Talk:Mehdi Dehbi

Tunisian descent?
Though listed in several articles as being part Tunisian, someone that plausibly seems to be him strenuously denies this on the French Wikipedia and asks for respect of his privacy:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Contributions/https://www.lalibre.be/culture/medias-tele/mehdi-dehbi-l-etoile-eclairee-51b8d078e4b0de6db9c0a0c3

So just to be safe, I removed that information until more solid information comes out. --Kai Carver (talk) 09:23, 18 January 2020 (UTC)


 * There is an OTRS notice at fr:User:Mdehbi that I think confirms that this editor is Mehdi Dehbi or is acting on his behalf. This indicates a clear conflict of interest. We should approach this issue with tact, see WP:BLPKINDNESS, but we should not allow this article's content to be dictated by Dehbi's preferences. As with all BLP articles we must ensure that all sensitive content is reliably sourced. Earlier versions of this article have had several unsourced claims. Two sources appear to be reliable:
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 * Our articles on La Libre and The National indicate these they are major newspapers in Belgium and Abu Dhabi, and are not characterised by sensationalist tabloid journalism. However, User:Mdehbi has placed a note on a user talk page stating that the La Libre article is "defamatory and incorrect", and that "Dehbi's team are in legal procedure to have those false information removed".
 * Reliable sourcing is insufficient, we must also follow the neutral point of view policy. We should not give Dehbi's family background or ethnicity undue prominence, and something is of no relevance then we should not mention it. However, I think that family background is always relevant in biographical articles, and is particularly relevant here because Dehbi has played several characters with Arab or North African heritage and because his name appears to have a non-European origin. I think we should wait for a week or so for a discussion here before adding an appropriate sentence. As we have a source for Moroccan and one for Tunisian we could compromise on 'North African ancestry'. Verbcatcher (talk) 06:13, 31 January 2020 (UTC)