Talk:Jian Ghomeshi
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[edit] Wrestling
Regarding the following bit:
This has led to the suggestion that the CBC and World Wrestling Entertainment will collaborate to stage a no holds barred, free for all cage fight between Ghomeshi, Stromboulopoulous, Ben Mulroney and Alexandre Trudeau.
While this is funny as hell, could you please quote a specific source for it before adding it to the article? Bearcat 17:41, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Jian, what's inaccurate here?
On his show today, interviewing Cory Doctorow, Ghomeshi said that when he looks himself up on Wikipedia he is amazed by the inaccuracies. Doctorow told him to edit the inaccuracies himself, to which Ghomeshi replied "you can do that?" Doctorow compared it to eating bacon for breakfast. --Mathew5000 17:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
He first came to large (not national, I guess) attention as a teenager with a hit single by what I understand was his one-man band, "Tall New Buildings". Someone who knows more should correct/elaborate.
I've noticed that famous peoples' friends' are understandably reticent about writing about them on the web. They could provide lots of interesting and correct information, but do not. I know about Jian via my ex-wife, who knew/knows him very, very well, and has since before the Moxy era. But she, and people like her, aren't likely to add any information to WikiPedia and the like because it's hard to know what is properly public and what is private. It's easier to avoid the issue entirely, even if you're a webhead who likes completeness, like me. I have a friend I've known many years who is a moderately big Hollywood producer. I always am tempted to correct and add to her IMDB entry, but refrain.
I wonder what the reasoning is that people themselves are reluctant to edit their own WikiPedia entries and the like? A sense of propriety, perhaps, feeling that paying much attention to such things is narcissistic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.103.107.190 (talk) 21:56, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
I wonder what the reasoning is that people themselves are reluctant to edit their own WikiPedia entries and the like? A sense of propriety, perhaps, feeling that paying much attention to such things is narcissistic.
And yet he's self-absorbed enough to do self-indulgent radio stories about his own Wikipedia page. Interesting.
