Talk:Daniel Johnston

message: I took photos of his recent concert in Atlanta  and  but not that I look at them they're not very good biography photos. If people want, I'll open these up as supplemental photos and I'll try to get a better primary photo next time I see him in concert. [Sumdog][talk] 15:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have received permission for a few photographs, and I have uploaded them to the commons.  They are all included in Commons:Category:Daniel Johnston.  I replaced the one on this page with one of these photos.  I really like this one, personally.  --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 00:25, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Please remain civil.  If you look at the photos page you will see it was tagged as "without proper copyright tag" on Jan 8, 2007.  This means, unless someone provided evidence that the picture is in the public domain (an implausible claim).  Or otherwise gives evidence for our permission to use it, it will be deleted tomorrow.  Until the copyright status of the old image is cleared up, the new image should remain.  If you can clear up the status of the image, than I would be happy to return it to the article here.  --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 18:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Unfortunately this is one of very few pictures we have of Daniel.  If you own the rights to a better one (or know someone who does), I would be happy to help you upload it and change the picture on the article. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 20:22, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photographs

message: "It has recently been confirmed that he is the "the coolest man to ever live" by Jesus Christ himself."
I'd like to see a reference for this... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.139.26  (talk • contribs) 22:00, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: Considering the nature of the difficulty he has overcome, are we certain that this is appropriate for BLP? Do we have definite & stable evidence of his agreement?DGG 03:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: BLP

message: I do not contest that the article is not perfect. But to me it seems important to have access on informations about an artist covered by Beck, Tom Waits or mercury Rev and many others... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.49.146.252  (talk • contribs) 10:16, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should an area on his page be set aside to acknowlege this turn of events? Today at the Convention Center, Austin icon and OG “outsider artist” Daniel Johnston told two jokes before a jam-packed day stage crowd: 1. “I heard they just sentenced a man to the death penalty… for trying to commit suicide.” 2. “I heard the Jews are having a pajama party… at the concentration camp.” Daniel punctuated the last one, which drew a pretty uncomfortable silence, with a Nazi salute and a screechy “Heil Hitler.” SpyMagician 06:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see how this one incident deserves its own "area" in his entry, or how this incident is a new "fascination" with nazism and anti-semitism. If you listen to Daniel's 1990 broadcast on WFMU, he also cracks a Jew-joke, albeit not as offensive as the one at the event in question. His distrust of Jews is most likely a byproduct of his strong religious beliefs -- it's something he shares with Henry Darger, a devout Catholic who didn't like to pronounce his landlords Jewish last name. Whatever anti-semitic inclination Daniel may have, it is a miniscule part of his public persona (unlike say, Bobby Fisher), and does not deserve mention. 141.155.57.107 04:20, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The link is dead, but either way, I think this only deserves mention if it a continuing thing.  If this does become a reoccurring part of his personality that it mentioned often in the press, it should be mentioned here.  Unless this incident causes a substantial controversy, it is probably not worth mentioning.   --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 14:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

text: From the above..."His distrust of Jews is most likely a byproduct of his strong religious beliefs...".  This sentence implies that strong religious beliefs lead to anti-jewish bias.  Of course it has throughout history, in many cultures and many parts of the world, but the sentence is a bit crude, and not really accurate.  If Johnston's brand of Christianity led to an antisemetic viewpoint, this would be a problem for him (and would make him an ignoramus), or the writer of the sentence feels that a strong Christian backround leads to a mistrust of jews (and I doubt if this is what the editor meant).  More likely, it's a cultural issue.  However, at no point in the documentary, The Devil and Daniel Johnston is the subject brought up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.19.99.135  (talk • contribs) 18:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, wikipedia is not a discussion forum.  The sentence in question is not part of the article, nor will it be.  Let's keep the discussion focused on the article. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 20:53, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

text: While the blog post you cited may be a reliable source for the claim that he told this joke at sxsw, the statement from Goede is not.  There is no way to verify that it was posted by Goede, for instance I could just now post a response by that name.  --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 17:48, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Plenty of other blogs cite this incident as well. I'll leave it as is for now (uncited), but I'll be adding their citations when I have the time. If I find other sources suggesting he did tell these jokes, do you believe they are newsworthy?Goophus 07:27, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: By wikipedia policy it cannot be there and not be cited (since Johnston is alive anything that puts him in a negative light must be cited).  I have two concerns: (1) while mentioned in several blogs, I'm not sure it's sufficiently notable to warrant mention in a general article on him and (2) the claim by "Goede" cannot be verified since it is effectively an anonymous post to a blog (not a credible source).  --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 19:06, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

text: It's not Wikipedia editors' business to parse why someone says or does what they do unless reliable news sources have done so. Unless this is covered in the media, it's not applicable to this article.--Gloriamarie (talk) 08:50, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Daniel's New Fascination with Nazism & Anti-Semtism

message: His drawings sell for all kinds of money, and he did that famous mural of the "Hi, How Are You?" alien. I'm going to stick "artist" in  his initial description. The phrasing as it stands sounds sarcastic. 
Bleedingcherub 00:41, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Has been classified as an artist?

message: Should we mention that both his Hi How Are You mural and shirt were featured in the recent film Whip It?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.103.3.244 (talk) 00:14, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Whip It

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message: Is Daniel Johnston dead? I can't find a source that confirms this. The date is yesterday 6/26/2018. Still no articles confirming? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tesseractyler  (talk • contribs) 04:28, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Dead?

message: He has an album from 2006 called “Welcome To My World” Sawhitney36 (talk) 14:13, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing Album?

message: Seems there was a recent event celebrating Johnston's memory. Details at  if anyone deems it worth adding to the article. -- Fyrael (talk) 20:52, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Hi How are you Day/Project