Talk:Jonathan Coulton

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Contents 1 Unverifyable content 2 Creative Commons 3 POV 4 Sources

[edit] Unverifyable content

I removed this: Jonathan Coulton the son of the thunder and the wide-open plain. He eats sixteen eggs for breakfast, and he beat up your big brother. He has played in concert halls in Danzig, Sebastapol and Kinshasa and by command of Michael_I_of_Romania.

In his spare time, Jonathan Coulton likes to fight bears. In fact, before he became a professional software programmer, part-time performer, and contributing troubador to popular technical publications, his dream was to be a professional bear fighter. Unfortunately, however, there really isn't much of a demand for bear fighting. Not anymore. Not since the Swiss-Austrian legend of the game, Andre "the Bear-Fighting Maniac" Schvitzkein was mauled to death during a public demonstration in the animal husbandry exhibition of the 1889 Leipzig Circus. So, having been born to the wrong century, Coulton had to pursue other interests. Still, he sometimes steals off by himself, to one of America's national parks, and seek out a particularly ferocious grizzly, or an agitated brown bear, for a little one-on-one.

Clever, but I'm not sure that can be factually verified. Jon 20:25, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Creative Commons

Suggest adding that since Jonathan Coulton uses Creative Commons for licensing, a number of music_videos have been creating using his songs. Machinima such as Mike "Spiff" Booth's videos for Re: Your Brains and Just As Long As Me are created using computer generated graphics from games such as World of Warcraft. There are also videos in the style of Coulton's Flickr which use Creative Commons licensed photographs from Flickr as a slideshow accompaniment to the song. The Jonathan Coulton Project has created a number of these.

Link to Spiff's videos at http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=spiffworld Link to The Jonathan Coulton Project at http://jocopro.libsyn.com/ --AiYume 19:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

A simple read of this page reveals it to be woefully biased towards the subject. I reverted some of the "critical overview" added by Hippobabe.--Drat (Talk) 11:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

Most of the sources cited in this article are trivial. The mention on The Daily Show establishes little other than that some guy on TV thought it was funny (a guy who he worked with on a track). The Slashdot and Penny Arcade mentions are extremely trivial (how many millions of things have they linked to?).--Drat (Talk) 07:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, Drat. Are you suggesting that the sources or the subject are non-notable? I don't see any claims in the article that need stronger references - I mean, we're not claiming the man is God.  :-) Ppe42 12:15, 26 February 2007 (UTC)