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Talk:Pearl Bailey

message: A Family Guy / American Dad reference is currently 33% of the Death section. This is bothersome on several levels. Editors, please delete. Relgif (talk) 16:50, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seth MacFarlane 

message: This is not mentioned in the article. Please add.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.0.116.153 (talk) 00:30, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I also have fond memories of Miss Bailey on the Capt. Kangaroo show. At least I think I do... that's a long time ago anymore.... PurpleChez (talk) 13:38, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muppet Show Appearance 

message: Pearl Bailey's father was a minister, and I believe he had moved to a church in the state of Ohio.  As a young woman and an up and coming star, Pearl recorded a gospel album with her fathers' church's choir, and her photo appeared on the album cover.  This album did not receive nationwide distribution but it was still in record stores in the early 1980's in Ohio at least.    
I watched her TV show in the 1970's and one particularly touching episode featured Ethel Waters (b. October 31, 1896 – d. September 1, 1977) singing.   Ms. Waters was semi-retired and using a wheelchair at the time because she could hardly walk and Pearl's TV production crew provided a dress for Ms. Waters to wear and arranged her on the stage behind closed curtains and then on camera opened the curtains and Pearlie Mae walked over and of course hugged Ethel etc., as they were both trail blazers and pioneers in civil rights and entertainment -- and here they were on TV together -- after all these years.  Ethel Waters was the highest paid female entertainer in the 1920's, (Al Jolson, a male, being the highest paid) and she later had her own jazz band and appeared in movies and on Broadway and in her later years recorded gospel albums and sang at Billy Graham crusades occasionally.  It was a watershed moment.  
The last letter I got from Pearl was when she was living in Arizona just a few years before her death.  She had just completed a national book-signing tour and was having to go in hospital for some type of further medical operations.  Looking at her, you would not have known she was sick as her facial skin and make up was just perfect.  But there were newspaper articles about her operations.  
I also recall she lived for a time in Chicago, Illinois.  There is significant biographical information and photographs of Pearl Bailey in the archives of Ebony Magazine.  All of the articles are not titled with her name, but she is in some of them with photographs, and they offer a larger and clearer view of her as a special and dynamic celebrity.  She was always loving and kind in her personal life and her former neighbors have fond memories of her.  97.76.210.2 (talk) 20:33, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  biographical details and discography
Talk:Betty Buckley

message: In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 20:08, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Gay Icon Project

message: Nice find on that picture Grizabella. Imagine if someone tried to use that photo in a school report. "Umm, Jimmy, that photo isn't of Betty at all. I am hereby banning wikipedia as a source for any information used in school projects". JayKeaton 12:55, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Haha, good one

message: I think the photo is dated; surely she has more recent pictures out there somewhere that can add to the biography? --Leahtwosaints (talk) 18:03, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Needing a recent photo
Talk:Joyce Brothers

message: All my life I associated this subject with her full title: "Dr. Joyce Brothers"; as she would be known, addressed, introduced, etc by on television, radio, etc. When I typed in the "common name", it did not bring me to this page. How can the search link this page to those who type in: "Dr. Joyce Brothers"? Thanks. Maineartists (talk) 22:05, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Her professional name appears to have been Dr. Joyce Brothers, just as Edward Ellington's professional name was Duke Ellington, William Basie's professional name was Count Basie, and John Rebennack's professional name for most of his career was Dr. John. Of course Ellington and Basie were not really members of the British aristocracy and Rebennack didn't really have a doctorate, but then Brothers wasn't really a practicing psychologist. TheScotch (talk) 23:46, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr. Joyce Brothers 

message: I don't think the article should refer to this person as a psychologist, especially not foremost in the lead. She held an advanced degree in psychology, but that's not the same thing. It's rather like calling her a boxer just because she won contests answering questions about boxing and worked as a boxing announcer. TheScotch (talk) 23:52, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead 

message: I thought that Joyce Brothers' first TV appearance was on You Bet Your Life when she was a graduate student. It would have been about 1952±. I remember watching it, and how she seemed oblivious to Groucho's innuendos.  I have been unable to find the episode data, but other people remember it.  IMDB was not helpful in this regard.    --Bejnar (talk) 08:18, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  You Bet Your Life 

