Talk:Child prodigy

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-FoxMajik 21:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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message: I doing a giant deletion of material from this article.  I am deleting the large sections of original research.  The article appears to have been tagged for a year now.
Before replacing any deleted material, please write on the importance here of each part being replaced, and make sure that the replaced parts have complete CITATIONS.  wes 15:59, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big deletion 

message: I decided not to delete the stuff from the Fiction Section, mostly because it seems "harmless".  But it still is written in a form that constitutes original research in nearly every sentence.  It should be reorganized to a list of characters/books/movies/whatever, rather than a discussion.  Anybody want to do this? wes 16:10, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Fiction section 

message: I moved fiction section to its own page and reorganized to a list of characters/books/movies/whatever rather than essay style.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by HeWasCalledYClept (talk • contribs) 05:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: moved fiction section to its own page

message: In most cases (99% or higher) a child prodigy fails to succumb to his/her potential.[citation needed] One of the many issues is that the prodigys are given a false sense that they have no competition. Dr. James L. Himmes said "basically, once a child is told that they are bound for greatness they become lazy as if someone would just hand them [the facebook olympics medal for poking]Italic text." that cant be right someone please fix.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.140.206 (talk) 02:38, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: is this a joke?

message: Perhaps it would be a good idea to mention a few generally accepted child prodigies, for example, Mozart? --Muna (talk) 18:52, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples of prodigies 

message: I think he qualifies as an actual child prodigy, considering he was the lead singer for the Jackson 5 at a very young age.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.156.231.55 (talk) 14:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Jackson 

message: I'm not sure the title "Child prodigy" is completely appropriate for this article. I had always understood "prodigies" to be children by definition, and that assertion is backed up by Merriam-Webster (Specifically defines as a child), and to some degree, Wiktionary and Random House's Unabridged Dictionary (Via dictionary.reference.com)--both of which put emphasis on "child" and/or "youth". The only place I looked that didn't specify "child" or "youth" anywhere in the definition was American Heritage.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prodigy
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prodigy#Noun
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prodigy
http://www.bartleby.com/61/2/P0580200.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xbskid (talk • contribs) 19:51, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree- inserting 'child' before 'prodigy' just reinforces an already clear title. It's not at all necessary. 81.77.28.178 (talk) 15:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I emphatically disagree. The common use of the term child prodigy itself suggests other kids of prodigy. The cited dictionary references are simply wrong as other dictionaries define prodigy as not necessarily being a child. Thus this article is attempting to redefine the word prodigy, which only refers to a person who is prodigious in their output of exceptionally gifted works, regardless of age. A child prodigy is a particular kind of prodigy. A child prodigy who carried the gift into adult life such as Mozart is known in toto as a prodigy, though the term is not commonly used where it refers to a person who was also a prodigy as a child. The generalized term "prodigy" is required both from a grammatical correctness standpoint and because there must be a term to describe a person who is a prodigy in adult life but not as a child, such as Einstien, Edison (etc).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abunyip (talk • contribs) 22:22, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title Redundancy 

message: I think that this article is misleading and incorrect. For a start, a child prodigy is not a 'mental calculator'. Maybe being a 'mental calculator' at six years old means something but being a mental calculator when you are 10-12 means nothing. Mathematicians do not do 'calculator operations'; see Mathematics for a list of topics that mathematicians work in. I am therefore removing any suggestions that mathematicians are people who are 'mental calculators'.
Topology Expert (talk) 09:48, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Mental calculators' 

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message: ART IS SUBJECTIVE, THEREFORE PICASSO CAN'T BE TOTALLY DEFINED AS A CHILD PRODIGY.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.21.108.5 (talk) 21:22, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
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message: Was very confused to see Paul Thomas Anderson and Xavier Dolan to be named under 'Examples of particularly extreme prodigies'. They both made their first films in their 20s (perhaps Dolan at 19) which directly contradicts the chief definition in the article as "a child, or at least younger than 18 years, who is performing at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding field of endeavour." The cited articles provide no evidence of them being particularly talented as children - they made short films in their teens, but many, many film directors did the same, to hone their skills. The articles call them 'wunderkind' but it would seem in the more general sense of 'someone who achieves success or shows great talent at a young age' (Merriam Webster). I hardly think they should be included in the same sentence as the likes of Mozart and Carlsen. --JamChiller (talk) 12:20, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Film Directors as Child Prodigies

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thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Not all prodigies go on to become successful adults. One of the major problems is that they are deprived of their childhood through hothousing and proper social interaction at that time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.78.2.179 (talk) 11:45, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adulthood and emotional development 

message: Under the sub-heading examples, we read "Examples of extreme child prodigies could include"....and then a list of child prodigies. I was wondering whether the word "could" was really needed in this sentence. Vorbee (talk) 18:19, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Is the word "could" necessary?

message: Where's Einstein in all this? 2A00:23C5:C10B:A300:ACD2:4D0A:3FFA:6077 (talk) 02:13, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Einstein 

message: "child prodigy" is like wet water. Every prodigy is a child by definition. Why not to use "child genius" or just "prodigy"? 85.193.247.94 (talk) 19:17, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
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