Talk:Wilson Mizner

message: The 1893 date given originally could not possibly be correct: he would have been 16 when his first broadway play was produced, and 12 when first married to 80 year old Ms. Yerkes (the article claimed he was 29 at the time of his marriage, which is consistent with the corrected date).
ubiquity 03:48, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's right now. (1893 was the year of his father's death). =- Nunh-huh 08:19, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Indeed. I've added a cautionary note so it doesn't get changed back. - Nunh-huh 04:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Birth 

message: If you change the text of one of the quotations, please provide a definitive citation. Mizner's quotations are popular, and not usually based on a work of literature, so it's easy for them to get corrupted. Also, it would be nice if the quotations we have here match the text of the ones in Wikiquote, even when unsourced. --ubiquity 22:44, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotations 

message: Wilson ("Bill") Mizner was born in Benicia, California, one of eight children including brothers William, Edgar, Murray, Wilson, Addison, Henry, and Lansing  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.120.61.1 (talk) 16:21, August 22, 2007 (UTC) 
I fixed it. Eight is correct. There was also a sister. GroveGuy (talk) 06:59, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  He and his brother had the same name? 

message: I removed the category American Fraudsters. Being a fraud involves work. Wilson was proud of his ability to avoid work. He was never convicted of any crime. GroveGuy (talk) 04:52, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category fraudster 

message: I just finished reading 'The Many Mizners' by his brother Addison Mizner.  Now, I realize the brother might not be so trustworthy, trying to rehabilitate their names, but some other sources also paint Addison Mizner in a better light.  (I'm generally more familiar with Addison than Wilson.)  Some of the sources cited for the Wilson article have egregious mistakes.  For example the "School For Scoundrels" source says he married "the 80-year old Mrs Yerkes".  She died in her 50s and was only 19 years older than Mizner.  According to "The Many Mizners", when Wilson married her, there were a lot of people out for her money, and they libeled Wilson Mizner as part of their schemes.  One person approached Addison saying he was friend trying to help.  Addison told the guy the only thing Wilson had ever done was kill a woman in Hawaii.  Within hours, an acquaintance was calling him telling him about how Wilson had killed a woman in Hawaii.  Addison assured her Wilson had never even been to Hawaii, so much for the 'friend'.  Anyway, I suspect a lot of these sources were just picking up legends about Wilson, and Wilson himself may have encouraged some of them.  Even Addison admits he wasn't above conning people, even if just for fun.
Kashikom (talk) 04:25, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was he really that bad? 

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thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Wilson Mizner]] 

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