Talk:Jean de Brabant

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Good afternoon Thanks in advance for your kind help My biography currently lists the following subjects

•	1Biography o	1.1Les Atriums and Tropics North o	1.2Jobbook

I would like to modify it to read

1Biography o	1.1Les Atriums and Tropics North 1.2 Film biographies o	1.3Jobbook

The new 1.2 would read as follows:

Film biographies Beginning in 1992, Brabant started producing film biographies, mostly for families, in which one or two family members narrate the story of their family. These films, typically lasting between two and four hours are generally illustrated with appropriate pictures and film clips. Families filmed include those of Celia Franca, founder of the National Ballet of Canada, the poet, Irving Layton, Charles Bronfman, former vice-Chair of Seagram’s, Guylaine Saucier and Jean Pouliot, respectively former Chairs of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the TQS television chain; Yves Fortier formerly President of the Canadian Bar Association and the London Court of International Arbitration; formerly Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company and Chair of Alcan Inc.;  Roger Landry, former Publisher of La Presse; Lynton (Red) Wilson, former Chair of Bell Canada Enterprises; Heward Stikeman, founder of Stikeman Elliot, a leading Canadian law firm; William Stinson, former Chair of Canadian Pacific Railway and William Turner, former vice-Chair of the Davos Economic Conference.

I would like to add the following sources References: How do I do that? (This involves, I would imagine, also changing the reference numbers)

Once again thanks so much for your help and volunteering.

Yours faithfully Jean de Brabant Jean Ahern de Brabant (talk) 19:26, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Reply 04-JUL-2018

 * 1) The subject is not known as a producer of filmed biographies, or if they are, there would need to be more references to this line of work provided than these two mentions in la Presse and the Montreal Gazette.
 * 2) The prose suggested to accompany these references says less about subject's involvement in their creation than it does about the people who were featured in them. The COI editor is urged to re-write the prose according to the constraints of any new material their research may have turned up, taking care to focus less on the subjects of the biographies, while focusing more on Mr Brabant's involvement in them and what other references have said about that involvement.
 * 3) The fact that the former publisher of la Presse was a subject of one of these film biographies may indicate a conflict of interest with respect to that publication's having done a report on the biographies in 1995. Without access to the original article, nothing can be stated for sure.
 * 4) The COI editor is urged to continue their search for additional references which would verify this information. To that end, I have placed search suggestions at the top of this page which should aid in that endeavor.
 * Regards,  spintendo   05:28, 5 July 2018 (UTC)