Talk:Wendy O. Williams
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Took out the "named after koopa kid" thing. It was even taken out on the koopa kid page because it's just fan speculation, and not fact, which is what it's often passed off as in Wikipedia. 141.150.116.241
- I disagree with this. It still remains on the Koopa Kid page, as does the reference to Lemmy Kilmester. Don't you think it's too much of a coincidence that both of them have the same name as Koopa kids, and that most of them are named after rock stars? I would like to add this back in, if it's okay. I've posted what it will look like below (similar to what I found in the Lemmy Kilmester article) Tyciol 16:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Video Game Link
Wendy O. Koopa, one of the Koopa Kids in the Super Mario gaming series, is named after her.
[edit] gene@plasmatics.com
User 24.187.110.52, claiming to be from plasmatics.com, made some substantial changes that are not sourced or cited, and removed information that is alleged to be "false" without stating why. Most notably, why was the "Candy Goes to Hollywood" info removed, and why was the Gene Simmons dating reference removed? Also, hyperbole such as "the most controversial female rock performer of her time" reads like a press release and is not Wikipedia-style writing. wikipediatrix 18:26, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] High school record
Williams appears in her tenth-grade class photo in the 1965 edition of "Reveille," the yearbook of R.L. Thomas High School, so it is incorrect that she left high school "after the ninth grade," as was previously stated in the Wikipedia entry (and elsewhere). The class photos, by photographer Robert Allen of Allen Studios in Webster, NY, were taken midway through the fall semester, so Williams must have attended tenth grade at least through October of 1964. I attended the same high school at the same time. I have no memory of Wendy quitting school during the school year, and because news of any student quitting school would have gone immediately and thoroughly through the grapevine, it is my personal opinion that she attended high school at least through the end of the tenth grade. Other sources say she hitchhiked west at the age of sixteen. Based on her date of birth and year in school, she would have turned sixteen at the end of tenth grade.
I have a memory (shared by other classmates) of Williams playing clarinet as a member of the high school concert/marching band, but she does not appear in the band photo in the same yearbook, so we may be mistaken in that regard, or she may have left the band before the photo was taken.
[edit] Appearances on Tomorrow
See Tom Snyder viz. the Plasmatics blowing up a TV in his studio, disrupting a live network newscast on a different floor, and subsequent appearances. These noted events are at least enough for a cross-link if not more but I'm too lazy to do this now. -Wfaxon 21:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- The topic seems a better fit here or on the Plasmatics page, inasmuch as those events were a bigger part of the band's public careers than they were for Tom Snyder. The Tomorrow appearance is what they're known for by many non-fans. Williams' role in Reform School Girls should be mentioned too. Asat 08:54, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
