Talk:Jon Snow (journalist)

message: John Snow got married recently.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/7856427/Jon-Snow-married-in-Mustique.html
Please update accordingly.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.45.224 (talk) 12:22, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Married

message: The reasons I've removed this paragraph are:
# I follow the news pretty closely in the UK where Jon Snow works, and have not noticed any controversy about Jon Snow lately.
# If you search Google News with the expressions '"Jon Snow" diplomat', '"Jon Snow" controversy', '"Jon Snow" Israel' only one news story world-wide, the one cited, refers to this so-called "controversy" - if it was a real notable "controversy" you would expect it to have stirred up multiple independent stories worldwide, rather than just one in Israel. (The opinion article  seems obliquely critical of Jon Snow in a single paragraph, but not related to the "Rockets, pretty pathetic things - nobody gets injured" question.)
# In the cited article, Jon Snow is only mentioned in the 6th of 14 paragraphs, small beer in the total article - hardly the stuff of a notable "controversy".
# The cited article does not actually assert this is a "controversy", so this assertion appears unsourced.
# Julie Burchill, who wrote the cited article, is not reknowned as a heavyweight journalist, more on the gossipy side ("She is also completing a sequel to Sugar Rush, her lesbian teen novel" ); and she has the tendancy to see anti-Semitism rather more readily than most journalists (quote: "The Guardian, the newspaper I left some years ago in protest at what I saw as its vile anti-Semitism" ).
From all this I conclude this is not a notable controversy about Jon Snow, certainly in the UK, and so it should not be in the article. To sustain it's position in the article as a notable controvesy (Wikipedia:Verifiability) it should be easy to find at least 3 independent news stories raising it as a controversy. Also note the higher standard of Verifiability required by Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons: "Unsourced or poorly sourced negative material about living persons should be removed immediately ... without discussion; this is also listed as an exception to the three-revert rule". Rwendland 23:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You have made a very solid argument, and the material should not be reinstated until and unless anyone answers the points and it is agreed on the talk page. Tyrenius 17:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Can't think why i hadn't thought to express this before now, but i agree entirely withTyrenius. -W guice 01:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jon Snow sparked controversy and speculation of an anti-Israel agenda 

message: I've reached my three-revert limit on this bullshit "Israel controversy" insertion. The 5 very strong points made above have not been even remotely satisfactorily answered by the only editor who wants the addition left in. I wonder what everyone else thinks on this matter. -- W guice 14:43, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. If it's inserted again by the same editor, I will ask for him to be blocked. Tyrenius 21:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The 3-revert rule does not apply to this sort of libellous nonsense in any case!Phase4 21:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  three reverts 

message: In the "Journalist" section there is a paragraph about a mistaken interview with Patrick Haseldine that was never broadcast, as the mistake was realised before broadcast. Anyone know why this is notable enough to mention in the article? Rwendland 14:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed now. Rwendland 20:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patrick Haseldine non-broadcast interview 

message: In the section about the student protest at the University of Liverpool, there was mention of throwing paint over the statue of Queen Victoria in Scarborough. It was unsourced, and I can't find any mention of this on Google (other than word-for-word copies of the same sentence on other sites - who copied who?) so I've removed it. And I've sourced the student protest itself from the university's own alumni pages.
(iainjones1980 - forgot to log in beforehand as usual)
91.109.3.133 (talk) 15:58, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early life - incident at Scarborough 

message: On Channel 4 this evening, when interviewing Jimmy Wales, Jon Snow said this article is wrong, e.g. his liking of trees. Please could someone kindly fix.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.20.227.50 (talk) 19:56, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Did he say he hates trees? --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 22:48, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No, just conifers; Snow is a patron of :Trees for Cities. Ironically it seems it was a tree-loving editor that mistakenly remove the Citation needed template from the incorrect "conifer collector" claim. Rwendland (talk) 23:06, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd just like to say that's the most wonderfully surreal wiki discussion I've ever come across. "Does he hate trees?", "No, just conifers." Whether that's true or otherwise is beside the point; thank you for brightening my day! 141.0.46.202 (talk) 09:47, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jon Snow says his page is wrong 

message: One or more anonymous editors are repeatedly adding references in the Occupation section of the Infobox to the fictional Game of Thrones character  Jon Snow. This character bears no relation to the journalist Jon Snow, apart from sharing his name. Any information about the Game of Thrones character should go on  his page.Cimbalom (talk) 14:10, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Cimbalom, like I stated at that character's talk page, I think what you are facing is WP:Primary topic. Flyer22 (talk) 20:55, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is not about the Game of Thrones character 

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message: I've noticed that some information regarding the new baby has been deleted, could this be explained?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by LordofGlamorgan (talk • contribs) 18:21, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , if you mean my edit, then the central information (month of birth and parents) is still present in the article. I also left in that the baby was born by surrogacy, but not the further details which I thought were an unnecessary invasion of the article subject's privacy.  I saw no reason to include the full date of birth of a non-notable child.  Best, Wham2001 (talk) 19:03, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jon Snow's new babby 

message: Can 'socialist' be substantiated in this instance. It is not referenced in the sources. Many socialists campaigned against aparteid. But so too did others. Can this particular protest be considered socialist? JDE 92.10.175.225 (talk) 08:04, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  anti-aparteid socialist student protests