Talk:Bernadette Peters

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Contents 1 Gay Icon Project 2 The Goodbye Girl 3 Husband's Occupation 4 The "See also" section

[edit] Gay Icon Project

In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 21:50, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl link in this page links to the 1977 movie, not the 1993 Broadway Musical. Peters played Paula in the Musical Yalith 21:27, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out Yalith. There are several links that are inaccurate. I will get to work fixing them. MarnetteD | Talk 00:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Husband's Occupation

Regarding today's edits to the item on the marriage and the death of Michael Wittenberg. In all but one of the articles I can find he is called an "investment adviser", not "investment banker." I really don't know if this matters much, but for the sake of accuracy, and because there are numerous citations for the "adviser" rather the "banker", I'm changing this.

Actually, it makes a WORLD of difference. A banker is the person who actually instigates transactions, an advisor can only "advise" you on the best way to do things, and set it all up for you to be sent to the banker.-65.122.209.139 03:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Sources are: Item in the "Times-Picayune" (New Orleans, LA), July 26, 1996, and the "New York Times", (probably many more) announcing their wedding; article in the New York "Daily News", September 28, 2005, reporting on his death; item on playbill.com announcing Mr. Wittenberg's death, Sept. 27, 1995 (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/95366.html); article in "Playbill", March 1999, "Lost in Her Charms"; article in "Vero Beach Magazine", April 2005 (names him "investment couselor"). There is one mention of the "banker"--"Parade Magazine", November 27, 2005, in the "Personality Parade" column. . Well, there are more I could cite if asked. JeanColumbia 19:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The "See also" section

A "See also" section is a useful thing but it can be misused. Links that are already in the text of the article do not need to be repeated again in a "See also" section. Two good questions which should also be asked about such links are:

1. Is there a single-step relationship between the two subjects? ("Bernadette Peters appeared in Shelly!" is a single-step relationship between Bernadette Peters and Shelly!. "Bernadette Peters appeared in Shelly!, which was written by James Lipton" is not a single-step relationship between Peters and Lipton.)
2. Could all subjects that share this relationship be incorporated into the See Also section without overwhelming the article? (A list of all the television shows on which a popular actress has made an appearance would be overwhelming.)

If "no" is the answer to either of the questions above for a given article, then that article should probably not appear in the "See also" section. -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Since I added most of the "See also" links, I thought I'd take a stab at following Antaeus Feldspar's advice/directions about proper use. I may have completely misread how and under what circumstances to show "See also" links versus showing a link in the text, but I tried. The muppet link has me stymied, I'll leave that for later.JeanColumbia 13:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)