Talk:Zig Zag Girl

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The Zig Zag illusion (originally Zig Zag Girl) is a famous and well-known stage grand illusion.
In this illusion, a person is placed inside a cabinet divided into three boxes, with their head, both hands, and a foot visible.  Metal sheet blades are inserted in the two gaps between the boxes, and the middle box is then moved to one side, creating the effect of the person having been sliced into three independantly movable pieces. To reinforce this impression, their face and left hand are visible in the top box, their right hand (often waving a silk or flag) in the middle box, and their left foot in the bottom box. The boxes are then reassembled and the person revealed unharmed.
Because of the manner in which the illusion is achieved, it is generally performed with a female assistant, and there are limitations on her height and weight. Some of these issues are overcome in Modern Art, an illusion created by Jim Steinmeyer.
The method of this trick was exposed by the Masked Magician, Valentino, as part of Fox TV series called Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed.
--Muchosucko 18:16, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
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message: The edit history for when the method was added (back in July 2005) has the summary: "My best guess at how it's done." It has remained essentially the same since then.
This is completely unacceptable. Unless solid citations are found I will remove it, as there is no way it can be salvaged without using weasel words or finding a source that supports it.
No real encyclopedia would accept entries based on someone's "best guess". Perhaps I'll go and edit an article on molecular biology to reflect my "best guess" of how DNA cloning is undertaken? Greeney (talk) 07:25, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you need to read the article a bit more closely, because it isn't original research - Above the 'method' section, there's a statement which reads "The method of this trick was exposed by the Masked Magician, Valentino, as part of a Fox TV series called "Breaking the Magicians' Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed"." As TV shows can be used as reliable sources according to WP:RS, there's a solid reference which shows that the method described in this article is accurate. All that's needed is for the reference to be added to the article, which I'll go and do as soon as I've finished this comment... JS3C (talk) 08:57, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Method is original research 

message: See the proposal: Policy for magic methods --TStone 16:59, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Page moved to Wikipedia:Proposed policy for magic methods. --cesarb 14:52, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: The video links in the article are currently (temporarily?) broken.  Jgm 18:39, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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