Talk:Erik Estrada

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THE PONCH!!!!!!!!

Any recent photos anywhere? Two of him in the seventies and no current ones seems disproportionate 89.243.214.110 08:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Criticism

The section on criticism of Erik Estrada is extremely poorly written, appears to make no sense at all and isn't cited. I propose immediate removal. — Stimpy _talk 21:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNuGKbwRudE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.71.232.186 (talk) 01:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

A source was added just now regarding his activities with law enforcement in Idaho. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sydney Rigdon (talk • contribs) 18:10, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

References

Place of birth?

At the time I'm writing this, there seems to be a discrepancy in the article. The infobox on the right says that Erik was born in Mesa, Arizona, but the chapter on his childhood says he was born in New York city. Someone should find the right information and make the correction.Sky Blu 2 (talk) 21:25, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Recent Edit by Plastikspork

Hi. I'm not really a newbie, but I edit relatively little. This is with regards to adding the two fact checks to my most recent edit adding Estrada as a guest narrator at Disney in 1996. This was personal experience and there is no citable reference for this.

Is there a way that I can professionally enter into the record as being first hand experience with this? Tiktok4321 (talk) 17:20, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

You have hit on the crux of the problem, namely verifiable and reliable sources. It's also not clear, to me at least, why this is a notable fact rather than just trivia. However, that's my personal opinion. Thanks. Plastikspork (talk) 17:29, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. What if I AM the verifiable and reliable source? Shall I publish something then reference it? I thought that's what I did here. As for trivia vs notable fact, I put it in with other accomplishments of his career. Besides, Wiki discourages trivia and encourages information to be part of the article, which I did. I apprecate your comments. Regards, Tiktok4321 (talk) 13:56, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced information

Hello. The following is unsourced biographical information that I removed from the article.

• He is of Puerto Rican descent.
• He first began his acting career by starring in a Fritos commercial as the Mexican "Frito Bandito".
• Due to determination and the encouragement of his stepfather Pancho Dostela, he became a well-known Latino actor of the 1970s and early 1980s
• Estrada is not fluent in Spanish and had to learn his lines phonetically;
• he has gone on record that his role in "Dos Mujeres" was the one for which he has had to prepare the hardest, particularly to tame his heavy Nuyorican Spanish accent into the so called "español neutro" (i.e. neutral Spanish) spoken in most Mexican telenovelas.
• In 1996, Estrada was a guest narrator for approximately 5 evenings for Disney's Candelight Processional held at EPCOT in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
• He opened his green room to the volunteer cast of the show and even passed out cheese as he said he used to be a waiter earlier in his life.
• His experience from the show led him to become a reserve officer for the Muncie Police Department in Muncie, Indiana.
• Estrada was the Grand Marshall for the Krewe of Rio in Mardi Gras 2007.
• On April 19, 2007, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Estrada threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Seattle Mariners' Turn Back The Clock game on Sunday, July 29, 2007, entering the ballpark riding a police motorcycle.
• His pitch was caught by Mariners reliever Arthur Rhodes.
• In May 2009 he appeared as the Grand Marshal of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Virginia.
• Erik Estrada appeared in Española, New Mexico May 28, 2009 to promote the '100 Days and Nights of Summer' traffic safety and anti-DWI campaign that involves the New Mexico State police.
• He kicked off the campaign at the Espanola Plaza as the guest speaker.
• Estrada appeared in a number of TV and radio spots for the campaign in 2009.
• Estrada is an Honorary member of the Blue Knights International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club (Indiana 1 Chapter).
• In 2000, Estrada was named the international 'Face' of D.A.R.E. which is a campaign against drugs.
• He also speaks out for the American Heart Association, The United Way...
• ...and the C.H.P. 11-99 Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides benefits and Scholarships to California Highway Patrol family members as well as funeral expenses for fallen officers.

It can be selectively pasted back if it can be attributed to some reliable reference.--damiens.rf 17:37, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

And this sound as original research:

• The show has featured several CHiPs homages and his character, First Mate Marco Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is played as a stereotypical Latin macho character.

--damiens.rf 17:56, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Using a subject's official website as a source is just fine in this situation - see WP:BLP WP:SELFPUB and WP:RS. WP:CITE and WP:BLP "require inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged". If we took out everything unsourced on Wikipedia we'd be left with about 2 1/2 articles. We can add 'citation needed' tags if needed or remove things you suspect are false. Nothing above seems false or dubious to me, just not ref'd. I re-added certain well ref'd non-trivia parts back in. Span (talk) 22:26, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Erik Estrada

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Erik Estrada's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "film":

• From Family Guy: "Family Guy: Death Has a Shadow". Film.com. RealNetworks. Archived from the original on October 15, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
• From Emmanuel Lewis: "Emmanuel Lewis BIography (1971-)". FilmReference.com. Retrieved 2012-10-10.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 06:09, 28 June 2015 (UTC)