Talk:Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris is currently a Media and drama good article nominee. Nominated by Inpops (talk) at 11:55, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

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Short description: American actor and singer (born 1973)

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Drag Race appearance

This article does not mention his appearance on "Drag My Wedding", if worth adding to the Filmography table. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:41, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

philanthropy

The philanthropy section feels a bit excessive, I can't think of anyone else I've seen with a list that long. Seems like a PR move Climbingflowers (talk) 05:52, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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He has also lent his name to a French-Swiss sportswear brand called Ron Dorff

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He has also lent his name to a French-Swedish sportswear brand called Ron Dorff 206.47.194.70 (talk) 15:51, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Hyphenation Expert (talk) 17:27, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Neil Patrick Harris/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Inpops (talk · contribs) 11:55, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk · contribs) 01:54, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! I will be reviewing this GA! The article looks good so far, very thorough but not overly detailed.

Before doing a full review, however, I have noticed that there are many unsourced statements/paragraphs in the article. Most of "1989–2003" and the first two paragraphs of "2004–2014" are unsourced, and so are various other sentences, such as "He starred in the films The Smurfs (2011) and The Smurfs 2 (2013)" and "Later in 2014, Harris played the role of Desi Collings in Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher".

As this is quite a lot of information, the article is not to GA standards yet - however, I do not want to quickfail it as there is a lot of potential, so I will put the review on hold and when the sourcing is fixed, I will do a full thorough review :) In the meantime, please do not hesitate to ask me any questions! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 01:54, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. I will try my best to continue to include citations where necessary (having done so earlier) and see how else I can improve this article. This may take around a few days. Inpops (talk) 21:28, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Take your time, I am happy to allow more than 7 days if it helps you and the article :) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 04:02, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Have completed this process. I have tried to include sufficient sources wherever I can. Some I have found elsewhere, but a lot are borrowed from other articles. Inpops (talk) 15:48, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! This is amazing, you should be so proud!! I am very busy this weekend so I will give it a proper look on Monday or so. However, there is still the sentence "Harris is an agnostic" in the personal life which needs a non-primary school, and the filmography and discography are unsourced. The sentence "From 1999 to 2000, he starred with Tony Shalhoub in the NBC sitcom Stark Raving Mad, which lasted 22 episodes" in the career section is also unsourced. I am wondering if it may make sense to split the filmography into a separate article due to its large size? DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 17:05, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Have included sources for the film credits in places where necessary. I am going to hopefully do the same for TV later in the following days and possibly discography if I can find any. Unfortunately I did not see your reply until today morning. I am assuming some credits in the table would not need citations if they are covered elsewhere in the article body. I could not seem to find a source for the agnostic statement; according to Microsoft Copilot "it’s more accurate to say that his religious beliefs are a private matter rather than to definitively categorize him as agnostic." Inpops (talk) 22:04, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, how is the sourcing going? You have done a great job of it so far and the article looks in much better shape. I see that the filmography table is still half sourced, so maybe taking some of the sources from the prose and putting them in there may help. Regarding the "Harris is an agnostic" sentence, it may be worth removing it if a secondary source cannot be found, or changing it to something like "Harris wrote on his MySpace page in x year that he identifies as agnostic". I haven't done a full check yet but from the prose, the sentences "Additionally, Harris and partner David Burtka were guests of honor for a season 1 episode of Top Chef Masters, "Magic Chefs", that took place at the Magic Castle" in Personal Life and "In July 2022, Harris starred in the Netflix series Uncoupled as gay Manhattanite Michael Lawson, a realtor re-navigating the dating scene after 17 years" and "In January 2021, Harris starred in the British drama series It's a Sin, broadcast on Channel 4 and HBO Max, depicting the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United Kingdom" in the career section are unsourced. Take your time though, I won't rush you, just wanted to check in :) You are doing a great job! :D DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:54, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Since I have been kind of busy this month, I have tried to do a little each day and continue from there, though I could not edit this Monday (I don't recommend you look into what happened with me at that time). I'm still currently editing the TV credits table, but I may source those following sentences and then come back to it. I've seen other GAs that don't include citations in the tables if the info is already covered in the article, so I do not think we need to include citations in the tables here if cited elsewhere, but I may still consider this. Inpops (talk) 21:09, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, please take your time! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 21:12, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'm getting quite close to the end of this process. Most of the credits now have a citation either in one of the tables or somewhere else in the article. The only credit where I was not able to find anything was The RuPaul Show. I don't know what the consensus is, but seeing that other similar filmography tables for actors don't list appearances on these sort of talk/variety shows, it may be best to remove it. Inpops (talk) 21:25, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: @Inpops and DaniloDaysOfOurLives: where are we at with this review? It doesn't look like there's been much activity recently and I just wanted to check in. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 03:32, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Inpops has been adding sources everyday and has been working very hard at it. They recently said that they were close to finishing it, so when they are finished I'm going to do a further check and a source spotcheck. So far so good 😊 DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:35, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good! thanks for putting that out there I just wanted to check in on how you guys were doing! IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 03:40, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I just wanted to make sure that this citation could be included here, since I was unsure about including it, though I would probably assume it's alright. I think I would be done with this process if I add just one more source. Inpops (talk) 16:13, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think that is okay, but I am not too sure. What did you want it to support? I will do a review either tomorrow or Monday/Tuesday and post my comments here. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 18:13, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to discuss it at the noticeboard but I've seemingly got no responses. I was going to put it in the table to support the At Home with Amy Sedaris TV credit. Inpops (talk) 18:50, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]