just below geisha activities. Would you be able to move this section to the end of the entire content? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilly1985 ( talk • contribs) 03:38, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
He's been in the news in the wake of the fall of several prominent media men recently, so his article has been getting a lot of attention lately, editors equating some of the past allegations/accusations as full blown convictions of sexual assault. I've toned some of it down where I haven't seen much in the way of new sources supporting that ("lurid stories circulating since 2001" doesn't strike me as very reliable). My main questions right now: does it belong in the lede and where does the topic itself go within the article? Past talk pages had consensus it should follow "Style" but in the wake of his losing some jobs with magazines etc., it's moved up higher. I don't know enough about Biography articles to say. ZarhanFastfire ( talk) 04:52, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
There is a user who insists on including Laura Bush's commentary on the section regarding HW's sexual misconduct, in addition to Bush's statement through his spokesman (which no one disputes should belong). I think this is clearly unjustified: Laura A) isn't speaking on behalf of HW, B) has no particular expertise in the subject matter, C) had no direct observation of what's been alleged. Her views are no more relevant than anyone else's. This user insists that her views deserve mention because she's his daughter-in-law, but last I checked, being related to someone (let alone indirectly) doesn't make your views on their life relevant enough to be included in the article. Thoughts? Fixed245 ( talk) 23:54, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
- If her opinion did not matter; why would a journalist of a major news network (CNN) ask her for her comment on the incident? Shouldn't they have approached a spokesman instead?
A. She is speaking on behalf of HW because of the direct question asked by the journalist at CNN - who asked her because he is Bush's daughter-in-law.
B. She is a woman and has an understanding of what woman goes through. Furthermore, she is related to HW therefore understands and has expertise on who the individual is.
C. If that excuse is used, than the spokesman has no right to speak because he had no direct observation as well. The spokesman view and the daughter-in-law's view are equal in importance.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:92C0:D700:28D1:199C:8720:4C07 ( talk) 01:23, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
COntnet dispute over allegations-- serious BLP vs "well known". Would appreciate more review. -- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 17:35, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
Largely promotional biography that appears to have been created and tended by a WP:COI account. It's been nominated for deletion via AfD, but regardless of outcome, this could use more eyes. Thanks, 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 04:08, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Brian Hanley (biohacker) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Brian Hanley (Biohacker) This article reads as another hit piece by Antonio Regolado who wrote the MIT Technology Review article. It references his article, repeats his libellous materials from the article, and is done in his lexical style, despite certain breadcrumbs that suggest Romania was the source. There is an open complaint with MIT's legal department regarding the MIT article. The MIT Tech Review article is libellous, grossly misrepresents myself, my work, and what I told Mr. Regolado. The talk section also reads as something that he would have originated. I have blog articles critical of biohacking. Most recently, I voiced my concerns about Josiah Zayner, both for him and for his public [1]. See item 1 in cite regarding the open complaint. See summation at the end about self-experimentation by sientists. See the rest of the cited article that discusses my concerns with the biohacking movement and what Zayner is doing.
I have been critical of amateur gene therapy, AKA biohacking, predating the MIT Technology review article by Mr. Regolado. In 2015 I expressed my concerns about a claimed telomerase experiment [2] over a year before the MIT Tech Review article came out.
I have quite a few publications, popular [3] [4], and academic [5].
The entire Wikipedia entry should be deleted, as the title is, itself, a libel and there is no way to change it. I can supply the text of the complaint to MIT's legal department if you want to contact me by email. Ymandelbrot ( talk) 00:38, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
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Gyadari Balamallu simply known as Balamallu is the present chairman of Telangana state industrial infrastructure corporation (TSIIC). He got originated from siddipet, Telangana. He got married to Karuna Sri Gyadari. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kupoireddy Sai Charan ( talk • contribs) 10:56, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Vladimir Plahotniuc ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Looks like some very controversial info is being edit warred in/out of this article almost daily lately, eg [13] regrettably I lack time to sort out what is or isn't properly sourced or a BLP vio right now. Please take a look & help watch. Fyddlestix ( talk) 13:34, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
I started watch this last month, back-forth, back-forth, but see it is in controversy section and is cited so I support including infromation. I added info back in that Penfold included. Is this allowed to copy from Penfold usewr to add back in, or this is plagiat? I see this as ok, but will stop if not ok to use Penfold writing to cut and paste back into article. I read the citations and infomration looks correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.158.1.66 ( talk) 12:23, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Philippe DioGuardi ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
This seems very self-serving, as though written as a piece of advertising by the person who is the subject of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonic the Jack ( talk • contribs) 18:08, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
This is really more of a question, and hopefully the right place to post this. I came across this edit, which removed the female birth name of a trans man with a rationale regarding privacy. I looked through WP:BLP, MOS:GENDERID, and even WP:Gender identity, and I'm not sure which way to go on this. Cannolis ( talk) 19:23, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Is it OK to describe "assaults" in way that is not making clear whatever there are obviously scripted events called "assaults" or actual real-world assaults?
