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Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
In Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's Wikipedia Articles, they each have a section regarding their collaboration with Williams. Can, must, and should we do the same for Williams's Wikipedia Article? Because I would assume that Williams's work with Spielberg and Lucas is one of the biggest if not the biggest and most important aspect of Williams's career. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:204:CF80:7440:39BF:8A50:657A:405D (talk) 15:20, 21 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
I can link several articles where February 8, 1932 is listed. Frankly I am surprised this is even a discussion, it has always been publicly known and accepted as the correct date. Why is this even coming up? 
Article to confirm: On his 90th birthday, here's John Williams conducting the Boston Pops
Famous birthdays for Feb. 8: John Williams, Robert Klein - UPI.com
Fans Wish John Williams A Happy 90th Birthday: 'Without John Williams (theblast.com)
February 8: Happy Birthday John Williams and James Dean – Lebeau's Le Blog (lebeauleblog.com)
John Williams' 90th Birthday February 8, 2022 | IMDb Community Forums (sprinklr.com)
JOHN WILLIAMS 90TH BIRTHDAY SPECIAL - PART ONE - Cinematic Sound Radio Podcast
I'm not sure why the birthdate was removed, we already had a cite to the New York Times article in Feb 2022[2] about his 90th birthday. In any event cites now appear right after the introductory mention of his birthday.--Milowent • hasspoken20:48, 15 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
If anyone needs to discuss removing the birthday again, including Toddst1 let's please discuss here first! We need to consider the reader's experience here, and the wanton removal of birthdates that are quite verifiable degrades the user experience of the reader. I am sure there are thousands of BIO articles that just have birthdates slipped in there without any easy means of verification but this is not one of them.--Milowent • hasspoken13:58, 17 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Specifically, what does the first sentence of WP:SYN say?
I am boggled at your behavior, Toddst1. This was easily verifiable information and we need good editors like you improving articles not running around making work for me, even if i was once named the best of all editors of all time.--Milowent • hasspoken20:39, 17 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
In that case wouldn't every infobox that calculates somebody's current age based on their birthdate be synthesis, unless there's a source that explicitly states their current age? –CWenger (^ • @) 19:03, 18 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I looked up this composer after seeing a live interview with him, and wondering how old he was. He's 91 at this point, still working and quite compos mentis. IMHO this article is one of the best I've seen in crowdsourced editing, with the most of any individual contributing amounting to just over 6%. The third most is just over 3%. Activist (talk) 08:14, 6 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Is it really necessary to have the template NFL on NBC on the article? Perhaps, John Williams did the music for the show, but I have seen countless documentaries on Williams and the NFL was never mentioned to my recollection. It just seems way too prominent on the bottom relative to his extensive body of work in FILM.
level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Done. Alexcalamaro (talk) 08:02, 3 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
