Talk:Jimmy Iovine/Archives/2015

Prominence of Springsteen references are problematic
I have already corrected the mixup with Dire Straits vs. Springsteens albums called 'Tunnel of Love'.

There is another problem in that this article misleadingly overemphasises his role in Springsteen recordings. Springsteen albums top the list of the Iovine Discography, but he only acted as sound engineer on those albums. Therefore albums by other artists, that Jimmy actually produced, are further down the list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Registar (talk • contribs) 22:15, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 17:14, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

He's Italian-American. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/interviews/iovine.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.218.227.179 (talk) 04:33, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Posted at WP:BLP/N
I have posted a notice about this article at Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. Recent edits about Iovine's role on American Idol may raise BLP and NPOV issues, since there is disagreement whether the proffered sources support the edits. --Arxiloxos (talk) 18:05, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Selected Discography
Why is there a "selected discography" section with no commentary or description for why certain albums were "selected"? Seems arbitrary and opinionated. 204.128.238.10 (talk) 17:14, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Because you didn't write one yet. Same with the lack of wikilinks.  As with everything in Wikipedia, it was obviously implicitly selected based on notability.  So, now, someone can research the list (possibly from the existing articles for each album) and provide citations for the actual chart positions and sales figures.  But Wikipedia's discography manual says that it's not absolutely required to cite everything with materials that are thoroughly publicly cited, such as published albums of music, because it's so thoroughly and routinely published, unless it's somehow controversial.  It was already a totally insane amount of work for one person just to create the original list, and then another insane amount of work for me to copyedit and format that list into something readable without deleting it.  So thanks for your interest, and have fun! — Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 18:48, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Current Events
Iovine's page currently says Beats is "rumored to be selling" but that has now been confirmed by public statements from Apple. The deal is still in progress but it's not "rumored" anymore.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/technology/apple-confirms-its-3-billion-deal-for-beats-electronics.html?_r=0

173.8.186.37 (talk) 20:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Which year?
The top of the article states that "In 2006, Iovine teamed with Dr. Dre to found Beats Electronics, a company which produces audio products and operates a music streaming service." whithout any source. In the business career section it says "In 2008, Iovine teamed up with Dr. Dre to co-found Beats By Dre, a headphones brand." with Rolling Stone as a source. The Rolling Stone article is from 2009 and doesn't provide any date.

Which year is right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.116.136.255 (talk) 20:08, 18 November 2015 (UTC)