Talk:Alejandro Cao de Benós

message: If anyone doubts Alejandro's importance, I have here a picture  of Mr. Cao de Benos (Left) meets Mr. Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the DPR of Korea (Second ranking after Kim Jong Il) and Mr. Mun Jae Chol, Minister of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. These are people working closest with Kim Jong Il. The picture is taken in 2005. Alejandro is described by DPRK officials as not typical Korean but instead having the same kind of temper as our Leader Kim Jong Il.  --Bjornar 22:55, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If Kim Jong-il has the same temper as Alejandro, does that mean Kim ransacks people's hotel rooms and makes vicious threats too? 92.10.187.198 (talk) 14:07, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alejandro meets high-ranking officials of the DPRK 

message: I don't want to advocate on behalf of Cao in any way, so on behalf of the article and Wikipedia let me say that I think the personal ad is not encyclopedic material. There is plenty of secondary material available on Cao so that we don't have to resort to original research to fill out the article. Furtherm this is a very poor source. A posting like this personal ad could have been placed by anyone from anywhere. In this article the link is clearly intended as an innuendo of Cao's (supposed) homosexuality. If that's the case then let's either say so in the article based on wikipedia:reliable sources or leave it out. 
As for this article and the KFA, they're not so bad. Perhaps some editors are too close to the topic. Instead of all this edit warring I suggest that we all relax, go edit articles on North Korean cuisine, small towns in Spain, minor fascist movements of Uruguay or other topics that we might be interested in, yet dispassionate about, and let this topic rest a bit. There's plenty of time to get the history right on this subject.  Cheers, -Willmcw 09:15, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I still see no evidence that Cao placed the ad. -Willmcw 23:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal ad 

message: Cao de Benos has been documented in several YouTube videos and one would probably serve well as an external link. One located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH3HXV_DrGY seems good but there are others. Any ideas? Smoove K 11:20, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube videos 

message: This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it.  Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed.  I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy.  In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright.  If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed, feel free to ask me on my talk page and I'll review it personally.  Thanks. ---J.S (t|c) 07:54, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube links 

message: The Romanization of his adopted name doesn’t work. It is listed as Zo Sun-il. North Koreans don’t normally hyphenate – that is a recent South Korean trend.  Additionally, hangul lost the ability to replicate the Z sound long ago when Koreans (both north and south) opted to cast aside the ㅿ character. The name 조선일 can be Romanized in several fashions, but none of them would utilize a Z.
Indeed, the entire romanization seems off.  Now it's listed as "Sum-Yung Gi" or "Won Hung-Lo", which don't look anything like each other and are probably innuendo.  I don't speak Korean, but I can follow the transliteration table enough to see that Revised Romanization should look something like "Jo Seon Il".  I'm putting that in for now, and deleting the other Romanization scheme.--Watchreader (talk) 05:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanization Problem 

message: It is strange that all the references to a very extended criticism have been removed. Is this neutrality?--QIrus (talk) 13:06, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed that information about the Andrew Morse incident has been toned down (i.e. that Alejandro "searched" his room). I have edited it to show the thugish nature of the incident, which is available to see on the Friends of Kim documentary. Alejandro later admits on the same video to carrying out the attack. 92.10.187.198 (talk) 14:00, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, even if he admits it, it may not necessarily be true. It could equally well be an agreement between the North Koreans and him, that he would take the blame, to make the North Koreans look fine. That is just speculation, of course. --Mlewan (talk) 08:41, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why? 

message: His name suggests he's of Castilian background, not Catalan.
::Why Castilian and not Andalusian, Balear, Extremenian, Murcian, Valencian, Canarian, Galician, Basque, Aragonese, Asturian, Cantabre, Riojan, Navarre, or Madrilenian? There are 15 more autonomous communities in Spain apart from Castille and Catalonia. It is almost impossible to know the background of a Spaniard departing from his name, despite all the nationalist bullshit. And he is Catalan, born in Tarragona. When he talks he shows a strong Catalan accent.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.31.25.248 (talk) 12:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Castillian or Catalan?

message: I read on some conservative discussion group that Cao de Benós's whereabouts have been unaccounted for since mid-2007.  Question: is this rumor substantiated?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.233.151.37 (talk) 17:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cao de Benós has gone missing?

message: https://twitter.com/DPRK_CAODEBENOS/status/373514514894835712
following the story that Kim murdered his ex-girlfriend and the band  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.130.168.139 (talk) 21:09, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: His tweet was listed on the band's article. Geraldshields11 (talk) 13:38, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  his tweet claiming that musicians are still alive and will perform 

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message: Is he of North Korean nationality? He has the categories North Korean activists, North Korean communists, and Norht Korean diplomats applied to him. Those categories aren't just for people who are related to North Korea, those are for people of North Korean nationality. 104.232.119.107 (talk) 07:15, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories and citizenship?