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BLP concern: removal of defamatory content

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I have removed the defamatory statement linking me to a death at a retreat, which violates Wikipedia’s Biographies of Living Persons policy (WP:BLP). This claim is not reliably sourced, is harmful to my reputation, and is not what my career is recognized for. Per BLP, such content must be promptly removed.

Thank you. MODERNHIERO (talk) 03:11, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MODERNHIERO: The claims made about the death of Lauren Levis are sourced to reliable sources. If you have sources that contradict those used, please discuss them here. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 22:29, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Semi-Protection

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Hi, I am the subject of this article. The page has recently been targeted with defamatory and poorly sourced content in violation of WP:BLP. I request semi-protection to prevent anonymous and new users from adding harmful material. Thank you. ChorBoogie MODERNHIERO (talk) 03:27, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested update to article (COI / BLP cleanup)

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Hi, and thanks to any editors who take a look at this.

I am the subject of this article (artist Chor Boogie, legal name Jason Lamar Hailey). I’ve already removed a defamatory sentence linking me to a death at a retreat per WP:BLP and posted a BLP notice above. Here I’d like to:

  • keep the **essence of the current article**,
  • update the **lead** to better reflect my work and recent museum-level recognition, and
  • add a short, sourced paragraph about my **career highlights** and **spiritual practice** in the Missoko Bwiti iboga tradition (also called Dissoumba/Bwete in some contexts).

Because I have a conflict of interest, I’m **not** editing the article directly and am instead proposing specific, sourced changes for uninvolved editors to review.

Below I include:

  • A. Proposed new lead (replacing the first paragraph only)
  • B. Small additions to the Biography / Works sections
  • C. List of sources (all public URLs, no blacklisted links)

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A. Proposed new lead

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Current lead

Chor Boogie (born Jason Lamar Hailey) is an American spray paint artist based in Oceanside, California. Chor Boogie is recognized for having achieved a groundbreaking level of technical and emotional virtuosity in the medium of spray paint. He approaches his use of color as a form of therapy and visual medicine, and has been dubbed “the color shaman” by comrades and fans. He was first nurtured by the world of street art and is primarily a self-taught artist.

Proposed replacement lead

Chor Boogie (born 1979 as Jason Lamar Hailey) is an American aerosol fine artist and muralist known for large-scale spray-paint works he calls Modern Hieroglyphics. His practice integrates vivid “color therapy”, what he calls “AeroSoul Intelligence”, and a form of spiritual archaeology that draws on African diasporic and iboga traditions. Based in Oceanside, California, he is primarily self-taught and emerged from West Coast street-art and Hip Hop writing culture. His work has been shown in museum contexts including the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Punto Urban Art Museum in Massachusetts, STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam, and installations on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and he has been described in press and interviews as a “color shaman” for the emotional and spiritual focus of his spray-paint technique.

(Inline citations suggested from: Museum and gallery biographies, STRAAT Museum artist page, Sonoma Index-Tribune NEA article, Street Art NYC on Love Child, DoubleBlind / Chacruna / MAPS, and The Hip Hop Museum article on my work.)

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B. Proposed additions to “Biography” and “Works and style”

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I’m not asking to delete the existing biography – just to **add a few sourced sentences** that reflect major museum/exhibition milestones and my later spiritual work. Here are concrete “change X to Y” suggestions:

1. Add a short career-highlights paragraph after the existing early-life paragraph in Biography
Proposed new paragraph

As his career developed, Boogie’s work entered museum and institutional contexts. He participated in the group exhibition Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and his murals have been included in touring and outdoor museum projects in Australia and the United States.[1] His work has been featured at the Street Art Today / STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam, where his large-scale mural Within is part of the collection, and at Punto Urban Art Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where his mural Love Child is a permanent piece in the neighborhood-wide outdoor museum.[2] Boogie has also created corporate and public commissions such as a lobby installation at 5 Bryant Park in New York City, widely photographed in Times Square, and murals for companies including Google and other tech and entertainment firms.[3]

(The exact citations can be built from: STRAAT Museum page, Street Art NYC article on Love Child, UntappedCities / Wall Street Journal / New York Post coverage of the 5 Bryant Park lobby mural, and the museum/curatorial bios linked below.)

2. Add a brief note about NEA grant and Smithsonian/National Mall installation

I suggest adding this one sentence near the existing discussion of major projects:

In 2012 his spray-paint work was featured in an installation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and in 2018 he served as lead artist on a National Endowment for the Arts–supported mentorship project with Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, working with underserved youth on large-scale mural practices.[4]

(If editors prefer, the Smithsonian / National Mall installation can be explicitly named as “Innocence” using the resume + any available local coverage.)

3. Add a short “Spiritual work and iboga” paragraph, reflecting Missoko Bwiti / Dissoumba context

There is already a paragraph in the article about my spiritual transformation and iboga. I suggest replacing that existing paragraph with something that closely tracks what is in independent sources (Chacruna, MAPS, etc.) and avoids any unsourced medical or retreat claims.

Current spiritual paragraph (for reference)

Chor Boogie speaks publicly about his spiritual transformation with the sacred iboga medicine and the Bwete tradition in Gabon, Africa, the homeland of his ancestors. He studies the traditional ways of the Bwiti and applies them to contemporary Western urban culture and his creative process, beginning with his Love Visions series in 2014. Chor's first iboga inspired painting, The Love Dance is featured on the book cover to HEART MEDICINE, a true love story written by his wife, Elizabeth Bast, that details their radical healing journey.

Proposed replacement paragraph

Beginning in the mid-2010s, Boogie’s work became closely tied to his experiences with iboga, a West-Central African sacred plant medicine. In interviews and essays for Chacruna, DoubleBlind, and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), he describes undergoing a personal healing process with iboga that led him to study and later be recognized within the Missoko Bwiti iboga tradition in Gabon, which he also refers to in his own writing as a Dissoumba/Bwete forest lineage.[5] He has written that he seeks to bridge this ancestral spiritual practice with contemporary urban art and African diasporic experience, and his iboga-inspired series Love Visions and works such as The Love Dance have been discussed in that context.[6]

This uses only what is already in independent sources and avoids any mention of specific retreat deaths or allegations.

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C. Sources (all public URLs, no share.google links)

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Below is a non-exhaustive list of sources that support the changes above. I am including them here so neutral editors can build proper <ref> citations without running into the spam blacklist:

  • The Hip Hop Museum (THHM) profile & 2024 feature on my work and the PHASE2LIVESFOREVER exhibition (Bronx, NY).
  • STRAAT Museum (Amsterdam) – artist page and write-up on the Within mural.
  • Street Art NYC – “Chor Boogie Paints Expressive New Mural, LOVE CHILD, in Salem, MA” (Punto Urban Art Museum).
  • Sonoma Index-Tribune – “Sonoma Valley Museum receives NEA grant for spray-paint artist Chor Boogie.”
  • Mesa Press / SD Mesa College – coverage of my Love Visions / Black History Month exhibition and biography (Oceanside background, Beijing Olympics mural, etc.).
  • MCLA / Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles or related museum bios listing Viva la Revolución and other museum shows.
  • Untapped Cities / Wall Street Journal / New York Post – coverage of lobby murals at 5 Bryant Park (Times Square).
  • Chacruna Institute – “Healing the Soul with Spray Paint and Iboga with Chor Boogie.”
  • MAPS Bulletin – “Returning to the Roots of Iboga: Artist Chor Boogie Becomes an Artist of the Missoko Bwiti Tradition.”
  • DoubleBlind – “From Jay-Z to Iboga: How this Celebrity Painter Found his (True) Calling.”
  • Artist CV / UPDATED RESUME at chorboogie.com (used only for non-controversial exhibition details like show titles, locations and dates).

I understand that some of these are interviews or self-authored essays and that editors will give more weight to independent journalistic/museum sources. My goal here is just to offer a clean, policy-aligned way to:

  • keep defamatory / undue material about my alleged connection to a death **out** of the article in line with WP:BLP, and
  • update the article so it reflects my long-term museum-level practice and documented role in iboga-related art and spirituality.

Many thanks in advance for any help improving the article. MODERNHIERO (talk) 07:32, 15 November 2025 (UTC) MODERNHIERO (talk) 07:32, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done for now: Please include formatted citations in the request. Likeanechointheforest (talk) 16:12, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Examples include MOCA San Diego’s Viva la Revolución exhibition and the May Lane Street Art Project tour; see San Diego museum coverage and the artist biography at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / MCLA.
  2. ^ STRAAT Museum artist page; Street Art NYC, “Chor Boogie Paints Expressive New Mural, LOVE CHILD, in Salem, MA,” 2017; Punto Urban Art Museum coverage.
  3. ^ See coverage in Untapped Cities / New York Post / Wall Street Journal on the 5 Bryant Park lobby murals and other New York projects.
  4. ^ Sonoma Index-Tribune, “Sonoma Valley Museum receives NEA grant for spray-paint artist Chor Boogie,” 2018; artist CV at chorboogie.com (non-contentious exhibition details).
  5. ^ See: Chacruna Institute, “Healing the Soul with Spray Paint and Iboga with Chor Boogie,” 2020; MAPS Bulletin, “Returning to the Roots of Iboga: Artist Chor Boogie Becomes an Artist of the Missoko Bwiti Tradition,” 2023; DoubleBlind, “From Jay-Z to Iboga: How this Celebrity Painter Found his (True) Calling.”
  6. ^ MAPS Bulletin and Chacruna articles cited above.

Concern about removal of sourced information

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I noticed that information about the 2024 Soul Centro iboga ceremony death—covered in independent reporting by VICE—keeps being removed from this article. Because this is a biography of a living person, anything negative must be well sourced, and in this case the material is fully cited to a reliable news source.

I’m raising this here because the subject of the article has also commented on this Talk Page in the past, which suggests a possible conflict of interest. Wikipedia guidelines ask that subjects of articles avoid directly editing pages about themselves, and instead discuss proposed changes here.

The information about the 2024 incident is significant, independently reported, and relevant to the subject’s public activity.

I’m requesting that the sourced material remain unless there is a policy-based reason to remove it. UserSign (talk) 20:42, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

BLP Request: Lead Sentence Removal or Relocation

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Hello editors,

I'm the subject of this article and am submitting this request per Wikipedia’s Conflict of Interest (COI) and Biographies of Living Persons (BLP) policies.

The following sentence currently appears in the lead of the article:

“He co-operated the Soul Centro iboga retreat in Costa Rica, where a participant died during a 2024 ceremony, prompting an official investigation by local authorities.”

I respectfully request that this sentence be removed from the lead and—if deemed relevant—moved to a lower section of the article using neutral, BLP-compliant language. While I acknowledge a participant tragically passed away, the official Costa Rican autopsy determined the cause of death was natural (cardiorespiratory arrest due to pulmonary embolism and myocardial infarction), not linked to Soul Centro or iboga. The investigation was formally closed, and no charges were filed.

Per WP:BLP, content that is negative, contentious, or undue should be based on high-quality reliable sources and presented with proportionate weight. This incident, while heartbreaking, is not representative of my public notability as an artist and healer. Including it in the lead gives it undue prominence.

Proposed revision (if retained at all): In 2024, a guest at Soul Centro passed away during a retreat. Authorities later concluded the cause of death was natural, and no charges were filed.

This language maintains factual accuracy, respects the policies of neutrality and due weight, and preserves focus on my recognized contributions in the arts.

Additionally, I wish to flag a potential conflict of interest involving the journalist Mattha Busby, who previously attended Soul Centro as a guest and wrote a favorable article based on his personal experience: https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-tried-ibogaine-drug-addiction-treatment/. That prior relationship may be relevant when assessing source neutrality.

Thank you for your time and consideration. – User:MODERNHIERO 🗓️ 10 December 2025 MODERNHIERO (talk) 00:11, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Article Expansion Request for Balance and Career Coverage

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Hello editors,

As the subject of this article, I am submitting a formal request to expand and rebalance the page to better reflect my full body of work. This includes museum exhibitions, public commissions, art market milestones, and published critical reception—all supported by reliable, verifiable third-party sources.

The article currently lacks depth on these areas of notability and may give disproportionate focus to a single controversy. I’ve compiled citations from independent museum catalogs, national press (e.g., NYT, Wall Street Journal), peer-reviewed interviews, and institutional partners (Smithsonian, San Diego Museum of Art, STRAAT Museum, etc.). These sources meet Wikipedia’s reliable sourcing guidelines.

I will be happy to post proposed content drafts and citations for editor review on this Talk Page, section by section, to avoid COI issues and ensure full transparency. I welcome community feedback and collaboration in this effort.

Thank you, – User:MODERNHIERO 🗓️ 10 December 2025 MODERNHIERO (talk) 00:14, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

BLP accuracy and undue weight

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Following the recent BLP cleanup of the lead, I’d like to address the remaining paragraph at the end of the article.

The cited source explicitly states that I was not present at the ceremony and does not establish personal responsibility or wrongdoing. As such, summarizing this event in my biography relies on affiliation alone and creates an ongoing risk of WP:SYNTH and WP:BLP1E by linking a third-party tragedy to the subject where it is not central to notability.

Because any summary of this material necessarily relies on the same source and continues to associate the subject with the incident, full removal is the most policy-aligned option under WP:BLP and WP:UNDUE.

I’m not disputing that a death occurred; the concern is that continued inclusion in this biography is disproportionate and misleading given the lack of direct involvement and the conclusion of the investigation without charges. MODERNHIERO (talk) 18:52, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@JFHJr:
Gentle follow-up on this proposal in case it was overlooked during the holidays. The request is limited to addressing BLP accuracy and undue weight in the remaining paragraph. Thank you.
MODERNHIERO (talk) 17:13, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]