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Talk:Dennis Levine

message: Balance Needed
If we are going to present an accurate portrayal of Mr. Levine, it should be balanced and reflect both his transgressions (currently the majority of his profile) and accomplishments since.  Clearly, and unlike most people, he has openly acknowledged his past mistakes, but he has led a productive and exemplary life for some 24 years, contributing to helping others and resuming his business activities. For example, I understand he lectures on ethics at universities to help young students avoid the mistakes he has made.
Indeed, I met Mr. Levine at the Seoul Digital Forum last year, where he was an outstanding contributor.  (See: Seoul Digital Forum-2008, Korea) His presentation was insightful and demonstrated an in depth knowledge of world economics, finance and technology, and although I don’t condone what he did back in the 1980’s, I understand that he has acknowledged his guilt, paid his debt to society and put his life back together, which is not reflected in the Wiki-portrayal.  
From an accuracy point of view, and since we are the same age, I know that Mr. Levine was born in 1952, not 1953, so I hope that other facts are verified accordingly. The current version s unfair to Wiki-readers and does not reflect the man I had the pleasure of meeting.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.68.228.221 (talk) 12:48, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion about recent edits 

message: I have deleted the following sentence at the end: "He also said that while working at Smith Barney's offices in Paris in the late 1970s, he noticed that insider trading and the use of offshore bank accounts was very common among European businessmen."
Any accusation of criminal conduct of any kind should be specific and confirmed with actual legal cases. This statement comes only from Mr. Levine's book and this is not a reliable source.Amj1967 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 15:47, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  European inside trading 
Talk:Sakurakai

message: Is this "Sakurai Kai," or should it be "Sakura Kai"? --Nobunaga24 07:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: .

message: I believe you have it reversed. 
It was the Kodo-ha or 'Imperial Way', not the Tosei-ha or 'Control Group', who were responsible for the coup attempts and whose 
"avowed aim was threat of a one-party state under army control and run on a war economcy for the army's benefit."
The Tosei-ha were the faction who 
"had no particular quarrel with capitalism provided the manufacturers did as the Army told them."
"The Japanese War Machine" Chartwell Books, 1976Befuddler 05:26, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kodo-ha not Tosei-ha
Talk:Dennis Martínez

message: Citation needed for the sentence about Puckett's glaucoma being "the result of Martinez's pitch"?  Puckett's own page makes no mention of any connection between the two, and the Minnesota Twins' medical director has stated they were not connected: https://www.startribune.com/the-morning-kirby-puckett-woke-up-with-blindness-25-years-ago-changed-everything/600039470/ ("Final Swings" section). 64.20.196.227 (talk) 16:57, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleveland Indians (1994-1996)
Talk:Dennis Moore (politician)

message: Haven't laughed so hard in a while. Bless whoever did this :D—Preceding unsigned comment added by Odysnes (talk • contribs) 01:21, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "He brings lupins to poor people" 
Talk:Jonathan W. Daniels

message: It looks like he served a longer time than Jerald terHorst, Ford's press secretary.  Is there any way we can check Daniels' exact tenure as Press Secretary?64.131.230.21 14:53, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:J. Leonard Reinsch

message: J. Leonard Reinsch was never Truman's press secretary. Truman Library - J. Leonard Reinsch interview (Sections 47-53).  If there are no objections, I will begin removing references of his placement as Press secretary in a few days.Ljmajer (talk) 21:17, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Never was Press Secretary for any president
Talk:Dina Meyer

message: Added Burn Notice (2008) to Filmography - correct me if that information is wrong.
I *think* she is set to appear in the next episode "Sins of Omission".
75.49.13.214 (talk) 23:08, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have re-removed this. It is mentioned nowhere in the article text that that is her best-known role, and it is a potentially dated or POV statement that requires a reference. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:56, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "best known for" 
Talk:Dennis Trillo

message: In lead or title roled: Gagambino (Philippine television series based from the graphic novel of Carlo J. Caparas and produced by GMA Network)"Gagambino" , pasok sa GMA-7! stars Dennis Trillo Dennis Trillo, gaganap na Gagambino in the title role. The series will be aired starting mid-2008.GMA-7 reveals new fantaserye but keeps identity of the lead actor secret On June 2, 2008, the teaser was officially shown at "Chika Minute" segment of 24 Oras, where Dennis Trillo was formally introduced in his lead role as Gagambino.www.gmanews.tv, Dennis Trillo plays lead role in Gagambino --Florentino floro (talk) 08:41, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Gagambino

