Talk:Dionne quintuplets

message: Every source says that the quintuplets were born in 1934, but the picture of the babies was taken in 1930 and the World's Fair in Chicago where the parents wanted to present the children was in 1933.
---Nicor 16:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the picture of the babies was not taken in 1930. "ca" in the image caption means circa, or 'about' in Latin. Chances are that attempts to accurately date the photo have failed. Maybe 1933, maybe 1934. Can't tell how old the babies were from the photo. -- PFHLai 00:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  wrong information 

message: 40 billion CAD? sounds suspiciously high to me...
70.52.6.2 06:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, I believe the amount is closer to 2.8 million.  Deepalmolive 06:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And yet the article now says 4 million lump sum. ---- WPaulB (talk) 18:46, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  source for money settlement 

message: I read that, three of the sisters are death, but the other two are alive ? I'm not sure, it can be possible. --AndreaMimi (talk) 12:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't say who is alive, but Emilie died in 1954, Marie died in 1970, and Yvonne died in 2001. That leaves only Annette and Cecile to be accounted for. They were alive in 2001 when Yvonne died. - Nunh-huh 14:29, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alive ?  

message: I clicked on the "blue" title "The Country Doctor" which should have been a link to a 1936 film about the Dionne sisters.  I was taken to a stub article about a 1909 silent movie starring Mary Pickford. Someone may wish to deactivate the link to the wrong film. 
--Karenthewriter (talk) 18:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Country Doctor 

message: Although this has always been taken for granted, there is no way to know without DNA studies. Maybe the article should say only that they have always been thought to be identical. The two who were smallest in childhood (Emilie and Marie, I think, so we will never know now) never really looked as identical as the other three. The "all identical" claim may have been part of the hype, as people are more fascinated with identicals. If it is indeed unsupported by any real evidence, the article should say so.Rose bartram (talk) 13:37, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: High-tech DNA is a stronger test, but there were other tests back then to demonstrate a high probability of being identical. One could start with blood type, but I expect that there was other, stronger evidence.--Spellage (talk) 13:42, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

text: I hope you are not being sarcastic here, as that would be an excessive response to something which was, after all, just a comment in the talk section--I made no change to the article at any time and will not. The consensus of Wikipedia editors is clear that they were identical. If you are asking for clarification on my point, the concern was that the diagnosis of monozygosity was made largely on the basis of dermatoglyphics (a specialty of the doctor who concluded that they were identical) and other criteria which, like dermatoglyphics, have not held up well to the test of time. But there is no reason that the accuracy of the determination needs to be an issue.Rose bartram (talk) 12:11, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evidence that they were all identical 

message: "It was only rivaled by Radio City, Mount Vernon, and GEttysburg of the United States." 
In no accounts have i read the above information. perhaps figures of tourism dollars or headcounts for these attractions from 1934-43 or a citation is in order
Lydiapeever (talk) 12:36, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tourism 

message: Halliwell's Film Guide lists two sequels to The Country Doctor: Reunion (1936) and Five of a Kind (1938).
The page now lists the first, but not the second. Halliwell may be using an alternative title.
Varlaam (talk) 22:33, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Then you should add it in there since it is sourced.P0PP4B34R732 (talk) 22:42, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film sequels 

message: From the article: 
"Émilie and Marie shared an embryonic sac (and were identical twins)."
"All but Émilie were/are right-handed."
These cannot both be true. If she was the only left-handed one, then she was not identical to any of the others. Where are the sources for this information? Tad Lincoln (talk) 00:19, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identical?? 

message: I created the new "Human rights abuses in Canada" category (in similar fashion to other existing "Human rights abuses in (country)" categories) to encompass the quints, and promptly added the article to that (previously-nonexistent) category. At 07:05 (UTC) on 14 May 2013, User:Noq removed the category, and at 04:28 (UTC) on 15 May, I re-added it with an explanation. What do you think about this new category? There are no other articles in it, so it has to do with what you think about this article.
Thanks for taking your time to talk about this,
User:Davidfreesefan23 (talk) 04:36, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Your opinion it is not sufficient to create a category and add it to this article. You need to WP:verify it and prove it in the article with WP:reliable sources. An edit summary saying you believe it is not a reason for it to be there. It has been reverted again - please do not re-add it unless you can get consensus here per WP:BRD. noq (talk) 07:01, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Human rights abuses in Canada]] 

message: The addition of "Oh, Mr Porter! is correct. I have added a script reference also - the script transcript includes "Murphy" and the pun, although it has a typo within it.
 Why did you restore the useless trivia in the pop culture section? Oiyarbepsy (talk) 07:02, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it's been in the article for a long time without objection, you shouldn't delete things on a whim, we need to explain the Quints phenomenon in the thirties and without it we have a pretty thin article. Paul Austin (talk) 07:24, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: But most of this stuff isn't the 30s, or even the 40s. We could delete the section entirely, and we wouldn't have a "thin" article by any stretch of the imagination. These sections used to be on every article and they really diminished our reputation, and we have, fortunately, eliminated most of them. For God sake's, we got one-liners from Mash, a show made 40 years after they were born, we have passing mentions in songs, one that is nothing more that Mr Dionne and not even explicitly about them. These sections need to be limited to works that actually cover or parody the quints in depth, not every possible passing mention. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 07:30, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: OK
The Simpsons "Eight Misbehavin'", seventh episode of the eleventh season: The scenario of exhibiting the babies in a theme park echoes that of the Dionne Quintuplets, who were exhibited to the public in "Quintland" during the 1930s in Ontario.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.124.116.101 (talk) 05:54, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop culture trivia 

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message: I won an auction in superior wi & a box full of newspaper cutouts from 1930’s on up all pictures & articles are about the kids. Hundreds of cutouts. If anyone interested in them, lmk, I’d like them to go to a family member or museum if possible. Spikesnu (talk) 04:35, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I Found Hundreds of Newspaper articles of Quintuplets 1936 

message: The infobox currently lists 3 sisters who have died, but they are listed in a seemingly random order. They are neither listed by age/date of death nor alphabetically by name. I think it would make sense to go by age/date of death. Nakonana (talk) 18:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the tip, . I have changed it as you suggested, although I see no reason why you couldn't have edited it yourself; it hardly seems controversial. They appear to have been listed in birth order, but to me, death order makes more sense in that part of the infobox. Happy editing.— JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 17:49, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @JohnFromPinckney I wasn't sure whether there was a specific reason to list them in the order they were listed as I'm not familiar with the topic. There was a chance that I was simply missing something. And I don't know the guidelines for such instances — whether one should go by name or by date of death, so I decided to bring it up on the talk page instead of editing it myself. Thanks for changing it :) Nakonana (talk) 19:16, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order in infobox "Died" section