I started /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Good_article_reassessment/Gail_Kim/1 but I am not sure whatever these mentions should be also removed from article and not inserted without clarification (I have limited knowledge about acting so for now I made no edits to article) Mateusz Konieczny ( talk) 09:52, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
I am not sure if recent addition to this article, sourced from an affidavit, meets WP:BLP. Tornado chaser ( talk) 15:16, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Mukund Purohit ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Eyes are needed at this article. A lot of POV language and poor sourcing. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 03:38, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
One off IP vandalism of BLP. I have done a revert as per this but it might need a full rollback and hide. Eno Lirpa ( talk) 12:10, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
I have seen in the article about José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, a paragraph called controversy that can be libelous and affect the image of Mr. Salafranca. According to the rules of the European Parliament is the secretariat of the Delegations and the hosting countries the persons in charge of the preparation of the trips and then they have to be approved by the Parliament, for this reason, Mr. Salafranca wasn't responsible of the expenditure of the trip and the controversy paragraph can give the impression of it.
This is why either that paragraph should be edited adding the whole scope or deleted.
Thank you
Someone not involved could look at latest iteration and see if it needs reversion or even revdel. -- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 19:55, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Done --
Dlohcierekim (
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20:10, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
David Stronach's life is misrepresented in his biography. The sentence: "The family fled to Israel at the time of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and moved to the United States shortly afterwards" is incorrect. The family relocated to the US after the revolution, and eventually ended up at the University of California. As he is a relative of mine, I was able to verify that the posting in Wikipedia is incorrect. I tried to update this last night and it was rejected -- whoever rejected it is not in position of the correct information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshstrohbaum ( talk • contribs) 17:50, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Nguyễn Minh Tú ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
There has been a lot of fabrication with regards to Nguyễn Minh Tú real birth year. 2 wiki contributors are refusing to use factual and are relying on unreliable articles to state her birth year is either 1992 or 1993. Today is 14 November which is her birthday, and in her own social media, she states she is celebrating her 26th birthday which means her real birth year is in fact 1991. When we try to correct the wiki page, the 2 contributors keep changing it and citing unreliable online portals as a reference, despite being told and written to that we are correcting the information based on facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.127.40.70 ( talk) 13:27, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Dianna_Cowern&diff=prev&oldid=808489278
Attempting to use Wikipedia to send inappropriate videos to the subject of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.67.31.130 ( talk) 19:14, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Spartan Race is an endurance event with a disputed past, seemingly involving the co-founders trying to sue each other into oblivion. Over the past couple years, a number of editors have tried to evaluate the poorly documented history of the race, most recently here, resulting in the reasonably sourced article we currently have. Despite good-faith efforts and a number of indefinite blocks, since at least 2015 an individual has been trying to push a POV that Julian Kopald is one of the original founders but has not been able to provide any kind of source, other than a long list of websites similar to "josephdesena [dot] exposed" and "joetherat [dot] com" (not linked because clearly BLP violations; Joe De Sena is one of the documented co-founders). It's likely this editor is Kopald and that he created these websites himself, and since being blocked for legal threats in August he's been using throwaways and IPs to continue disrupting the article.
