JoeThePublic

Joseph Barbera

There is no reliable source that Barbera is Lebanese. In his autobiography, which I have and have read, he says that his ancestors were Sicilian and that his parents spoke Italian. He mentions no other ancestry other than Sicilian. You can not remove reliable sourced info like that and replace it with unreliable info. I've placed some of the amplifying info on the article talk page. — Rlevse • Talk • 13:04, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

The BBC would generally be reliable, but given the info in his autbio, it'd be hard to overcome that. Even the BBC can make an error. Given his family spoke Italian and he only calls himself Sicilian, nothing else, you'd need something along the line of "Barbera's father's grandmother was Lebanese". I think this confusion comes from the fact that Barbera is common to both Italy/Sicily and the Arab countries. — Rlevse • Talk • 13:26, 20 September 2008 (UTC)