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Business Insider

theleekycauldron, I think the Business Insider source should stay. Since there is no consensus for Business Insider's blanket removal, the facts are not overly controversial, and John Green linked to the source in a tweet, it seems fine for this use. I agree the other one is worth excluding, especially since we at least have the Indy Star source. --Cerebral726 (talk) 20:00, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

@Cerebral726: I mean, maaaaybe, but BLPs generally have a higher standard for sourcing than any old article. My issue is more with due weight—BI can often throw in lots of details that feel irrelevant and/or promotional. Is there something we get from BI and not from Indy Star that's major/fundamental? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 20:03, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

John Green also actually spoke to the author for the article, forgot to mention that above. The main loss is info on the Awesome Socks Club, which is completely missing from the Indy Star article but really should be included since this business model is becoming a bigger thing for them.--Cerebral726 (talk) 20:08, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

okay, I think it checks out- Insider is reliable for culture, too, so it's not the worst in the world. it's shaky, but I don't think it needs to be removed unilaterally. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 20:29, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Being arrested

He was arrested at 16 for kidnapping a lemur from the Zoo. 24.250.252.8 (talk) 18:43, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

This is not true and part of a new TikTok trend, started by the user childprodigy. In the video, he admits that this rumor isn't true, he wanted merely to start a rumor because he "was bored" and "hasn't started a rumor in a while". Wikipedia is not a collection of easter eggs, and purposefully spreading false information is disruptive to Wikipedia's goal. Askarion ^{💬●✒️} 18:50, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 July 2022

Add in Hanks early life how he stole a lemur from the central Florida Zoo when he was 16.

Evidence: https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1544370413232201728?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet HankGreenFan (talk) 01:05, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

As in... the part where he says "no, I did not kidnap that fucking lemur"? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 01:09, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Using a YouTube video as a source for Hank Green announcing his cancer diagnosis

The news just came out and I forwent checking editing history before seeing that someone editing this page with that information using YouTube as a source had their edit removed because YouTube is considered an unreliable source. I'm sorry for my recklessness.

To avoid starting an editing war, I figure I'd start a discussion here.

While YouTube /is/ unreliable to use as a secondary source, isn't it fine to use the subject (Hank Green) as a self-published source given that he announced it himself here? Per WP:BLPSELFPUB and WP:BLPSPS. Cadenrock1 (talk) 15:45, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Per WP:ABOUTSELF, people speaking about themselves are reliable sources for themselves. The YouTube video is fine. --Jayron32 16:11, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Additionally, there are now several news stories about this, so we are more than well covered. Cerebral726 (talk) 17:46, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Cropped photos

@Strugglehouse Sorry for undoing your crops. In both instances, I found them to be cropped too tight. For the infobox image, some of his hair was cut off, and the current version to me seems like an ideal amount of breathing room. With the photo of them onstage, part of the focus is that they are on stage in this photo, so having more of the background is a positive aspect of it. Cerebral726 (talk) 15:16, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

@Cerebral726 Okay, that's fine. I probably didn't crop them very well. Strugglehouse (talk) 15:19, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Awesome socks club

Is there a reason for no article about the awesome socks club? It seems to merit an article. Sailcalculator (talk) 19:06, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

not seeing the kind of secondary significant coverage that would merit an article on a quick google search... theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 19:24, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Inclusion of "Hank"

The introduction paragraph makes no reference to him going by Hank, but the rest of the article goes on to refer to him as Hank. The article is also named Hank. I attempted to add a note about this, but it was reverted. I have read MOS:NICK and this seems like it should be included. Why shouldn't it be? 2620:1D5:A00:5:BBE9:701:EB94:70AB (talk) 15:41, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Hank is considered a common short form (or as MOS:NICK calls it, a hypocorism) for Henry; thus, the style at Wikipedia is to give the full legal name in the opening sentence but the common name in the title and elsewhere in the article. Unlike non-obvious nicknames, there would be no inclusion of "Hank" as a qualifier in the opening sentence in this case. Radagast (talk) 22:56, 19 October 2024 (UTC)