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Wrestling

Regarding the following bit:

This has led to the suggestion that the CBC and World Wrestling Entertainment will collaborate to stage a no holds barred, free for all cage fight between Ghomeshi, Stromboulopoulous, Ben Mulroney and Alexandre Trudeau.

While this is funny as hell, could you please quote a specific source for it before adding it to the article? Bearcat 17:41, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jian, what's inaccurate here?

On his show today, interviewing Cory Doctorow, Ghomeshi said that when he looks himself up on Wikipedia he is amazed by the inaccuracies. Doctorow told him to edit the inaccuracies himself, to which Ghomeshi replied "you can do that?" Doctorow compared it to eating bacon for breakfast. --Mathew5000 17:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He first came to large (not national, I guess) attention as a teenager with a hit single by what I understand was his one-man band, "Tall New Buildings". Someone who knows more should correct/elaborate.

I've noticed that famous peoples' friends' are understandably reticent about writing about them on the web. They could provide lots of interesting and correct information, but do not. I know about Jian via my ex-wife, who knew/knows him very, very well, and has since before the Moxy era. But she, and people like her, aren't likely to add any information to WikiPedia and the like because it's hard to know what is properly public and what is private. It's easier to avoid the issue entirely, even if you're a webhead who likes completeness, like me. I have a friend I've known many years who is a moderately big Hollywood producer. I always am tempted to correct and add to her IMDB entry, but refrain.

I wonder what the reasoning is that people themselves are reluctant to edit their own WikiPedia entries and the like? A sense of propriety, perhaps, feeling that paying much attention to such things is narcissistic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.103.107.190 (talk) 21:56, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe they are afraid of letting out too much of the truth. You know, Ghomeshi stated on his November 15, 2009 show that he has a bachelors degree in political science. Why does Canada's state run propaganda machine have an ethnic Iranian with a poli sci degree front and center on an arts show? Because Ghomeshi is to be an agreeable and likeable Iranian for Canadians and at the same time to be cute and cuddly picture of Canada for Iranians. Ghomeshi often talks about the "democracy" movement in Iran. He is there to report indirectly on over-throwing the Iranian gov't a la Chile, Argentina, Viet Nam, Guatamala etc... Music is often used by the US for its propaganda (public relations) purposes. Ghomeshi is just another such tool. See University of Southern California's public diplomacy center for more on music propaganda...http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/events/events_detail/1752/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.155.181.25 (talk) 23:24, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder what the reasoning is that people themselves are reluctant to edit their own WikiPedia entries and the like? A sense of propriety, perhaps, feeling that paying much attention to such things is narcissistic.

And yet he's self-absorbed enough to do self-indulgent radio stories about his own Wikipedia page. Interesting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.18.193.6 (talk • contribs)

He hasn’t done “radio stories about his own Wikipedia page”. Rather, he uses his own Wikipedia page as an example when discussing Wikipedia. For example, the podcast of his interview of Jimbo Wales, available here.
Just as two years ago when this issue arose, it would be helpful if Ghomeshi had mentioned specifically what was incorrect. In any event I deleted the mention from the article because it’s not really appropriate. --Mathew5000 (talk) 07:22, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If he was born in the England, why is his origin listed as Iran? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.244.66.207 (talk) 00:41, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for noting that; I've corrected it. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:10, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

billy bob thorton

The section is clearly valid as it is how this DJ gained international exposure, i imagine 90 percent of the people who navigate to this page will be doing so because of the Thorton story, so it would be an error not to mention it. This section was deleted by someone who did not have a wiki account, who listed it as "news, not relevant" which seems absurd to me,how can the main reason most readers will know about this person not be relevant? I think there would be a better title for the section, but the section it self is a valid entry. Perhaps we could call it "international exposure" or something. Any thoughts? —Preceding [User:Norwhales's tusk|Norwhales's tusk] comment added by Norwhales's tusk (talk • contribs) 03:09, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why do people keep deleting all the information on Thorton without a discussion? And if current events are not supposed to be added to wiki articles why does the ship captured by somlean pirates and its captain have their own page? (see Richard Phillips)? Neither this ship or Phillips were on wiki before the incident. Signed, Norwhales's Tusk.


thornton

some idiot keeps deleting the section on thornton, and uses it to take prejudicial stabs at Canadians. how do you delete that person's account, or remove their ability to edit. If someone took a prejudicial stab towards another nationality, it certainly woudn't stand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suivoh (talk • contribs) 19:23, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"idiot"? Hardly. The Thornton section reads like an excerpt from a gossip rag, not a wikipedia article. Under normal circumstances, such tripe is deleted, but seeing as Q will just send in one of the 'fans' to restore the cherished bit of trivia, is it worth the bother? Not for this article.--Voola (talk) 13:12, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Protection

