Talk:Philip Anschutz

message: The way the article is written as a piece of propaganda.  The angry tone is remarkable to the point of being slanderous. Hawkseye 22:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fundamentalist Christian 

message: Why is the article so stiff and laudatory? This is a guy who Fortune Magazine (yeah, FORTUNE) called "the greediest executive" on the planet! His phony "Media Research Council" were responsible for over half of the complaints the FCC received last year for "indecency" on television. I mean, come on...the guy is a right-wing apocalyptic evangelical who uses his inherited businesses to further his hateful, brainless variety of Christianity. Not to mention his hatred of reason and science which he furthers by funding the completely bogus creationist "Discovery Institute". His fundamentalism has been widely reported on in the press so why is it not at least documented in the article here? Inoculatedcities 16:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the 7th edition of "Profit Without Honor" (Rosoff and Pontell), Anschutz made 1.5 billion dumping Qwest stock (page 285). Historian932 (talk) 15:55, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The following paragraph below reads as if it were written by someone on a crusade against Anschutz and uses questionable sources to do so. I have removed that paragraph as per WP BLP policy and WP's expectation to use only "high-quality sources" for BLPs. WP:BLP. Furthermore, the paragraph uses negatively-loaded, value-laden language (e.g."corporate front groups" and "climate change denial" which should be tempered with a more encyclopedic, NPOV approach that sticks to the facts. WP:SUPER, WP: LABEL. It is also poorly-sourced using (1) an article written by an opinion writer who uses attack language including labeling Anschutz a "right wing extremist" WP:SOURCES and (2) directly copy-and-pasting copy from PR Watch, which violates two WP editing standards: (i) "As a general rule, do not copy text from other sources." and (ii) the use of a questionable source WP:NOTRELIABLE.
He is a frequent donor to think tanks and corporate front groups that promote climate change denial, such as the Discovery Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Heritage Foundation, the Pacific Research Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, the Mercatus Center, America's Future Foundation, the Claremont Institute, DonorsTrust, the National Chamber Foundation and The Philanthropy Foundation.[59][60].Writethisway (talk) 21:27, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism?

message: this needs to be specified (with sources) or deleted. What fundamentalism? What themes? Are those themes exclusively fundamentalist? Very vague, OR and POV as it stands now. Northfox 12:03, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  fundamentalist-themed films ?

message: Anschutz Entertainment recently purchased a significant (but not majority) share of Oscar De La Hoya's "Golden Boy Promotions.
23:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golden Boy Promotions 

message: if the foundation for a better life is totally funded by Anshutz, and the page is mostly cites from their site, and it fits right in with all his other funding operations, I think we should merge it into this. 67.204.145.88 (talk) 20:50, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No to merger, they're not selling anything nore is the article The Foundation for a Better Life selling anything. It's a non profit.--IncidentFlux [ TalkBack | Contributions ] 16:54, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

message: Saw Philip Anschutz's profile on facesofphilanthropy.com, noticed his wiki page lacked a philanthropy section, so I added one. Sir. Somerset (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Philanthropy

message: "The payment was roughly equal to his profit from the practice of IPO "spinning"."
C'mon.  The contrast is interesting, and entertaining.  But let's not go there. GcT (talk) 11:45, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's don't editorialize.  Facts will do. 

message: Added template for a better lead that summarizes the key facts in a neutral fashion. Not enough context and history in the current version. Maxwell Gyllen (talk) 09:03, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Inadequate lead

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The lede for this BLP is poorly-sourced. For example, "Anschutz has been described as a Christian conservative, who has donated to openly antigay, anti-transgender, and anti-abortion causes" is asserted without references. When dealing with a BLP, precision is required, which means, we, as editors, must be very firm about the use of high-quality sources" Writethisway (talk) 19:10, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , the lead should summarise the rest of the article, and should not itself contain any citations. Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section. Edwardx (talk) 21:43, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: "The lead must conform to verifiability, biographies of living persons, and other policies. The verifiability policy advises that material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and direct quotations, should be supported by an inline citation. Any statements about living persons that are challenged or likely to be challenged must have an inline citation every time they are mentioned, including within the lead." MOS:LEADCITE Writethisway (talk) 22:55, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

text:  Just because a topic is touched upon later in the article, doesn't mean it is noteworthy enough to include in the lede. The lede should establish notability which is achieved through a rigorous evaluation of multiple, high-quality sources supporting that notability. When material is both verifiable and noteworthy, it will have appeared in more reliable sources.WP:BLPR. The sentence in the lede's first paragraph: "Anschutz has been described as a Christian conservative, who has donated to openly antigay, anti-transgender, and anti-abortion causes." although true, seems to give undue weight to the topic in the lede, and should also use more reliable sources than just the one papermag.com piece cited later in the article where the same statement is found.Writethisway (talk) 15:48, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poorly-sourced lede 

message: The following sentence violates WP style guidelines pertaining to "contentious labels" (e.g. pseudo-) WP:LABEL 
"Anschutz funds groups that advocate pseudoscientific concepts and viewpoints."Writethisway (talk) 22:38, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The "political and social activism" section needs a major update as much of the information in it is 10 or more years old. There is also some WP:OR in it, in this sentence, "He is also a major donor to the American Enterprise Institute, the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, conservative think tanks.United States. Department of the Treasury. Internal Revenue Service. “Form 990-PF, the Anschutz Foundation,” Department of the Treasury, Dec. 2010.United States. Department of the Treasury. Internal Revenue Service. “Form 990-PF, the Anschutz Foundation,” Department of the Treasury, Dec. 2011.United States. Department of the Treasury. Internal Revenue Service. “Form 990-PF, the Anschutz Foundation,” Department of the Treasury, Dec. 2012. I clicked through on one of those tax returns (from 12 years ago) and had to spend a lot of time even finding the amounts contributed to the three named organizations and to one of them, the donation size was $25,000 that year. That doesn't seem major. However, what is or isn't considered a major or notable contribution should be determined by WP:RS not by linking to tax returns. Novellasyes (talk) 13:31, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this comment. I recommend the sentence specify the Foundation makes the grants, not Anschutz himself. Wording should be 'the Anschutz Foundation makes grants to conservative think tanks, including [show names]'. Delete "major" unless RS can support it. DonFB (talk) 20:23, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  I made that change. Also, thanks for making the conceptual clarification between what Anschutz gives as an individual (like to political parties and candidates) versus what is given through his foundation. Great distinction. Deserves two separate paragraphs and I will work on that also. Novellasyes (talk) 15:31, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political and Religious activisim 

message: See the Summer 2005 ARTnews magazine, ARTnews (archive.org), cited from Internet archive server, List The world's top 200 collectors. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 06:42, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  art collector