Talk:Amanda Ghost

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I remember reading that 'Ghost' is a shortened for of her real last name, does anyone have a more precise answer? --MartinUK 15:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Clean up

This should get labeled for clean up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thirdtry (talk • contribs) 04:06, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

There isn't even a birth date? Really? 69.118.215.58 (talk) 03:00, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

is this a record company sponsored page?

...the whole thing reads like a free ad...it's nauseating... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.203.22.99 (talk) 11:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Ghost must have written this herself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.74.166.67 (talk) 07:52, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

This page has employees of Len Blavatnik (who is Ghost's sole financier!) editing the page. Len owns Access and recently stepped down, yet we have C at Access making edits to this page. We also have Lisa Shields editing this page, who very clearly works for access. This is a blatant example of COI and shouldn't be allowed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.218.100 (talk) 16:15, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Inconsistency with song names

Some songs are quoted, others are not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.162.122.6 (talk) 18:46, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Fired?

This article from Yahoo News implies that Ghost was fired following an outburst at an Augustana show? Is my reading correct? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101118/music_nm/us_epic;_ylt=Arwy.Fxnb6BvbsveNhl6aLWVEhkF;_ylu=X3oDMTJlbHVrbGw3BGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAxMTE4L3VzX2VwaWMEcG9zAzE5BHNlYwN5bl9wYWdpbmF0ZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA3dob2Rlc3Ryb3llZA-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.52.13.226 (talk) 03:49, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Edit request to improve the Career section

Hi. I work for Amanda Ghost. As a COI editor, I would like to suggest edits which address the issues raised by the maintenance tags at the top of the article. I would like to begin with the first three paragraphs. I hope to deal with the rest of the article in the future.

• Please change the first paragraph in the Career section to the following, which removes unsourced and possibly promotional content, and adds sources to the rest of the content where there currently are none.

Ghost was born in North London to a Gibraltarian mother and an Indo-Trinidadian father. In 1997, she contributed her version of Gary Numan's "Absolution" to the tribute album Random. Her first recording contract was in 2000 with Warner Bros. Records in Los Angeles, for whom she recorded her first album, Ghost Stories. Ghost's second album, Blood on the Line, was released in 2008 on her own record label, Plan A Records.

• Please replace the second paragraph with the following, which removes unsourced content, adds sources, and adds a bit of new content with sources.

Ghost co-wrote "Beautiful Liar" for Beyoncé and Shakira, and Jordin Sparks' second single "Tattoo" plus James Blunt's "You're Beautiful". She co-wrote three songs for Beyoncé's third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce. She also collaborated with John Legend on the lyrics for the track "Getting Nowhere" by Magnetic Man.

• Please add two sources to the third paragraph and remove "to start his own company" which is irrelevant to Ghost:

On 3 February 2009, Ghost was named the new president of Epic Records. She replaced Charlie Walk, who left at the end of 2008.

References

Thank you for your help, Londonhyrax (talk) 11:13, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

I am slowly working my way through these proposed edits, making alterations as I go. Please bear with me in the interim; although I am open to legitimate offers of assistance from elsewhere ! Thanks. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:18, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

The amended text (as is shown above) has now been edited in to the main article, to replace largely unreferenced wording. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 14:50, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Additional edit request to improve the Career section

Hello again. Thank you so much Derek R Bullamore for implementing the edit request and for taking the time to look through my suggestions to make everything as correct as possible. I really appreciate it. As you said, the second half of the article also needs some work, so here are my proposed edits for the last few paragraphs of the Career section:

• Please replace the fourth paragraph of the Career section with the following, which removes unsourced content and adds sources whenever possible:

Ghost also collaborated on the songs "For the Glory" and "Vanity Kills" by Ian Brown, (which appeared on Brown's album My Way) and which she co-wrote with Ian and Dave McCracken. She also co-wrote and co-produced the Shakira single "Gypsy", from the album She Wolf.

• Please replace the fifth paragraph of the Career section with the following, which adds sources and takes out promotional or unsourced content:

Ghost was fired from her position as president of Epic Records in 2010 after 20 months, following reports of erratic behavior, including a public outburst at a label showcase. Described by some as "a real loose cannon," her management style and controversial decisions were cited as reasons for her dismissal. That same year, she established Outsiders, a joint venture with Sony Music. She has collaborated with Florence and the Machine, Mark Ronson, and A$AP Rocky.

• Please replace the sixth (and last) paragraph of the Career section with the following, adding sources and removing unsourced content:

Ghost is a three-time Ivor Novello Award winner, a Golden Globe nominee, and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards; as co-producer of two tracks on Beyoncé's album, I Am... Sasha Fierce, which was nominated as Album of the Year, and the other for "Once in a Lifetime", which she co-wrote with Scott McFarnon, Ian Dench, Jody Street, James Dring and Beyoncé. The song was the part of the soundtrack from Beyoncé's film, Cadillac Records and was nominated for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, also in 2010.

References

Thanks again for your help, Londonhyrax (talk) 11:58, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

The above has now been placed in her article, replacing some unsourced wording from before. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:59, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Derek R Bullamore:Thanks so much for all your work on this, and for taking down the 'citations needed' maintenance tag. I see that you placed a similar tag above the "Songwriting credits" section, which I hope to work on sometime in the future. One of my other goals for this article was to improve the content to attain Wikipedia's standard of NPOV, and have the COI maintenance tag also removed, according to the guidelines found here. If you think there are still sections of this article that are not written in a neutral way, please point those places out to me and I will attempt to fix them and send you another edit request based on your suggestions, or just make whatever edits you think are needed to get the article up to the correct standard of NPOV, and remove the tag. Again, thanks so much for all your help. Londonhyrax (talk) 11:39, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

I feel, and this is my own position and not necessarily an overriding Wikipedia view, that a WP:NPOV situation is now achieved. However, I think the COI tag should remain until the rest of the referencing (needed only in the songwriting credits section) is resolved, and then it and the 'citations needed' tags can both be removed. I would ask you not to try to edit this article yourself, in view of your COI situation, but better deal with any amendments in the same manner as has happened recently. I must stress I have not taken over 'ownership' of this article and that I am more than happy for other editors to be involved. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Over to you, Londonhyrax, things seem to have gone well to date. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:28, 9 October 2024 (UTC)