Based on a published correction in one of the only sources that covers the legal dispute (that the co-founders settled out of court, later corrected to indicate that one refused to settle) and Kopald's legal nonsense on this site, my feeling is that Kopald threatens lawyers against anyone who publishes an origin of the site that doesn't include his name. And the quality of the sources that Kopald himself repeatedly offers makes me think that his story is not entirely truthful. The most recent time a list of sources was offered for this ( here) and I tried to respond with a line-by-line rebuttal, another IP likely used by Kopald responded with more insults and threats, while another user suggested that at least one of the sources might possibly be useful. I'm here because I think we need an outside look at these sources, listed behind the link in this paragraph.
My feeling is that any mention of Kopald in any marginally reliable source (such as this) is in passing at best, and very light on useful details. And given the obvious dispute, I think we need better sourcing. Pinging Jsslee and ScrapIronIV who have participated in recent discussions. Any input from the BLP experts is well appreciated. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 02:13, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Marco Iannuzzi ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
This page is this financial sales guy's CV. Philanthropy is generally characterized by giving money, not self promotional efforts such as being the emcee for events where you desire personal recognition. Way too many unverified sources. Kudos to him for trying though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.166.14.244 ( talk) 23:20, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia at it's best, I guess? 93.93.67.179 ( talk) 23:11, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
The editor who recently expanded this list seems to be using the article to right great wrongs. I can find no discernible criteria for including incidents in the list, so I have removed the entire section pending discussion. It includes unproven allegations of sexual assault by named, living people. If that's not a BLP issue, I don't know what is. World's Lamest Critic ( talk) 04:32, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
See talkpage history (and most of previous discussion on this is in Archive 2). This has been an ongoing problem over the years with various IP editors attempting to insinuate or otherwise state Page has committed a crime. Leaving aside the legalities for the moment, BLP is very clear on what we can and cant do, and stating someone has committed a serious crime when they have not been arrested, charged or convicted of such is something we cant do.
The problem is there is no acceptable physical relationship between a 14 year old and a man of his age (at that time). The article currently mentions it, in what is on the surface appears to be a 'neutral' wording, but since there is nothing neutral about the act itself, comes across as whitewashing. I am at a loss at this point, I am half-tempted to remove all mention of Maddox altogether as it is extremely frustrating to have to defend according to WP policy what is otherwise indefensible. I doubt this would stick as it is well sourced and has been covered over an extended period of time (and more can be found) both in biographies as primary recollections from two of the individuals involved and by the media in general. So there we are. Thoughts? Only in death does duty end ( talk) 12:12, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Given the following, Hammer of the Gods absolutely should not be used as a source, nor should articles that quote it:
Catfish Jim and the soapdish 13:48, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Tarah Wheeler ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The article seems like a self-promoting advertisement. It contains untrue statements presented as facts without substantial citations. Example - "After a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign...". The citations for this statement don't verify this claim.
The article also contains a lot of redundant text like "She gave advice to women technologists on interview techniques and salary negotiation, when she was a systems architect at mobile encryption firm Silent Circle."
On removing all the unverifiable and poorly sourced claims and redundant statements, the whole article can be condensed down to one line - "Tarah Wheeler is an advocate for diversity in tech".
In all honesty, I don't think this page even should be there. The person concerned doesn't have enough notability to warrant an article. Iamoaf ( talk) 14:56, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Sikandar Shaheen was one of the most versatile actor, who had a masters degree in English literature. Sikandar Shaheen also appeared in a film Bobby (1984) which was a diamond jubilee super hit film with Sri Lankan actress Sabeeta in leading role and Javed Sheikh as hero. Mohammad Ali was in supporting role as well. Sikandar Shaheen died on June 9, 2004 in Lahore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Muhammad Ashiq Ali ( talk • contribs) 15:52, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
This may need more eyes because of sensitive topic and potential BLP issues. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 23:32, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Despite the posts here and the involvement of several experienced editors, the article continued to report as fact what were only allegations. I have, I hope, corrected that. But the name of the article itself implies a series of events which were not proved against most of the targets, for most of the offenses. Kablammo ( talk) 19:24, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
The introduction was a bunch of gibberish. For months it’s been removed and readded. The article falsely claimed that scandals had to involve a violation of law, which is not true for many Obama administration scandals. A terming of alleged legal but improper conduct as illegal is a major BLP offense. That introduction is not worthy to be part of an encyclopedia. 2606:A000:6444:4700:59D0:5215:432B:C56 ( talk) 02:15, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
An IP editor has been repeatedly trying to remove/whitewash sourced negative material from Mikhail Blagosklonny and from the associated article Oncotarget. The IP claims the source is unreliable but the consensus at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 197#Retraction Watch on the same source for other BLPs is that it's reliable (and it's used similarly on many other BLPs). More eyes on the articles would be welcome. — David Eppstein ( talk) 19:06, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications.Emphasis in the original. Continuing to edit-war to remove the information cited to this source has every appearance of tendentious editing. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 20:09, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
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Never use self-published sources as third-party sources about living people, even if the author is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer.Second emphasis mine.
