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NOT The Youngest EGOT

Contrary to Mashable's article and Chrissy Tiegen's tweet John Legend is not the youngest person to achieve the EGOT. That is still Robert Lopez. Lopez was born February 23, 1975 and completed the EGOT on March 2, 2014 meaning he was 39 years and 2 weeks old at the time. John was born December 28, 1978 and completed the EGOT on September 9, 2018 meaning he was 39 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks old at the time. Mathematically Lopez was younger at the time he completed the EGOT.

BBC Article confirms this in the beginning: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45470740 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.206.157.184 (talk) 13:48, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality

Is he Chinese or Korean? Looks like either. But my guess would be for first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:463B:5200:7176:2967:C98:542 (talk) 08:55, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

He's American. JDDJS (talk to me • see what I've done) 19:36, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The article needs more inline citations and has been tagged accordingly. SunCrow (talk) 01:09, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

RFC at Chrissy Teigen

There is currently an RFC posted which affects content in this article. Please see: Talk:Chrissy Teigen#RFC. Thank you! Elizium23 (talk) 14:45, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please use pronouns

Please use pronouns to refer to Legend. The article is littered with his surname, which is not standard practice. Elizium23 (talk) 20:40, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Adding new "Personal life" detail

I have added the following, but it keeps getting censored:

In 2015, during an interview with ExtraTV, Legend's wife admitted that the best public sex they had was "probably the Obama thing". She then added "not at the White House", while Legend interrupted with "it was not at the White House, he was not elected yet". Obama had been an elected official since 1997. (link posted was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNV7eVy8-V4 )

What is the reason this fact, his own words that are controversial, can not be included? When looking at Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Lil Pump and Waka Flocka, they all have controversies listed. The link I provided shows an unaltered interview where both John and his wife mentioned it. AlwaysRight79 (talk) 23:12, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a controversy, it's a short clip of a couple of people joking around on a red carpet. If it were 'controversial' you'd have numerous secondary sources to link rather than a YouTube video. MrOllie (talk) 23:15, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake, I looked back and I had it added as a short statement in the "Personal life" section. Looking at all the details shared of other artists, and it being an original source with the subject making his own statements, I believe there is nothing wrong by adding this. Perhaps it can be phrased differently, I'm open to suggestions. AlwaysRight79 (talk) 00:05, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's at best trivial, and it is not at all clear from the clip that they were answering factually and not joking. My suggestion is: leave it out, it is not encyclopedic. MrOllie (talk) 00:26, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can see your point, but then looking at the page of the artist "50 Cent" I read the following under his "Personal life" section:

Asked his opinion of President Obama's May 9, 2012, endorsement of gay marriage, Jackson said, "I'm for it ... I've encouraged same-sex activities. I've engaged in fetish areas a couple times."

I don't see why we are OK with this type of information under certain artists (see list I of artists I listed before, plus 50 Cent), but not others. In general, it seems artists that currently back a certain political view have very clean pages, while artists that currently support the opposite political spectrum have all kinds of details that are "not encyclopedic like".

Would your suggestion be to instead clean up the pages of Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Lil Pump, Waka Flocka and 50 Cent and remove these minor non-encyclopedic items? AlwaysRight79 (talk) 15:31, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't edit every article on the encyclopedia, I have no idea what kind of sourcing is available or what discussions or consensus might have been reached in the other examples you are concerned about. MrOllie (talk) 19:00, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I reviewed additional sites of celebrities and nearly all of them have some controversies listed, whether they are legal issues (law, family, business related), iffy Tweets they regret, frowned upon comments they regret, and even plagiarism accusations without a pending case so just rumor and still innocent. With all of this, would you agree adding my addition? AlwaysRight79 (talk) 23:21, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No. There are no reliable secondary sources here. A link to a video clip is not sufficient for this kind of trivia. MrOllie (talk) 02:29, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]