Talk:Mark-Paul Gosselaar/Archives/2013

Indonesian?
His mother is not Indonesian, I met her once during a press party for NBC, Mark introduced me to her and she was white with blonde hair. I don't think that website for the referrence is valid, and neither would IMDB since it is also edited by "fans". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.32.28.96 (talk) 23:32, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

This page was mentioned today (7 February) in a The Onion article, which claims that it was obviously written by Gosselaar himself, on those grounds. (as with his IMDB trivia). For the record, he seems in fact to have been rather modest. (Not that I'm sure how you measure the length in "pages" of a single web page.)

Journalists these days. Don't they do any research? Last year's piece by Larry Groznick on "Weird Al" Yankovic's wikipedia article was at least accurate.

--User:136.142.22.65

There was a link in our article to the Onion article, but I removed it on the grounds that it's more about WP and The Onion than about Gosselaar.


 * Funny mention on http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45124

--Toby Bartels 15:49, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


 * sigh* The Onion is a satirical web-paper and not based on reality. Are people really this dense?


 * I think the above-mentioned grounds are unfounded. The brief is most definitely about MPG, and it adds something to the entry. Furthermore, it is a good-natured satire, noted as such, and is in no way damaging to MPG. BabuBhatt 23:14, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Avoid self-references. There's no need to mention it; it adds nothing to the article.  It's semi-humorous, but NOT ENCYCLOPEDIC.  Ral315 (talk) 18:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I've scanned Avoid self-references and do not see where it applies. If i am mistaken please point out where. This is not a case of any Wikipedian talking about Wikipedia, it is a case of a real-world satiric reference to the subject of the article. You wouldn't find it in Britannica, but if I had missed the Onion's brief, I would be glad to find a link to it here. Are you saying that all references to the Onion outside of The Onion should be deleted? BabuBhatt 19:02, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The point is that if we were an encyclopedia other than Wikipedia, we would never consider mentioning Wikipedia in the Mark-Paul Gosselaar article. So we shouldn't. Markyour words 19:42, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't think a mention of Wikipedia in the article is warranted. That's not what I meant to indicate. BabuBhatt 20:07, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I disagree that the Onion link is worthy of inclusion. This is parody humor, and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.  The reference is unencylopedic as it says nothing true about the subject of this article.  Unless you want to add a section about "humorous references to Mark-Paul Gosselaar" and come up with several more such links, the link should be removed.  The argument we should be using isn't about self-reference, it's about unencyclopedic content. Canonblack 13:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Just want to point out that Mark Paul Gosselaar's mother is Indonesian, and she's a charming lady. Ahassan05 (talk) 20:41, 13 July 2009 (UTC)ahassan05

Actually she is not really Indonesian.In the Dutch-Indiës/Indonesia, the people with mixed blood(Indonesian and European/Dutch),Dutch nationality or status and Dutch Eurasian culture, are known as (in the former Dutch-Indiës)Indo-Europeans/Indische Nederlanders or in English, Dutch Eurasians or Indonesian Dutch. So,his mother is actually a Dutch Eurasian from Dutch-Indiës/Indonesia and not Indonesian:Javanese,Sumatrese,Balinese or even Sundanese.

I think Mark-Paul should read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo_people

Noordin28 (talk) 09:59, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

The mother had Indonesian citizenship...
but was ethnically Dutch. 184.96.247.138 (talk) 23:38, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Filipino?
Why is there a link to "people of Filipino descent" at the bottom of the page? He himself says his father is Dutch and his mother, Indonesian. I'm sure the Indonesians and Filipinos would be surprised to find out that they share a country.Will (talk) 19:53, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * In The Washington Post interview I can see, he says his mother is Indonesian. Then there's a different version of the same article that states Filipino, here, but I'm not sure where it came from or why there's a difference? The Indonesian background fits in with Gosselaar's mother's Dutch-sounding name, Pauline van den Brink. BTW, there are genealogies of Gosselaar's father's side here and here. Gosselaar's paternal grandfather, Aron "Arie" Gosselaar, was a Dutch Jew, and Gosselaar's paternal grandmother, Ida Ferdinanda "Itty" Kosel, was German (I am not sure if she was Jewish). All Hallow&#39;s Wraith (talk) 01:55, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Mark paul Indo mother of Bali or Java? I look at the list Mark paul gosselar is Javanese mother, whereas in profile is from Bali ethnic..