Talk:Veronica Belmont

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
	This article is supported by the Arts and Entertainment work group.

An appropriate infobox may need to be added to this article, or the current infobox may need to be updated. Please refer to the list of biography infoboxes for further information.

This article was nominated for deletion on 2006-05-19. The result of the discussion was keep.

This article is part of WikiProject Connecticut, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Connecticut, United States on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 06:31, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Please do not edit the article with certain sections "not to be deleted." Please use the Sandbox if you must edit like this.

The "not to be deleted" line was for a request to admins and CVU members to not revert this page as I was in the middle of updating it with a better organized format and content. The Sandbox is to be used by novice users who want to experiment with editing on Wiki. As of now the "not to be deleted" request has been taken down as I've finished my update on this page. --LifeStar 18:36, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

"admins and CVU members"? There's more to how we "keep Wikipedia beautiful" (if you will) than the actions of administrators and members of the CVU. fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 06:31, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Was/Is 2 Question to Wikipedians 3 Photo Of Veronica Belmont 4 What's with the BS tag for deletion? 5 MAD magazine 6 Reference to personal relationship 7 Starlet is used in a derogatory way

[edit] Was/Is

I changed "Veronica Belmont was a producer and associate editor for CNET Networks, Inc." to "Veronica Belmont is a former producer and associate editor for CNET Networks, Inc." She's not dead. Jordinho 06:12, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question to Wikipedians

Just out of curiosity, why such an unimportant and relatively anonymous person has a detailed wikipedia entry ?

I believe it is because the people who are most familiar with her work are involved in the technology community and are interested in technology in general. As a result, they are more likely to be familiar with wikipedia. Yavoh 18:18, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Apparently she's not so anonymous anymore. She's the most popular Veronica on Google. --Kamasutra (talk) 07:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photo Of Veronica Belmont

I found a nice photo of Belmont on Flickr--it's the one Mahalo uses. Could it be used on her Wikipedia bio too? Link: http://flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/543480672/

--70.239.165.120 00:11, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind. A much better one is being used. :)

--70.239.165.120 19:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What's with the BS tag for deletion?

I am SO NOT sifting through six hundred episodes of Buzz Out Loud to find episode numbers for this info. Also, this WAS discussed before, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Veronica_Belmont, and was kept. So this page is not going to be deleted now, since the whole Jason Howell debate began. Read your own WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS page. Cleanup, perhaps. Deletion, no.

Anderson Cooper's personal log states:

"It's official. @mahalodaily is proof that @Veronica could easily replace Veronica De La Cruz as the face of CNN.com" (see dated entry 10:58 PM November 07, 2007)

His quote is purely personal opinion, but should be taken with respect as a quote from an Independent source of very high stature.

I can say with certainty that is not Anderson Cooper. Please verify your facts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.231.21 (talk) 03:41, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I think the problem is that this page was created by fans who listened to all her podcasts and just typed down what she said about herself. The problem seems to be that those same fans don't want to go back and re-listen to all the podcasts to get reliable sources. We need to find good mainstream articles written about her to edit the article properly. Species5618 (talk) 23:13, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MAD magazine

Is it really necessary to talk about how she enjoyed Mad as a child? Killamator (talk) 23:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reference to personal relationship

I removed reference to her personal relationship as per Wikipedia:Biography of Living Persons policy [[1]] as it was unsourced and not relevant to the biography.

WS:BLP states:

Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material — whether negative, positive, or just questionable — about living persons should be removed immediately and without discussion from Wikipedia articles,[2] talk pages, user pages, and project space.

Editors should avoid repeating gossip. Ask yourself whether the source is reliable; whether the material is being presented as true; and whether, even if true, it is relevant to an encyclopedia article about the subject. 82.44.221.140 (talk) 17:12, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Starlet is used in a derogatory way

In the "Appearances" section, the article says "...alongside other web starlets like Amanda Congdon." Does anyone else find this to be a distasteful put-down? It reminds me of the days when female CEOs, like Fiorina or Whitman, would be called 'fiesty' in the business press.

And I agree about the MAD Magazine covers. WTF?

208.105.19.114 (talk) 04:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)