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Wrong pictures

Obviously, someone butchered the pictures in this article. - 12 January 09 @ 4:50 EST —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.93.171.51 (talk) 21:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nearly this entire article has been ripped from the Will.I.am fansite listed on the page. please make sure this is not blatent plagarism

Who cares? This is an article on a two bit second rate "musician" who calls himself Will. i. am. Good grief. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.79.174.227 (talk) 08:23, 12 September 2009 (UTC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKWEWCvKjgY WILL.I.AM RIPPED THIS ENTIRE TRACK BLATENT PLAGERISM THIS THIEF SHOULDNT EVEN HAVE A WIKIPEDIA PAGE — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.248.210.89 (talk) 01:22, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Palisades Charter School or Palisades High School?

is it palisades charter school? or Palisades high school? because i think theres only the charter school in Los Angeles Aznfurball 07:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bio needs rewrite

William James Adams, Jr. (born March 15, 1975) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.189.56 (talk) 17:33, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The intro to the *Personal Life* section of the bio as of rev 190415406 10Feb08 was:

"The possible connection with the Black Eyed Peas' vocalist is through the Peas' producer Sergio Mendes, a jazz aficionado who saw Coltrane play in the early 60s."

The description of jazz legend Mendes is laughable, and the Coltrane reference no longer makes sense, ever since a preceding sentence containing a reference to him was removed by Grover cleveland in version 189033718.

And what's the whole sentence even doing here, anyway? This whole section badly needs a rewrite. Mathglot (talk) 20:52, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Jackson The King

Hes producing albums and working with King Micael Jackson and its not even been named on this article, does anyone feel guilty for this lack of knowledge? ~ Gaogier

Only if you feel guilty for calling him "King Michael Jackson". Barf!!! DFS (talk) 06:05, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Feat. vocals

Since some user decided to just blank the list with no reason, let's at the very least move this here for now.

--Thunderbird L17

I feel this should be put back in the article. The user who removed it didn't give a reason, and this is the only edit he's ever made. And it's a good list. Sweetie Petie 23:42, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Will.i.am (musician) or Will.i.am

Can we please make a decision what the title of the article will be, without the constant changing back and forth. --Zimbabweed 23:34, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be named "will.i.am". Due to technical restrictions, the closest name is Will.i.am. There is no reason to add "(musician)" since there is nobody else called "will.i.am" and likely never will be. I'm moving it back to Will.i.am. Mike Dillon 22:27, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Requested move (2006)

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The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 12:18, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2006 Requested move

Will.i.am (musician) → Will.i.am … Rationale: Unique spelling; no need to disambiguate with "(musician)". --Mike Dillon 22:30, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I Love my B****

Does he RAP or SING on this Busta Rhymes track? I thought he was the guy singin'... JamRoc 02:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC) Jamil[reply]

Whether he raps or sings is pretty irrelevant. The important thing is that he is a guest vocalist on the track. But as aside, his only part in the song is the pre-chorus verse ("My baby never lets me down, that's why I never let it go..." and so forth).109.255.137.187 (talk) 16:09, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He sings, because Busta Rhymes can't sing as he is too fat. 87.254.67.181 (talk) 15:36, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[[[Zuper Blaquh]]]

Should there be a seperate article for [[[Zuper Blaquh]]], he's will.i.am's alter ego and he is a completely different style, mind you there isn't a separate article for Slim Shady is there? 87.254.67.181 (talk) 15:36, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ACTUALLY THERE IS! 87.254.67.181 (talk) 15:36, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

collaborations and others songs

I have put the most complete list of will.i.am collaborations and others songs.