message: The agent history from 2019 onward has been repeatedly added to or changed without references.  Likewise, the older agent history is not referenced.  This information needs verification. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 20:02, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I have undone recent edits, removing the agent history from 2019 onwards.  The remaining history, while not particularly suspect, needs references.  davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 20:51, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need reliable sources for agent history
Talk:Denny Morrison

message: This querey is not soley aimed at the person who wrote this article but I came across it anyway.  It claims he is of Norweigen descent but how exactly do we know what his family history is?  I can understand why it would be an issue but how can it be proven unless he wrote this article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.240.233.5 (talk) 09:39, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Denys Johnson-Davies

message: He was in no sense Canadian, except by birthplace. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:15, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Not Canadian
Talk:Denzil Douglas

message: The criticism section of this article is replete with original synthesis and it must be removed. For example; bringing a source that indicates an increase in the murder rate in particular years, but that makes no mention of the article's subject, and then making the connection IN the wikipedia article would be forbidden as original research/synthesis even if it was the most beatific and hagiographic description possible. As it is trying to cast the article's subject, who is still alive, in the negative, makes it all the more imperative that it be removed. No criticism or praise can be added without reliable and verifiable sourcing that does not require original synthesis on the part of wikipedia. -- Avi (talk) 04:23, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original synthesis and other violations 

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources.  Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, providing it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Diannaa (talk) 14:45, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 
Talk:Deon Richmond

message: Does anyone know how his first name is pronounced?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.128.35 (talk) 02:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: I tagged this article for a cleanup because it says he was born on April 2, 1978 but at the end of the article it states he was born two months later on June 2, 1978. Obviously, he couldn't have been born in both months.
His birth date is June 2, 1978
Do we have a verifiable source for his birthday?  IMDB shows his birthday as April 2.  The article referenced by the footnote has his birthday as April 2.  I see a comment in the page history that the person who changed the birth date to June 2 said she was his girlfriend, but I didn't see a published reference.  Rodmarcia (talk) 06:05, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth Month Discrepency
Talk:Deon Thomas

message: Does anyone have any evidence that Thomas chose not to play in the NBA, rather than not being kept on the Mavericks after being drafted and not being able to make subsequent seasons?  If we don't, these claims should be removed.  ThtrWrtr (talk) 22:34, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chose not to play in the NBA? 
Talk:Derek Asamoah

message: I can't find a decent source for this info.  Sources either say England or Ghana.  sʟυмɢυм • т • c  18:36, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of Birth 
Talk:Derek B

message: Let's not forget that Derek B performed at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute on June 11, 1988 at Wembley Stadium, London and was broadcast to 67 countries with an audience of 600 million  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.5.122.1 (talk) 11:30, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Derek Beackon

message: If he's an elected politician, his date and place of birth must be in the public domain. Valetude (talk) 01:05, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: He's no longer an elected politician. But why do you think this would put his date and place of birth in the public domain? The only possible source I can imagine would be the nomination papers and notices for the elections, which, as far as I'm aware, require name, address, party affiliation, nominators and supporters, agent, but not birth details. Emeraude (talk) 12:31, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's something people often want to know. Certainly in Scotland, they demand to know which side of the Tweed you were born. I just thought it would have been documented automatically. Certainly a Wiki profile looks strange without it. Valetude (talk) 17:43, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: (PS) There must be a minimum age to stand for Parliament. Valetude (talk) 00:55, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, yes, there is. It's 21. But that would only allow you to say that Beackon is over 21, or was over 21 when he stood for Parliament. Which he didn't, anyway. Emeraude (talk) 14:50, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth? 
Talk:Derek Bok

message: There's a quote - 'be careful when you bite into you hamburger' - that is widely attributed to Derek Bok.  Is it this Derek Bok?  And if so, what is it referring to?
139.229.7.34 12:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hamburgers? 

