Talk:Benji Madden

What is UP?
Something is wrong with this page. Under tattoos someone messed it up or something. I don't know what tatoos he has so i can't fix it...can someone help maybe? <3/Teentitans! 22:25, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know about this; I've reverted the article to a previous version of it in the page's history. It should be fine now. --Idont Havaname 03:23, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Whoever keeps posting "o yea he is the man" at the bottom of the article, please stop. It is completely irrelevant to his biography or to his tattoo listings. Please stop.

Copyvio content added recently
Somebody added some copyvio to the article recently, namely the "Benji's Fave things" section, which is copy-and-pasted from this and many other websites. WP:CP says that we should just assume that everything is copyrighted once it's published. Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia. --Idont Havaname 01:06, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Benji's tattoos
The left side of his neck: The Virgin Mary, and below it is written "Saved by Grace."

The right side of the neck: The agonizing Jesus, and below it is written "No Greater Love."

throat/front of neck: a heart with horns around it. Coming out of the heart are flames with a keyhole in the flames right over his voicebox.

Stomach: "PUNX" in 6-inch black letters.

left shoulder: "GC" in a circle with Irish flag colors.

upper left arm: a knife going through a set of brass knuckles with flames around it. "PUNX" and "Take It To The Streets" are tattooed beneath it, and "East Coast" tattooed above it. -a skull and crossbones, -a blue nautical star with "Joel" beneath it, -"Cash" and a martini glass

left elbow: -Spiderweb that he got with Tony from Mest, -"GC", -a skull and crossbones

lower left arm: -the last supper, -a dagger with 2 sparrows, -the world on fire, -a scroll with a text from Revelation 21:1: "and I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away.", - the number 21, - a blue hinge in his elbow

right shoulder: a crown and underneath it says "MoM".

upper right arm: - a blue nautical star with "benjamin" tattooed beneath it, -an Irish flag, -a bunny with a cross on its chest, -what appears to be a wagon with a skeleton in a suit sitting on it.

right elbow: -a flower surrounding a skull.

lower right arm: -a graveyard with Jesus standing in it, holding a lamb. -a guy holding balloons, -alice from 'alice in wonderland' kneeling and crying.

right leg: PxPx, the MxPx head logo, -Minor Threat sheep, -Rancid (as in the band), "NFG" (for New Found Glory) -GC (yet again).

right hand: a stitches tattoo, in between his thumb and index finger, that he got with his friend, Brian, as signifying blood brothers

On the outside of his right hand there are the letters "AMC." This stands for "American Murder Crew." It is something that he, Joel, and their group of friends from D.C. all have

Across his right knuckles he has M-A-D-E

Across his left knuckles he has M-A-N, and a horseshoe with stars on his pinky

On the right side of his chest he has a GC sparrow with "Sarah," his sister's name, underneath it

On the left side of his chest he has a GC sparrow with "Josh," the name of his brother
 * The material above has been moved from the main article to this discussion page until someone can WP:CITE credible sources for all of this information. Whether each and every one of Mr Madden's tattoos need to be listed in an encyclopedia article is also up for debate.  Hall Monitor 18:33, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Articles on some other celebrities list their tattoos, but I've seen several articles (Mariah Carey was a relatively recent one) get nominated for Article Improvement Drive because they had too much fan trivia. Listing all of his tattoos (considering that he does have many) is fan trivia, and I had always thought that that section needed cleanup anyway.  It probably was good to remove it; thanks. --Idont Havaname 21:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

New Pic
If I am not mistaking (and I can be, isn't that picture one of Benji with the girl that one of Joel Madden? I mean if you look closley at the unedited pictutre, you can't see the MADE MAN on his knuckles. Awhitfie
 * The current picture just looks like a head shot to me (and half of a girl's face). Earlier versions of this article had two pictures of him, but those were removed due to copyright concerns (see the page history).  Image:Benji Madden.jpg was there, but it still isn't sourced with one of the Image copyright tags.  You're welcome to add a different picture of him, though please make sure it's sourced correctly.  (I know that deciding which of those tags to use can be a real headache, but try to do the best that you can if you're going to add a new picture of him.  If you're not sure, you can always ask for help at Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags.) --Idont Havaname 23:01, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The www.defenselink.mil article I found the photo on said that it was Benji Madden in the photo, not Joel. Extraordinary Machine 15:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The image was simply mislabeled. Those things happened. The picture is of Joel Madden. Benji has 5 facial piercings: 3 on his lip, one Monroe (above the corner of the upper lip), and his nose. None of those are present. Also,you can clearly see Joel's large mole on the left side of his face in this picture. And also, Benji has many tattoos on his neck, Joel does not. Spuddy 17 05:41, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

–I've added another image, this one cut from their official site, but I'm not sure of its license.

Cleanup
I came across this article looking at people from Maryland. I know a deal about this person from meeting him and knowing him before his fame. I can confirm the Last Supper tattoo, as he got that the day of his first National CD release party and debuted it to everyone at the Acme Bar in Annapolis, Maryland. I am going to see if I can find a picture from my collection to post, even if its supplmental to the article, further down the page. I am also putting this on my watch list so I can help the cleanup. The article looks like it was taken in part from the IMDB bio which was written by someone I know, which is also first hand knowledge of him. So there is a bit of a jumble when it comes to the father leaving and as to why, its not because they took their mother's maiden name as their last name, as the article reads now. --vi 22:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Caleigh Peters
I found an article in the newspaper about benji and caleigh. i googled it and it seemed right so i put it there. I dunno if anyone else cares though, but get rid of it if you dont agree. peace out GEorGE 23:49, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Clean-up
This page could use a clean-up. If you look at Joel Maddens page it's a lot more organized. I'm not sure how to get it started.--Jennie Ambrose 05:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Relatives
The article mentions his brother and sister, but not his uncle John Madden, why is that? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The globetrotter (talk • contribs) 00:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

Benji moving?
at the melbourne good charlotte concert (october 13) benji announced that he was moving to australia. i dont know if that should be in here and, if it should be, how to cite it. does anyone want to put it in? i didnt know so i left it here for discussion...124.188.25.83 09:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Sexiest man alive
I got rid of "Benji Madden won the Sexiest Man in the World award in 1979-2008", cause its rubbish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hannahmay (talk • contribs) 12:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

New picture
It would be nice if a good, new and fresh picture of him would be added. I mean, the main picture is quite old and I would appreciate if someone took time to add a new one.. maybe from this year or last year. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.72.225.46 (talk) 16:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Marriage in the Info Box?
Should the info box mention his marriage? I notice that Diaz's box mentions this but this info box is a little different as it refers to mostly musical issues rather than general background. I was surprised that there wasn't a mention of this already in the article though.-- XANIA - ЗAНИAWikipedia talk &#124; talk 22:07, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I tell a lie - it is mentioned after all.-- XANIA - ЗAНИAWikipedia talk &#124; talk 22:08, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

I didn't see it. His spouse should be mentioned in info box. Friendlyliz (talk) 17:37, 28 March 2019 (UTC)