Talk:Rick Nielsen

message: Hadn't Nielsen once claimed in an interview he gave to a guitar magazine that hauling his five-neck guitar's weight on his shoulders eventually deprived him of a couple of inches of height?Elp gr 23:23, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Five-neck guitar side-effects?

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: I reverted a removal of a the citation needed tag on the subject's birthdate, since the citation given in the edit summary was to a message board. Is this information documented anywhere in a reliable source? VQuakr (talk) 04:38, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Please review WP:SELFPUBLISH for a message board is not an appropriate source for disputed information. Per our policy on biographies of living persons, I'm removing the birthdate info for the time being. You may wish to review WP:NLT and WP:COI as well. VQuakr (talk) 06:47, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a good idea to remove the disputed, uncited birthdate, and I have removed an additional one in the infobox.  Thanks to the people close to Rick Nielsen who have brought this to WP's attention and tried to correct this issue. The problem is that at the moment there does not appear to be what we call a reliable source for either date, so it is best if we remove it altogether.  If Mr. Nielsen would like the correct date inserted, then it is probably best if a biography of him is written with the date included and hosted on an official site such as cheaptricks.com.  Unfortunately, for our purposes a post on a discussion forum is not sufficient per our rules about biographies of living people, because it is not clear what authority posters have. --Slp1 (talk) 14:58, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a bit of a mystery actually.  This Chicago Tribune article, published on  April 27, 1997 says he was 50, which fits in with the earlier 1946 date, not the later one. So does this Who's Who  --Slp1 (talk) 15:22, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the more you look, the more reliable sources there are for the 1946 date.. --Slp1 (talk) 15:29, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, this seems very strange. Maybe our friends at Cheaptrick can post here and shed some light on the subject. I suggest giving waiting a week or so for further developments, then adding back in the original birthdate (this time with a couple of good sources). Thoughts? VQuakr (talk) 04:23, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There was no word back in a lot more than a week, so I went ahead and added the sourced birthdate back in. VQuakr (talk) 00:14, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthdate 

message: Nielsen is the principle owner of The Stockholm Inn in Rockford Il, and these is an interesting story about how he and some other investors saved the local landmark from bankruptcy. Before I go to the trouble of writing it and gathering the citations, I would like to seek the consensus on whether it is appropriate to add to the article Cosand (talk) 03:09, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Stockholm Inn 

message: No offense, but there's gotta be more than this about Rick Nielsen. PurpleChez (talk) 02:21, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree this is a very incomplete article..it`s says virtually nothing about him after the formation of Cheap Trick. Lonepilgrim007 (talk) 05:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

text: True; he's been married for around 40 years and at least two of his children are musicians as well, including his son Dax, who has been playing drums for Cheap Trick since Bun E. Carlos' falling out with the band (mostly Robin Zander) in 2010. Someone with reliable info really needs to contribute here...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.22.38.23 (talk) 21:56, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: more?

message: Nielsen's parents are ethnic Danes.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:46:1A05:21C6:1F4:E0CF:4C77:A2C6 (talk) 12:35, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parents