message: Not sure why editor 2601:586:4103:bcb0:a93a:a069:4e28:fad5 found it necessary to make all these edits . Most were completely unnecessary, some were borderline disruptive, and judging from the edit history all carried out today , it would seem that this may have been experimental or practice, since there are several errors throughout. Looking at their edit history, other main pages have suffered the same fate. Maineartists (talk) 22:18, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits
Talk:Sarah Brightman

message: The article states that Sarah Brightman received her education at the Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham.  The school moved to Edgbaston (Birmingham) in 2004, by which time Sarah Brightman was long gone.  She would have been at Elmhurst when it was in Camberley, Surrey.
I invite someone who knows how to do wiki edits to make the correction to the article.
86.11.96.95 (talk) 22:12, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elmhurst Ballet School
Talk:Dahlgren affair

message: Dead Links. Godspeed John Glenn! Will 21:32, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links are Dead

message: I fixed this up a bit, and have added some working links and created a "Dahlgren Papers" page on Wikisource.  This article needs a lot of citations, however.
TuckerResearch (talk) 23:01, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Having came here to wonder out loud how the Smithsonian Channel could have performed handwriting analysis on historical documents that have been lost for the better part of two centuries,  I then got completely sidetracked by the Naughties Era wiki-slap-fight going on between JimWae and Rangerdude in the paragraphs above. I second TuckerResearch's recomendation. Also, I want these fifteen minutes of my life back. 24.14.128.207 (talk) 04:49, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixes
Talk:Chenoa

message: In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 20:19, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay Icon Project 

message: I remove the category People from Mar del Plata, according to the criteria that the place of birth by itself doesn´t always qualified a person to be incorporated to the category People from.... This singer lived since she was seven years old in Mallorca, Spain, so she is Spaniard from a practical point of view. 
In the same way, important people like the late writer Osvaldo Soriano and the actress Nacha Guevara, all of them born in MDQ, are not included in this category, 'cause they were raised in Buenos Aires. However, feel free to discuss the point here according to wiki policies.
DagosNavy 15:04, 24 Dec 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted category
Talk:Barbara Dickson

message: In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 20:25, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay Icon Project 

message: Archie Fisher gave Barbara her first recording break, so it seems perverse to write him out of the picture. I have restored him to the Barbara Dickson story. Ogg 13:57, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archie Fisher 

message: "Full Circle" was poorly reviewed, not well received. It is heavily influenced by classical music, and is remote from her pop hits. See http://www.folking.com/reviews/reviews/532.shtml Ogg (talk) 06:02, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full Circle 

message: How come three of her flop albums have been given a page each? Surely some of her more successful albums (like The Barbara Dickson Album or All for a Song) deserve one more (and my particular fave - You Know it's Me)?--Tuzapicabit (talk) 22:33, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Albums 
Talk:Phyllis Diller

message: The one linked has SIX members.
:A whole 31 now. I'm removing it as it's spam (I mean comon, the largest at 31 people?). Viper007Bond 07:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Who is comon?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.234.198 (talk) 04:05, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Fanclub

message: Why does this article use the spelling "comedienne" rather than "comedian"? Is "comedienne" even a correct English spelling?--Parthian Scribe (talk) 23:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it is, but it's also considered a sexist usage, like 'actress', 'authoress', 'poetess' etc,  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.234.198 (talk) 04:07, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comedian vs comedienne 

message: The point is arguable as to whether Diller was actually the first woman stand-up comic to become a household name in the US.  Moms Mabley's career predated hers by quite a while, although Mabley's fame was largely limited to black audiences until the 1960's.  I have simply changed the sentence in the lead from "the first" to "one of the first" to reflect this. μηδείς (talk) 19:28, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Good plan. --Utilizer (talk) 00:46, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  One of the First 

message: Not the first Phyllis Diller. . 2001:56A:F03F:5200:F922:AB5F:8A85:CA99 (talk) 00:50, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Who knew?

