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Contents 1 Replaced Birth Place 2 History Section Removed 3 Reasons for disambig 4 Should not be confused with... 5 should we... 6 Time to move. 7 Evil 8 NPOV in Rise to the Throne 9 Why the Weird White Eye Makeup? 10 Family section 11 Made a mistake 12 Picture of Brian Williams was added to the article

[edit] Replaced Birth Place

Willimas was born and raised in Elmira, New York, not South Africa.

[edit] History Section Removed

This allegation of racism link is completely bogus -- it links to a no-name newspaper with an extremely short article completely lacking in real info. It has NO credibility whatsoever and should be removed. I keep up with the news very well, and have NEVER heard a single allegation of racism against Williams. EDIT: looks like someone with a brain removed it.

I have removed the History section because it is a word by word copy for Brian's Williams Bio on WSMV's web site. [1]

Jonyyeh 20:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC) Could someone check the page history and look at the History section I decided to remove?. I need to know if it is a copyright violation. Jonyyeh 20:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

There was an NBA player named Brian Williams (who later changed his name to Bison Dele) who was lost at sea in 2002 with his girlfriend and is presumed dead [2]. The story was quite high-profile. Maybe it's best to have a disambiguation page? (I'd be willing to write an article sometime next month for Bison Dele. I'm surprised there currently isn't one.) --Idont Havaname 18:24, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think a disambig page is unnecessary. There is one MAJOR person named "Brian Williams", and two minor who are linked (in wiki fashion) at the bottom of the page. If we had two high profile people with the same name, then yes. It's fine without a disambig page, though. Write the article for Dele if you like, but no disambig page is necessary. He's already linked at the bottom. --ABQCat 18:34, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ok, my article about Dele is up now. --Idont Havaname 22:03, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Is writing articles according to future plans the best idea? This article previously stated that he assumed (past tense) anchor duties on December 1, 2004. Clearly, this is the plan, but until it happens it's still up in the air.

[edit] Reasons for disambig

Would it make more sense for the (MUCH) more well known and cited person to have the main article and the secondary person (as there's only one, in this case) to have a small blurb at the bottom or top or just a link to their own article?

Some evidence for my point: Google search for ""Brian Williams" +cbc" gives 3470 results. Google search for "Brian Williams" +nbc gives 32000 results.

Maybe it's less obvious than you'd think, but if a person looks up Brian Williams, I think an article with info on both on the same page is less confusing. I'm not sure on the policy on this, but I was just wondering if it would make sense. --ABQCat 05:24, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Should not be confused with...

He should not be confused with the Canadian sportscaster or professional athelete - especially because the title of this article is Brian Williams (news anchor). A person is unlikely to type or search that particular article title without understanding who they're looking for. I think a secondary disambiguation on a disambiguated article is redundant and should be removed. --ABQCat 10:58, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] should we...

shouldn't we include Brian Williams controversial view when he defended G. Gordon Liddy and his actions during the watergate scandal.

[edit] Time to move.

As a few people have guessed at before, this article needs to be at Brian Williams. When one person gets over 90% of the Google hits, he's clearly the most important one, and thus the most indisputably likely to be searched for, which means that he belongs on the main page, with a link to Brian Williams (disambiguation) at the top, where the links to the other guys should be. Or just link to the other Brillian Williams fellows at the top of this page if you prefer, since there aren't that many. Then we wouldn't even need a disambig page. Either way, this belongs on Brian Williams. -Silence 08:01, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Evil

Brian Williams is evil. He made fun of Conan O'Brien on Late Night and has a poor reputation with many people. I think this should be added to the article. 66.41.212.243 23:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

This does not make him evil! And this should not be added to the article! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 20:32, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV in Rise to the Throne

I removed this: "He has also been accused of lacking depth and understanding, and an inability to convey the subtleties of complex news events." because it does not have a citation and appears to be an unsubstantiated opinion. I will support adding it back if and only if someone can produce a credible citation.

[edit] Why the Weird White Eye Makeup?

Any explanation of the weird white eye makeup he wears on-camera? If it was just to cover bags etc it would be flesh-colored, to make it so weirdly whitish makes me think there is some other hypnotic effect being sought, akin to the lush lip gloss on some announcer starlets.

[edit] Family section

I have removed this. It was unsourced and non-encyclopedic. Frankly, the fact that he has two nephews is about as interesting as the fact that I have 15 cousins. Danny 21:34, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Made a mistake

I deleted something, accidentally. Please forgive me. Please help revert it!!!!!!!N734LQ 22:48, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture of Brian Williams was added to the article

I've added a better picture of the NBC Nightly News anchor. I hope that will work for this article. Megamanfan3 01:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC)