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American, Korean American or Italian American?[edit]
This article previously identified Joseph Kahn as a Korean American as well as having incorrect information about his early life. Kahn's personal website's biography, his twitter, and a Washington Post article states that he spent a part of his childhood in Italy and afterwards, he moved to America at the age of seven. I've corrected this part about his early life, formerly stating he lived in Korea until moving to America at the age of three. On January 24th, 2018 some of his tweets contains criticism about his Wikipedia page which identified him as a "Korean American" filmmaker.[1] He seems to criticize being identified as a Korean American based on the notion that he was born there and implies that he barely lived there. He mentions that he spent part of his childhood growing up in Italy, and that technically, by this logic, he would be an Italian American filmmaker, and that Tim Burton would be a identified as a "Burbank American" filmmaker by this logic as well. Another editor believes that this is Kahn stating that he identifies as an Italian American, however I interpret it differently, that on the contrary, he is criticizing the notion of himself as being identified as any type of Hypenated American. He doesn't identify as an Italian American (or Korean American) just as much as he wouldn't identify Tim Burton as a "Burbank American." I've also read some of his interviews. He rarely mentions his time in Italy, nor makes any references concerning Italian culture, history and society, or has any discussion as being an Italian American.
Based on his personal website's biography, interviews, and his recent tweets, I've concluded that it would best to state Joseph Kahn as an American film and music video director, no hyphenation needed. Many other Wikipedia articles on people born outside of America, but have lived in America for most of their life, drops the ethic/national hyphenated categorization as well, for instance, the article on Jhumpa Lahiri. Another editor believes Joseph Kahn should be identified as an Italian American on his wikipedia page. I've opened this section on the talk page to discuss with any editors on what to identify him as and to resolve a dispute with another editor who is consistently editing that Kahn is an Italian American. If this discussion isn't resolved, or continued, or my edits continue to be reverted, we can open this up to a Third Opinion or RtC. Aprisosi (talk) 05:54, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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.
Support. Reasonable move request, no primary topic. The other guy was created as Joseph Kahn (journalist), leaving the bare Joseph Kahn to serve as a disambiguation page. Binksternet (talk) 15:37, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support, and move DAB to base name as per above.--Ortizesp (talk) 21:50, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Wow, this page gets a lot fewer views than I guessed. Even before recent events, it probably was not WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. --Quiz shows 22:51, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Where should the Joe Kahn redirect target aim? It could remain Joseph Kahn to serve as disambiguation, but the new NYT editor seems to be the man who is most commonly referred to as Joe Kahn. So we have two choices for Joe Kahn: point to Joseph Kahn or point to Joseph Kahn (journalist). Binksternet (talk) 04:12, 21 April 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.