message: I am morally certain that Derek Curtis Bok is the son of Judge Curtis Bok, of Pennslvania, who was a prominent member of the bar in the Philadelphia area. Bill Jefferys 02:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genealogy =

message: He doesn't have an M.D. or a Ph.D. His J.D. does not entitle him to be called doctor. --Jim Abraham (talk) 20:54, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop calling him "Dr. Bok" 

message: * Who Is Happy and When? Decemeber 23, 2010 by Thomas Nagel in The New York Review of Books
99.181.158.60 (talk) 02:11, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Why is a biased review of a book notable?  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 02:27, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Include review 
Talk:Derek Conway

message: An IP editor has been repeatedly inserting the word "corrupt" into the opening sentence of this article.  The artcile indicates that a parliamentary investigation found that the extent of the payments to his son was excessive, and recommended sanctions. That of itself does not provide sufficient grounds for Wikipedia to declare him to be corrupt.  There is no mention of a formal allegation that Conway deliberately abused his position, rather than making an error of judgement. A term such as "corrupt" should only be used here if it is backed up - verbatim - in a credible source, which must be cited.  Without supporting evidence, not only does it violate Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons but also Wikipedia:original_research and Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view.  Please read these policies and if you still think it right and necessary to descibe Conway as corrupt please add citations which substantiate the description.  Thanks - Timberframe (talk) 16:19, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrupt? 

message: User:Ohconfucius removed this category tag, with the edit summary the subject may have been involved in a scandal, but was not himself a scandal.  I can't fault the logic of the argument on purely linguistic grounds, but after looking at what the category contains I think this is too literal an interpretation of the category's scope. The category contains many articles which relate to specific people who have been at the centre of scandals; its associated main article, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, has an entry for Conway's paying his sons. It seems perfectly reasonable and consistent, therefore, to categorise the Conway article in this way and so I've re-instated the cat tag. Hope this is an acceptable explanation.  -- Timberframe (talk) 11:27, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Political scandals in the United Kingdom 

message: I have changed tense on statement regarding membership of a Parliamentary committee after re-election in 2005 to reflect fact he is not now (2012) a Member of Parliament itself.Cloptonson (talk) 20:54, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Update
Talk:Derek Fowlds

message: If anyone gets to update the article there are some marriages missing. Need better sourced info but it might be a start.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.100.27.5 (talk) 15:43, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: August 2014

message: This article has been reclassified as a start due to its level of detail. Capitalistroadster (talk) 04:07, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Reclassified as a start
Talk:Derek Grant (drummer)

message: Grant had a brief 4/5 month stint as drummer in hardcore band Walls of Jericho, yet this isn't mentioned anywhere on this page or the Alkaline Trio page.....proof —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Roguestate (talk • contribs) 13:12, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walls Of Jericho 
Talk:Derek Humphry

message: Although it's just a short passage, the first paragraph under Early Years looks to have come from this bio, specifically the start of the second paragraph under Words and Actions. Autarch (talk) 18:49, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK - WP:COPYVIO says f the contributor is the copyright holder of the text, then even if it is published elsewhere under different terms, they have the right to post it here under CC-BY-SA and GFDL – the text may still be unsuitable for Wikipedia for another reason, but it is not a copyright violation. They may donate the material through the procedures described at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials and In both these cases, it is a good idea to make a note of the situation on the discussion page. I was probably over-cautious. Autarch (talk) 18:43, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyvio 

message: At the top of the article a flag existed suggesting there may be an issue with the "tone" of the article. However I observe no follow-up on ths Talk page. Without any specifics provided, I have removed that flag. But if there are specifics please do post here. SilverLiner (talk) 00:31, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone Issue? 
Talk:Derek Ibbotson

message: The article says that in 1958 Derek Ibbotson ran the mile in "exactly" 4:00:00 minutes.
This statement is absurd and ridiculous, because time is not neatly divided into
hundredths of a second, even if that is the precision to which it is measured by
customary race timing devices.
There is an infinity of instants of time within the 1/100 of a second that would cause
such a timing device to register 4:00:00, and the probability that Ibbotson ran
"exactly" 4:00:00 is exactly zero.  (Not to mention that the concept of the exact
duration for a runner to run a fixed distance is a fuzzy concept, not amenable
to exact times.)
O.K., this is a picayune point, perhaps one that only a mathematician would bother
mentioning, but it is still true.Daqu 15:42, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "exactly" 4 minutes???
Talk:Derek Lee (politician)

message: I removed the following text from the article because it was not clear from the source that it was saying what was implied in the wikipedia article.
"He once considered becoming a priest but he is no longer drawn to the Roman Catholic religion. "I have done some cursory reading. I'm not personally drawn to (Catholicism), but I have to say that about many religious faiths."
If he considered becoming a priest, I'm sure he did more than cursory reading in regards to Catholicism. The source says:
Mr. Lee, who once considered becoming a priest, says he is not particularly interested in the church's teachings, however. "I have done some cursory reading. I'm not personally drawn to it, but I have to say that about many religious faiths."
I believe that "the church's teachings" here refers to Scientology, not to Catholicism. and that "I'm not personally drawn to it" again refers to Scientology, not Catholicism.
DigitalC (talk) 17:29, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious Beliefs - one year later 
Talk:Derek Luke

