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"Unbalanced" flag

Never heard of MacDonald until I clicked through to this article from another place today. It reads as highly biased against the individual. Before marking as unbalanced I did a few minutes' searching on the web and found there is a mixture of positive and negative opinions of him and his art, yet the authors have cherry-picked only strongly negative views and subjective opinions, including the entirety of the "public image" section. It is far from neutral. 82.21.19.72 (talk) 12:58, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please cite some of the positive press, or better yet, add it to the article yourself, as long as it's from reliable sources. Wikipedia goes by what reliable sources say; if they're more negative on him, then it's fine if our article reflects that (see WP:FALSEBALANCE). Elli (talk | contribs) 15:57, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@82.21.19.72 I agree 100%. 2600:1009:B116:14AB:DC27:29F9:F5F9:FCBF (talk) 23:21, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hungary?

It seems more than a little odd that, out of all the non-Anglophone countries that have their own music charts, this dude would happen to be disproportionately successful in Hungary of all places.

I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but given the way the current Hungarian government has been relentlessly promoting right-wing viewpoints around the world, it wouldn’t surprise me if Viktor Orban or someone on his staff has been mass-downloading his songs (or arranging for them to be mass-streamed) as a way of boosting MacDonald’s popularity in Hungary and elsewhere. Either that or MacDonald himself is involved; maybe he performed concerts there because they invited him to.

There definitely has to be a story behind this phenomenon, and I’m sure there’s a source explaining why MacDonald is so popular in Hungary. It would be worth checking Hungarian-language media as well (much of which is state-sponsored thanks to Orban’s policies); I’m sure MacDonald has been written about extensively in that market given his chart success there. 2604:2D80:6984:3800:0:0:0:AD8C (talk) 15:50, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty sure no one in the English-speaking world "needs" Hungary to tell them to dislike their current liberal government policies. Intelligent people can come to that conclusion on their own.2604:3D09:C77:4E00:30DE:3552:240:F00D (talk) 15:17, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Public Image section - biased content?

I may be out of line here, but the "Public Image" section seems to be very unbalanced. It seems less like an unbiased section of an article, and more like a smear piece by someone who doesn't like his music. Wouldn't it be reasonable to add some of the positive coverage he's received, for balance? Again, I could be wrong here, and I'm new to the whole Wikipedia Editing Scene; so please correct me if I'm wrong.

While I'm here, it feels more like a "Critical Response" section, than covering his public image. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to cover his public persona and such, rather than what other people have said about his music? Again, I may be wrong. Daniel P Botes (talk) 20:44, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for your comment!

Even if you don’t want to (or can’t) edit this page in ever-so shrinking metric that is spare time, we need reliable sources (pssst… you can check this list of commonly agreed-upon reliable sources on Wikipedia). You can edit the page with these sources in mind or leave the sources in the talk page here as resources for future editors to add, but always stay wary about expressing opinions about someone proportionally with their media coverage around said opinion (after filtering for reliable sources, of course :)). Alright, have fun wikipediaing! Alwaysgonnaedit (talk) 10:49, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]