David Burd

April 2026

Hello! Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. At least one of your edits on the page Floyd Vivino, while it may have been in good faith, was difficult to distinguish from vandalism. To help other editors understand the reason for the changes, you can use an edit summary for your contributions. You can also take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Kire1975 (talk) 21:16, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

April 2026

Hello, David Burd. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Floyd Vivino, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Account shares a name with a known business associate of Floyd Vivino. NJZombie (talk) 21:18, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Just to add to the discussion...

Floyd is a member of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) one of three Performance Rights Organizations the other two being ASCAP and SESAC (Full Disclosure I am also a music composer/writer and a member of BMI) these PROs issue licenses to allow businesses such as radio and television stations and bars and restaurants to play music and then the PROs administers the payout of residuals to music composers/writers from thoses licenses when their music is publicly broadcast or performed. In his repertoire catalog on the BMI Songview (See Here) he is registered as Floyd Vivino which is inline with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC rules which states that under the member agreement, an applicant for membership and later a member (If approved) MUST provide their full legal name and social security number to ASCAP, BMI and/or SESAC (A person can only belong to one PRO so its ASCAP, BMI and/or SESAC so one and not one and another) after which they can also include and AKAs i.e. Uncle Floyd etc... so you are correct Floyd is his legal name and to be honest in all the years that I've watched Floyd on TV, gone to one of his live performances whether it was a local theater or his now defunct restaurant in the Holiday Inn on Route 46 in Wayne, New Jersey I've NEVER heard him be referred to as Florio so I don't know where these people are getting their information and by the way his membership in BMI is automatically renewed every two years so his heirs will continue to receive residuals from his music recordings and past live performances even though he is now deceased. Matt-Dimension-C136 (talk) 07:00, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, Matt! You are correct.

When Floyd hosted his Italian-American Serenade, an Italian-language radio show, he did use the radio name "Florio" as a way to relate to the listeners. But his real name was always Floyd. It was never changed, either from Florio or to Florio. David Burd (talk) 10:12, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

His obituary says he was Born Florio Vivino on October 19, 1951, in Paterson, New Jersey,.

"Uncle Floyd" Wikipedia article edit...

Hi David, just F.Y.I. I edited Floyd's article to remove Florio and add Floyd. I also added a link to the official obituary page on Legacy.com for Floyd which clearly states that his name is FLOYD not FLORIO so that should shut those a**holes up who keep changing the article. Cheers. Matt-Dimension-C136 (talk) 11:29, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

April 2026

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Kire1975 (talk) 18:12, 27 April 2026 (UTC)