message: Why are there no pictures of Derek Luke? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.40.191.82 (talk) 02:50, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: He acted as Sean Combs, Which is P-Diddy, but is known in the movie as Puffy/ Sean Combs, therefore it should say Sean"Puffy"Combs not Sean " Diddy " Combs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.75.3.251 (talk) 04:03, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed The Notorious Role 
Talk:Derek Malcolm

message: I am going to remove this as there is no mention at all in the main text of him being a historian. Unsupported claim.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.202.149 (talk) 21:44, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historian
Talk:Derek McGrath

message: This article seems to be the primary topic. It has far more incoming links than Derek McGrath (footballer) and the page view stats for last month are 2380 vs 39. Tassedethe (talk) 08:24, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary topic 

message: the linked site godspell.ca is a womens' fashion site, and does not seem to be related to Derek McGrath.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.168.100.116 (talk) 01:31, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link Accuracy
Talk:Derek Paravicini

message: At some point one has to ask what's really important about a person whose artistic work attracts crowds.  I learn almost nothing about his oeuvre, but everything about his disabilities (which aren't all that uncommon).  Why wouldn't this page start with ".. is a concert pianist specializing in pop, jazz and light classical music, despite his profound mental disabilities".
Talking about the disabilities is important in this case, but not if his work as a pianist isn't taken seriously.  I don't know much about him, so I'm not going to try to rewrite this page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidswelt (talk • contribs) 12:22, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focus?  A savant and disabled person, or a pianist despite disabilities? 

message: Removed the blatant advertising nonsense.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.74.253 (talk) 22:40, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Stop Press" 

message: A recent feature on BBC Radio 4's Today program states that he actually lives in Bristol. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8069000/8069572.stm Jon H (talk) 13:23, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Surrey?

message: This section is pure speculation, so it should be removed.Autarch (talk) 18:42, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Inside his brain
Talk:Derek Quinnell

message: I note Derek's education has been amended. As a resident of Ferryside, he was automatically sent to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, before moving unexpectedly to Coleshill. I know he was at QEGS - I had the great honour of playing as a second row beside him for our year. That's why, since I have an interest, I can't amend the article again!
Pete (talk) 09:42, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Derek Robinson (novelist)

message: Should it be noted that the events in Damn Good show take place between those of Piece of Cake and A Good Clean Fight?
213.115.59.220 (talk) 10:51, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: I think it would be useful to include all of the Luis Cabrillo books in a seperate group, as was done with the WWI and WWII flying books. So I'm going to do that.--Pooneil (talk) 22:35, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 23:44, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Series Sub-groups 
Talk:Derek Shulman

message: I don't think, it could be said, the Shulberry was a Ukulele. Not only that a Ukulele usualy has four strings, the Shulberry has no frets at all. Which is because it was used only to play one single open chord in which it was tuned (take a look). Thus it could perform a percussion effect when strumming the strings hard with one hand and immediately stopping them with the other. At least as long as the key did fit the open tuning. I don't think, a Ukulele without frets would be very useful, because of the short scale it would be nearly impossible to grab a propper chord. You only could play single note melodies which wouldn't be very satisfying because of the short sustain of the Ukulele's single notes on the one hand and the low tension of the strings, which makes it hard to compensate the short sustain with a right hand's tremolo like the one used on a mandolin. Therefore the Shulberry, I think, is a percussioninstrument in the shape of a Ukulele. As a Ukulele it would be like a bike beeing constructed without wheels. [I'm no native english speaker - thank You for Your patience!.] --141.15.28.32 (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shulberry 

message: Can anybody confirm that the infobox pic of the Yale concert does indeed date from 2006? He would have been almost 60 then, and he doesn't look it, though it's possible. --Ef80 (talk) 16:28, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox pic
Talk:Derek Simpson (trade unionist)

message: It is incorrect to call Unite the "biggest" "private sector" union. Unite is not a private-sector union, but one which organizes most greatly within private industry and this is where most of its membership are based. However, Unite has a large NHS contingent including most NHS biomedical and pathology staff, plus Health Visitors.
Tim Sandle  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.172.126 (talk) 11:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Simpson was a member of the CPGB, and remained so until the party wound up in 1991. He was never a member of the CPB. Therefore, I have removed the category "Communist Party of Britain" members" from this article. Troublemaker1949 (talk) 12:48, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Communist Party membership