Talk:Michael W. Smith

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[edit] Family

Where does it say he's married with five kids? Shouldn't that be in the biography section of this article?

[edit] Hope I didn't mess anything up

first time I ever edited a wikipedia article - wasn't sure how to cite the quote from Smitty (I tried to paraphrase, but when you can quote that part without having watched the video in the last year or so, its kind of hard to truly paraphrase - its what I get for having watched the video 5 times in one day when I was sick once back in highschool... Anyway the quote is there, and I would assume that one quote properly cited would be fair use - but if its a big no no take it back out...

[edit] Thanks!

i tried to add something to this page and deleted some info by mistake.. sorry about that and thanks for fixing it!


[edit] "Presidents"

From the article: "Yet Smith's cozy relationship with recent presidents--and his decision to allow President Bush to use his music for campaign commercials--has been a controversial one."

It has? Who considered it a controversy? This seems like a really weird thing to include in the article. I removed the line that said it was a "mystery," that seems even more POV to me. But even the rest of this seems strange. Solkaige 04:46, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Coveted"?

After two decades, Smith finally won the coveted Male Vocalist of the Year award at the Dove Awards in 2003.

Just a style point, isn't a bit awkward to say that an award for Contemporary Christian music is "coveted"? --Eddylyons 19:20, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New website

I added something about his new website launching @ 12:00 noon on July 5. I don't know how soon until his new record is releasing or what it is called. To view the new site, you need to have Flash 8 installed on your computer. There is a way to have it installed for free from his splash page.--Chili14 (Talk) 18:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Awesome God"

Should we add something about his single from 'Worship' - 'Awesome God', being used so extensively on YTMND.com? The chorus is synonymous with jokes, parodies, satires, skits, short videos, etc. etc. involving christianity. 72.139.89.194 16:38, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I think the original Rich Mullins version is usually used. Sir Lemming 23:45, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] larry king interview

someone should include his discussion with larry king about his drug use http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/10/lkl.01.html

an interesting read, I've added a link to external links Halsteadk 20:24, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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

Image:Project.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 this Wikipedia article 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] His Religious Beliefs

Since Michael W. Smith is a Christian artist, there should be a section about his religious beliefs including what denomination he is. --PaladinWriter (talk) 08:44, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plastic Surgery?

Anyone know if MWS has undergone any plastic surgery recently (past 4 years or so)? To me, he's kind of taken on the transition that Kenny Rogers has, but not to that drastic of an extent. I was just curious as to whether my eyes were deceiving me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.143.90.26 (talk) 18:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

References given as "Brennan", "Long" etc are not acceptable - please could someone who knows what these are give the complete information (article/publication title, date, etc). Thanks Halsteadk (talk) 20:19, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

acho que você não vai entender... sou do brasil contunue assim que deus vai te abençoar mais e mais por tudo é para horra e glória de nosso _GOD_!!!! I LOVE YOU MY FRIEND......... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.166.212.130 (talk) 18:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

sou aquela mesma que disse que você não ia entender por que sou do brasil esqueci de falar MY NAME IS ASENATY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.166.212.130 (talk) 18:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)