Talk:The-Dream

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Birthdate[edit]

In this video, Terius Nash says, out loud, in his own voice, that his birthday is January 25, 1977. Please stop messing with the birthdate on this page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g9BDR2-lt5A — Preceding unsigned comment added by Digestion (talk • contribs) 16:06, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The video has now been changed to say his birthdate is September 20, 1977. So who knows? Should the Wiki entry just say 1977? Does anyone have a reliable source? Digestion (talk) 02:17, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In facebook, his birth date is June 14, 1977. https://www.facebook.com/thedreammusic/info. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2401:FA00:D:0:BE30:5BFF:FED8:ACDE (talk) 06:15, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

We need a picture[edit]

Any ideas?--Louis Taylor (talk) 21:36, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mother[edit]

According to Vibe Magazine, page 85. The-Dream: Hooks From Heaven author Julianne Shepherd. His mother passed when she was 35 from Cancer. After her passing he moved permanently with his grandfather, a carpenter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MIV31Ep80&feature=PlayList&p=4A1A2330F777134D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=22 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.214.85.215 (talk) 20:14, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Age[edit]

Anyone know how old he is? Tboy206 (talk) 19:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Grammy Award Winner[edit]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I wasn't away that The-Dream won any Grammy awards. Mary J Blige won the Grammy, not The-Dream. Just because he produced and/or cowrote a song on the album doesn't mean the Grammy is his. If that were the case, every person who had something to do with that album is a Grammy winner.ThisIsMyName (talk) 14:45, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Depending on the category of the Grammy award... producers, writers and engineers do receive Grammys as well. Although he did not get one for this Mary J Blige record. He has won a Grammy for All of the Lights by Kanye West Holy Grail by Jay-Z Ft Justin Timberlake, No Church in the wild by Jay-Z and Rihanna’s Umbrella WikiMusicx (talk) 04:31, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 18 January 2022[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Consensus not to move. The arguments that the hyphenated version is not ambiguous are found correct. As this discussion is not about moving the article to The Dream (or about moving that redirect), and as the disambiguation page links to this one, the likelihood of confusion or of a reader not finding their intended article is minimal. Therefore consensus is found against moving this article. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 22:02, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The-Dream → The-Dream (singer) – More than one The Dream ... 204.184.47.154 (talk) 17:56, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:SMALLDETAILS. The singer is known in all reliable sources by the hypenated "The-Dream", which is not used by any other articles listed at Dream (disambiguation). 162 etc. (talk) 19:37, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No other topic could feasibly be at the title of The-Dream.--Yaksar (let's chat) 00:47, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above, also because "more than one" doesn't inherently necessitate DABing anyway. Nohomersryan (talk) 03:27, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support confusion with The Dream. Also @Yaksar: @Nohomersryan: checked sources, and very often appears in sources without a hyphen In ictu oculi (talk) 22:54, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I looked through the current sources in the article. Out of the 57 linked, "The Dream" appears in #11, #25 (which also uses The-Dream), #41, #47, #50 (which again uses both), and #57. I'm not really sure that suggests a large hit rate. Maybe these writers should learn correct stage names eh... Nohomersryan (talk) 01:30, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the ping. As "The Dream" already redirects to the DAB page, that doesn't really change much here. If this were a request to move this page to "The Dream" it would be different, but there is still very clearly a primary topic for the current title, and a small minority of sources using a different name doesn't change that.--Yaksar (let's chat) 16:04, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.