Talk:Desmond is Amazing/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Breitbart

@Gleeanon409: I looked for coverage of Napoles on the Breitbart site and found only the 19 Dec 2018 story "Nolte: 11-Year-Old ‘Drag Queen’ Dances for Dollar Bills in Gay Bar" and the 5 Nov 2019 one (published after the Queerty article) "Mashable: 12-Year-Old Drag Queen Is ‘Inspiring’".

The 20 Sep 2019 Queerty article, which mentions Napoles only once in passing (see WP:RSCONTEXT), states "Earlier this year, it ran an attack piece against 11-year-old drag performer “Desmond Is Amazing” (aka. Desmond Napoles), resulting in the child receiving death threats." The red portion is false (2018, not 2019), the orange portion is unverifiable (who knows which of the many different blog posts and news stories prompted the anonymous threateners), and the blue portion is an opinion/value judgement.

I'm also generally against including this sort of news-commenting-on-other-news content, e.g., "The Los Angeles Blade criticised RedState's coverage of Napoles"[1] or "The Washington Examiner criticised ABC's coverage of Napoles"[2] or "Fatherly criticised the National Review's coverage of Napoles"[3] or "The Washington Times criticised The New York Times' coverage of Napoles"[4]. (There are many other examples.) It's a lazy form of churnalism by journalists and has only a tenuous connection to Napoles' life and career. Cheers, gnu57 17:50, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

I see them come through my various feeds often, maybe they’ve removed some or it’s repeats. I don’t track them. It could also be other sites reporting the same.

I’m inclined to retain the content as a tangible example of what this ten year old has had to endure. What little kid gets written up like that? Who would do that?

I’d like to leave it for now, and see if anything develops that we can update it and both be happy. If you can’t then let’s find some middle. Gleeanon409 (talk) 18:14, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

I can't see how it's due, though: besides Queerty, I haven't found any other news site singling out Breitbart as a prominent critic of Napoles. The controversy over the nightclub performance arose mainly from social media and a Rod Dreher American Conservative article, and the most prominent venue for criticism more recently has been the National Review. Cheers, gnu57 18:31, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Well that’s perfect! Let’s develop replacement content that explains both those points thus rendering the Brietbart material superfluous. Gleeanon409 (talk) 18:44, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

I agree with Genericusername57's arguments that it is undue to mention the piece about Breitbart. Consensus thus is against it and I have removed it. -Crossroads- (talk) 18:38, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Redundancy

Much of the content under "Notable drag performances" and "Awards and nominations" is redundant to the chronological biography. Such redundant content should be cut, but I'm not sure which. -Crossroads- (talk) 19:34, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Separate sections specifically about Awards and nominations is standard on BLP’s, no reason to remove it, and in the prose of the article provides context for when Desmond was recognized for his art.

I’ve asked before to remove the notable performances section but no one responded. Gleeanon409 (talk) 23:21, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Opening paragraph Associated with Alig

@Gleeanon409: please do not edit war on the statement from Demond's mother in the opening. As per WP:MOSLEAD the opening paragraph should reflect the body paragraph. Under the "Public image" section, it quite clearly includes reference to Desmond's mother characterizing it as "blatant homophobia", so the opening paragraphs need to either reflect that, or nothing at all. You are free to mention the OutMagazine defense of Napoles in the appropriate place in the body. --Sxologist (talk) 03:30, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

The article used to cite Out magazine as well, but subsequent edits seem to have lost that. I’ll see that it gets re-added. Gleeanon409 (talk) 04:17, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Ok, if you re-add that I would recommend the introductory sentence is adjusted to reflect the response from Napoles' mother and Out magazine. I'm not sure if the direct quote is appropriate in the opening paragraph. I would argue it should say something along the lines of 'they have responded to criticisms, describing some of them as homophobic'. --Sxologist (talk) 04:22, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

I see zero reason to water down a specific and apt quote. That a child’s mother defends him is utterly not worth including in such a manner. I think the correctly attributed content is fine as it is. Gleeanon409 (talk) 04:27, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

The writer for Out only talks about how criticizing child drag is "blatant homophobia". Quote mining to make a point isn't right. Most of the criticisms from the conservative side have highlighted him being surrounded by the use of drugs and that there may be manipulation from the mothers end. Therefore Out has only described 'some' of these criticisms as blatant homophobia. I see no reason to quote mine in an opening paragraph, when one could also quote mine from the other side. Out isn't even a notable publication, it should really say Napoles mother and some media have defended him. --Sxologist (talk) 04:49, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

The Quote is accurate and properly attributed; it also covers broadly the criticism Desmond has gotten.

