Talk:James Brown

External links

I can't fathom where editors would imagine that EL points #3, WP:LINKSTOAVOID, WP:ELOFFICIAL, and WP:ELMIN would be construed as meaning 22 "External links". While only part of a guideline the end result is link farming, part of a policy, that does carry some weight. Since the article was "A former good article nominee" I suggest procedures to correct some of the problems.

A start would be to wipe out the "External links" section and start over. Otr500 (talk) 19:14, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

The links section was excessive. I have removed all links apart from the successor to DMOZ (DMOZ has always been seen as an acceptable external link as it groups together other acceptable links.

I am posting the removed links here:

• Template:PAGENAMEBASE at Find a GraveTemplate:EditAtWikidata
• Celebrities share memories of James Brown
• Profile of James Brown at Soul Evolution
• The Times Obituary for James Brown
• Template:Trim/ James Brown at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidata
• Template:MusicBrainz meta discography at MusicBrainzTemplate:EditAtWikidata
• Template:Allmusic
• Template:EditAtWikidataTemplate:WikidataCheck
• "James Brown, 1933–2006". News and multimedia archive from The Augusta Chronicle
• James Brown's Musicians Reflect On His Legacy – article from Down Beat Magazine
• The Official Facebook Page on The Famous Flames
• Biography: James Brown and the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s (biography at Funky-Stuff.com).
• James Brown biography and concert review in cosmopolis.ch
• RBMA Radio On Demand – Across 135th Street – Volume 7 – Tribute to James Brown – Chairman Mao (RBMA, Egotrip)
• 1980 Interview with James Brown and the Rev. Al Sharpton by Jon Alpert on Democracy Now!
• James Brown concert and interviews on NPR Music
• James Brown radiostream
• James Brown funeral program Digital Library of Georgia
• The James Brown SuperFan Club
• PBS American Masters James Brown: Soul Survivor

If there is any useful information in these links, they can be used to help improve the article. SilkTork (talk) 17:40, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Please don't erase reliable sources

The Wikipedia:Citing sources policy is not a justifiable excuse to erase my sources. Two sources are still accepted on the Gorgeous George article. I even included another newer source which is very easy to read.[1] Please follow the NPOV policy.Mancalledsting (talk) 10:38, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

When you have been told repeatedly that the links to sources don't work and you continue to add them, you are edit warring. Revise the edit using ONLY sources that work, but the sources cited must fully support your edit. And take one minute to CHECK the links to see if they work. Sundayclose (talk) 15:46, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Just a friendly suggestion; it's perfectly OK to start with a suggestion on the Talk page before making changes and putting in links, especially if you're new. And if your new account is an attempt to get around an edit ban, I certainly don't want to encourage that, but I will say if that's the case, really not a good idea to get flagged as an edit vandal again. Accuracy Banshee (talk) 20:43, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

You are making up nonsense, especially with the source I even mentioned above. You are only demonstrating that you are looking for excuses to erase edits you don't like. Are you going to send the abuse of power calvary which doesn't like the good edit too?Mancalledsting (talk) 16:28, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ping And you have a serious misunderstanding about how Wikipedia works. Allow me to respectfully suggest that you slow down and discuss things when others who disagree with you instead of charging in with guns blasting. You have edited less than one month, and you have received multiple warnings during that short time. Slow down, read some policies, and discuss. Otherwise you are headed for a block from editing.

Also be aware that two editors can have several common articles in their watchlists. Editing those pages is not "stalking". You need to read WP:NPA before making accusations. Sundayclose (talk) 17:02, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Annie Lennox reference

Article states that Annie Lennox released a 2007 album called Venus, containing a song called Vengeance. Her 2007 album is called Songs of Mass Destruction and contains no such song. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Octolad (talk • contribs) 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Ted Wright

Knowledgeable parties, please see the discussion at Talk:I Got You (I Feel Good)#Songwriter?. Perhaps this issue is notable enough to address in this article? At the very least, we need a RS for the info. - dcljr (talk) 09:03, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Moved paragraph

The first paragraph under "personal life" was about how ill he became near the end of his life, which makes no sense as a beginning. I moved that paragraph to the "illness and death" section. The personal life section may now give the appearance of being "unbalanced" by emphasizing that he was not a kind or gentle man; my defense is that the section now appears packed with abuse and violence because Brown's personal life really was packed with abuse and violence, and there's no point in trying to soften that. TooManyFingers (talk) 09:29, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Yvonne Fair

In the article Yvonne Fair, why does it list that she is the mother of his two children when it is mentioned on her daughter’s find a grave website, but not on here? Yvonne is the mother of his two daughters Venisha. This should be included in the James Brown article. Oldschoollover24 (talk) 06:07, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Is there a list of band members?

Thinking of something like this <timeline> ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:20 PlotArea = left:100 bottom:60 top:5 right:10 Alignbars = justify DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1953 till:31/10/2023 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy Legend = orientation:horizontal position:bottom ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1953 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:10 start:1993

Colors =

 id:vocals  value:red    legend:Vocals
 id:lguitar value:teal   legend:Lead_guitar
 id:rguitar value:brightgreen  legend:Rhythm_guitar
 id:keys    value:purple legend:Keyboards
 id:bass    value:blue   legend:Bass
 id:drums   value:orange legend:Drums
 id:Lines   value:black  legend:Studio_album
 id:bars    value:gray(0.95)

BackgroundColors = bars:bars

BarData =

 bar:BBy  text:Bobby Byrd

 bar:BBe  text:Bobby Bennett
 bar:BLl  text:Baby Lloyd
 bar:BCo text:Bootsy Collins
 bar:CCo   text:Catfish Collins
 bar:JSt    text:Jabo Starks

PlotData=

 width:11 textcolor:black align:left anchor:from shift:(10,-4)
 bar:BBy  from:01/01/1953 till:end color:vocals
 bar:BBe  from:01/02/1958 till:01/01/1968 color:lguitar
 bar:BLl  from:01/01/1958 till:31/12/1967 color:rguitar width:3
 bar:BCo  from:01/03/1970 till:01/01/2019 color:bass width:3
 bar:CCo from:20/11/2021 till:end color:lguitar
 bar:JSt from:01/01/1965 till:01/01/1970 color:keys width:7
 

LineData =

 at:21/07/1993 color:black layer:back
 at:29/11/1993 color:black layer:back
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 at:23/08/1998 color:black layer:back
 at:23/06/2002 color:black layer:back
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 at:01/08/2019 color:black layer:back
 at:31/07/2023 color:black layer:back

</timeline> 78.144.96.118 (talk) 23:19, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

No reference to most iconic legacy in contemporary pop culture?

The article does not seem to mention his most well known work among contemporary pop culture; the Bully Maguire song from Spiderman 3. Should this be added under the legacy section? 203.46.132.214 (talk) 03:12, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Image with disc jockey

I sugggest that we restore the image replaced here. The full image is very rare and particularly relevant because it shows Brown with a disc jockey (whose name need not be mentioned). SergeWoodzing (talk) 19:08, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Why? What relevance does the DJ have to the biography of James Brown? 50.170.136.3 (talk) 02:54, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Arrest Record

I can’t find the info about either arrest ErickCartmann (talk) 18:55, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

American Artist of Chinese Descent?

I see that James is tagged as an American artist of Chinese descent but there is no references to this and no supplied footnotes. MarkMascolino (talk) 14:43, 16 November 2024 (UTC)