I have filed a request for protection following recurring vandalism on the page regarding the interview with Billy Bob. Inochimizu (talk) 19:41, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Thank you - how do you do that - for the record? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suivoh (talk • contribs) 19:45, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You visit Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection and write it there. For now they have blocked the user who did the vandalizing, but if it occurs again then further petition should be made. Inochimizu (talk) 19:48, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for teaching me something new. You are the sh*t man! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suivoh (talk • contribs) 20:00, 10 April 2009 (UTC) That guy is a d bag how could he be such a jerk treating Jian Ghomeshi like thatClf95 (talk) 01:52, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Music as Cultural Diplomacy

I think there should be some mention that the Q show oftens enters into the realm of music as cultural diplomacy. For example, the show might discuss the impact of punk music in Czechoslovakia and its affect on the Velvet Revolution that overthrew the government there. This type of CBC programming is more about propaganda and promoting certain performers who are soft power agents. For example, the University of Southern California's Public Diplomacy Center tell of how jazz music and certain musicians were used by the US government during the Cold War to promote dissent in the Soviert Union and elsewhere. See http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/library/reviews_detail/satchmo_blows_up_the_world_jazz_ambassadors_play_the_cold_war/ I don't have any references on radio programming as cultural diplomacy or soft power propaganda but if anyone does, I would like to see them included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.183.163.55 (talk) 05:09, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Written by his employer's Promotions Dept. and publicity agent - conflict of interest

This biographical entry is taken directly from publicity material prepared by the CBC to promote Ghomeshi. http://www.cbc.ca/q/aboutus.html As such it stands in conflict of interest as defined by Wikipedia's guidelines. It also repeats entries:

- “He is also a writer whose editorials and opinion pieces have been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and The International Herald Tribune.”

- “Ghomeshi’s opinion pieces have been published in the Sunday Washington Post, The National Post, The International Herald Tribune.”

and provides no citations to any of these so-called "opinion/editorial" pieces that he wrote for The Guardian, The Washington Post or The International Herald Tribune. In the case of The Guardian, the "editorial" he is purported to have written turns out to be the transcript of an interview he did on air with Leonard Cohen.

Allan Sorensen (talk) 17:04, 9 March 2010 (UTC)Allan Sorensen[reply]

Wow... no one has taken action on this. --Pdedecker (talk) 18:04, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That is considered a reliable source. If it was written by him or someone he knows it would be a much better artcile. Think about it. 31jetjet (talk) 18:22, 25 October 2014 (UTC)31jetjet[reply]

Birthday is wrong

he surely is not 107 years pld. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Siato (talk • contribs) 09:30, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

LIGHTS

At various points in the article, the singer/songwriter is referred to as LIGHTS or Lights. Fix this? TorontonianOnlines (talk) 23:25, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. Fixed. Sunray (talk) 07:56, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This still has obvious copyright-infringing text from CBC after four years notice. See here, and here. I'll re-work it to remove these violations. __ E L A Q U E A T E 22:24, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there is a problem, but it's easy to fix by just removing the offending text — which is only a small percentage of the overall article, and is mostly vague promotional content that isn't adding anything of substance anyway — and absolutely does not require the complete blanking of the entire article, inclusive of passages that aren't copyvios. You use a flyswatter to kill a fly, not a sledgehammer. Bearcat (talk) 18:37, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Then fix it. After taking a look at how extensive it was and how a lot of the copyvio is obscured in the duplication report because it doesn't pick up on threads where we've inlinked, I realized didn't have time to thread through the whole thing all by myself. When I saw that previous flags of the problem resulted in the text being left alone, I just followed advice about what to do with articles with extensive copy-vio, which is file a report. If you can get rid of it great. I'm not trying to kill flies, I reported copyvios, which is not a "Wikipedia has no deadline, let's get around to it later if it's not being noticed this week" kind of thing.__ E L A Q U E A T E 19:25, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit request 10/25/14 - Leave from CBC

It was reported today that Jian is taking a break from CBC as he is having personal problems since the passing of his father. [1]This article makes no mention of his fathers passing, would should be mentioned if it has had a big impact of his well being. For such an accomplished Canadian I am surprised there is not more to this article. 31jetjet (talk) 18:20, 25 October 2014 (UTC) 31jetjet[reply]

Edit Request 10/26/14 - Suing CBC

It is now reported that Jian is suing CBC for $50 million for breach of confidence and bad faith. [1] 31jetjet (talk) 20:19, 26 October 2014 (UTC) 31jetjet[reply]

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