message: Near the beginning, it says her parents were older than average and she attended several funerals growing up. What do her parents' ages have to do with attending some funerals? Who were the funerals for? Her parents? My parents were younger when I was born and I went to funerals growing up. So what? The sentence doesn't really make much sense.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:BC01:9B0:544F:E012:2320:EFE4 (talk) 23:54, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  parents' age and funerals 

message: ......0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 02:25, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations need cleanup and metadata for current templates
Talk:Diana Dors

message: If DD arranged to film her sex parties on 8mm, she'd hardly have been watching them the next day, as the article currently states. Film needs to be processed which would normally take several days. In fact the sexual and possibly illegal (at the time) content might require 'special' processing, which would take even longer. --Ef80 (talk) 21:18, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: A bit late, but having just noticed this comment, I've now amended the article. Blurryman (talk) 12:27, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Watching the orgies 

message: "In June 1968 she reported that she owed £53,000, of which £48,000 was to the IRS..."
Is this correct? The "IRS" ("Inland Revenue Service") is an instutution of the government of the United States. The equivalent British institution was, at that time, the "Inland Revenue", or in full "The Board of Inland Revenue". It was never referred to as the "IRS". Did Dors owe money to the U.S. goverment or to the British government? Hundovir (talk) 13:27, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bankruptcy 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Diana Fuck. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  signed, Rosguill talk 02:33, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Diana Fuck" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Pushout (category theory)

message: The current diagrams must be read from bottom to top and from right to left, i.e. backwards.
Wouldn't it be better to switch the positions of P and Z so that P is at the lower right (and move Q accordingly)?
-- 92.226.209.41 (talk) 12:05, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this. Does anybody prefer the current orientation? 2601:644:400:8430:38E5:6E3F:1923:FBC8 (talk) 19:32, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram orientation 

message: In (I think not just) my opinion a standard notation for pushouts should be derived from two ingrediens:
1. the standard notation for coproducts (as main symbol), mostly derived from the symbol for product,
2. the standard notation for pullbacks (indexing).
This leads to the probably most common infix-notation  A ⊔B C  formed by an upside-down greek capital letter Pi (Π) indexed by the "intersection" B of the span A←B→C, in cases where the projections are clear.
As a reference see Saunders Mac Lane: "Categories for the Working Mathemetician, 2nd Edition", Springer, p.66.
Also valid may be symbols derived from the + sign (for sum = coproduct), or from the symbol (cup) for the union of two sets.
More generally, the notation for colimits may be used.
But be aware, that the symbol just refers to the vertex of the pushout! The complete pushout is symbolized by the diagram.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.246.176.55 (talk) 11:07, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Standard Notation(s)
Talk:Linda Evans

message: In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 20:30, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay Icon Project 

message: The miscellaneous section should be removed since it is a trivia section whose text has no relevance to the subject in question, and the text can therefore not be be woven into the article. Talsurrak (talk) 21:34, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Miscellaneous section 

message: The fact Linda Evans filmed Knievel's famous 1967 crash at Caesar's Palace has been widely reported. I used the official Knievel website as the source, but there are undoubtedly others around if someone wants to add another source. 68.146.64.9 (talk) 16:58, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evel Knievel jump 

message: I have never heard or read this term. Usually, liver or renal (kidney) or heart diseases cause generalized oedema (on legs and /or ascites). Malnutrition (marasmus)is another casuse. Idiopathic means without a clear cause. Perhaps it means lymphedema688dim (talk) 00:27, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *Idiopathic* is a medical term meaning a cause cannot be found for whatever is ailing someone. *Idiopathic edema* would mean she has developed swelling somewhere, but the causes you mentioned (in addition to everything else that causes water retention or blood pooling) have all been ruled out as the reason for it, & doctors don't know why she's experiencing it. It doesn't *perhaps* mean anything else but what it says it means. Lymphedema isn't exactly the sort of thing that would go unnoticed, considering the article's wording implies this has been a problem for her since 1985. ScarletRibbons (talk) 07:31, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Idiopathic edema. What is this?

