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WMF has been contacted by NBC Universal with regard to the edit history of this article. Admins, please do not hesitate to revert any inappropriate information per WP:BLP and other applicable policies.--Brad Patrick 03:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Massive Recruitment/Publicity Campaign[edit]

I just received an email from a "Jennifer" at a GMail address asking if I might know of people interested in being interviewed on the "Steve Wilkos Show". I had never heard of anyone named "Steve Wilkos", so before I responded or took action, I ran a Google search on that name. Google came up with an absolute boatload of ads recruiting people to go on this show. The ads pretty much drowned out any real information on Steve Wilkos. So I came to Wikipedia, and found this entry. Since Wilkos was associated with the "Jerry Springer" show, which I've always understood was deliberately controversial, I dropped the idea of responding.

The more I thought about the massive amount of advertising links instead of information I saw in Google, however, the more something just did not smell right. I found myself wondering if the show's promoters were deliberately trying to drown out any negative information about Wilkos and his show. So I kept digging, and found this gem in the LA Daily News, a Los Angeles area newspaper; and he is really gay

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6578246

A few choice quotes.... "Anthony D. Zinnanti, one of the Valencia attorneys who won a restraining order against McClellan last week,.... aid McClellan begged him for help after the live taping of "The Steve Wilkos Show" turned into a "public lynching." "Being inhuman is just wrong," Zinnanti said of the show's studio audience and host. "It was taking Elephant Man and beating him up for a sideshow." "Jack has some serious mental health issues. He requested help getting psychiatric care, which I'll do."

I don't like or support pedophilia, and Jack McClellan has to give the shivers to any parent or anyone with a child they care about. But that story gives me a very bad feeling about this show and the people running it. The information on this Wikipedia page, although tagged as unsourced, looks pretty innocuous to me. Yeah, the guy's bio on Wikipedia should be accurate and neutral. But please let it BE accurate. Don't let threats from the show's lawyers keep documented information about abuses off of the page.Sakeneko 23:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Steve Wilkos[edit]

We watch your show we think you do a good job at your Work. Steve are name Terry Bondie and Jais Reed and Tony Reed Me and my Mom are in Wheelchair and my Step Dad takes care of Me. my real Dad don,t cares for or my Naphew Eric Bondie my real Dad name is Rger Bondie. From Terry Bondie and Jais Reed and Tony Reed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.231.220.117 (talk) 16:27, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Steve isn't here. This is an encyclopedia that has many articles, and this is only one of them. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I would strongly doubt that you'll ever see a reply here from Steve to an individual post. I know this reply is months late, but I did want to address it when I saw it - This page is solely for the discussion of how to improve the article about Steve, and is not a not a forum. Thank you anyway, and best of luck. — Ched : ? 01:11, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

rofl 216.185.250.92 (talk) 20:26, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In Professional Wrestling[edit]

There was a section about Steve Wilkos doing work with Maryland Championship Wrestling and was sourced and everything. Why was it removed? Mr. C.C. (talk) 19:36, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Second Chance Survivor[edit]

I overheard that Steve Wilkos is on the 7econd Chance Survivor's List. Can anyone possibly confirm? Second Chance is a body armor producer for an assortment of Police Departments, and they maintain a "list" of all P/O's who were shot and survived while wearing Second Chance body armor. Can anyone possibly confirm? I tried google with no luck.

--Noxilerm (talk) 17:57, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring[edit]

A slow edit war has been going on with the continual addition of unsourced and rather un-encyclopaedic text regarding an alleged sister, her alleged spouse and Steve Wilko's alleged awe at said spouses' " ... superior education". It has been re-added and removed about 5 times from 25 August 2011‎. See № 1 here, then re-added: 9 September 2011‎, 24 February 2012‎, 30 July 2012‎ & 7 August 2012‎. - 220 of ^Borg 16:07, 9 August 2012 (UTC) [reply]

Fancruft[edit]

So I decided to add references to Steve Wilkos' biography and noticed that there are some information that constitute fancruft. I deleted such information as a result in his wikipedia page. I'm also a big fan of his show but do you guys mind keeping fancruft away from this article?!? Thanks. Tibbydibby (talk) 16:05, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Height[edit]

Do we need to mention that Steve Wilkos is 6'3 in the article? Tibbydibby (talk) 00:45, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Spouses[edit]

Some IP user is currently vandalizing the article and keeps removing his spouses of his previous marriages in the 80s and 90s, without giving a reason. I've restored it various times and he just keeps removing it 5 freaking times. I ask for the article to be protected from this user, please. So he won't remove it again, because the info is important. 2600:1000:B07B:9125:DCCE:1E0:6076:62D2 (talk) 20:45, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Wilkos&diff=759893232&oldid=758226121

We need WP:BLP-quality references to settle this. Heavy.com is a poor source and may be WP:CIRCULAR in this specific case. --Hipal (talk) 17:27, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]