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Sources reminder
A reminder to everyone. The list is of notable people - red links are not accepted. And sources have to be provided. Jagdfeld (talk) 09:25, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Sourced examples
These can be restored when sources backing them up are provided:
- Anglo-Irish journalist Kevin Myers, a controversial critic of Irish nationalism.
- Philanthropist Paul Getty, who became a British citizen
- Brothers Ron & Russell Mael of the band Sparks
- Madonna, singer/songwriter
- Courtney Love, singer/songwriter
- Johnny Depp, a fan of The Fast Show
- Science fiction/horror writer H.P. Lovecraft
- Australian-born UK citizen Germaine Greer
- The modernist poet and essayist T.S. Eliot, who became a British citizen
- American born writer Henry James, who became a British citizen
- Travel writer Bill Bryson
- Stanley Kubrick, who lived in England for many years
- Alexander Hamilton, American statesman and founding father
- Kevin Spacey, now living in London
- Tori Amos
- Carmen Electra has said in many interviews that she likes British culture
- Gwyneth Paltrow (married to English musician Chris Martin)
- Gwen Stefani (married to English musician Gavin Rossdale)
- Daryl Palumbo, lead singer of Head Automatica
- American band The Killers were accused of sounding too English on their first album Hot Fuss after saying that one of their influences was English band Oasis.
- Stanley Ho, Hong Kong business entrepreneur
- Nirad Chaudhuri, Bengali writer
- David Soul Hutch from Starsky and Hutch, now a British citizen
- Joseph Conrad, notable Polish author
- Gillian Anderson, American actress who grew up and now lives in London
- Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter, equestrian and actress
- Canadian comedian Mike Myers considers himself British - he has British, as well as Canadian, citizenship. His parents are both from Liverpool
- Guy Mollet, former French Prime Minister who proposed that France merge with Britain or failing that, be allowed to join the British Commonwealth.
- Hayao Miyazaki, director of Japanese animated films (it should be noted here that, generally speaking, popular opinion in Japan seems to be very pro-British, particularly English.)
- Alexander Marion, religious historian and collector of British Royal Commerative China
- Paul Mellon, American philanthropist and scion of the Mellon family.
- Kevin Sabo, American student who referred to the current reigning monarch of the United Kingdom as his King/Queen.
- Evan Rachel Wood was described as an Anglophile by The Guardian, an English newspaper, due to her dating English actor Jamie Bell.
- François Fillon, French Prime Minister is said to be Anglophile. He is also married to British citizen Penelope Fillon (born Clarke).
- Bob Tullius, American racing driver and founder/owner of Group 44 Inc. He is noted for his association with British cars which has they has always feature a line of British racing green at the side, as well as in 2004, donating his P-51 Mustang fighter plane to the RAF Museum at Hendon.
- Tunku Abdul Rahman, first Malaysian Prime Minister.
- Lee Kuan Yew, a former President of Singapore.
Assad
The concept that Assad is an Anglophile is a bit ludicrous. He clearly does not believe in British ideals such as parliamentary democracy, due process, common law, or the sovereignty of the individual. A single sourced statement, without anything more than circumstantial evidence, is not sufficient. - 64.222.149.167 (talk) 03:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Alex Salmond
This article is clearly a joke. Alex Salmond? Hates the English more than anything. 78.105.206.30 (talk) 14:50, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I Hardly think he does.(Butters x (talk) 18:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC))
Versions
The version to which I am reverting is an improvement over the other version as it removes trivia and uncited assertions. - Francis Tyers · 11:37, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
- In fact you are removing a substantial portion of the article - sourced as well as yet unsourced - and doing so against the wishes of the other editors. There's some rule about that kind of thing. Jagdfeld (talk) 09:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- The fact that you like it does not overcome Misplaced Pages's policies. You are restoring a large amount of text with no references at all. On this, policy is clear. - Francis Tyers · 15:25, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- Looking through we are now hacking at individual parts of the article rather than removing most of it, progress of a sort I guess. I do think we need to mediate this rather than remove whole rafts of material. CorleoneSerpicoMontana (talk) 12:09, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- Material that is uncited is being restored, in violation of the policies of Misplaced Pages. I would implore that this come to an end. - Francis Tyers · 12:17, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
- In fact you keep removing sourced material. (PS your command of the English language might be improved.) Jagdfeld (talk) 12:22, 22 July 2008 (UTC)