Never use self-published sources—including but not limited to books, zines, websites, blogs, and tweets—as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article.Emphasis mine. 40.134.67.50 ( talk) 20:24, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Lets please clean up the process on this - it is a total mess
We will only address Beall and Retraction/Scientist in regard to the BLP here - Oncotarget and academic journal guidelines are not part of this Discussion - however, anywhere the BLP is mentioned, BLP guidelines must be applied.
Wiki guides us on this by stating that biography of living persons must be the highest quality sources, and if you cannot find multiple reliable third-party sources documenting the allegation or incident, leave it out
As the other editor has mentioned the burden of proving that it is a high quality source is on the editor who adds or restores the material and I firmly believe you have not proven that these are high quality sources - you are mearly referencing a bunch of coverage about a group of poor sources. Moreover, even if I agree with you that these are of the highest quality of sources, there are still not multiple third-party sources making the same claims. Even tho its your job to prove this I will give you some guidance...
Overall, all of these sources present little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines which are exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering and sensationalism attributing material to anonymous sources and using weasel words: (sign of poor source)
1. Both Retraction and Beall cite anonymous sources for their claims on this BLP subject this gives me a reasonable doubt as to their authenticity (sign of poor source)
2. Beall's List uses nothing but weasel words i.e. Possible, potential and probable. (sign of poor source)
3. The article from the Scientist contains multiple inaccuracies and it is apparent that the article involved no independent reporting. The writer has merely incorrectly paraphrased portions of a Retraction Watch article and placed an outsized reliance on a defunct website. Since it was published they have issued corrections on their article.
1 2 and 3 show that these sources are miles away from "high quality" sources needed for BLP pages - if good sources at all, they are an excellent example of circular reporting and basically repeating gossip. Ivan Oransky, a founder of Retraction Watch is also the deputy editor of The Scientist and the coverage of Retraction Watchlist article was a poor attempt to create a third party source. Overall, the body of these three sources applied to this issue are poor sources, if sources at all.
Moreover, even if we agree with you that Beall, Retraction and Scientist are of the highest quality of sources, there are still not multiple third-party sources making the same claims.
1. Beall is claiming (from an anonymous source) that Oncotarget peer review is questionable and BLP subject is gaming the system - noone else has ever claimed that. (sign of poor source)
2. The Scientist is not making the same claim as Retraction - it was literally two different claims all together (albeit due to the fact of thee poor editorial quality of the Scientist article which is highlighted by the subsequent correction)
To momentarily step away from BLP policy - one of Wiki's five main pillars concludes that to remain neutral an editor must cite notable sources especially when controversial, and goes on to specifically say about BLP that we must remove immediately any contentious material about a living person that is a conjectural interpretation of a source (The Scientist) relies on self-published sources (Beall) or relies on sources that fail in some other way to meet Verifiability standards (anonamoys sources in Retraction and Beall's post) - however, Wiki makes perfectly clear Never use self-published sources as sources of material about a living person
Putting comments like these from such bottom end sources on BLP pages is reckless
I have created a Wiki account and will continue to monitor this issue @MakinaterJones — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.139.102.133 ( talk) 22:51, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
Mark Schwahn ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Whether or not the amount of content about the Schwahn sexual harassment allegations is WP:Undue needs some looking at. I state this because he is not as famous as Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and others affected by the Weinstein effect. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 21:04, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
He is only a suspect in the Killing of Nabra Hassanen.It is violation of WP:BLPCRIME to say he is the murderer or use a copyrighted image in the article under fair use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oathsparty ( talk • contribs) 04:45, 20 November 2017 (UTC) Further the title :Darwin Martinez Torres, murderer of Nabra Hassanen is wrong he is only a suspect — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oathsparty ( talk • contribs) 04:59, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
