Talk:Jean Shepherd

message: I changed the WOR link from WOR (a disambiguation page) back to WOR-AM which is the correct link.  Shepherd worked at WOR-AM.  Why would we want to point to a disambiguation page instead?  Bill 20:59, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  WOR link 

message: Here in Chicago we refer to the area of the city south of Madison Street as the south side, not South Chicago.  May I suggest changing the line, "Born in South Chicago, Illinois" to either, "Born in Chicago, Illinois," (accurate) or "Born on the south side of Chicago, Illinois" (meaningless to anyone who doesn't live in Chicago, but more correct). —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlvinMGO (talk • contribs) 18:37, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  South side, not South Chicago 

message: I like 1921 as his birth year.  I have a recording of one of his shows from July 26, 1964 (his birthday) where he says "..by God, I made it - 23 years old today!".  If he was born in 1921 he'd have been turning 43, thus the joke -
User:Mcwatson 12:52, 07 Jun 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1921 birth? 

message: Please don't remove signatures and time-stamps from comments.  I was the one who suggested the "south side" change, and I'd like to get credit.  Thank you. 
BTW, here in Chicago we'd say Jean was, "born on the south side," not "in".  As long as you're going to use a Chicago colloquialism, you may as well go all the way.
--AlvinMGO 14:39, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who's Who 

message: "Shep" used to bristle when people called him a "comic" or "comedian". He hoped to be remembered as a humorist. 75.35.219.1 16:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Job Description 

message: I added the 1930 census information regarding his father's occupation and the makeup of the household. arkansasladybug 19:31, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Father's Occupation

message: Made correction to parent's place of birth.  Should have read "Illinois" rather than "Indiana." arkansasladybug 22:31, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Parent's Place of Birth

message: I strongly suspect that the main reason someone filled this article with "citation needed" tags and an unreferenced template isn't so much the dearth of citations as the large number of POV statements. The text refers to various Shepherd efforts as "scintillating", "striking", "fondly remembered" and so on. Under Wikipedia guidelines, the article should not make such judgments, but instead cite reliable sources as making such claims. 
I've added several citations where some of the "fact" tags were, especially in cases where the claim was enormously easy to source and the person doing the tagging was perhaps going overboard a bit. However, there are a number of facts that still should get citations, such as the Nettleton marriage and more about the radio career. Also it would be good if someone can take the time to tone down some of the more fannish statements about how wonderful the radio show was, and instead report on the show's following in more neutral terms. This is not something I feel up to doing myself, since my knowledge of most of his work is extremely slight and secondhand. Thanks! --Karen | Talk | contribs 06:43, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: I've also removed the following from the article:
In this sense, he was comparable to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who, while writing extensively on the education of children did act poorly toward those who were close to him.  During the 1960's in his radio broadcasts Shep would often credit "kids" with understanding the philosophy in his shows better than adults.  Rousseau and Shep both held this idealistic view of "kids" but yet seemed to resent them when dealing with the actuality of child rearing.  The similarity carries on at they progressed into old age and each developed unique traits that made them difficult to deal with, Rousseau with his paranoia and Shep with his "curmudgeon" self description that lent itself to long talks on what he considered a lack of respect that cut off his gaining a national TV audience.  Once, after a show at Princeton in the mid 90's, I asked him about the TV series he had created for ABC and gone out to LA to write.  This was done but not even a pilot ever aired.  He simply said, "I wished I never did them."  And changed the subject.  If they were produced, somewhere, these shows could be in cans...and could they be a treasure trove?  If they are on 2 inch or 1 inch tape their time either has or is running out.
The extended comparison of Shepherd and Rousseau falls under the category of original research, since it is an original commentary and cites no scholarship on the subject.  If an article or book or somesuch has drawn a parallel between the two writers, then it should be cited as a source; otherwise it should be omitted here, and perhaps written up on someone's blog or website. Since Wikipedia articles are collectively written, they cannot have first person accounts in any case, except as clearly marked, brief quotations from some cited source. Additionally, the whole observation about Shepherd's contradictory attitudes about kids in general and his kids in particular is tangential at best to the subject heading about fact vs. fiction.  Sorry. --Karen | Talk | contribs 06:57, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rousseau and "I" 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Libertineback.jpg

message: Why the reference to Mike Daisey at the end?  He's not well-known so unless there have been copyright infringement claims, why mention him?  Shepherd's style was unusual, but not unique, so it makes sense that someone else could employ it without having heard of Shepherd.  Lmonteros (talk) 23:59, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mike Daisey? 

message: I listened to Shep every night while I was in High School; even saw him once having a beer at the LIMELIGHT! Besides reading Robert Service on his show, he often read from Sax Rohmer's "FuManchu"; to a background of classical guitar music. He spoke quite enthusiastically of "Karamaneh" a seductive female character in the early "FuManchu" stories, who was known to "put her moves on" the incredibly naive and "Dr. Watson-like" Dr. Petrie.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by TRIKER1 (talk • contribs) 18:01, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: FuManchu

message: I have heard that Jean Shepherd was the world champion CW [like Morse Code] sender for several years. Does anyone know??--TRIKER1 (talk) 18:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  CW sending 

message: Other than when used in quoted text, or when specifically referring to his nickname, I've changed all occurrences of "Shep" to read "Shepherd." Hemingway's nickname was "Papa," but it wouldn't be worthy of an encyclopedic entry to refer to him as such.Zengakuren (talk) 21:34, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname 

message: I used to listen to Jean Shepherd in the early 70s when I was a college student.  He would sometimes recite poems or plays interspersed with his commentary, like Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" or Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape".  It was hysterical.Tom Cod (talk) 04:42, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Comical Readings

message: The link for Bahn Frei Polka redirects to somewhere in myspace that has nothing to do with the music in question. Does someone have time to wayback this and fix it? Snezzy (talk) 19:04, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed link to "http://www.flicklives.com/Music/Bahn_frei/Bahn_Frei.htm" which is plausibly better. Snezzy (talk) 11:29, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bahn Frei Polka link redirects to myspace 

message: The link for Leigh Brown links to a football player of the same name. I'm not a wikipedia pro, though, so I don't know how to fix it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.123.61.172 (talk) 23:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leigh Brown Link in Bio links to the wrong person 

message: and some are questionable. Can anyone check on these? Paul (User:Lpgeffen) (talk) 17:56, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent additions to Filmography are unverified 

message: Shepherd enjoyed using "strange" music as background for his readings. Two come to mind: Banjoreno and Boodle am Shake. Wild stuff  - they're available on YOUTUBE.
I know because:"I vas dere Charlie!"
TRIKER1 (talk) 21:59, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background music 

message: Below information was tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 16:34, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material 

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message: &nbSP;&nbSP;  numerous sources seem to talk about rumors that it made the bestseller list or even specifically That of the New York Times.  Jerzy•t 18:48, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious refs about best-seller list 

message: I distinctly remember the show running 9:15 - 10:00 in the 60s. I think the live shows from the Limelight started at 10. 184.60.251.238 (talk) 18:42, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Show time