The ‘notable’ criticism does not involve drug use at all. That is right-wing blather from blogs. Next.

’manipulation from his mother’ also seems thin as I think that too comes from those same blogs who have wasted scarce public resources to harass this family by calling in false abuse reports.

Out (magazine) isn’t a notable publication? It, along with its sister publication, Advocate, are the leading national publications of the LGBTQ community and have been for many years. Gleeanon409 (talk) 06:48, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

I merely point out those criticisms because the criticism of exposing a child to drug/ketamine use cannot be explained away with 'homophobia'. --Sxologist (talk) 12:08, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Who exactly is exposing Desmond to drugs/ketamine? Where is this information coming from? Please share these reliable sources. Gleeanon409 (talk) 12:38, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

To be clear that is one example, I’m not sure it’s covered by a reputable source. But it’s quite clear given the video of the drag queen beside him making a comment about ‘ketamine’ and Desmond mimics snorting through one nostril that it’s legit. As seen here]. Also to be clear WP doesn’t always require a ‘reputable source’ if it’s only covered on politically motivated websites. There’s also the video of Desmon with a convicted killer Michael Alig who dismembered his victims body and threw its pieces into the Hudson River. The fact that Desmond is around these people is indeed a valid criticism of at least his mothers judgment, and has been covered in quite a few news sites, even if they have a conservative slant. Sxologist (talk) 12:57, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Well let’s start with the reliable sources that tie a BLP minor to drug use and/or a murderer. Please present those and we can double check with the RS noticeboard on which ones can be used and for what information. Gleeanon409 (talk) 13:41, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Well, I don't know how well this fits with Wiki's rules, but there's a video of him sitting and chatting with convicted murderer Michael Alig. We and the rest of the world can see it here. Tying "a BLP minor to ... a murderer" is done. It's out there, open and publicly available. It happened. I can't believe actual video of something happening isn't "reputable." Jororo05 (talk) 03:51, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

That’s “Pee-ew!”, since September 2014, Michael Alig and fellow Club Kid Ernie Glam have hosted a YouTube comedy talk show titled "The Pee-ew".

We can certainly consider it. What content do you suggest we add from it? Gleeanon409 (talk) 04:57, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

You could add it to some section about criticism. I mean, that the child seems to be familiar with hard drug use and hangs around a people like Alig I think is fair criticism of their caretakers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:1A3F:C906:9B81:D84E:7AE2:D026 (talk) 14:03, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

We need to be encyclopedic and cannot use WP:original research. All I have at this point is that he was a guest on a non-notable vlog. I don’t think guilt by association goes very far either. Gleeanon409 (talk) 14:51, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 September 2020

Please remove this, It is in an irrelevant area of the article and it doesn't add to it. Perhaps there could be Criticism Section. Out magazine has described these criticisms and attacks as "blatant homophobia and transphobia" 24.14.45.36 (talk) 05:16, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

no. Per WP:NPOV, notable criticism and response should be included in the summary. Gleeanon409 (talk) 08:31, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Time to rename yet?

