Talk:Raffi

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Personal Info

I removed the date that he immegrated to Canada since that date puts it before his birth... If anyone has a real date please enter it. Gordie 19:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

24.82.112.7 I re-entered that he emigrated to Canada in 1958. The info is there, in previous incarnations of the page.

Nutmeg house

"Raffi ran a Nutmeg house at the University of Toronto up until 1980"

WTF is a "Nutmeg house"? There is a bed and breakfast with this name in Toronto. Any relation? Otherwise, googling "nutmeg house" gets me nowhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.178.36 (talk) 03:21, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Raffi Rules

Go Raffi!

"Child honouring"?

I'm really not sure what this term is supposed to mean exactly. Perhaps a more clear phrase could be used. BigSciZot 02:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah wtf is wrong with advertising to children? They should be treated like any other people.. I mean sure advertising is pointless, but how could it possibly be a harmful thing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 14:56, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Children should *not* be marketed to. They aren't mature enough to understand that marketing is all lies. Why do you think the bastards in advertising should be allowed to have free access to the most vulnerable people, i.e., children? Children *aren't* like any other people--they're children. Advertising isn't "pointless"; it's a horribly invasive method of selling people things they don't need at prices the items aren't worth (and the people usually can't really afford). Your ignorance is truly staggering.

Three cheers for melodramatic generalizations. 71.101.238.116 (talk) 01:06, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Internets

Anyone going to write about internet popularity?

advert tag

This article is written in a very positive tone and is full of external links. Pcu123456789 01:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Raffi re-write

I've spoken to Raffi's representatives about the promotional bio that they had submitted. I've been retained to correct the bio and bring it closer into line with wikipedia's regulations. Just a heads up that I'm working on it and I have proposed the following changes to them:

~~Standard bio template sidebar~~
~~Sections on early life, career, etc~~
~~Removal of market-speak and superlatives~~
Reinstatement of previous article submissions (trivia, parodies), into the bio
~~Sourcing proper copyright permissions for his current portrait.~~ forwarded to OTRS

I plan to put up what I have when I get everything together properly, most likely starting Friday, March 9th. Hopefully this will give us a better "starter" article, and I appreciate any feedback or help from the community.

Avit75 00:50, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Updated by Avit75 08:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Updated by Avit75 22:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Updated by Avit75 23:23, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Updated citations for newspaper article quotes Avit75 00:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nutmeg House

From the article:

Raffi ran a Nutmeg house at the University of Toronto up until 1980

This is what? Proxy User (talk)

I found it!

Well, the confusion about nutmeg started with some vandalism back in February that nobody caught. He ran a coffee house, and someone, [1], changed "coffee" to "nutmeg," and "Toronto" to "Calcutta," but nobody noticed the nutmeg. Well, I'm gonna go change it. I'm surprised nobody has looked through the diffs yet, aside from myself. Saebjorn! 14:21, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Simpson's Parody

Should someone mention the parody the Simpson's did of him?150.203.110.103 (talk) 15:54, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

This article needs a lot of citations. --82.31.164.172 (talk) 23:30, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Systems Thinker

LOL, really? Deleted. No one vaguely reputable considers the man a "systems thinker" in any definition. He started a philanthropy organization dealing with kids, great, that doesn't make you Hegel or Kant or a thinker in the newer meaning of the word like a Schumacher, or in the sense used in communications, computers and complexity. Guinness4life (talk) 13:57, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Order of British Canada

What is the Order of British Canada? Does it exist? And if it's not going to happen until 2031, what is this here for?