Talk:Chaz Stevens
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Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 08:36, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
- ... that Chaz Stevens (pictured) put up Festivus poles supporting gay pride at six mostly conservative US state capitols? Source: https://time.com/4160617/festivus-gay-poles/ "A man is erecting rainbow Festivus poles at state capitols across the U.S. and it’s all part of a (semi) organized plan to needle conservative America." https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/12/florida-man-puts-up-gay-pride-festivus-pole-in-conservative-capitols.html "This holiday season, as many as eight state capitols will be graced with a rainbow-festooned Festivus pole—a 6.5-foot-tall display crowned by a glittering disco ball. .... Stevens hopes to place his display in Republican-dominated states". That he succeeded in six is cited individually for each in the appropriate place in the article.
- ALT1: ... that Chaz Stevens put up holiday season Festivus poles supporting gay pride (pictured) in six mostly conservative US state capitols? Source: Same source, but use this image:
- ALT2: ... that after Florida schools banned 54 math books, Chaz Stevens (pictured) petioned that they also ban the Bible? Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094740651/florida-man-asks-schools-to-ban-the-bible-following-the-states-efforts-to-remove "In petitions sent to public school superintendents across the state, Chaz Stevens asked the districts to "immediately remove the Bible from the classroom, library, and any instructional material" ... his ire was stoked after Florida lawmakers decided this month to ban 54 math books that were claimed to have incorporated topics such as critical race theory."
Moved to mainspace by GRuban (talk). Self-nominated at 18:51, 14 July 2022 (UTC).
New enough and long enough. QPQ present. This guy has done a whole lot of stuff!
Note that the headshot is currently nominated for deletion as copyvio on Commons and should not be used; the pole image is, however, usable.The hook facts all check out and are neutral and interesting. Earwig does flag a few passages from the official bio, but almost all are organization names and I think possible copying from this page. No other issues I see. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:55, 24 July 2022 (UTC)- Getting VRT release email for headshot as we speak. Er, write. --GRuban (talk) 22:38, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Sammi Brie: The headshot release has been confirmed, and the deletion tag has been removed from it. --GRuban (talk) 15:40, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- Updated the approval to reflect this. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:15, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Sammi Brie: The headshot release has been confirmed, and the deletion tag has been removed from it. --GRuban (talk) 15:40, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- Getting VRT release email for headshot as we speak. Er, write. --GRuban (talk) 22:38, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
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Domestic violence plea.
[edit]Information can be found on the Palm Beach County Clerk of Court website. Stevens’ middle name is “Richard.” https://appsgp.mypalmbeachclerk.com/eCaseView/search.aspx JT EOD (talk) 00:39, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
- So, we need reliable secondary sources - books, newspapers, magazines, etc - for most facts, but especially for inherently controversial information about living persons, such as this. That's described under Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Public_figures. Firwst, it's debatable to which extent Stevens is a public figure, but a court website is definitely a primary source. If there are multiple newspapers covering the event prominently, we should put it in, but not otherwise. --GRuban (talk) 02:46, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
June templates
[edit]@Finell: In this edit, you added advert, puffery, and POV templates to the article, without any further discussion. Can you be specific as to the changes you believe need to be made? Thanks. --GRuban (talk) 18:06, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Finell: ? --GRuban (talk) 18:52, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- So, it's been three weeks, including two pings on article talk and one on user talk last week. I will remove the templates for now, if you want to discuss them, please ping me, and we will discuss them. --GRuban (talk) 21:13, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Edit request from subject
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This is a slightly unusual edit request, since I don't have the COI, and can normally make edits to this page fine, but in this case the subject wants a small change that I wanted to get other editors' opinions on, since he does feel strongly about it. His initial request:
Can I ask to change
Occupation(s) Entrepreneur, activist
To
Occupation(s) Entrepreneur, social engineer
Activist just protests, gadflies irritate. I affect change.
Chaz Stevens
Our later discussion, collapsed for brevity
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(From GRuban) Er ... and I say this as a "software engineer"! ... the word "engineer" has become overused enough to be almost meaningless. For example, a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_engineer is a trash collector. Anyway, the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineer gives two options:
Hopefully you don't mean the second one! The first one is more clear as to what it means "on a large scale" - Stalin-like. I don't think you've quite reached there - thank goodness! Given that, I'm afraid activist is more appropriate than social engineer. No offense.
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--GRuban (talk) 15:45, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
- @GiantSnowman, Finell, JennyOz, and Neveselbert: Pinging editors who made more than one edit to the article in case they are interested in giving their opinions. --GRuban (talk) 16:00, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry, what is a 'social engineer'? GiantSnowman 16:23, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
- You can see Chaz's explanation in the collapsed section. (No, I don't know what Purple Moon Dust is ... but clearly I have to try it ...) --GRuban (talk) 16:40, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Sources describe him as an "activist", so we should reflect that. However, if we can verify that Mr Stevens has indeed made the request, I have no issues with adding a line to the lede saying something like "Stevens describes himself as a 'social engineer'". GiantSnowman 16:56, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
- You can see Chaz's explanation in the collapsed section. (No, I don't know what Purple Moon Dust is ... but clearly I have to try it ...) --GRuban (talk) 16:40, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry, what is a 'social engineer'? GiantSnowman 16:23, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
- I'm going through COI edit reqs - closing this for now due to the lack of sources. If a source is found for @GiantSnowman's suggestion feel free to reopen (or implement). Agreed that the wikivoice description should follow sources, but no reason not to include a nod to his self description if it's verifiable. Rusalkii (talk) 01:53, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
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