Talk:Miss America
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cur) (last) 00:30, 3 Mar 2005 Infrogmation m (Reverted edits by 69.107.96.61 to last version by TheCustomOfLife) -- I don't understand why my edit was removed; I assume that Infrogmation deleted the external link because it linked to the Offical Miss America website showing winners--if so, this is an erroneous understanding of how the Internet is supposed to work, I guess based on what Frog thinks the law is, probably from the Playboy decision widely quoted in the popular press. But then again this is Wikipedia, where you can be a law unto yourself... 69.107.96.61 08 March 2004
- Your edit was reverted because External links go in the section of that name at the bottom of the page, and the official Miss America website was already linked there. I don't understand the rest of your comment. -- Infrogmation 08:00, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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We should update the picture at the top of the page once a year to that year's winner? I also put in a bot request on this topic. Cromwellt, Waarmstr 18:20, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Miss [State] USA vs. Miss [State] America
(This comment could potentially apply to 50 or so pages so I thought I'd just say it once here.) When searching on Miss California it takes me to the page for Miss USA's California contestant. How should we/I go about clarifying this? I assume there should probably be two pages; Miss California (USA), and Miss California (America), with a note in the first paragraph similar to the Miss America page. Waarmstr 18:20, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
- That problem was fixed recently, with a separate page Miss California, that links to other one. --Rob 04:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Miss [State] Pages missing
There are a great number of State level pages missing. So far I've only been able to confirm the existence of Miss California & Miss Texas. If someone doesn't mind typing in all 50 state names maybe we could determine how many have pages, and add a list of needed pages here. We won't have to start completely from scratch as some "people" pages mention past winners. e.g. Marilyn Meseke from Ohio, even though there is no "Miss Ohio" page. Waarmstr 18:20, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, those are the only two state pageants that have articles. --Rob 06:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Picture width
I've made the picture at the top, Image:Miss America contestants visit Andrews 2003.jpg, wider than avergae, 450px, but I think it's justified. It's within the max recommeded (of 550 per Wikipedia:Image use policy#Displayed image size). Also, it's height is only 188 pixels. Wiki software happens to require us to specify the width, but not the height. But really, this image is no bigger than tall image that was 188 wide, and 450 tall. --Rob 02:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Miss USA discussion may relate to this article
At Talk:Miss USA it's being discussed if it was good to put winners in a separate article, or if they should be merged back into the main article. I thought editors of this article, would be interested in that discussion, as its basically the same situation. --Rob 23:42, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
The article states: As of 2006, Mississippi remains the only state to have produced Miss Americas in consecutive years.
However, in the list of winners, it lists two consecutive winners (1935-1936) from Pennsylvania.
Am I missing something? Is this an error? An oversight?
[edit] Error in Article?
The article indicates that Mississippi is the only state to have consecutive winners (1959-1960). However, the article lists consecutive winners from Pennsylvania in 1935-1936. This is an inconsistency and/or error in the article. Please edit. Thanks. 64.12.116.199 04:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC) Joe
[edit] Article maliciously pumped full of hard-to-detect errors by 68.96.145.202
Hello all, My watchlist deals with topics unrelated to this article, but I followed a vandal here from one of my watchlist articles. You should know that 68.96.145.202 maliciously pumped the "winners" list full of hard-to-detect errors (for example, instead of inserting "Mickey Mouse", which would be clearly obvious as vandalism, he pumped it full of innocuous-sounding names that don't draw notice, overwriting the real names.) Someone interested in and knowledgeable about this topic should probably revert all changes back to at least 2006-10-15, or earlier, or else re-verify the entire article. There may be other anonymous edits earlier than that of this same type. Lumbercutter 15:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- It looks to me that 68.96.145.202 has repeatedly vandalized the article, and been fairly promptly reverted each time. The version at present as far as I can see has none of those vandalisms. Sorry, what is the problem? Wondering, -- Infrogmation 15:32, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- Oops, sorry, I did see that many of the vandalism instances were reverted, but looking at the history log I thought I saw some that had gone undetected. However, when I looked closer to find an example, some that I thought had gone undetected are in fact corrected in the latest version. Sorry about that, my main goal was to flag this for someone who was more familiar with the article and its subject matter than I am, so they could take a close look. Thanks for following up. Next time I will pin down an example before raising the flag! Lumbercutter 23:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Okay then. Better being too cautious about vandalism than letting it slide. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 00:31, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
