Talk:Winter Garden Theatre
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In what way is this article part of Wikiproject Broadway? As far as can be determined, it predates that project by a year, and the only change made to it since Wikiproject Broadway has started has been to edit a category.- Nunh-huh 02:45, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
With regard to SFTVLGUY2's changes:
- [1] assuming there were such a thing as an illegitimate Broadway theatre (there isn't), why should that distinction be made in the first sentence? And yet more frankly, as the historical home of revues and follies, the term "legitimate" is misapplied to the Winter Garden. Buildings are not "legitimate theatres"; rather what plays there either is or is not.
- [2] the information on all Winter Garden Theatres belongs here. If you want to create a separate article for each go ahead and do it. But don't simply delete information.
- [3] the accepted date format per the Wikipedia style guide is [[February 28]], [[1955]], not [[February 28]] [[1955]]. - Nunh-huh 20:03, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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- Your comments suggest you have no background in theatre. Please refer to a dictionary for the definition of "legitimate theatre." The term refers to both what is presented onstage and the building that houses it. And the Winter Garden's past history has no bearing on what it is in 2007, which is a legitimate theatre, and describing it as such is accurate. And I will delete information that's not related to the article's subject matter - that's an editor's responsibility. Should an article about Springfield, Illinois reference every Springfield in the US? Of course not, and neither should an article about the Winter Garden Theatre reference other venues with the same name simply because they had the same name. Had they shared the same site or ownership, then the reference would be appropriate. SFTVLGUY2 20:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Again, you have no idea of my background. The theatres share the same name, and articles here are organized by name, not geographic location. I've done what you should have, and placed the information on a disambiguation page. And the article is not about the Winter Garden Theatre in 2007, but its entire history. Your comments suggest that you are preoccupied with recent history. I'll leave the "legitimate" even though it's fundamentally silly, as though there were a bevy of burlesque houses we are seeking to distinguish the Winter Garden from. - Nunh-huh 20:47, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Your comments suggest you have no background in theatre. Please refer to a dictionary for the definition of "legitimate theatre." The term refers to both what is presented onstage and the building that houses it. And the Winter Garden's past history has no bearing on what it is in 2007, which is a legitimate theatre, and describing it as such is accurate. And I will delete information that's not related to the article's subject matter - that's an editor's responsibility. Should an article about Springfield, Illinois reference every Springfield in the US? Of course not, and neither should an article about the Winter Garden Theatre reference other venues with the same name simply because they had the same name. Had they shared the same site or ownership, then the reference would be appropriate. SFTVLGUY2 20:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