The Boston Herald article seems to have been made into a WP:COATRACK for criticism of sportswriter Ron Borges, mostly introduced with this one-off edit a few months ago, duplicating similar content on the biography page. An anon tried to remove it a while ago, but was reverted for vandalism by Materialscientist. The amount of space spent on Borges seems grossly undue at the very least, and I have reason to believe the account responsible belongs to a rather persistent hoaxer whose work I’ve seen before, making me suspicious that the content is mostly fabricated. However, I know nothing about either subject, so I’m asking here for more eyes on both articles, with a view to removing (and possibly hiding) the content.— Odysseus 147 9 02:30, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
My name is Mary Hayashi and I am a former California politician. I was told to post here regarding concerns about the Wikipedia page about me, which includes two dedicated "Shoplifting" sections. [15]
In 2012 I walked out of a high-end retail store in San Francisco, but had forgotten about a blouse, skirt, and pants (worth $2,500) in my bag that I had not paid for. [16] As a result, two years later my competition for the Democrat seat launched a smear campaign called "Mug Shot Mary" with its own website and promised to make sure everyone knew about the incident. [17] The current Wikipedia page says I claimed to have a brain tumor that caused me to shoplift, but I have denied this. The case was eventually dismissed on March 5, 2015, but by then the political campaign was long over and the press did not cover the dismissal.
While this incident was unfortunately a part of the 2014 political race, the Wikipedia page contains more than 10 paragraphs about this situation and two sentences about the entire 2014 campaign. I have been told this violates Wikipedia's policy here against an article that is "temporarily unbalanced" and that someone here might be able to help. Aunt Mary San ( talk) 16:08, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Janet O'Sullivan ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
There was a recent article about the subject which suggested she celebrated the death of a pro life campaigner. It has been suggested on twitter that this was done to discredit her. While I suspect that some version will end up in the article on wikipedia about it the current wording and placement seems likely to cause pain and damage to an otherwise low profile individual who is currently not campaigning. The link to the diff is [18]. I would appreciate someone more experienced with BLP and low profile individuals taking a look and giving a recommendation please. ☕ Antiqueight haver 22:27, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
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David Cassidy ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
You have him listed as died today!!!!!! and he is still alive!!! I mean really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.159.9 ( talk) 19:22, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
Greg Osby ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The information that is repeatedly posted on this is not accurate, useful or relevant. It is also offensive. Especially since these are unproven ALLEGATIONS. This information is libelous, defaming and potentially unlawful. Jazzjock251 ( talk) 05:09, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Eyes welcome, — Paleo Neonate – 03:28, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks all, — Paleo Neonate – 11:27, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
This has in recent days become an extended resume/promo for the subject, with a mix of unsourced and poorly sourced content cultivated by a few [[WP:SPA]s. Needs a lot of attention, and perhaps a return to stub format. 2601:188:180:11F0:885A:A64B:EED6:3A14 ( talk) 00:49, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
[22] — please chime in. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 20:05, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Also [23]. Tgeorgescu ( talk) 20:08, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Emmerson Mnangagwa ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
People keep adding to Emmerson Mnangagwa's infobox that he is "President (designate)". As far as I can see we have no source saying this is the case - ZANU-PF sources have said they expect him to be made president on Friday, but an expectation doesn't seem to me to constitute a formal post that should be in an infobox. ( Zimbabwe simply has the position as 'vacant'). I'm out of reverts, largely to IP editors, so thought I'd see if anyone else thought this was an issue. TSP ( talk) 13:14, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Since Nov 12 NeuroWIKI99 has made a series of edits in which he/she has used the edit summary to make personal attacks against Neurorel. Note that NeuroWIKI99 is attempting to add information about Neurorel in the edit summaries. These are the only contributions NeuroWIKI99 has made.Here is the most recent example:
Neurorel ( talk) 17:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)