Talk:Robert Cummings

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from VfD:

This article starts in style: Robert Mark Cummings (not to be confused with anyone else bearing the name for which the following description does not apply) and doesn't let up. It may deserve some sort of award. Unfortunately Mr Cummings doesn't seem particularly notable.

Oh, I dunno ... I must concede that (to my tired eyes) he's made to seem slightly more notable than are the dozens of anime voice actors (etc etc etc etc etc) that are reverently awarded articles on Wikipedia. (Not to mention "Sollog". Ack!) But the notability might just be that of this unintentionally (I presume) merry article. What do youse think? -- Hoary 07:10, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

PS I wholeheartedly approve of the new (and entirely unrelated) article. -- Hoary 09:30, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)

• Delete --Carnildo 07:11, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete: DCEdwards1966 07:22, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
• Redirect to Note The Bob Cummings Show, starring a Robert Cummings for whom this one will never be mistaken. His nearly 70 Hollywood films and his sequence of '60s and '70s TV shows probably rate a bio article, to which the redirect should then be retargeted, but no rush for that. (The existing text can be discarded without compunctions.) --Jerzy(t) 07:55, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC) [Cancelling this vote in order to cast a "Redirect and prohibit Dab" vote below. --Jerzy(t) 05:25, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)]
• What's wrong with anime? Oh, and btw, delete. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 17:28, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity. Wyss 18:45, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Redirect to The Bob Cummings Show. My first thought on seeing this entry was that it was that Bob Cummings. The Carleton University graduate who developed BlobbieScript is not yet sufficiently notable to merit an article. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:52, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Redirect, as Jerzy said. &#0xfeff; --fvw* 08:06, 2004 Dec 20 (UTC)
• Redirects are cheap. Refer this to The Bob Cummings Show. [[User:GRider|GRider\^talk]] 17:50, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Redirect. Eventually the Robert Cummings (actor) article should go here. This user has vandalized a dozen pages by un-wikilinking every mention of the actor. -Willmcw 01:15, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Redirect and Prohibit Dab. In addition to the reasons given in my cancelled vote above, the disruption of existing red links (see User:Willmcw's vote, presently directly above) calls for

• at the least, noting that no one favored a Disambiguation page to accomodate the subject of Robert Mark Cummings, and
• preferably saying as much more as the VfD-closer finds justified, in the direction of "future inclusion of Robert Mark Cummings in the WP article space should be summarily reverted, in the absence of a 7-day process on Talk:Robert Cummings (or on Talk:The Bob Cummings Show if Robert Cummings is still a redirect) that culminates in a consensus finding that circumstances have changed to make Robert Mark Cummings of encyclopedic interest."

--Jerzy(t) 05:25, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)

• neither delete nor redirect - I'd prefer the text be replaced with a stub article for the actor Robert Cummings, especially seeing as all the "what links here" refer to the actor, not the person in the current article. Rossrs 13:47, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Write the stub & i'll call it a rescue and vote with you. But don't vote on the basis of what could be if you don't find the stub worthy enuf to write. --Jerzy(t) 19:15, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)
    • I thought it was worthy enough to write or I wouldn't have suggested it. I just didn't have the time to do it at that moment. Voting on the basis of what can be is perfectly valid as evidenced by the fact that someone with more free time than me came along and did what I suggested Rossrs 15:41, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • I'll write a bio on the actor, and place it below the existing text. Once this VfD is settled the article can be edited appropriately. -Willmcw 22:01, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Done. -Willmcw 23:09, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • I call that a rescue! Tnx. --Jerzy(t) 23:00, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)
      • Ditto. A job very well done indeed. -- Hoary 09:30, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC) (yes, the original "plaintiff")
        • Thanks J. & H. And thanks to H. for catching the original problem. (I find that a lot of my contributions start as an attempt to smooth over an irritating bit - oyster editing. Many Wiki editors probably got their start, like I did, by seeing an article that was so bad it begged for rounding out. Here's to the bad articles!) Cheers, -Willmcw 09:35, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
          • a bit belated, but thank you - that's precisely the article I hoped someone would write, only a great deal better! now that first paragraph about the "other" Robert Cummings has gotta go. Rossrs 12:57, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • I agree, change to article on actor. Spinboy 04:39, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

end moved discussion

[edit] Bob's Photo

I replaced the photo from Dial M For Murder with a close-up of Bob from The Barefoot Mailman. I think this photo better represents Bob's image. I would have left both photos, but Wikipedia guidelines state that only one screenshot should be used per article. I find that the Dial M For Murder photo is more appropriate for the article on that film. SteveHopson 03:46, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Good choice. Thanks for doing that. -Will Beback 19:27, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Robert Cummings was the birth name of Rob Zombie. that should get a mention somewhere