Talk:Fonzworth Bentley

Images
I found images but i dont know how to dd them, http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-30,GGLG:en&q=FARNSWORTH%20BENTLEY&sa=N&tab=wi, thats the link —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohyeahilovegirlz (talk • contribs) 12:23, May 17, 2006 (UTC)
 * You can't just add any image. Observe copyright laws, please. VarunRajendran.

Hip hop?
This guy is NOT a hip hop artist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sp4i6 (talk • contribs) 03:50, September 26, 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe not 2 and a half years ago, but now he is

Cool, Outrageous, Lovers Of Uniquely Raw Style!--Josecarlos1991 (talk) 19:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Tone
Is all wrong. I'm changing it. "The famous," "the Big Apple," etc. do not belong on Wikipedia. They are colloquialisms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.101.3 (talk) 05:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * And probably written by himself, friends, or someone he hired. Why is this even on Wikipedia? Wikipedia should not be a tabloid for the assistants of passe rappers. I changed the tone, which made me want to vomit. Now, I will look to submit this article for deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.101.3 (talk) 05:21, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I heavily, heavily, changed the tone of this article but still question its purpose on Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.101.3 (talk) 07:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Improvement in tone is laudable, but deletion is not appropriate
The unsigned comments above express appropriate sentiment regarding the tone of the article, but deletion is unwarranted. Bentley, thought previously a personal assistant for Diddy, is now a significant hip hop artist in his own right, with a new album under the G.O.O.D. label, a featured spot with the track C.O.L.O.U.R.S. in Kanye West's recent "Can't Tell Me Nothing" mixtape, and prominence in major news outlets, including the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/fashion/21UMBR.html?ex=1395205200&en=8f66fde94fc83b72&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND. The posts above seem to take issue with the quality of Bentley's work, but the fact that Bentley is a prominent figure is sufficient to warrant a Wikipedia page, and the above poster's personal musical preferences are not relevant.Anuraagc (talk) 08:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Should we add Fonzworth Bentley as a possible suspect in the murder of BIG?
This is not an accusation of a crime. This is a discussion about whether or not we should discuss the possibility of adding Fonzworth Bentley as a possible suspect in Wallace's murder. Many people point out the similarity between Bentley and the police composite sketch as seen below:

Exhibit A, Biggie's murderer's composite sketch: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Composite-of-BIG-shooting-suspect.jpg

Exhibit B, Bentley's new show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:From_gstogents.jpg

Exhibit C, random Bentley shot: http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/vel16/uploaded_images/fonz-768179.jpg

Know what i am saying? --Josecarlos1991 (talk) 07:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Only if you have a reliable, verifiable source that has named Bentley as a suspect. The above links make no mention of where that "sketch" came from. That, along with the fact that's just a link on Wikipedia, and the "suspect" has a bowtie, creates the appearance that you're merely attempting to be make a joke, which is not what these Talk Pages are for. Nightscream (talk) 08:47, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * my brotha, it aint no joke, that sketch is the actual one that was made by the LAPD --Josecarlos1991 (talk) 19:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * And if you can document that the LAPD considers hims a suspect with a verifiable, reliable source, then by all means do so. Nightscream (talk) 14:10, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I dont know how to do that )= --Josecarlos1991 (talk) 20:00, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * is this a reliable source ma brothas?--Josecarlos1991 (talk) 05:51, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

It doesn't look like a reliable news source. It looks like someone's personal blog. What are that person's credentials? The piece makes no mention that the police consider Bentley a suspect. It does mention, however, that "the case was officially closed in 2005." Nightscream (talk) 17:50, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Given Name
Every link I find on wikipedia pointing to this article lists Bentley's given name as Derek Watkins. Perhaps some mention of this should be in the article? Is it a source verification problem? -- 72.177.83.171 (talk) 08:31, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * If you want to put it in the article, then it indeed needs a reliable, verifiable source. (Btw, new posts and threads go on the bottom, not the top.) Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 00:00, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Edit request from 67.9.0.189, 30 April 2011
www.therealmrbentley.com

67.9.0.189 (talk) 16:16, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Notdone Explain what you whant done

This article has been messy for years
Either delete it or clean it up, it's gross. Blsupr (talk) 15:10, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

I could provide the links. But I don't see an edit button. They really need to clean this up — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.51.231.138 (talk) 10:50, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

someone with access, add that he was on  Wild 'n Out   the tv show  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.120.250.28 (talk) 21:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

I agree with the lack of an edit button comment. I was told that this gentleman (by-the-way--VERY handsome photograph...I never looked at him seriously...he always was "in character" to me, personally, but he looks QUITE handsome, and very much someone to be taken seriously) was [is] a graduate of the VERY prestigious Historically Black College, Morehouse, in Atlanta, GA (which by-the-way is also Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s alma mater as well). I have yet to look this up online, but I remember a gentleman telling me this in 2004, and being visibly offended at Mr. Bentley's decision, as a college graduate of such a prestigious school, to work as a "butler" for Sean "P.Diddy/Puffy" Combs (by-the-way (and this will be me LAST 'by-the-way,' by-the-way) I have no problem with/I don't see ANYTHING wrong with (i.e. dishonorable with) a man, performing a REAL man's honest job, such as being a butler, or a janitor, or fast-food worker, et cetera, especially in a day where the media and kids and adults worldwide regard drug-dealers, pimps, and other societal miscreants (and I can look down, personally on NO-ONE, but it's NOTHING to be boasted or bragged of...selling another person's life-up-the-river...but hey...,) as figures to be looked up to (I guess that's until those "cool," "rich," "hustlers," destroy YOUR neighborhood, or "turn-out" YOUR daughter (or even more sadly, YOUR son....I just wanted to state that for the record). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.1.183 (talk) 02:48, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

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filmography
Fat Albert was 2004.

67.83.60.230 (talk) 12:59, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ thanks for pointing that out - Arjayay (talk) 13:56, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Page protection
This really is the Article that Time Forgot. Does it really still need protection at this point? It's from way back in 2009 and he's far less relevant nowadays. sixty nine  • speak up •  05:40, 29 July 2017 (UTC)