Talk:Helen Wills

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message: I discovered that the original article was copied from InfoPlease, a copyrighted source, which is forbidden on Wikipedia. However, I have already modified it somewhat and will soon rewrite more substantially, so I am not raising a Copyright objection at this time.
However, I intend to move the article to "Helen Wills Moody" because that is the name by which she is most well known these days. This even applies to her entry in the International Tennis Hall of Fame, even though she had already remarried, to Roark, much earlier than her induction. Of course, a redirect from "Helen Wills" will be automatically created.Any Objections?Joe Kress 01:53, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
I would have kept it as "Helen Wills." (but I'm not going to change it unless there is a strong groundswell).  It's like Chris Evert or Chris Evert Llyod.  Facts are: (1) She called herself Helen Wills in all of her books and most of her magazine article, (2) Her legacy gift to Cal-Berkeley was as Helen Wills, (3) Her intros vivos scholarship at Cal-Berkeley was as Helen Roark, (4) local monuments such as playgrounds, etcetera, established in her lifetime are as "Helen Wills" (5) The majority of her wins (just slightly) were as Helen Wills or Helen Wills Roark, (6) Her Wimbledon records list her as Helen Wills, (7) Although the International Tennis Hall of Fame article Headline is as "Helen Wills Moody," it refers to her exclusively as "Wills," likewise the NYTimes Obit.  Further the ITHF alphabetizes her as "Wills (Moody Roark), Helen", (8) Britanica lists her as "Helen Wills," and (9) the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame lists her as "Helen Wills Roark" (I know its a big honor amongst all her other achievements, but she was inducted during her lifetime and with her blessing). 
There is a lot of stuff out there which refers to her as "Helen Wills Moody," but Wills' choice appears to have been to drop the "Moody," and should be honored unless there is a definitive reason why not. Swlenz 21:51, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Move and Copyright

message: Recent edits have caused the Introduction to be clunky.  The article now starts off with a name 'Helen Newington Wills Moody Roark' which Wills never used.  I realize that it is nice to get all the aka's in.  But the previous intro did a better job.  Additionally, stating the various names Wills used in her lifetime makes that article more searchable.  In other words, someone knowning just a little bit can find her more easily on the Web.  It is important that the two names she was best known as (and all the historic records refer to), 'Helen Wills' and 'Helen Wills Moody' be featured prominently.
This also comports with Wikipedia naming standards, i.e., how best known, how did she refer to herself, etcetera.  Regarding how she referred to herself, see my previous comments in the above section.
I am accordingly going to revert the intro to its previous form.  Swlenz 23:13, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro

message: There's no need to make this article "the line drawn in the sand" in terms of fighting the movement toward having no dates be linked. The constant reversions of work by date delinking editors and delinking bots isn't going anywhere. Let's keep dates the way they have appeared in books, magazines and newspapers for centuries: normal text with no links. Binksternet (talk) 05:57, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
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message: Just so we understand, I'm certainly not against references for scores... it's great. But the singles chart was numbered for victories and the overlinks of players and events was already done. Please add the refs without disturbing other's work. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:16, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind... I went ahead and added all the same refs to the original chart. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:13, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please stop putting the wrong names in the tables, if you're unfamiliar please read MOS:BIO Section 2.1.2 Changed names. Also, please stop removing the links to tournament editions for the years, it's helpful to be able to link directly to those pages. Column headings don't need a redundent "in final" as the tables are"Grand Slam finals". Thank You. Tennisvine (talk) 20:05, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Then put the links in without wrecking the rest of the table. I already did your reference work for you because you seemed not to bother or care enough to do it yourself. I'm not doing it again. Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:15, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
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