Talk:Tomasz Schafernaker

message: I notice he's been placed in the "British People of Polish Descent" category, surely incorrect if he was born in Poland??GiollaUidir (talk) 19:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Category

message: I moved both the magazine cover and the "bloopers" to a section called "Trivia".  I'm not super happy with that, but I think it is better.  To explain my thinking here.
This man has a career that is, as far as I can tell, quite successful and something he is surely proud of.  He runs a risk now of the media turning one gaffe into an obsessive focus on other gaffes, such that things that he does are reported on widely, even if the same thing, done by another anchor, would be ignored as not interesting.  I don't think we have to follow the sources blindly down that path - although if it does develop that his entire career is based around gaffes (tv weather forecasters often have fun personas, so that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, I guess) then of course we should report on it thoughtfully.
But for now, a couple of random reports seem too little to make this stuff be 1/3 of his biography.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 18:03, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it's better, but I don't like "Trivia" as a section header. Perhaps "Incidents" or something similar would be an improvement. Alzarian16 (talk) 18:05, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

text: Agree with that too, to an extent. I'm from the UK too, and the most recent incident is the only thing I'd really heard of him for. Typing "Tomasz Schafernaker" into Google offers four suggestions related to these seemingly trivial events, so removing them altogether probably isn't the best idea. How much to cover and how to present them are another matter. Alzarian16 (talk) 18:24, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Google also covers "Batboy" from the Weekly World News -  yet somehow I doubt that it meets notability requirements for WP <g>.   BLPs really, really need substantial excision of such stuff.   Major excision of such trivia. Collect (talk) 12:35, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, lets take it out, it was only a fleeting issue already long forgotten. The whole trivia section or leave the bare chested comment, it is quite unusual for weathermen to appear on the front of adult magazines. Off2riorob (talk) 12:45, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, this has now been removed "per talk page" (a month after the discussion finished!). I'm a little concerned at the idea that we're now at the stage of removing verified, neutrally-written information from BLPs purely because it could be taken as negative. We should go where the coverage goes, and the majority of the coverage for this guy relates to these three incidents. In fact, if you remove the sources relating to the "trivia", he would fail WP:BIO because only one is independent, and it doesn't provide significant coverage. By removing the information on anything negative, we're creating a biography that's biased in his favour - which, although obviously better than one biased against him, is still biased. A few sourced sentences about the incidents in the context of his career aren't going to make the article worse IMHO. But apparently I'm in a minority of one in thinking that, so I guess you three have consensus. But I wonder how long it'll be before someone who hasn't read this adds the material back in... Alzarian16 (talk) 17:41, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A new approach 

message: Although the primary source is ok for his birthday, are we really OK with facebook (or twitter) sources for BLPs? This article seems a little thin on sources about the man, so I tagged. Widefox; talk 11:40, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: Is he married? (Coachtripfan (talk) 18:30, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Is he straight? David1776 (talk) 19:52, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Does he dance with the Devil by the pale moonlight?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.10.217.121 (talk) 23:18, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal Life 

message: He wasn't hungover - he was still under the influence.92.12.137.113 (talk) 17:54, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay alcoholic 

message: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2480102/ describes him as "an actor, known for Years and Years (2019), The Unexplained Files (2013) and UFO Europe: The Untold Stories (2012)". Shouldn't the article say something about this? 2A00:23C8:7B09:FA01:3D47:4725:F187:E6F (talk) 15:42, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acting career?