Talk:Rick Emerson

message: I removed the following bolded text from the Personal History section:
:He was promoted to a position broadcasting during the afternoon drive in Salt Lake City where he co-hosted a show with Clyde Lewis. He became Program Director of KCNR in Salt Lake and helped create one of the most popular radio stations in Utah. In the process, he was arrested twice, banned from the State Capitol for life, married another man, and was the voice of the "little pig" in Green Jelly's famous song Three Little Pigs. A change in the station's format in 1997 left Emerson without a microphone.
It is unsourced, and it appears libelous. I think someone should find a source for this information before it gets put back in. — Äþelwulf <Small>See my contributions.</Small> 00:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Archived copies of Rick's website mention being being banned from the Utah state capitol --katt 09:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The bolded text is from his own website but I think it's meant to be satirical.  One would think he would have made mention of the supposed ban when he talked about his recent trip to Utah.RWgirl 15:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

text: In point of fact, he did marry another man, as a combined political statement and publicity stunt, while at KCNR in Salt Lake City. If I could find a source, I would certainly provide it. Let us hope I can. Mordant Kitten (talk) 19:39, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suspected libel 

message: I added the Suburban Perspective with Scotty J to the list of features.  Also, should only current features be included?  How Chicks Think has (thankfully) not returned to v5.0.RWgirl 23:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition 

message: I feel like this entry should be broken into two entries.  One for the Rick Emerson Show and the other for Rick himself.  This would allow the duplicate entries regarding the show to be removed from Tim Riley's entry, plus the man should be separated from show. TEG 15:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Definately.RWgirl 15:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur. --Katt 21:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Please help me expand the new page. Rick Emerson Show TEG 19:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seperation 

message: I want to raise a concern for the consideration of privacy with specific respect to a recent addition to the Personal History section that included his wife by her first name, profession and the general region of the city that they live in. I see the relevance of mentioning his marriage - especially since it involved a bit of eloping and a return the next week to surprise the audience. I do believe, however, that inclusion of his wife's name, profession and the region of the city that they live in brushes up against issues raised in the Wikipedia standards for Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Privacy_of_contact_information and Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Privacy_of_names.
While his wife's name, profession and their general region of residence has been mentioned on the air, it seems like erring on the side of caution for a living person should be favored. Especially since there is little significance to adding specific identifying details, though it is agreed that these bits of information have been mentioned on the air a few times.
I have edited the line to read with less personal specifics, but to mention the greater context of them eloping over a weekend to return and surprise the audience the following week. It seems this bit of information might be of more interest to readers than specifics of his wife's name and profession.  I could possibly see the relevance of mentioning the region of the city they live in, since ridiculing it is a frequent part of the show, but I'm unsure if this is relevant for an encyclopedic document. Perhaps instead of mentioning it specifically, we should simply say that comments are often made regarding the supposed crime level and lowest-common-denominator makeup of the part of the city Rick resides in?
At any rate, I have edited this information for the current time and would welcome other thoughts and discussions about it. Perhaps others feel differently about this. Cordell (talk) 05:26, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather than just re-introducing the stricken data mentioned above, how about discussing it first? While the information you wish to include may be "public knowledge" in as much as it has infrequently been mentioned on his show, it does not seem relevant to an encyclopedic article since it has little or no relation to the subject of the article and in light of that, certainly may not be prudent to include in the biography of a living person. What is the reasoning for the subject's wife's name, her profession, their pet, their pet's name, the region of the city they live in and the style of home dwelling they occupy being included at the cost of potential privacy? Cordell (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Unless you can corroborate that Rick Emerson is not his name, what has been said on the show must be taken as factTEG (talk) 23:59, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Actually, the burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material, not the one who removes it. Wikipedia guidelines also warn against the use of self-sourced material (i.e. What Rick Says), especially when there is reason to doubt its authenticity - see WP:SELFPUB #4.  Not only is the quoted source not an official transcript, but it doesn't even state that Richard Karl Emerson is his real name.  Considering Rick is known to make many statements that Rick has said on-air are not true - a number of items have since been removed from this article, as well as his prior use of a stage name - there is plenty of reason to doubt that his real name is Rick Emerson.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.171.129.224 (talk) 21:27, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Privacy of Individuals in Biographies of Living Persons 

message: As not to upset the army of Rick, I wanted to point out that the link for Remote Control, take you to some kind of link/search page. I don't think people are looking for a Ceiling Fan remote.
 Should be taken out right?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.192.56.235 (talk) 22:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed and done. How unfortunate. Cordell (talk) 03:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad Links 

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replies: text: Please DO NOT DELETE this image. The owner of this image has contacted me for assistance in properly classifying this image for use on Wikipedia and I have forwarded them the appropriate license information and permission request. Cordell (talk) 03:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:BTJ.jpg

message: here. -Pete (talk) 23:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good writeup of show 

message: If there are no complaints, I plan to restructure this article into a more typical Early Life, Career, Projects, Personal Life format. Cordell (talk) 18:22, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good to me. I will seek out the Oregonian article (the Multnomah Cty Library web site allows cardholders to view Oregonian back to 1988 or so) see WP:ORE/RD  -Pete (talk) 18:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructuring of Article 

message: The recently added paragraph in this section is almost certainly someones attempt at humor but for the sake of conversation I'll add a dispute instead of simply rollbacking it. 
Unless you can come up with citations that back up the claims made here, the paragraph is going away.
Sionus [talk] 22:57, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no need to keep the last paragraph from the Early Life section.  It *IS* someone's attempt at humor, much in the same way they keep changing Sarah X. Dylan's name.  I'm going to remove the entry, and I will attempt to be a little more vigilant in trying to correct these issues. TEG (talk) 21:38, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life Dispute 

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