Talk:Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

message: The 1993 date mentioned in the article (or at least implied by the article) simply can't be right.  Putting aside my own recollection of using Mavis Beacon well before that, most of the computer systems mentioned three sentences later (including Apple II, Atari, Commodore 64) were not produced anymore anywhere near 1993.
The wording in the article—"the program has been published regularly since 1993"—leaves a loophole, that it was published irregularly prior to that for some period.  But that's a rather bizarre interpretation.
I think if no one can substantiate an actual date for Mavis Beacon's release, that the entire sentence should be removed.
--TreyHarris 14:31, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dating 

message: I for one am shocked, SHOCKED! that Mavis Beacon is not a real person 198.6.46.11 (talk) 17:22, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: SHOCKED!

message: There is another article called Mavis BeaconThat should either be redirected to this article, or merged with it. --水の男の子 (talk) 14:58, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm pulling the merge template down for three reasons: A) it was proposed in the wrong direction, to merge this article into Mavis Beacon 2) there's been no discussion to support the proposal for the ~2 years it's been up and d) the Mavis Beacon article is suitably well-cited in its own right and there's no apparent reason to merge/delete it. Rob T Firefly (talk) 02:33, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: It's stated that "the original photo of Mavis Beacon was of Caribbean-born Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Renee L'Esperance", yet if you go to the link for Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, the list there, which dates from 1973 to present, does not include her name. 69.253.39.117 (talk) 09:51, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Secretary-General?

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address redirects from Mavis Beacon minigames. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. --BDD (talk) 19:30, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minigame redirects listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I am Walt Bilofsky, one of the three authors of the original 1.0 version of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.
I request the deletion of the second sentence in History, referencing a purported author Charles Haymond. 
Les Crane created the name Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing in 1987. Norm Worthington, Mike Duffy and I wrote the 1.0 version that year. The supporting reference for my authorship is an article in the New York Times. The article also names Les Crane, the producer, and Joe Abrams, marketing and sales.
Neither Mike nor I have ever heard of Charles Haymond and he was not an author of this program. He was first edited into the page on 2 Sept. 2009 by an unidentified author, with no supporting reference. He was added back on 31 Oct. 2019, again by an unidentified author, supported only by a circular reference to a website that repeats verbatim an earlier version of this Wikipedia article.
Bilofsky (talk) 22:15, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Done: Thank you for your request! casualdejekyll 02:42, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request - Remove bogus author 

message: Was thinking about adding a release timeline for Mavis Beacon, but information seems pretty scattered. If there are better sources out there, I couldn't find them, but based on what I could find, here's the best I could create:
https://www.grouvee.com/games/?sort_by=date&dir=asc&franchise=2378&dateFrom=&dateTo=
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC&term=mavis+beacon&supportedlang=english
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31350083138&searchurl=an%3Dmavis%2Bbeacon%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1
https://www.amazon.com/Marvis-Beacon-Teaches-Typing-Verson/dp/B003KFG0CE
https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Mavis+Beacon%22&sort=-date&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Mavis+Beacon%22
https://www.matthewdean.com/mavis-beacon
Electricmastro (talk) 20:27, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I worked on Mavis 3 for DOS/Windows and can confirm it was released in 1994. Myrddin111 (talk) 23:09, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Would you be able to corroborate on the other release years?Electricmastro (talk) 21:35, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release timeline 

message: I'm deep into the program now, averaging around 60 wpm, and this is the 3rd or 4th period of my life where I have spent significant time doing the exercises, etc... of this software.  So, from that perspective, as a User of the software, I'd like to know something about the "science" behind it.  I misspell certain words frequently, and I'd like to know things like whether or not Mavis stores those frequently f-ed up words in a file somewhere.  Or whatever.  Anything really.  What's going on behind the scenes?  What's under the hood?  Who made the decisions to do this or that?  Why does the chameleon and ant game aggravate me so much?  How come I keep drilling the same passages over & over again?  Is that a good thing, or a bad thing.  It says you can "import" your own customized tests.  Does Mavis have downloadable tests somewhere on the naked internet?  Are there forums for wingnuts like myself to collaborate and gossip about important trivia like where is Mavis from, what's her "orientation", is she married.
Is there a Mavis Beacon Fan Club?  Mavis Beacon PORN?  What about that song in my head with that GREAT, hard-hitting upright bass?  What is it, and who wrote it?  Why no tick-tock metronome?  I have a zillion questions.
I gotta know these things.
2603:8081:3A00:30DF:BDE5:F114:F0BA:1988 (talk) 20:34, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "Science" Behind It?