Talk:Kristi Yamaguchi

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 18:29, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: I fixed the paragraph that claimed Yamaguchi and Teresa Weld Blanchard were the only women to have won both US singles and pairs titles, and that Galindo and Ken Shelley were the only men to do so.  It turns out there are many other skaters (both male and female) who have accomplished this -- just none recently.  The other women include Beatrix Loughran, Maribel Vinson, Joan Tozzer, and Yvonne Sherman; and the other men are Norman Scott, Nathaniel Niles, Sherwin Badger, and Eugene Turner.  Dr.frog 22:28, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Is Kristi's last name still Yamaguchi or is it Hedican?--BigMac1212 18:11, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kristi's Last Name

message: I started this table like the ones I saw on other figure skaters pages. I looked around the net, but I can only find references to these gold medals she won. I imagine she must have placed other than first in her career. If you could fill it out and place it, that would be great. Or, if you don't know how to make the table work, just put the info here and someone else will do it. 
Event             	1990	1991	1992
Olympic Games     	    	    	
Worlds            	    	    	
U.S. Championships	    	    	
If you want to see what a full Highlights table looks like check out, Nancy Kerrigan or Tonya  Harding. Noit 02:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Competitive Highlights

message: Does someone have a working free pic of her to add to article?--Xiahou 21:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: This article had a lot of birthdates, which is considered pretty private information by most.  Since these are living people, I have followed the WP:BIO suggestion and removed the exact dates.  It's not going to stop a determined stalker, of course (there's the edit history) but at least doesn't look as invasive of privacy.  Jpp42 03:29, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthdates 

message: While I am not ready to dismiss racism entirely as a possible reason why Kristi didn't get many major endorsements after her Olympic win, I do remember her win, and especially her long program as being less than perfect. The description in the article touches on that fact. Kristi excelled in the compulsories, and back then that carried more weight than it does today. Her long program wasn't the perfect tour de force that the public would expect from an Olympic Champion, her closest competitors were just worse. That Olympic Finals seemed to be a bunch of Women trying to land hard jumps, and failing, and Kristi was the only artist, it seemed. Not a great final, by any means. And you can't make the comparison to Kerrigan without pointing out what a household name Kerrigan had become after being attacked. Mikevegas40 11:38, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Race or A Kinda Ugly Win? 

message: Her grandparents are described as "victims of the United States' anti-Japanese policies during World War II".  This seems both unnecessarily harsh and irrelevant.  The use of the term "victim" implies that U.S. actions were wrong.  Would you say that Elvis Presley and Willie Mays were "victims" of U.S. military conscription (the articles on Elvis and Willie do not call them "victims")?  In any case, the article is about Kristi Yamaguchi, not about her grandparents.  Did the fact that her grandparents sat out the war in a prison camp have a direct and important impact on Kristi Yamaguchi's life, or on her skating (the reason the article is here)? Readin (talk) 20:49, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV and Irrelevant 

message: The following text was recently added by user:Dec5
But Kristi did prove the nay sayers wrong..and she did eventually surpass Kerrigan in long term contracts with high fashion firms like Celanese Acetate..and made multi millions headlining Stars on Ice for a decade. Kristi also became the perfect wholesome American Image in mega profile "Got Milk "Ads and got her face on a Wheaties box!
She still has her own Christmas Skating show for the Holidays. Kristi has been reported to have earned 2million dollars a year for more than 10 years..which probably puts Kristi in the 20million dollar range... Kristi has become one of the endorsement icons still sought after today....when most have faded away.
Kristi continues to be in the limelight in competing in Dancing with the Stars in 2008.
Dec5, while I assume the facts are right and I even personally agree with the tone, the tone isn't really appropriate for an encyclopedic article. Please rewrite  to make the tone a little more objective.Readin (talk) 14:39, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Curb  your enthusiasm 

message: I combined the two references to Dancing with the Stars into a single reference.  It didn't make sense for them to be in two different sections.  My intent was not to change the meaning in any way.
--Tlbernstein (talk) 06:43, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixed dancing with the Stars formatting 

message: According to this, Kristi Yamaguchi was born with a club foot (a birth defect in which the foot is twisted downward and inverted).  Would this and other information be important to include in this article?  Such as, how she managed to live with her club foot and/or fix it.  What do you guys think?  --RACiEP (talk) 00:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is true it would certainly be worth including in the article given her vocation.  How reliable is your source?  I wonder because again, given her vocation, it seems it would be something worth mentioning frequently and thus already well-known.Readin (talk) 01:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Kristi said this herself on dancing with the stars and showed pictures of her as a baby in casts. Vjydanz (talk) 19:06, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  clubfoot 

message: This section takes the word "critique" quite the wrong way and delivers only criticism, not positive remarks. It is absolutely ridiculous there are no good things from the judges listed here, as those were the majority of their comments. I also question the necessity of listing it by week, and that there are so few citations, but that's beyond this point. --Fbv65edel — t — c // 03:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality of the "Judges' Critique" section 

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