Talk:Andre Charles (artist)

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Some content seems to have been copied and pasted from here http://www.urbanworksnyc.com/history.html Theroadislong (talk) 20:33, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Theroadislong, I've removed a paragraph that was almost verbatim, the rest (6.2%) is mostly little clips and phrases and I'm less than convinced they are an issue. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 20:42, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Name change

The original(?) author has suggested twice in their edit summaries that the article be renamed "Andre Charles". Considering he's known as Andre Charles in all of the news sources, from 1995 to 2011, isn't that a sensible idea? Presumably it would need to be disambiguated to Andre Charles (artist). Sionk (talk) 08:13, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Andre Charles

Thank you for creating the original article for the artist, Andre Charles. I am an unpaid, but official biographer for the artist. As a champion of his work and an admirer of art history I really appreciate your effort to document notable culture.

I wanted to discuss the issue of the title of the article. "Andre Pierre Charles" is the artist's given name, but he is much more commonly refereed to and searched as "Andre Charles". He is less commonly referred to as "A. Charles" or by his tag, "Zone", but is rarely referred to by his given name. Though he went through a small stage (less than one year) using his middle name he does not so now. The reason the google hits may be possibly skewed is because of the performer, RuPaul having the same name, I believe. I am thoroughly familiar with the artist and know he is not referred to by the current title even by his family. I am proposing changing the title to either Andre Charles (artist) or Andre Charles (Zone T.C.T.). If that is OK with you can you make those changes? If not can you please advise?

I am obviously new to Wikipedia and so I don't understand why his quotes from the history section of www.urbanworksny.com cannot be used. Please educate me on this if you have the time.

Thank you so muchFuturonyc (talk) 23:32, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think as suggested above it would be best as Andre Charles (artist) Theroadislong (talk) 08:53, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved it. Though obviously, on a related issue, the full alleged name and DOB is currently unsourced. Sionk (talk) 10:51, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]