message: The page Outline_of_terrorism_in_the_United_States has a person called Linda Evans that links to this article, which should be removed or fixed  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.164.113.6 (talk) 17:56, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: by disambiguating link Linda Evans (radical). Thanks for the heads-up.— TAnthonyTalk 18:05, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong link
Talk:Nicki French

message: THE GAY ICON LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PAGE DUE THE FACT SHE IS NOT GAY??? SINCE WHEN DID A GAY ICON HAVE TO BE GAY????  —The preceding unsigned shouting was posted by User:81.129.194.143  02:34, 6 September 2006 
::Whether she is gay or not isn't as important as how someone can arbitrarily decide she is held to be an icon by gays. She's played gay bars/clubs, but straight ones too. She's appeared in gay literature, but straight literature. So we give her two cats? Gay icon, and Straight icon? Moriori 03:33, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I removed the category mainly because it didn't exist. No use adding red-link categories. Gimmetrow 19:07, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, the category still does not exist. Gimmetrow 23:29, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Icon II

message: I have just had a bit of a clean-up, however we need to see some sources for those claims of sales and "success". --Charlesknight 15:48, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bring this article upto standard 

message: It's pretty depressing how this page regularly gets updated/brutalised by people with no real sense of English grammar whose sole intention appears to be to inflate and distort the career of a fairly competent singer who has had no meaningful success or wider relevance for at least the past five years. Being a down-to-earth lady, I imagine Nicki herself would be quite embarrassed to be "represented" by some of the statements made (then reverted, then re-reverted...) in this article. 84.92.246.225 21:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Grammar and general content
Talk:Ava Gardner

message: this Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/31/news.france says that she had an affair with Francoise Sagan, so she was bisexual.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.12.104 (talk) 17:24, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: there is also a rumour linking her to Lana Turner, but no reliable source 188.29.9.221 (talk) 08:41, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  bisexuality 

message: Is it Ai-va or Ar-va? uninformed minds want to know.
Paul Magnussen (talk) 05:19, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Why would you think at it would be pronounced "Ar-va", ? That seems highly unlikely. Cullen328 (talk) 05:23, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Umm… because that's how it's spelt? Paul Magnussen (talk) 16:21, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not even remotely, no. It might possibly be Ah-vah (but isn't) but if your dialect is causing you to add random Rs in the middle of innocent women's names like that... consider changing it. — LlywelynII 08:23, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Interestingly, in Kitty Kelly's Frank Sinatra biography (His Way, Bantam Books (1987), ISBN 0-553-26515-6), p. 150, Ava herself is cited as pronouncing it "Ahvuh". Paul Magnussen (talk) 20:10, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: This article has the opposite problem of Ms Hepburn's: There are so many photos that it's hard to see where this could fit. All of the photos seem to be about Ms Gardner specifically, as well, rather than trivia and associations. Still, if any are eventually added or reorganized as a gallery, this pic might be a fun addition, as well as slightly educational re: lasts. — LlywelynII 08:23, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo
Talk:Gina Gershon

message: Gina has appeared on the WTF Podcast with Marc Maron (http://www.wtfpod.com/) and the biography-style interview is a good (direct) source with mentions of various items already in the article and additional information that seems relevant to parts (i.e. she doesn't mention going to high school with Kravitz, but does mention who she was friends with at college). Also is a good source for early life and pre-celebrity information such as living/family situation, etc. JoeHenzi (talk) 01:57, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Source 

message: I propose that section Gina Gershon#Filmography be split into a separate page called Gina Gershon Filmography. The content of the section is large enough to make their own page. Balasubramanianrajaram (talk) 11:20, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: *That makes sense to me. Aoba47 (talk) 04:24, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting proposal
Talk:Fabian strategy

message: These two sentences appeared in a row: "...inflicting constant, small, debilitating defeats on the North Africans" and "Fabius won no victories."  Isn't any defeat of an enemy technically a victory?  I've gone ahead and changed it to "won no large-scale victories," but perhaps someone with more knowledge of military history could phrase it more precisely.  --LostLeviathan 20:43, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

message: Could Fabian strategy be considered a form of guerilla warfare, or vice-versa? Aristotle2600 03:49, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fabian/Guerilla warfare? 

message: This entire article is lifted in entirety from "A Handbook of Military Strategy and Tactics" by Michiko Phifer. It should probably be deleted until something worthwhile is included here.Jeriktelorian (talk) 18:46, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: Did Hannibal cross the Alps in wintertime? Hid did most of the march before the end of October, just to avoid the winter. Pål Jensen (talk) 20:32, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Wintertime?