Talk:Alastair Sim

message: thumb| Alastair Sim in A Christmas Carol
Someone, please clarify which movie is which.  Please make the caption more specific.
Thank You.
[[ hopiakuta  | [[ %c2%a1 %c2%bf  %7e%7e%7e%7e  -]] 11:55, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's from the film Scrooge (1951) (aka A Christmas Carol). I've corrected the caption. -- SteveCrook 15:48, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is correct. The movie was released in the US as A Christmas Carol (which means this is the American poster), but was originally made and released in the UK as Scrooge, so both names are correct. Ron g 14:21, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Although according to Wikipedia policy, I believe, the UK title should take precedence, as it is a British film (just as British English takes precedent in a UK article). David L Rattigan 18:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True, which is why the caption under the poster (in the main article, not here) says, "Scrooge (1951) (aka A Christmas Carol)" and not the other way around. The poster itself says "A Christmas Carol", and should be replaced if we find something for the English version." Ron g 13:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

message: Which cancer? F W Nietzsche (talk) 12:46, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Death

message: If "he gave his most celebrated performance: playing the title role of Scrooge in a film adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol," then how can he be "best remembered for portraying the headmistress, Miss Fritton, in two of the St Trinian's film comedies, . . ."? Kostaki mou (talk) 01:07, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A memory doesn't have to be a celebration :)Although I think every performance he gave was memorable, and celebrated -- SteveCrook (talk) 02:29, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Huh? (2)

message: I'm wondering why recent allegations of sexual and social impropriety, taken largely from an article in the Daily Mail, of all things, is a valid "source". Especially bearing in mind the entire tone of the article, which seems to be a detailed attempt to paint him as a paeodophile. The article uses highly inflammatory language and makes some dubious allegations. I do not think this fetid piece of little England tittle-tattle is a valid source to quote. 80.1.186.148 (talk) 01:36, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing from the Daily Mail or from any other British newspaper should ever be taken as a valid source. They're all just scandal sheets and none of them are above making up a story for sensational purposes to sell a few more copies of their paper. The Daily Wail (aka the Daily Hate Mail) is the worst of the bunch of the national dailies. But do Wikipedia rules about quoting sources say anything about the reliability of that source? -- SteveCrook (talk) 12:26, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't know to be honest, but I don't like the idea that the Mail's histrionic wording or allegations be incorporated into the article. It's a bit like spreading gossip at a very base level. I will remove the  worst of it. Hardylane (talk) 18:36, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

text: And more importantly, dead men can't sue for defamation, nor can their relatives.203.219.69.226 (talk) 22:59, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Sim's paedophilia was very well known during his lifetime. I knew about it in the early 1950s. (92.4.12.161 (talk) 15:14, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Citations? Or just wild speculation and gossip? -- SteveCrook (talk) 19:06, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Sim's interest in underage boys was a well known fact at the height of his fame. (LoweRobinson (talk) 10:37, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Daily Mail article

message: With help from User:Crisco 1492 I have uploaded three images that are in the public domain in the US, and thus can be used in this article: 
*:File:Alastair-sim-laird-in-geordie.jpg
*:File:Sim-green-man.jpg
*:File:Sim-mills-mitchell-escapade.jpg
But before they are suitable for use they all need attention (requested this morning) from the miracle workers at the Graphics Laboratory. Pending their availability I have left the existing fair use image in place temporarily: I hope this is not an unacceptable bending of the rules. Once the free images are usable this copyright image can be deleted from WP. Tim riley talk  13:14, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: I notice that this article was recently much expanded and improved and have reassessed it as B-class. -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:03, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: Oddly enough I was listening to Hancock's Half-hour this morning—the episode "The Impersonator"—which, so the BBC announcer informs me, Galton and Simpson wrote after hearing about Sim's court case against Heinz. Funny coincidental timing and all that... - SchroCat (talk) 08:53, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Heinz

message: Spotted today that the categories described him as educated at George Heriot's - he also appeared on that school's list of alumni, and one or two non-English wikis seem to report the same information. It's not mentioned in the ODNB or in the body of the article, so I've removed it... but is there perhaps something more to this? Sim's later school years seem to be somewhat vague (when as much as where) and it's quite possible he moved around a bit. (He presumably had some post-14 education to make it to university by 1918) Andrew Gray (talk) 21:52, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Educated at Heriots? 

message: Substituted at 07:03, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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