Talk:Matthew Silverman

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Strange layout of the Biography[edit]

The article currently starts with "Silverman is Jewish and was raised in a Jewish family".

I don't mind anyone being jewish, but the structure of the article is sooooo strange. Do other articles in regards to biography start in the same way??? Would a 100% neutral person start in that way?

I give you an example from Noam Chomsky's article which, in my opinion, is worded in a lot more objective and descriptive manner:

"Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[20] His parents, Ze'ev "William" Chomsky and Elsie Simonofsky, were Jewish immigrants."

See the difference? In the second example (of Noam) we actually instantly go to WHERE someone was born, which is lacking in the current article of Matthew; and being of jewish origin respectively immigrants, is mentioned as well, so the information content is comparable - but better structured.

In my opinion it would be better to use a format that is more similar to e. g. Noam Chomsky's one, and others. This may be because fewer people contributed to the article here, so I understand if the quality or wording of the article is of an inferior quality compared to Noam Chomsky's article - but I think someone should improve the layout of the article here. It's such a strange layout as it is right now ... 2A02:8388:1604:F600:3AD5:47FF:FE18:CC7F (talk) 20:51, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]