Talk:Paulo Branco

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I don't normally edit Wikipedia so I don't really know what the protocol is for this, but this article is a mess. Most of it is unsourced contributions from one user, with no other contributions, in a single 48 minute timespan in February 2014, and has been awaiting citation ever since.

If I'm understanding the page on verifiability correctly, uncited material can be removed, but it's discouraged unless the contributor has reason to believe the material in question can not be verified, and since, in this case, it would constitute deleting everything on the page that's not from IMDb, I don't want to leap to that.

I'm hesitant to say conclusively that, for instance, the fact that Branco "started his career as a producer in 1979 between Paris and Lisbon" simply can not be verified, but that, and the entire body of biographical information, seems to be an excuse to lace in vague, aggrandizing statements about how he "produced over 300 films" and his company "extends (his) commitment for independent cinema with directors he’s been supporting for a long time" or how he's "always taking on new challenges." Am I here to get information about this guy, or date him?

After some searching, a lot of the phrasing is startlingly similar to Branco's biography from the Dublin International Film Festival in 2014 (https://www.diff.ie/festival/film/producing_with_paulo_branco) but I don't think that constitutes a "reliable, third-party, published source with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy."

I tried to find some verifiable information on Branco, so, if I was going to delete it, I could at least replace the text with something more substantive, but all I can find from reliable sources is articles about his legal battle with Terry Gilliam, and to replace his entire biography with that just seems a bit cruel.

All the same, that's the last of the effort I'm personally willing to expend on Paulo Branco, ever again, for the rest of my entire life. Good luck and best wishes, Wikipedia. May whoever follows me be made of sterner stuff.

- J — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:4080:5F9A:6D8A:C74A:9B28:FCC5 (talk) 00:59, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

sure the article is insufficiently sourced and probably has other issues, but in 10 minutes I found and added 3 references for his early professional career that anonymous "J" complains about above, so this article should be improved, not deleted --Kai Carver (talk) 05:27, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"The behavior of a tyrant and a bully"[edit]

This sure is a puff piece. See the article on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote for reports of his unprofessional behavior while producing that film. The quotation used as a subject line comes from the unit production manager at the time Branco was producing the film. WindSandAndStars (talk) 02:40, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]