Talk:Clive Davis

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Contents 1 Birthyear 2 Fair use rationale for Image:CliveDavis.jpg 3 Potential sources 4 What about his immediate family?

[edit] Birthyear

Was Clive born in 1932 or 1934? There is confusion again between Wikipedia and IMDB. Hotwine8 02:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

For some reasonit now shows up as 1988 in Wikipedia.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:CliveDavis.jpg

Image:CliveDavis.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Potential sources

This site has a bio [1] that is out of date, but in other respects is (in my opinion) better than the Wikipedia bio, and also lists a reference section with incomplete data. Someone with access to Lexis-Nexis could probably find out the titles of these articles. With articles in hand it would be possible to source and improve this entry.

• Forbes, May 23, 1994.
• Los Angeles Times, April 17, 1990; November 17, 1990; November 21, 1990; July 19, 1994.
• Newsday (Long Island, NY), March 14, 1990.
• Newsweek, June 11, 1973; July 7, 1975.
• New York Times Magazine, April 24, 1977.
• Rolling Stone, July 3, 1986.

-Jmh123 19:49, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What about his immediate family?

Shouldn't a true biography contain basic information about the subject's immediate family? Davis is married and has several children, as I recall. Also, this draft is more laudatory than neutreal POV.If you compare this biography to the one on peer Lou Adler, the Adler bio comforms more closely to bio standards. This one needs work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Russ453 (talk • contribs) 04:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)