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Football

"He is a supporter of both Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion". The referenced article says "Now 44, he is an ardent Aston Villa fan, although, as he lives in Brighton, he has a fair way to travel for home games." No mention of Brighton & Hove. A quick web search finds a mention on the Seagulls' [1] but not one which mentions support for the club. Simon Marchese (talk) 09:08, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction

There is a contradiction with regards to where he was born: at the top it says Leicestershire, under personal life it states Bromsgrove 81.107.131.234 (talk) 22:21, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Selected Films

The selected films list is uncomplete. Check Mark Williams at IMDB if you wish to conclude the list of movies he has been in. Do not read again, do not remove this infromation. ForestH2 23:54, 17 April 2006 (UTC)ForestH2[reply]

Of course it's incomplete. That's why it's called a list of selected films. If the list were to contain all the films Williams had been in, it would then be a comprehensive list. However, there's no point in doing that, as the iMDB link is at the bottom of the page anyway. Thefamouseccles 09:19, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What was the product he advertised with that scouse woman, where he says "We wanna be togetha!". That was the very first thing I saw him in. The phrase was commonly used to mock people with West Midlands accents around the time Martyn Smith 07:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was an ad campaign for the Prudential, also featuring Jo Unwin. Tobelia 12:25, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Impartiality

Do phrases like "brilliantly portrayed" and "excellent documentary programmes" break impartiality? These adjectives seem to portray an opinion. For NPOV, it should be made clear that the opinions are themselves taken from sources, if applicable, rather than the opinion of the writer of the article, e.g. "several documentary programs widely regarded to be excellent", or something along those lines. Altreus (talk) 02:42, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, these are opinions. Equally, the claim: 'He is best known as', in the intro paragraph, seems equally out of place, not to mention questionable. surfingus (talk) 11:54, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Television work since 1992

Has Mark Williams ever been in Coronation Street? What other TV programmes has he appeared in? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rootytooty (talk • contribs) 10:13, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rumor is that Mark Williams will be playing Rory Williams-Pond's father in Series 7 of Doctor Who. [2] JenniferRSong (talk) 04:03, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Blandings - Not in season 2

Was he too busy with Father Brown, was he dropped, was it another reason? 92.24.193.198 (talk) 21:50, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Twirlywoos

In what little online research I've done, I cannot find any proof that Williams was ever on Twirlywoos.

Plus, the episode title given in the grid is, according to IMDb, is not correct -- it's too long.

Can someone do a little deeper digging and verify one way or the other?

Also, I find it odd that the entire "Filmography" has absolutely no inline citations or references of any kind. As such, where did all the info come from and can it be verified. 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 03:20, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/twirlywoos/episodes/3/13A - title correct, actor correct. JohnHarris (talk) 15:41, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Alleged errors

There is a 2021 interview with Williams here, with the comment: "He’s covered his career and made jokes about the wild inaccuracies on his Wikipedia page. “A lot of it's wrong. I keep changing it but then people change it back.”" Does this require some action by editors, to correct the purported "wild inaccuracies"? Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:35, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes once I saw that this statement had been published in the Shropshire Star, it has a circular effect, how can we trust anything now in his article. He needed to be more specific about the inaccuracies. The thing is Wikipedia evolves, and will eventually get it right, so reporting this is certainly not helping. I shall leave this article to someone else.James Kevin McMahon (talk) 01:09, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking the action to remove the unsourced content, that's definitely the route to take when there's non-specific feedback from a subject about their Wikipedia biography being inaccurate.

I've gone a little further and removed his date of birth, which was only being sourced to https://www.empireonline.com/people/mark-williams, a metadata search results page with no other information except that purported birth date, which seems to be the bare minimum for those Empire pages and may just be taken from IMDb or somewhere. I can't find any reliable press sources online that even mention Williams' age in passing. Belbury (talk) 13:11, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Date of birth

Is Rotten Tomatoes a WP:RS? It says here that his DoB was 22 August 1959. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:21, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, WP:ROTTENTOMATOES says that There is consensus that Rotten Tomatoes should not be used for biographical information, cast and crew data, or other film and television data, as it is sourced from user-generated and user-provided content with a lack of oversight and verification. Belbury (talk) 10:18, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying. I guess we'd also discount Oxfrodshire Live? Martinevans123 (talk) 10:30, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd think so, the fact that the byline is the site's "SEO writer" doesn't inspire much confidence. Belbury (talk) 10:37, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And British Comedy Guide also looks like it's user-generated? Martinevans123 (talk) 10:48, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hard to say, it may just have been scraped from IMDb to fill their database up.

I'd say we needed especially strong sources here, given that Williams doesn't give his age in newspaper interviews and said in 2021 that a lot of this Wikipedia biography was wrong. Belbury (talk) 11:10, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tend to agree. I have found nothing Brasenose-related. The fact that his name is quite commonplace means that we easily can't use FreeBMD or Companies House to narrow it down. He also doesn't seem to use Twitter or Instagram to mark his own birthdays. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:15, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]