I think that list is the best, because is the most complete and the most appropiate:

  • Sergio Mendes - That Heat (feat. will.i.am & Erykah Badu)
  • Sergio Mendes - Let Me (feat. will.i.am & Jill Scott)
  • Sergio Mendes - The Frog (feat. will.i.am & Q-Tip)
  • Sergio Mendes - Loose Ends (feat. Justin Timberlake, Pharoahe Monch & will.i.am)
  • Sergio Mendes – Surfboard (feat. will.i.am)
  • Sergio Mendes - Yes Yes Ya'll (feat. Black Thought, Chali 2na, Debi Nova & will.i.am)
  • will.i.am - Don't Call Me Toby
  • will.i.am - Tell Of Tales (Tell Me You Need It Again)
  • will.i.am - Secrets (Dexter's Laboratory soundtrack)
  • will.i.am & Fergie – True
  • Sly & the Family Stone - Dance To The Music (feat. will.i.am)
  • Santana - I Am Somebody (feat. will.i.am )
  • Shaggy - Shut Up And Dance (feat. will.i.am)
  • Burning Star - On My Own (feat. will.i.am)
  • Destiny's Child - I Know (feat. will.i.am)
  • Earth, Wind & Fire - Lovely People (feat. will.i.am)
  • Long Beach Dub Allstars - Sunny Hours (feat. will.i.am)
  • Mary J. Blige - About You (feat. will.i.am)
  • Mary J. Blige, Sting & will.i.am- Whenever I Say Your Name
  • Pussycat Dolls – Beep (feat. will.i.am)
  • Saian Supa Crew - La Patte (feat. will.i.am)
  • Uncle Charlie Wilson, Justin Timberlake & will.i.am - Floatin'
  • Sting - Stolen Car (feat. will.i.am)
  • Kelis - Weekend (feat. will.i.am)
  • Kelis - What's The Right There (feat. will.i.am)
  • Kelis - Till Them Wheels Fall Off
  • Kelis - Fuck Them Bitche's (Hidden Track)
  • Busta Rhymes - I Love My B*** (feat. Kelis & will.i.am)
  • Justin Timberlake - Damn Girl (feat. will.i.am)
  • Marcelo D2 - CB Sangue Bom (feat. will.i.am) (acoustic MTV)
  • Ozomatli - Vocal Artillery (feat. will.i.am, Kanetic Source & Medusa)
  • Rolling Stones – Rains Fall Down (Remix feat. will.i.am)
  • Bob Marley and Wailers - Africa Unit (feat. will.i.am)
  • DMC feat. Sarah McLachlan - Just Like Me (will.i.am mix)
  • Too $hort - Keep Bouncin (feat. Snoop Dogg, will.i.am. & Fergie)
  • Fergie - Fergalicious (feat. will.i.am)
  • Fergie - All That I Got(The Make Up Song)(feat. will.i.am)
  • Fergie - Here I Come (feat. will.i.am)
  • Ciara - Do It (feat. will.i.am)
  • The Game - Compton (feat. will.i.am)
  • Eazy-E - Merry Muthph****n Christmas (feat. Will.i.am)
  • Blood of Abraham - N****z & Jewz (feat. Will.i.am)
  • Steve Aoki - I'm in the House (ft. Zuper Blahq) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Killanator (talk • contribs) 22:21, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BUT PLEASE, DON'T ADD MUSIC PRODUCED BY HIM, because we should include 10000 songs more! and THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

Career?

Why isn't there a career section? Like it says active since 1989 but there's nothing mentioned before 2001?!?!?!?!?!?! 86.45.200.40 (talk) 12:37, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is no mention of his music at all really. Odd. Realist2 (Come Speak To Me) 22:22, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This needs to be rewritten. There is almost no focus on his musical career! It's nice that he's also a fashion designer and political activist, but the vast majority of the content should revolve around his Will's music. It barely even mentions the fact that he's a member of the Black Eyed Peas. StanHater (talk) 07:46, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barely even mentions? It either mentions it or it doesn't, you can't 'barely mention' something. Jabberwockgee (talk) 06:05, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Early Life

All the early life section says is where he was born! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.110.136.150 (talk) 14:14, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I at least edited the sentence (wasn't logged in) - this really needs further writing, or it should be removed as a separate section IMKatgrrl (talk) 04:04, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Philanthropist?

The intro to an article should be a summary of the main points in the article. Either a new section should be written outlining in detail the great extent of this man's philanthropy, or it should be removed from the intro.

