Talk:David Foster
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This page appears to require cleanup; it contains subjective statements such as "Like Paris Hilton, the two sons have questionable talent but are good looking."
- Recently David Foster worked with The Corrs on their album Forgiven, Not Forgotten? That album was released in 1995. I would say that's an error. Also, I'm particularly interested in finding a catalogue of his works, and this information is nowhere to be found. - Mindbender 03:46, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I find this line to be incomprehensible- "In 1992, he struck Ben Vereen with a car while Vereen was walking along the Pacific Coast Highway. It was ruled unintentional, although hundreds of thank-you notes poured in for months following the incident." Thank-you notes? If this is accurate it requires elaboration. -Rob 60.42.35.153 01:02, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
I second the above comment, that paragraph needs further elaboration/removal. - Charles
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[edit] Fansite
The tone of this article reads like that found on a fansite. It is full of trivia, NPOV or OR statements, and generally unreferenced. It also doesn't conform to style guidelines. I moved the biographical information out of the lead into a subsection. The discussion of his marriages and children needs to be more explicit, it is currently indecipherable. The page is not in bad shape but needs the attention of an experienced editor to get appropriate tone, style, and citations. Madcoverboy 06:31, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Article Grammer/Style
I know this article needs work and that there's room for improvement as far as 'tactical' article writing is concerned. I've done much of the editing and appriciate whoever put info about David's personal life in the separate section 'Personal', b/c I wouldn't have known how to do it myself. Understand and bear in mind that this website isn't very user-friendly when it comes to posting various things, expecially in the 'disussion' area of each article. I'm sorry if the posted info isn't up to your uppity-duppity, hoity-toity, formal, proper, professional standards. I would do a better job, but I just don't have time. I'm very articulate, but somehow, I can't seem to get this article to be, either.
Mind you, I'm new to this Wikipedia thing and don't come around here as often b/c the mods have been really snotty [not to mention unprofessional] towards me. Moreover, I just don't have time to stay up here [and waste time] fooling around all day long; I've got better things to do. So if anyone thinks they can edit the article to more 'tactical, professional grammatical' standards, then help yourself; knock yourself out and feel free to assess [and revise] it to measure up to the Wikipedia article guidelines. By the way, the information I got for the article come strictly from various articles [and interviews] I've collected on David Foster over the past few years.
I also want to add that as a big fan of David Foster, I wouldn't dare deliberately post any information about him that is false, misleading, offensive, defametory, or libelous. The only reason I came around here to start with is to find out basic info about either famous, well-known, or just people I know of, like their birth names, middle names, dates of birth, birthplace, parents' names, history, etc. I didn't know that various strangers could tamper with the various articles from time to time until sometime later, when I'd stuck around here long enough [which was a BIG mistake, to say the least].
Wikieuphoria 05:56, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Changes
I went ahead and made a few changes. I am not an experienced editor nor do I know much about Foster. I removed extraneous trivia such as "On the track, Montag's fiancée Spencer Pratt was featured rapping." Biased statements were altered or removed to recognize NPOV.
The following paragraph was removed:
- From an early age, it was apparent that he would make his mark in the music industry and he began taking piano lessons at the age of 5. As a keyboardist, he established himself in the early 1970s as a sought-after session musician.[1]
His early childhood needs more information to include his introduction to the piano. I suppose it could be stuck elsewhere in the article, but risks sounding trivial.
I decided to keep this, but slapped on the end of another paragraph. I am now doubting this decision and am thinking about axing the sentence:
- He is a cousin of race car driver Billy Foster.
There are still some issues with the article, but as it is Christmas, I don't want to spend anymore time at the computer.
MangyMaestro (talk) 20:03, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of incorrect info...
Foster co-wrote the song "Sweet Dreams" with Jon Anderson from the second Yes album Time and a Word released in 1970. Actually, a differnet David Foster worked with Yes, so I removed this sentence. 172.129.128.20 (talk) 03:53, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
"He also produced Houston's record breaking single 'I Will Always Love You', the best selling single worldwide with sales over 11 million." I removed this because a) of course he also produced it, he produced the album it's on, and b) it's not the best selling single worldwide (it's #8) and it doesn't have sales over 11 million (though it does have sales over 10 million). Brainmouse (talk) 13:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
