Talk:Paul Anka

message: Does anyone feel this link is worth mentioning in the article vis-a-vis it having become a minor internet phenomenon? Ellsworth 00:31, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: The guys get shirts

message: You wrote that Paul Anka has a Libanese Arab origin: for what I know it's uncorrect. His grandparents came from Lebanon, but they were not Arabs but Maronites, who are descendants of the ancient mix of peoples living in Syria and Lebanon before Arab invasion in the Middle Age. [UNSIGNED]
but everyone in Lebanon, like elsewhere in the world is of "mixed origin". Arabic does not = muslim, and i know of many christian Arabs. [ALSO UNSIGNED]
I don't know who the "you" was; the only current reference to his Lebanese ancestry is in a category below the end of the actual article. ANYway: At http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4793881 , an NPR interview, Anka says he was a Lebanese-Canadian. I'd trust him.
But see also other sections of this talk page on this exact same point! GeorgeTSLC (talk) 03:23, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin

message: I Guess like many Lebanese he looks totally white or Italian? is considered white?? or can pass for white??? Because he made it big in the 1950's when you had to be white to get anywhere???? Not to detract from his talent and smart business decisions, but there were many more Black Americans who were talented and never made it at all or became known later in the late 1960's when the counter culture shaked thing up. Does anyone have any ideas on this. I had heard somewhere he was Greek, which is probably wrong...people probably equated his looks to that.69.196.135.42 (talk) 01:26, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin 2 Question

message: This comes very late, however, but I would like to counter your query of Mr. Anka's race and ethnicity.  Mr. Anka is of Lebanese nationality. Whatever else ethnicity is of no consequence. Meditterrean, and otherwise swarthy peoples of that region have moved around freely, and enjoyed a common cultural and historical heritage (it is the ancient world, mind you, and the cradle of civilization; as opposed to the then contemporous, barbaric and unciviized northern European aboriginal).  Please quit with the nazi race-baiting.  I too, as well as many others wonderd about Mr. Anka's race, when he visited "Freedom Land Amusement Park" in New York City in the early sixties. He was very dark (like George Hamilton).  Believe me, this must have grated on his mind now and then with certain white bigots over the years. Now, understand this: Many Italians, Greeks, etc. are brown-skinned! I bet if your a hetro-sexual you would still be salivating over a the young Gina Lolabrigita, Raquel Welch, and Sophia Loren (the last was veeery dark of skin, not revealed by Hollywood lensemen until she was well 'over-the-hill', in the 1990s). And lastly-what I mean by Meditterean peoples are those from both the north AND south of that inland Sea, namely Egyprians, Tunisians, Lybians, Algerians, Moorrocans, etc. --67.86.110.9 (talk) 16:36, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Swarthy means dark. That's all. 162.251.16.246 (talk) 18:29, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  On Paul Anka's Ethnicity 

message: Lance Armstrong's team disbanded after he left. I don't know that many details, so I refrained from editing myself, but since the team doesn't exist anymore, that line should change. Poseidon^3 19:53, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Outdated

message: A lot of people seem to consider that song the epitome of cheese. There was even a Punk cover version in the 1980s.... AnonMoos 01:10, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: There should be an article on "Having My Baby"

message: This label reflects that Anka is a Canadian who has become a naturalized citizen of the Unoted States.  Also, it seems that he is considered to be of Syrian, not Lebanese, descent.  This is noted in the infobox at the top of the article.  So the change to "Canadian-Lebanese" is incorrect.--Vbd 14:38, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert to "Canadian-American" 

message: Paul Anka is truly noteworthy for the United States Securities & Exchange Commmission "No Action" letter regarding his activities promoting private securities placements.  I'm not kidding, folks, this the most famous (because it is the most permissive) No Action letter and deserves recognition like any prominent legal case.  If someone gets a chance, add a section to this article.68.251.149.248 02:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked into this briefly and as strange as this may seem, this no action letter thing does seem quite notable although only of limited relevance to Paul Anka. It seems that this no action letter was for a long time the only remaining guidance (after they revoked another no action letter) from the US SEC on when someone has to register as a broker dealer. I believe they've now provided some additional guidance. In terms of what the letter actually said it appears  providing the names of potential investors for a fixed fee so was fairly narrow in scope but as I said, was the only real guidance for a long time so appears to have been extensively discussed. There may be some merit to mention it somewhere on wikipedia but probably not much here if at all since as I said it doesn't really relate much to Paul Anka. Nil Einne (talk) 18:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Action Letter 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Anka2-2.jpg

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thread_title: Citations & References

message: As I understood it, Anka has five daughthers with his previous wife and Ethan with Anna Anka. Elli is Anna's daughter from a previous marriage and therefore Anka's stepdaughther.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.228.199.164 (talk) 19:51, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Another wife is mentioned with no mention of what happened to the first marriage; did she die, divorce?1archie99 (talk) 09:50, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, if we can't find the complete name for the previous husband of the second wife maybe he should not be mentioned. This section needs a rewrite and some cites regarding his marriages or info on his marriages should be deleted.1archie99 (talk) 10:05, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's over or almost 5 years now, still no source has been given for the first line of this section, should we remove it? Clarificationgiven (talk) 12:15, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life 

