Talk:Paul Young

Quality

Article reads like a fluff magazine piece. Has little of the necessary tone or dignity of that of an encyclopedia entry.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.21.131 (talk) 23:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

And, offtopic, but does anyone else think the wikibiography graphic looks like Hitler without the moustache?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.21.131 (talk) 23:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Paulyoungbest.jpg

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Untitled

"Los Pacaminos" is not "Paul Young", is it? So the picture in the middle seem to be wrong! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.161.97.13 (talk) 15:07, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

From http://www.paul-young.com/main.htm: "Early 1999 saw Paul getting together again with his friends in “Los Pacaminos”. They recorded a four track CD-ep that found it’s way into London’s only Country music station and their self-penned song “Shadows On The Rise” was played on heavy rotation for three months. Paul, Obviously, the next step was an album." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.15.241 (talk) 15:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Discography

This article needs a discography section. --mwalimu59 (talk) 15:50, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

I agree. What musician doesn't have a discography section. otisjimmy1 (talk) 11:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Picture

Oh come on, somebody must have a better picture than that - one where he doesn't look as if he's taking a dump... Dom Kaos (talk) 13:15, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Links

What fool put the link to the "Rock Swings" album to an album of a similar title by Paul Anka??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imarcopolo (talk • contribs) 02:02, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Dead external links to Allmusic website – December 2010

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Possible copyright problem

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Requested move 15 June 2015

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Jenks24 (talk) 20:18, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

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• Paul Young → Paul Young (solo singer)
• Paul Young (disambiguation) → Paul Young

– addition of parenthetical qualifier will enable subject's proper placement among 14 others named "Paul Young" at the Paul Young (disambiguation) page. The qualifier "(solo singer)" would disambiguate him (born 1956) from a nine-years-older (1947–2000) rock vocalist, Paul Young (Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics singer). Most disambiguation pages do not have a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, and there is no such need here. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 11:39, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose. This page was viewed much more often than any other topic, and more than the others combined, as called for at WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. See pageviews for May:

• Paul Young (this page): 10,342 views
• Paul Young (actor): 956
• Paul Young (Mike + The Mechanics): 1,166
• Paul A. Young: 268
• Paul William Young: 9
• Paul (American football): 29
• Paul Young (footballer): 114
• Paul Young (Vanuatuan footballer): 131
• Paul Young (rugby player): 98
• Paul Luke Young: 11
• Paul Young (motorcycle racer): [ http://stats.grok.se/en/201505/Paul%20Young%20(motorcycle%20racer) 65]
• Paul Young (Desperate Housewives): 1,891
• Paul Thomas Young: 76
• Paul Young (disambiguation): 200
• Total: 15,356

Thus, this page got 67.3% of the views in May - over two-thirds. The next closest topic (the Desperate Housewives character) got 12.3%. The disambiguation page itself only got 1.3%. Even if you discount the primarytopic bump in views for this topic, it still has a commanding lead. No other topic has a historical significance that would counteract the usage lead of this topic. That all adds up to a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. The current setup works best for our readers and editors. Dohn joe (talk) 16:19, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose, along with a request, again, that the nominator stops making requested moves until he or she has made an effort to read up on how primary topics work. This is at least the third nomination from this user in the last few weeks in which the argument for a lack of primary topic has had no support beyond personal opinion, including the soundly rejected cases at Talk:David Zimmer and Gary Williams.--Yaksar (let's chat) 21:54, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

I feel obligated to decline the above user's kind request regarding submissions of requested moves. Since the above user has been editing Wikipedia for some considerable amount of time, he or she should know by now that most disambiguation pages do not feature WP:PRIMARYTOPICs. Furthermore, a majority of the pages which do indicate a primary topic, indicate such a topic solely at the unsubstantiated predilection of the editor who elevated one of the entries to that status. Moreover, as the above user should know equally well by now, contested decisions are resolved, at Wikipedia, on the basis of a consensus. No such consensus had been previously indicated at either Talk:David Zimmer, Talk:Gary Williams or, presently, at Paul Young. It should also be added that the nomination at David Zimmer was not as "soundly rejected" as that at Gary Williams. No one, in fact, even argued that the Canadian provincial politician was a national-level figure. The David Zimmer article was, for all intents, acknowledged as a "primary topic placeholder" until a second individual named "David Zimmer" becomes the subject of a Wikipedia biographical entry. I trust this reply will prove satisfactory, but in the event it does not, I will remain at future disposal to discuss this matter further. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 08:49, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

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Citations

The article needs some more sources. Beyond that, the sources it already has are not high quality. MonMothma (talk) 17:12, 3 October 2023 (UTC)