Talk:Carmelo Anthony

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Contents 1 Awkward sentence 2 Puerto Rican? 3 Olympic Record 4 Puetrocian = Mutliracial 5 Hopefully this will settle it 6 Controversy 7 POV 8 Plagiarism 9 Orangemen, not Orange 10 A living legend 11 house 12 Put in a picture

[edit] Awkward sentence

The sentence "before Carmelo joined the 2004 USA Olympic basketball team, he was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher's crew members for falsely believing that Carmelo's friends trashed the room that was worth $10,000 in damages," sounds a bit stilted to me, but I can't think of a good way to rephrase it, since I'm not familiar with the exact nature of the Punk. Any suggestions? Microtonal 19:57, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Puerto Rican?

I understand he is of Puerto Rican descent, but he plays for the United States internationally. If he has dual citizenship, then the tag should stay, but if not it should be removed. SteelyDave 00:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

His father was Puerto Rican, he died when carmelo was only 2 years old. His family(father's side) still resides on the island.

I understand that, but he is a US international player. Descent and nationality are very different things. - Plasticbadge 15:02, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

dual citizenship? All Puerto Ricans born in Puerto Rico are Official US Citizens. Plus he has the Puerto Rican Flag tattooed on his hand, which was highlighted in his latest TV AD. Look for it. --4.250.192.48 20:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic Record

First off... I fixed the table to show bronze instead of gold. But Carmelo's olympic experience isn't documented other than he was on the team. Anyone have his stats? 24.58.47.53 01:42, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Puetrocian = Mutliracial

Firstly you need a source. If someone looks at Carmello Anthony they would assume he is black so you need a source that suggest or proves that Anthony is half Puetro Rican. Also there are black Puerto Ricans so that doesn't make him Multiracial if his dad was a black Puerto Rican. There needs to be sources that say his Puerto Rican parent is not only Puerto Rican but not black, otherwise Anthony is not multiracial, or we cannot assume that because he is not very multiracial looking.

Well his mother is half black so thats why he is black. But really, i dont event think this is relevant, he is puerto rican,its in his blood.

It may be in his blood, but his passport reads "US", as does his national team jersey. Please differentaite between nationality and descent. -Plasticbadge 15:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hopefully this will settle it

Team USA's first loss in Olympic play using NBA players was to Puerto Rico in Athens. Anthony's late father was from Puerto Rico, and he has family there. The Baltimore product had a Puerto Rican flag tattooed on his hand last year. His fiancée, Lala Vasquez, also is Puerto Rican.

Anthony hasn't forgotten that historic loss.

"I don't know (my family there) that well, but the Spanish people I do know gave me some grief," Anthony said.

SOURCE: http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_4128772

--4.250.192.48 20:55, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy

Why is there no mention of his appearing in the "all rats must die" gangster video that threatened the life of witnesses in drug cases?

There should also be a statement about his attitude in an appearance on an episode of Punk'd. He displayed no class whatsoever. This is a possible foreshadowing of the in-game brawl.

[edit] POV

I added the {{POV-check}} template to this page, because it seems to be written exclusively from a pro-Carmelo Anthony/Denver Nuggets point of view. For example, "Unfortunately, LA stole the first two games of the series." There are also some unnecessary adjectives like "dazzled". Khatru2 21:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I did some cleanup in the rookie section of the article to eliminate some of the POV nature. I also cleaned up some of the grammar, made the references to him more consistent (Anthony, not Melo or Carmelo), and changed the spelling of post-season "birth" to "berth." I left in some of the basketball vernacular, but took out words like "torched" and "unfortunately." Before I get scolded, I am a native of Syracuse and a lifelong fan of the Orange(men) so Melo is something akin to a god to me, but even I could tell that this is NPOV. If there are no ojections, I'll see about cleaning the rest of it up. Mykll42 07:59, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I did some further cleanup in the Further seasons (awkward section title). I eliminated the POV language, eliminated some of the less critical statistics (passing Laphonso Ellis for 14th on the Nuggets all time scoring list seemed less than notable). Any instance of Carmelo or Melo I changed to "Anthony." It's hard to sound NPOV or encyclopedic when we constantly switch names. I eliminated the mention 13 coaches voting for him because I couldn't find it in the Denver Post (and I didn't understand it anyway). I don't know if other basketball players include up to date statistics on their page, but that's not really what an encyclopedia is for. If someone bolder than me wants to eliminate a lot of those milestones, I wouldn't mind but I think the author should do it. Mykll42 20:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Your edits have been a major improvement to the article, and I no longer think that there is a POV issue. I added an {{unreferenced}} template to the "Charity work" section, because it needs more specific citations. Thanks. Khatru2 23:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Rockin, glad I could help. Maybe I'll take a peek at those donations myself. Mykll42 23:26, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarism

Uh ohhhh.... someone was a bad boy! Large parts of his charitable donations are plagiarized from that article where I found the citation. I'll look up how to fix plagiarism issues, but if someone fixes it before me, that'd be cool. This is the pilfered article: [1] Mykll42 06:46, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, yeah... one of the other paragraphs was lifted wholesale, too. I kept and cited the one important line and just tossed the rest. The third paragraph was actually original work (!) but I wnet ahead and found sources for the info anyway. This was fun for my first attempt at straightening out an article. I got to play with POV, missing sources, and plagiraism, all in one go! Mykll42 07:09, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Please don't remove my comments. In researching the unsourced statements I found most of the article lifted whole cloth from NBA.com. I fixed it but there is no reason to delete it. Mykll42 22:56, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orangemen, not Orange

At the time Anthony played for the SU basketball team, they were known as the Orangemen.

[edit] A living legend

This was added to his nickname box. A google search for "living legend" and "Carmelo Anthony" yielded 365 results. None of those results referred to Carmelo as the living legend. Please don't do that.

[edit] house

He lives in colorado. he is a smoker —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 168.254.226.153 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Put in a picture

We need a picture of Carmelo.