Philanthropy is conventially known as the dedication of substantial time, money or skill to recognized social needs, not-for-profit organizations or charities. Although many people may disagree with me, I don't consider that the US Democratic Party belongs any of these groups. I'm pretty sure that when most people think of philanthropy, they think of an incomprehensibly rich person giving an incomprehensible amount of money to a hospital, or setting up a charity to help homeless people; they dont think of every famous person who has ever supported a political party - even if it is the Democrats.

As far as I can tell from the article, the only thing possibly pertaining to charity was the donation of one song to a compilation album for charity. Come on now. His marketing manager might call that philanthropy, most commentators would just as likely call it publicity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.72.60.45 (talk) 14:21, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He started several charities. I am home fund.org and also a scholarship. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.122.250.98 (talk) 21:16, 15 June 2010 (UTC) May 21st 2012 Will.I.Am Ran in the Olympic Torch Relay in Taunton, Somerset[reply]

Zuper Blahq

I am adding zuper blahq to the associated acts. It is one of his side projects, its on dim mak and so far hes got one pretty popular track with steve aoki(Steve Aoki ft. Zuper Blahq - I'm in the House), it has about 25k views on youtube in the past few weeks. I don't have time to make an article for zuper blahq right now, I might get around to it though.

75.111.37.124 (talk) 03:58, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

EDIT: heres a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uhSCcxF7Gc

and another useful link: http://elbo.ws/artist/zuper-blahq-williams-side-project/

Ok this is same ip just logged in now and i made the section

Killanator (talk)

I put that section back in but removed the bit about his album, new video, and keyboards on im in miami bitch as there weren't any citations about it. I doubt the miami part is true at all but i will look around for info about that album later. Any removals or unconstructive edits to the zuper blahq sections I will undo. Killanator (talk) 19:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wolverine?

Not trying to point fingers, but why is there no mention made of his role as John Wraith in X-Men Origins: Wolverine? *EDIT* - looks like IP vandalism. I've restored the section. --Teancum (talk) 13:06, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name punctuation

Does anyone know why he uses periods in his stage name, instead of the more correct hyphens? That might be worth mentioning in the article. -Agur bar Jacé (talk) 20:40, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In such an exercise of artistic license as he's employed in his stage name, there isn't really any correct or incorrect format.
--K10wnsta (talk) 00:01, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move (2010)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus, this can also be discussed without needing a Requested Move discussion as the mediawiki software doesn't handle lowercase in the pagetitle. Taelus (Talk) 23:06, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]


Will.i.am → Will.i.am — Proposing that the "Lowercase title" template used on this article be removed, and tht capatalisation of his stage name within this article be accordingly modified. Please see his official website and external sources including the BBC, the Toronto Sun, the Press Association and the Associated Press. City of Destruction (The Celestial City) 23:05, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Concerning Fly Girl and Michael Jackson

Someone added a citation needed mark on my edit about the song Fly Girl. Here is a video proving that it was for Michael (this is possibly an early version of the song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC8niFZ_Rus

And if you see on the tracklist for Songs About Girls you see Fly Girl. The chords are the same for both songs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.154.183 (talk) 17:36, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this video doesn't prove anything. Maybe Will.i.am just wanted him to hear the melody of the song and he played it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakor (talk • contribs) 22:49, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Filipino?

Will.i.am says in his song Someday (Album: The Beginning), "I came here from the Phillipines with big big dreams." --24.222.82.111 (talk) 17:54, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Use of lowercase

I noticed there's an inconsistency between using lowercase and capitalization for his stage name 'will.i.am.' Has some consensus been reached for lowercase in the past? I'm assuming the rational is based on the stylization. What exactly is the encyclopedic relevance? Imperatore (talk) 19:14, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • WP:MOSCAPS is quite clear that lower case is acceptable here : "Some individuals do not want their personal names capitalized. In such cases, Wikipedia articles may use lower case variants of personal names if they have regular and established use in reliable third-party sources." MrMarmite (talk) 17:07, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Blatant theft of music...

How come there is no mention on either this page or the Black Eyed Peas' page about the lawsuit with Daft Punk over the theft of the sample from 'Around the World' from 2007 and the one from 2010, stolen from Boys Noize.