It seems the majority of sources refer to Desmond is Amazing, like many other artists notable under their stage name maybe the article should be under his the stage name. Thoughts? Gleeanon409 (talk) 03:32, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

No preference. I mean, youtubers like ContraPoints are under their youtube name so I don't see an issue with it. It's probably detailed somewhere in manual of style guidelines. Personally I don't think it's a big deal since Desmond Napoles shows up in Google when you search desmond is amazing. Sxologist (talk) 04:06, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Gleeanon, I just wanted to comment about the piece in the opening about Desmond "imitating" RuPaul at "two years old". The source doesn't appear to say that? (Unless I'm missing something?). It also sounds a bit like some conservative conspiracy that the media is turning infants into drag queens. It only says " Wendy traces Desmond’s obsession back to her own love of RuPaul, and her son’s subsequent fascination with Drag Race. When Desmond was six years old, he began to lose interest completely in boys’ clothing. As he says adamantly in the film, “I didn’t want no Sonic t-shirts”; he wanted to wear dresses, skirts and pink shirts." Sxologist (talk) 08:42, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

It’s likely in a different source then, he started imitating the queens by dressing up. Gleeanon409 (talk) 12:34, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

It’s not sourced, so you’re going to have to remove it or rewrite it to reflect the source. Sxologist (talk) 12:48, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

It is sourced. We state “When he was two, he watched RuPaul's Drag Race with his mother and was captivated by the show's drag queens”, the reference confirms this. Gleeanon409 (talk) 14:32, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 4 September 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 03:31, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

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Desmond Napoles → Desmond is Amazing – This is the name he goes by and is notable for. All his performances and appearances are under this name as are the majority of reliable sources and all his social media. Gleeanon409 (talk) 08:31, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

• Support. Long overdue. Gleeanon409 (talk) 11:59, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
• Support per WP:CRITERIA and recognisability. Other Wikipedia articles list performers by their stage names. Sxologist (talk) 22:00, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

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The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

What happened to this page?

So if you look up Desmond is Amazing in Google you will see what looks to be a full Wikipedia article, however, upon clicking that article you come across a stub of what was once a full page, what happened to this page is the question? Did someone delete its content in order to replace it with a fuller text later? Or was it deleted to protect from vandalism?

~~Omir Laa~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omir Laa (talk • contribs) 16:03, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Genericusername57, care to comment? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:05, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång and Omir Laa: The main author was a sockpuppet of someone banned in 2010. (Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Benjiboi/Archive#07 November 2020.) He has a long history of disruption in the LGBT topic area. I think anything he's written needs to be rolled back or checked very carefully for BLP violations and POV pushing. I've cut back his articles on child celebrities (Desmond Napoles, Reuben de Maid, Benicio Bryant) to one-sentence stubs. This article in particular had problems with the tone and undue weight. He was also causing problems in the articles about pornographic film actors. Any assistance in rewriting this article or checking his other contributions would be extremely welcome. Cheers, gnu57 20:19, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Wow wonderful solution, congratulations. When's the page actually going to be back up? Because Napoles was involved in some pretty creepy stuff recently.

~~Omir Laa~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omir Laa (talk • contribs) 01:03, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

If you're up to it, you can start restoring stuff yourself. Everything is in the edithistory [5]. However, consider what Genericusername57 said, take it slow, be very, very (very) careful to follow WP:BLP, WP:NOTNEWS, WP:PROPORTION etc, and be prepared to discuss if others disagree with your edits. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:55, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Protect it from Vandalism.

I personally think we should protect this article from vandalism. Since I believe that this is a big target as Desmond is very controversial. 24.14.45.36 (talk) 15:55, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

If vandalizing arises it will be addressed. Gleeanon409 (talk) 16:42, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

He may be being groomed. We should have the ability to inform people about it. DoubleDeckerDave (talk) 19:41, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

If you you have suggestions to improve this article that are inline with WP:Biographies of living persons, you can suggest them (with WP:RS that supports them) on this talkpage. Otherwise, you'll have to inform people about it somewhere else, the internet is vast. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:18, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Michael Alig?

There is nothing in this article about Desmond's relationship with the late Michael Alig, a murderous club kid. This is pretty heavy stuff, why isn't this on Wikipedia? Also, there is some discussion about Wendy Napoles using sock puppet accounts to defend her son.

DoubleDeckerDave (talk) 09:24, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

What WP:BLP-good WP:RS do you have, and what text do you propose adding to the article based on those sources? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:25, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Content disagreement

@Thespearthrower on your ES:s here [6] and here [7], in no WP-sense is @Fourthords "an admin on the WP:BLP noticeboard." Ping also @Alyo. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:24, 28 August 2022 (UTC)