Talk:John Clark (English actor)

message: This page is not empty. Ongoing discussion has been archived. You can click on it. JohnClarknew (talk) 01:08, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe there was any ongoing discussion, that's why it was archived. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:19, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ongoing discussion has been archived

message: Gentlemen, I believe we are at an impasse. When that happens on Wikipedia what we do is not edit warring. And I warn all parties that edit warring will lead to blocks. There is no such thing as right or wrong in an edit war, anyone who participates in one is automatically wrong. What we can do is seek some form of dispute resolution to settle these matters. I suggest we pursue a request for comment where Mr. Clark, Mephisto, and all other interested parties can present their view on what the article should say and the wider community is invited to participate so that a consensus can be formed. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:19, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The main issue here is User:JohnClarknew’s refusal to accept the Wikipedia:Autobiography guidelines - and the dispute is a prime example of the reason why the community created the guidelines in the first place. memphisto 13:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Be that as it may, edit warring is not going to help. An RFC can be a useful tool for clarifying consensus on a particular issue. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:10, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:DR]] time 

message: User:JohnClarknew added the citizenship info on 8 December 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Clark_%28actor%29&diff=176520550&oldid=176213714
It was subsequently amended by an anonymous IP User:152.78.214.20 on 31 January 2011: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Clark_%28actor%29&diff=411217160&oldid=409783967
The anonymous IP's edits seem mainly to be questionable edits to nationalities in biographies, so in this instance I have reverted this fairly uncontroversal information back to the original by User:JohnClarknew (John Clark). memphisto 12:11, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citizenship 

message: This site is used by millions all over the world. This may be a good place, because I have a legal mind, to show that there is a disclaimer attached to it as follows, and may serve to show why some BLPers are concerned about the ability of some posters to play with their lives. I know this is an ongoing concern of our founders. Wikipedia General Disclaimer JohnClarknew (talk) 16:16, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Does this have something to do with this article? --Onorem♠Dil 16:23, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. JohnClarknew (talk) 16:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: My name is not Orem. --Onorem♠Dil 16:46, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

text: What does this have to do with how to improve this article? --Onorem♠Dil 16:48, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Please disengage JohnClarknew (talk) 17:49, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Right back at you. --Onorem♠Dil 18:41, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia Disclaimer 

message: Does this particular post help improve the page? I think it does. And I think a similar entry would not be out of place on ALL talk pages. Here's why: I link to the site frequently for my advertisement-free website, which I insist must stay independent too. It saves me time and energy, and I don't have to worry about copyright, (usually), or censorship, and I know that the content has been carefully and objectively researched, added to, and edited by thousands of decent well-meaning people, and is on the whole dependable, despite what the above Disclaimer says.
So I am happy to pay in to it what I can, me, around 50 bucks a year. I think that's fair, I can't afford more, and it makes me feel good. And I think that if all of us volunteer contributors and editors paid in at least 5 bucks a year - the price of a Starbucks while we use their free internet - the site will live forever. It has to, because there's nothing else like it. To hear from Mr. Wales that because of high costs and unreliable income, the site's existence would be threatened if income fell below a certain threshhold, well, that's why this post belongs here and on every page.
Am I being a kiss-ass sycophant? Not really. I've never met or spoken to Mr. Wales. But I think of him as our leader, our dreamer, and hold him in high esteem. I think he should take charge a little more, and if he deletes this BLP page with my name on it tomorrow because I, the subject, helped edit it while observing the rules, that would be my tough luck. In England he would be knighted, and he'd be less criticized.
So what do you have to say, you guys out there and up there, I mean the cocky harassers, and sockpuppeteers who give cause to outsiders to view us all with suspicion? I believe street language should be kept out, and a certain dignity should be attempted, because we need to think of our image in the outside world. And we need to remember that quantity does not guarantee quality.  JohnClarknew (talk) 23:51, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Donating to Wikipedia 

message: At the end of this article there is a citation needed tag about John Clark's heart attack and pacemaker. I found a a source which states-‘I lay there in the pouring rain. I could feel a pain in my chest, right where my pacemaker is installed from my heart attack two years ago — and then I passed out,’ 
I'm not sure how to add a source,ref or link, I usually just add small things or fix grammatical errors,but here is the link or ref is someone can add it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280650/Redgrave-curse-strikes--turns-blessing.html
--BeckiGreen (talk) 23:13, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  I found a source for the heart attack and pacemaker. 

message: When I took out citizenship papers in 1965, I was told it was a free chance to change my name. I chose to drop the "Ivan" as it was the height of the cold war, and in typical workplace fashion, the supervisor at the bank where I was working nights would yell out at me "Hey, Oiv . . !" JohnClarknew (talk) 22:35, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ivan dropped with U.S. Citizenship 

message: I changed the following-In 1993-4 Clark earned significant critical acclaim for his production with Redgrave of Shakespeare for My Father. I did not see a source for the significant critical acclaim in the first blurb about the play. Later in this article about the play I did see the sources and when I when went to the Wikipedia page Shakespeare for My Father, all the sources for the significant critical acclaim for Shakespeare for My Father seem to go to Redgrave,not John Clarke. They read as follows- New York magazine described Shakespeare for my Father as "a one-woman show by Lynn Redgrave in which she reminisces about life with her father, Sir Michael Redgrave, with full scenes from Shakespeare's works", and stated that Redgrave's "sense of humor makes it a pleasure and privilege to watch".[3] Patti Hartigan of The Boston Globe described the play as a "triumph",[4] and Lloyd Rose of The Washington Post said of Redgrave's performance, "Particularly when she is not speaking, her face can seem to hold an impossible number of emotions simultaneously, yet such fullness of feeling is mysteriously unreadable. At such moments you glance up to Sir Michael's picture, which dominates the stage, and find the same."[5] Variety described Redgrave's performance as "brilliant and extremely moving" and said, "At the end, Lynn gestures to that photograph, sharing her well-deserved applause with the man who could never acknowledge her talent. It’s a simple gesture that contains layers of emotional complexity and as such, an appropriate way to end this brutally honest but forgiveness-filled show."[6]. If anyone does not agree with my change we can discuss it here on the talk page if anyone thinks I was incorrect at removing the info.--BeckiGreen (talk) 03:15, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  I changed the following.