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1 Priorities?
2 cleanup maybe?
3 2006 Senate race
4 Politics
5 Medical
6 Directing Debut
7 Birth name
8 YouTube links
9 How tall is Ben Affleck?
10 Origin
11 Scottish ancestry
12 Ben Affleck interview with Jon Stewart

[edit] Priorities?

It seems like far too much of the page of an actor is devoted to his political dalliances. I think we need both more material about his acting, and less about his politics. In fact, I'm going to work on that right now, I think. User:Dan Moore 15 Oct 2005

I think since he has expressed a possible ambition to run for Congress that his political activites are relevant.

I'm on the other side politically from him on a lot of issues-- but in fairness to a fair man, I think this article is not unbalanced in all it's political coverage.

71.208.207.189 22:06, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] cleanup maybe?

I definately think this article needs to be cleaned up, plus a few more facts added. In my oppinion, the whole article needs to be re-written, or at least majorly cleaned up. Anyone else think so? mysekurity 21:14, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Senate race

According to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601991_pf.html ben Affleck is considering a run for US Senate in Virginia in 2006, against Senator George Allen (R).

I took out the "star" reference in the final passage of his the political activism section. While George Allen is high-profile in his party, he's no "star," (i.e. McCain and Giuliani) and shouldn't be represented as one.

[edit] Politics

Say, do we really need such a monstrously huge section tracking every single thing he said during the 2000 presidential race? Maybe a removal of all those quotes is due for (and they probably need to be sourced, too) JackO'Lantern 03:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Medical

Should consider inserting some information on his stint in rehab for "alcoholism". 22:57 10 Sep 06

Should we also talk about rehab for his migraine? Sheesh, why not talk about when he was treated for a stubbed toe in Albuquerque? Why is the migraine reference there? 69.242.196.134 03:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)rafael 23:36 22 Sep 07

Agreed. The fact that no reference is cited is reason enough for deletion. Going ahead with it.Matt Gerber 07:25, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Directing Debut

Data needed on his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone. 22:57 10 Sep 06

[edit] Birth name

This noticed this edit summary: "No proof that he was not given his father's surname, and especially not hypenating the names in the incorrect order. Both Chris and Ben only have one last name: Affleck."

His California Birth Index record says he was born as Affleck-Boldt, not just Affleck. [1] That, and there is no "correct order".--Fallout boy 05:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Can someone remove the reference to there being an extended family by the name of Auchinleck because it make it sound as if Ben is related to the Army officer. Auchinleck is a very very common name in Scotland and not everyone who has it is related. Also, not everyone who has it comes from the town of the same name nor do they necessarily have any connection to that town (I should know, I'm from the town next door). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.51.85.195 (talk) 17:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube links

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 or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 03:59, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How tall is Ben Affleck?

How tall is he? Londo06 06:40, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origin

I just noticed his middle-name: Géza. It seems to me, that this name is archetypical Hungarian, yet the page is not categorized into the Hungarian-American category. Can anyone clarify on this point? Mulder1982 22:49, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

'Boldt' doesn't sound Scottish or Irish (currently the mentioned ancestries), so I suspect the page doesn't have the full picture--MartinUK 19:57, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish ancestry

The Affleck ancestor is most likely Robert Affleck (1863-?) of Oakland, California who was born in Scotland. He appears in the 1930 US Census. Géza must come from the Boldt side. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 23:14, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ben Affleck interview with Jon Stewart

Error in article. Gone Baby Gone is his directorial debut. The incorrect information in Wikipedia said it was his third film he directed. This must be where Jon Stewart got his misinformation when he interviewed Affleck and told him he had directed before, and Affleck said it was his directorial debut. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 21:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

You'd like to think the Daily Show went a little deeper than Wikipedia for its research. Alexsanderson83 22:51, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Usually Wikipedia isn't so glaringly wrong. It took me three days to fix the information since I saw the interview. It took me seeing the movie to go to his biography here. Excellent movie, I thought it was over at three points in the film. The plot is fatally flawed, there were much simpler ways to achieve the outcome the protagonists desired. The film is excellent. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 23:08, 26 October 2007 (UTC)