Talk:Debutante

message: Does The Assembly need to be disambiguated, as it currently points to a synth pop band? (presumably one that doesn't perform at cotillions)
Ziggurat 07:09, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: The Assembly

message: What is any of this about?  Why so many capitalized phrases?
"Though the White American Society pays little attention to the Greater Contributions of the African American Social Orders and Fraternal Organizations.The African Americans recognize their own Sovereign Debutantes and their Cotillions that they themselves present.The Jack and Jill Society as well as The Beautillions that they themselves also present, are a Wonderful example of how the Fabulous and Marvelous plight and introduction of our Dear and Loved Forefathers"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.253.61.44 (talk) 03:30, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Strange Section

message: See the discussion at Debutante ball... Mgcsinc 22:35, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed Merger

message: There was some shocking English in this peice. I fixed it. --82.36.205.181 17:50, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: English

message: Recently I rewrote debutante ball to merge it with this one.  I also added the illustrations.  Zena Dhark…·°º•ø®@» 01:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Now Featuring...

message: Why don't they have philippine debuts section? This is an outrage! *lol*
I re-added the previous Philippines Debut entry from a year ago. For some reason, someone took it out after a year. Anywho, it's in the article again.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.230.202.22 (talk) 02:49, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philippine Debut? 

message: I just wanted to note that the writing of the article is quite poor, but in a subtle way. There are many run-on sentences, and many places (especially towards the beginning of the article) where the writer is trying to phrase things in a complicated fashion without properly structuring the sentence. There's also occasional problems with tenses and plural words where it looks like two sentences were strung together that shouldn't be. While you get the gist of the meaning, it's choppy to read and it can be hard to really understand the flow of what is being said. 
I think someone should go through it - not to change the content! The content is very informative. But I think it just needs to be rephrased so as to flow smoothly. People will enjoy it way more that way; it's a very interesting and romantic subject. :) Just a note to whoever edits these things.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.46.8.26 (talk) 05:26, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing Style Corrections 

message: I am reclassifying this as a C since the references leave much to be desired. Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:42, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Classification

message: Only at one spot in the entire article does it mention the age of the debutantes (age 21). I've always understood that in the U.S., at least, the usual age for a girl's debut is 18. I hope those of you with more expertise about debuts will go over the article and add specific ages where appropriate.
ElsaObuchowski (talk) 13:51, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Information

message: Débutantes would also wear pearls but many would also wear moist socks that belonged to the family.
What on earth is a Moist Sock, and what does it have to do with a debutante's jewellery choice?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PaddyMcMack (talk • contribs) 08:58, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moist Sock 

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message: and others: Having evaluated this article, doesn't it seems evident it should afterall simply be merged with Debutante ball? With lead section section stating somewhere that "participants are known as debutantes"? Doesn't all text contents seems to deal with different kinds of debutante balls anyway? PPEMES (talk) 12:33, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: No. At least in the UK debs did things other than going to balls. It's worth reading the article. However, a debs ball is an event attended by debs (and others) so a merge in the other direction is arguable (though probably still not a good idea). Thincat (talk) 11:21, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

text: They are two completely different concepts. Zhl025 (talk) 08:37, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing, given the uncontested objections and no support. Klbrain (talk) 21:43, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge to [[Debutante ball]]? 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: This article uses "debutante " and "débutante" (with an acute accent) inconsistently and should be standardised. The WP Manual of Style guidance is that "the use of diacritics (such as accent marks) for foreign words is neither encouraged nor discouraged; their usage depends on whether they appear in verifiable reliable sources in English". The vast majority of sources used in this article do not use the accent. The main use of the accent is in older sources, and modern usage seems to not use it. I propose changing the article to use "debutante" without the accent throughout, except in titles or citations which use the accent. Any comments? Masato.harada (talk) 10:33, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Debutante or débutante? 

message: Not all debutante events are balls, but it seems much of our coverage in this article is about balls. Debutante ball is very short and repeats what is already mentioned here, so merging and intentionally covering debutante balls here makes sense to me. -- Beland (talk) 17:29, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Debutante ball]]