Talk:Alain Delon

Issues: Grammar Polishing & The Marković affair

To Wikipedians visiting from past or future, someone please come and sweep this grammar. Bad flow and obvious grammar errors are present.

Second problem, there's two sections of the Marković affair. One is titled as "Marković affair and gangster movies" under "Return to France", and the second one is simply named as "Marković affair" under "Personal Life." I believe they can use some merging, as the respective sections provides different details and is rather confusing. TheeChEese (talk) 02:18, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

This article is far too long

As much as I admire the film career of Alain Delon, one of the all-time cinema greats, I believe this article is far too long, ridiculously so. Surely it was composed by fanatics (including me), not that there's anything wrong with that.;-) I suggest that most of the content under the Influence on his contemporaries and legacy heading, all the way down to the Honours heading, be spun off into new articles. The content presently subsumed under that main heading can be summarized briefly, with the content presently under each subheading summarized, alongside links to the newly-created articles. What do other editors think? Carlstak (talk) 21:30, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

tagging @HELP155: who recently added tons of stuff --FMSky (talk) 22:12, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Bibliography

The page's "Bibliography" section is not the usual list of works by the subject. It's more of a research bibliography, enumerating sources about Delon. The entries seem to lack verifiability, e.g. ISBNs. Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies § Topical bibliographies reads:

The lead of a topical bibliography should establish the notability of the bibliography by citing at least two sources that demonstrate that relevant books, journals and other references on a specific topic have been discussed as a group.
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Avoid indiscriminate criteria – some of the most popular challenges to bibliographies or lists of works are based on the Wikipedia policies Wikipedia is not a directory and Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Well-defined context helps counter those challenges.

—Bagumba (talk) 04:05, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Cleanup of "Influence on his contemporaries and legacy" section needed

This section (especially the Cinematic influence subsection) is overstuffed, and may have a lot of original research. There are a lot of films and other things listed that may not actually be inspired by Delon. Needs a lot of cleanup. Natg 19 (talk) 17:04, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

That's pretty much what I said above. I'm going to do some trimming. Carlstak (talk) 17:41, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

DBP

I don’t doubt that bad sources can be found, especially in English, that claim Delon fought in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. I don’t doubt that some of these are otherwise good…although if memory serves, the chronology of the Scotsman is a little suspect.

But why are there no good French ones? Qwirkle (talk) 18:13, 5 November 2024 (UTC)