Talk:Will Sharpe

Nationality
I removed the hyphenation from Sharpe's nationality because I saw no reliable sources calling him "Japanese-English". He was born in London; and, although he lived in Japan for his early childhood, he has apparently lived and worked in the UK ever since. It therefore seemed inappropriate to suggest, by adding the "Japanese-", that he was of dual nationality. I see that you re-added the "Japanese". Would you mind explaining why, and/or providing some sources that indicate he is a dual national? AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 17:04, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I didn't have any reliable source either, I replaced it because that's what it had said earlier, before I ever saw the article, and he is in fact ethnically Japanese and speaks the language. I have found this, however, which seems to corroborate the assumption: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/girihaji/will Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 02:02, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've added that source to the article. Still a bit reluctant to say "Japanese-English" because that source doesn't explicitly state it; Sharpe himself identifies as "half-Japanese" (per the interview). I would still prefer "English" or "British" for the lead sentence because Will Sharpe is a half-Japanese actor sounds very odd and Will Sharpe is a Japanese-English actor strikes me as original research. Basically, I am just worried about misrepresenting Sharpe's self-identification on a WP:BLP. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 02:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I get where you're coming from. I actually don't think it's that big of a deal. I mean, if the actor self-identifies as half Japanese, presumably the other half being English, then I would say that's good enough, and if this turns out to be inaccurate, it can be changed later on. Still, I will leave it to your discretion :) Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 02:57, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Personal life
In the 'personal life' section, the first sentence speaks about Will's brother - the second sentence states, 'He has type two bipolar disorder'. It's unclear who 'he' is - Will Sharpe, or Will's brother. I presume it means Will, but it reads as his brother.
 * Fixed :) Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 14:08, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Many thanks for changing that - I didn't want to do it personally as I wasn't sure enough in my presumption. I've just re-watched the second series of Flowers, which along with the first series is a brilliant dark comedy that very competently explores mental ill health in the wonderfully dysfunctional setting of a typically atypical rural British family. Discovering that Will Sharpe lives with bipolar disorder makes Flowers all the more poignant and explains how & why Will was able to create it so perfectly. Also, I want to add that the discussion (above) around how to describe Will's nationality strikes me as rather ludicrous. He was born in the UK with a Japanese mother, spent his childhood until age 8 living in Japan, and since then has been educated and lives permanently in the UK. Japanese-British is surely a clear and correct expression of his cultural nationality, whatever his legal nationality may or may not be. 2A01:4C8:1408:BA01:1B6:3A43:1D4E:40B3 (talk) 15:40, 11 August 2021 (UTC) AF
 * While I would agree with you on the nationality point, cultural nationality is generally not expressed in a Wikipedia article as it is not an objective point. Legal nationality, on the other hand, is objective, and this is why it can be a point of contention when it isn't possible to demonstrate it using a citation. Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 17:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)