Talk:Norman Fell

message: "born to a Jewish family" is a racial stereotype.  If the person is Jewish, just say it.  ----me.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.187.180.63  (talk • contribs) .
:1. Please do not remove text from an article without leaving a summary remark.  2.  A person can be born to a Jewish family without being a praticing Jew him or herself.  -- Dcflyer 03:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Providing factual information in an encylcopedia is far from perpetuating a racial stereotype.  Also, what racial stereotype is being perpetuated?  By saying "racial stereotype" do you mean Anti-Semetism?  Take a look a some other Wikipedia articles:  List of Jewish Americans, List of Jewish American actors, and List of British Jews.  Do you think these promote "racial stereotypes" as well?  This article is already tagged with the category, Category:Jewish American actors.  Finally, let me address your point about not having "born to a Christian family" on other articles.  The subjects of biographies on the English Wikipedia are overwhelming from the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia.  The majority of individuals from these countries are Christian.  In the minority are Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and others.  Pointing this out is simply providing factual information to the reader and cannot be at all compared to attaching a Star of David or a Red Crescent to these articles. -- Dcflyer 21:49, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Citation for the reference to Jewish parents: . -- Dcflyer 05:00, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: In Family Guy episode (with nuclear catastrophe) Norman Fell was one of three "most important people of last milenium that already died" between Leonardo da Vinci and Joan d'Arc :P I think it should be mentioned in article ;)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.112.115.34 (talk) 10:22, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Norman Fell in family guy

message: He also stared as himself in episode 5 of the 1st season of It's Gary Shandling's Show called 'The Graduate' that aired 8th of October 1986. It's not hugely important but it's not listed in the table of television work.Dettawalker (talk) 02:33, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: It's Gary Shandling's Show

message: To say that someone is "best known for" a particular work or series is highly subjective at best, and in the case of many deceased performers of long career, it depends on the age of the observer and their proclivity for sitcoms, or whatever.  Norman Fell was an established and well-known actor, both name and face, long before Tex and Thelma's little boy tripped his way to fame in HIS only notable role.  To indicate otherwise is almost as inaccurate as it would be to say that Don Knots was "best known" for the same role.  Such sentiments are appropriate to 'TV Guide' and 'People' magazine, but are opinion, at best, and not very encyclopedic, regardless of how many thousands of times they occur in the wiki-verse.  Just sayin'.  rags (talk) 05:46, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best known for