Talk:Craig Taro Gold: Difference between revisions

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This page sounds like a commercial. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.135.162.171 (talk) 08:34, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This article has been greatly improved since the above anonymous comment was added 2 years ago. I don’t see any dispute of factual accuracy here. It appears the template was added erroneously and should be removed.Biscottalia (talk) 19:50, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the template message, I agree it should be removed. Seems like it must have been posted by mistake. 77vegan (talk) 05:06, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed–template msg isn’t appropriate. Should be removed now. Megatinymomo (talk) 14:59, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Google translation of the Japanese source does not appear to contain any information in support of the following claim:

“A 2014 Vogue Japan story on celebrity life in Tokyo noted that Gold famously took up residence for two years in the luxury Park Hyatt Tokyo Hotel atop the Shinjuku Park Tower from 2006 to 2008.”

http://www.vogue.co.jp/lifestyle/news/2014-11/12/parkhyatt

—ANRH (talk) 22:06, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I recall checking that before and reading related info in the linked article. Perhaps it scrolled to another page or was archived since that was two years ago. Will dig around. Megatinymomo (talk) 21:03, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello everyone

Sorry but I just don’t understand the point of this page.

Is CTG really famous ? where ???

Curious fact: several accounts created this page simultaneously in several langages… SSID559 (talk) 02:27, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the deletion proposal, per WP:DEPROD. Please reintroduce only with a proper justification. As for the alleged issues, feel free to be more specific (in any request) to fix them. Lklundin (talk) 09:14, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

After rereading the page, I repeat that it doesn’t seem to meet certain criteria. It seems :

– not written from a neutral point of view

– not to be of any encyclopedic interest

– mainly intended for promotional purposes (Amazon and other shops links).

– its main authors @SanDiegohangul, @StevenAlfa212, @Anethars are accounts created at the same time. They served almost exclusively to contribute to the Craig Taro Gold page.

– some of the information contained in the article is simply false or impossible to source. The repetition of this same problem may lead to the belief that these errors were placed in the article on purpose, in order to give it credibility.

“He is the author of several New York Times best-selling books”: unreleavant source, reference impossible to find on the NYT website.

“In 2022, Gold’s dialogue with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Esperanza Spalding was published under the title “The Sounds of Freedom: A dialogue on the poison of racism, the medicine of jazz, and a Buddhist view of life.” : There are no books by these authors with this title.

“Gold has been a Patron Circle member of the Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival since 2006, and of Sundance London since 2013”: his name is not included in Sundance Boards or circles.

“A 2014 Vogue Japan story on celebrity life in Tokyo noted that Gold lived in the luxury Park Hyatt Tokyo Hotel atop the Shinjuku Park Tower from 2006 to 2008”: the article says no such thing and does not quote Taro’s name. SSID559 (talk) 15:35, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As it happens, @SanDiegoHangul and @Anethars have also done a lot of work on Wiki page of the subject’s spouse… Dharmabumstead (talk) 11:32, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The proposer seems to be pursuing an agenda against the subject. They have been removing reliably sourced references to CTG from other articles on the grounds that the reference is “abusive”. These are not legitimate grounds from removal. The only relevant policies are WP:N, WP:V and WP:RS. SSID559 should confine is actions to those that are prescribed by Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines. Betty Logan (talk) 17:05, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article is loaded with missing or invalid citations and reads like a vanity piece. If you were to weed out the many self-supplied or flat-out disingenuous citations (see the list supplied by SSID559 above), there’s not much of an article left (one citation even goes to the subject’s own web site). For example, I checked the Hawes transcriptions of the NYT best-seller lists for 2001 and 2007 and found no listing for Taro Gold’s books on any NYT list (including Advice/How-To). Retailer/publisher blurbs only say “featured by the NYT,” which is not best-seller status. This should be removed per WP:V / WP:BLP. The “Broadway musicals” claim is also pretty tenuous…there’s only a single refernce to a site called “Ovrtur”, which apparently runs on user submissions, and this person does not appear on the 1980 national touring company cast page cited in the article as a reference. If you manually search on ‘Craig Taro Brown’ on that site, you get: “Child (replacement: ?)”. That’s it. This whole article should be deleted per WP:NOTE, as there’s almost no reliable third party sources that reference the subject; it’s all self-generated PR blurbs or circular references back to the wiki page. This is not what Wikipedia is for. Dharmabumstead (talk) 11:24, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]