Original Track: "Yeah" by Boys Noize Copy Track: "Dance" by Zuper Blahq (AKA Will.i.am)

And all the others a quick google search brings up.

This page was obviously vandalized to try and attempt to regain some dignity for william. 86.131.143.135 (talk) 00:12, 23 April 2011 (UTC) tmc[reply]

Vandalism

Some idiot vandalised Wil.i.am's wikipedia article, could someone restore it? 79.194.92.183 (talk) 23:46, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Cleanup-biography" Template

I added the "Cleanup-biography" template because this biography very awkwardly jumps suddenly from 1991 to 2004. In fact, there is one reference to 2004, and another brief reference to will-i-am's clothing line, but the rest of the bio is focused exclusively on pre->1991 and then 2007->after. This is an especially noteworthy omission considering that will-i-am's rise to fame, and the majority of his professional success took place during that 1991-2007 period. It's as if someone were to write an article on Vivien Leigh and skipped over the period from Gone With The Wind to A Streetcar Named Desire.

I hope that someone will add to the biography and cover the 1991-2007 period. I can't do the edits myself because, unfortunately, I am far from an authority on will-i-am. Thanks a lot. - KevinScott71 (talk) 22:11, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Potential accuracy issues.

Thought I'd mention it here, but Will.i.am tweeted that he noticed some issues with his Wikipedia article. He stated "Just read my wikipedia page...wow they are so wrong on so many things...like my name, where I'm born, album release info, nick names #wrong "

See https://twitter.com/#!/iamwill/status/161998696039456768. --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:03, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have a look over it and see what I can do, but I've placed an accuracy tag on the article for the time being. Steven Zhang Join the DR army! 06:13, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For starters, the citation for where he was born/raised (BiggestStars.com) doesn't seem to have that information. At least not the detail "Estrada Courts housing projects of Boyle Heights" CrocodilesAreForWimps (talk) 18:56, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He even said on Facebook "on wiki everythings wrong" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.189.186.148 (talk) 02:39, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

About accuracy issues

After reviewing Will.i.am page i made some modifications, but i couldn't do anything more complete because i didn't find truthful references. I expect to find what i need soon, but i don't want to speculate with the information shown on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarceCancino (talk • contribs) 14:53, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will 1X (Infobox - also known as)

In the prose of this article (1988–2000: Formations and The Black Eyed Peas) and other articles about his early work, he originally credited himself as Will 1X, however not listed in his infobox under also known as. Will add Dohertyben (talk) 20:36, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

the oldest living man ever, at 1 million years old?

According to this news story, will.i.am was not pleased with this edit, describing him as "DJ, producer and oldest living man ever". This was reverted after seven minutes today. Mr. Adams seems take a keen interest in his BLP, and has mentioned the incident on Twitter.[1]--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 16:42, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, this was mentioned in the reasons for requesting protection. I think will.i.am was brought to the edit by this tweet, as will.i.am re-tweeted it in his Twitter feed before making his own posts on the subject. At any rate, I protected the article, and I think that was the right course of action to take given the recent vandalism. Acalamari 17:05, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Style Correction

This sentence makes little sense: "As a “director of creative innovation”, will.i.am is responsible to improve the sales in the company."

should be: "As a “director of creative innovation”, will.i.am is responsible for improving company sales."

Please could someone change this? Thanks Duncan Fermor (talk) 11:47, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done, also removed a dead link.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 13:33, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Info!

Will.iam is now a T.V judge on The Voice UK

Please Update, Also please take note of Wiki's Copyright Violation

81.156143.115 (talk) 20:19, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He is referred to as voice coach in the WP:LEAD, and in various sourcing, eg here from the BBC. Not sure what is meant by the copyright violation, this would need to be more specific.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 20:35, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Will.i.am

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Will.i.am's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Breakup":

  • From The Black Eyed Peas: "Black Eyed Peas Take Indefinite Break". MTV UK. July 9, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
  • From Apl.de.ap: "Black Eyed Peas Take Indefinite Break". MTV UK. July 9, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2011. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |separator= ignored (help)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:22, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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