message: The way I see it, it is very time-dependent to include the MJ tidbit in the beginning of the text. This should be moved to its own subheading further down the page, as it was hardly the most important part of Anka's career.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.107.98.37 (talk) 17:27, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Essentially, it is mentioned because of Michael Jackson and he is dead.  Whatever collaborations between Anka and Jackson are trivial and therefore inconsequential.  The usual dribble plastered throughout Wikipedia and it is disingerous to the purpose of Wikipedia. Spenser - The Unknown (talk) 18:20, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Michael Jackson collaboration

message: If Paul Anka was a Canadian, and is now American, I'm confused about the Categories into which he was placed (in the external links section of course). I can see him listed, for example as an American singer, but then I see also a category for the equivalent as Canadian singer, for example. (Catgory:singer is just something I made off the top of my head, but really, it's like every single category he's placed in as an American whatever also has him listed as a Canadian whatever. Is this correct Wiki policy? I just feel it's duplicating his acheivements and confusing. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 21:32, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citizenship question 

message: This article has virtually nothing of his earlier albums. (No album discography either.) Or did he do only singles? Hardly. 85.217.22.170 (talk) 15:09, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately only one of his albums from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s has a separate page :Three Great Guys probably because it was a joint album. Plus there is no indication whatsoever of peak chart positions in USA, Canada or UK. This is incredible considering his huge popularity as a singer. werldwayd (talk) 09:37, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Albums and chart positions

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message: How should we state in wiki bio what Paul Anka has said in his autobiography about his origins? Ongoing discussion found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Paul_Anka#Paul_Anka's_Lebanese_descent_in_his_autobiography_and_own_words_in_radio_interviewChris O' Hare (talk) 15:08, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:   "RfC on consensus on how to state Paul Anka's ancestral origins from his autobiography"  

message: I'm pinging  and  to help settle a content dispute with the other involved editor Chris O' Hare on the Paul Anka article, as both editors helped mediate a dispute on another article. We've discussed this dispute for the better part of a month, but it hasn't gotten anywhere.
The dispute is about Anka's ethnicity, and how best to present an apparent contradiction in the memoir source, as in his memoir Anka says his parents are both from "Lebanese Christian descent", and then on the following line he says, "In a small town in Syria called Bab Tuma -where my ancestors are from". I've tried to keep both and maintain NPOV and stick to what the memoir source says, but the other involved editor keeps reverting it. There are two sources that are being used by myself and Chris O' Hare. 
1st source: Anka's autobiography: 
2nd source: August 29, 1960 issue of Life magazine: 
3rd source: Radio-Canada news article, which is French version of the CBC (Canadian broadcasting corporation) https://www.rcinet.ca/arabs-canada/2015/03/23/paul-anka/ Chris casts doubt on the legitimacy of this source. because it contradicts his POV.
Both sources show that Anka has 2 ancestries: Lebanese and Syrian, but Chris O' Hare doesn't want his Syrian ancestry to be mentioned. In the memoir source My Way: An Autobiography, Anka recounted My parents were of Lebanese Christian descent and the name Anka itself had an almost folkloric history attached to it. It means noose in "Arabic" and it came about in this way: In a small town in Syria called Bab Tuma -where my ancestors are from- a man raped a young girl of thirteen.[1]; Chris wants to keep the first part which mentions Anka's Lebanese ancestry, but keeps removing the second part "In a small town in Syria called Bab Tuma -where my ancestors are from", because it goes against his pov. In our month-long discussion I mentioned to him that to stay NPOV, both parts have to be mentioned. However he changes this direct quote "In a small town in Syria called Bab Tuma -where my ancestors are from" into "his father came to America from Syria" to deny Anka of any Syrian ancestry. The mention of Syrian ancestry is backed up by the Life magazine source: The only place Paul was not an immediate international success was with his Syrian father, Andrew Anka, whose parents came from Damascus.[2]. The sentence that he uses is not supported by any source and since I mentioned to him it's original research, he has since flipped this argument in a dishonest fashion on me and is using it on the second part of Anka's sentence, which is a direct quotation from Anka. On another article about a Syrian/Lebanese person, he removed the mention of Syrian ancestry, even though he himself introduced a New York Times source which said that Halaby was "Lebanese-Syrian #[116]; which shows an agenda. Here's the diff #[117]. Also his edit of removing reference to his Syrian ancestry has been challenged by two other editors. #[118] and #[119], despite that he keeps reverting it.
Chris is using semantics and WP:OR to interpret what Anka meant by "In a small town in Syria called Bab Tuma -where my ancestors are from". I've tried adding direct quotations in the past to help prevent his accusation of me "twisting" what Anka is saying, but Chris keeps reverting it. George Al-Shami (talk) 19:21, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:Request for arbitration has a specific meaning here on Wikipedia, and this is not the place to make a request. Your request is also not suitable for arbitration since it's largely content dispute and in addition it's not intractable, it's largely been between two editors. If you want to request help to resolve content dispute, start with reading WP:Dispute resolution. After reading that, you should also be aware that there is no way to get a binding decision/ruling by some third party on a content dispute. The most you can achieve is WP:Community consensus. Seeking the involvement of more editors is part of that process but you should understand that they will just be commenting on how they see the dispute based on their understanding of our policies and guidelines and offering suggestions on how to resolve it, rather than issuing some sort of binding ruling or judgement. Nil Einne (talk) 05:23, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for arbitration on how to word Anka's ancestry in the article 

message: Is there a need to keep the albums list here when it's already on the discography page? Having it in two places is just inviting content mismatch between the two versions. Just an IMHO from someone passing through to fix a lint error. Gamapamani (talk) 12:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Albums list