Talk:George Michael

Police refused to elaborate on the alleged "lewd act", but implicitly said that the officer saw him masturbating and/or saw his erect penis and/or was proposed to carry out sexual activities together on the premises.

I've removed this. How do you "implicitly say" something? As far as I gathered, they were very careful not to say what the act was. Can you provide a reference for anything more definite? A quotation, perhaps? Obviously we all have some idea of what they meant by a "lewd act", but we can't put our own ideas into the article. -- Oliver P. 22:52 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for adding that quote, Patrick. That clarifies things a bit. -- Oliver P. 23:23 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Something's wrong with this Chinese link, i've tried many times, but it didnt work. I guess it's the fault of the Unicode system? --Gboy 17:28 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Interesting. the article is here (http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%94%E6%B2%BB%C2%B7%E8%BF%88%E5%85%8B%E5%B0%94); you can see a link to it from here (http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=%E8%91%97%E5%90%8D%E5%90%8C%E6%80%A7%E6%81%8B%E5%92%8C%E5%8F%8C%E6%80%A7%E6%81%8B%E4%BA%BA%E5%A3%AB%E5%88%97%E8%A1%A8&redirect=no)

oh it works now, i don't know what's wrong? --Gboy 17:39 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I changed it twice. The second time I pasted in the end of its address from the location bar instead of the actual characters. I don't know why that worked and the other didn't (and the unicode also didn't). Koyaanis Qatsi 17:42 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

yeah, i did the same in Tennessee Williams, which has the same problem...., hey, r u Chinese, or how can u type Chinese characters? --Gboy 17:46 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I searched for the page at the site, went to it and then to "what links here," then copied the link. Koyaanis Qatsi

Really? i didn't know u can find cross-language link there?! --Gboy 17:53 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

It was in English on one of the pages. Koyaanis Qatsi

Anyway, it works now. thank u for ur help. I am just taking part in writing gay-related topics, hope that's not the discrimination against me doing that! lOl --Gboy 18:01 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Not a problem. Have fun. Koyaanis Qatsi

Law suit

The article said

Rodriguez, the police officer, claimed that this video "mocked" him, and also that Michael had slandered him in interviews, and in 1999 filed a ten million dollar lawsuit against the singer. It was originally dismissed by a court in California on the grounds that public officials such as police officers were not entitled to sue, but this decision was overruled by an appeals court on 2002 December 3.

IANALB this is so unlikely to be accurate that i am changing it without getting the details straight. Rule of thumb: anybody is entitled to sue anyone for anything; the only question is whether they are entitled to win the remedy they sue for. (The exceptions are fascinating but irrelevant.)
The details may or may not be of interest (e.g. was the mocking called slanderous, or were the mocking and slander presented as separate torts, or was one mentioned only to provide context?), but i'm converting it to a vague but true version. --Jerzy(t) 18:58, 2004 Mar 30 (UTC)

Photograph

My goodness, where did that ghastly photo come from? Are there no better photos out there? --timc | Talk 18:05, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The caption was so punny. Anyway, I'll scan my DVD cover and put that picture there. The grimace should not be there. Mike H 01:22, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

"Kerry Kahill"

That was old vandalism, incompletely reverted, (205.244.100.170 | talk | contributions) -- Curps 02:49, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)