Talk:Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Its been clearly stated on ESPN and ABC that any contestant the exceeds the 30 second Finish Time time limit, is eliminated from the bee. Here is what someone posted in the article:
judges will not consider any letters given by the speller after the end of Finish Time.
Whoever put that, didn't read what he/she was writing. If you are still spelling when Finish Time ends, and the judges will not acknowledge any more letters after Finish Time, then the speller is eliminated cause the spelling of the word will be deamed incorrect.
A speller is not "not necessarily eliminated" if they exaust Finish Time, the speller is eliminated.
Dickclarkfan1 14:41, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Oh dear. Looks like I misspelled 'consolidated' the first time around. That's embarrassing. Quadell 12:56, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
It would be nice to have the spelled word besides the name of the winner. --Eleassar777
my talk 19:43, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Linking spellers
I removed the links to individual winning spellers here earlier, and I see someone has put them back. I don't think there's good reason to do this. Will they ever have articles that go beyond "Mary Smith won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2007"? For most of these people, this is the only information that could possibly belong in an encyclopedia article about them. Most of the national bee contestants are preteen kids without fascinating biographies who just happen to spell really well (OK, some of them place nationally in other academic contests as well), and all of the relevant information is already included in this article. They then mostly go on to be above-average but still unencyclopedic adults. (Yes, I know a few of the people on this list, and I like them, but that's not grounds for an article. :-)) Redirects I'd go for, but I don't see the need for redlinks. The only exceptions I'd say are Rebecca Sealfon, whose eccentricities gave her some more time in the popular culture spotlight, and Nupur Lala, who played a prominent role in Spellbound. I don't see any reason to encourage the creation of articles for the others; I'm going to go ahead and make the redlinks into redirects here. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:38, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Why no list of all winners?
Shouldn't a list of every winner be included? It is a matter of consistency; a list with only the recent winners followed by a list of all the words does not make sense. In the process, Eleassar's long-standing request for a combination of both lists could be fulfilled. If no one offers any thoughts, I will go ahead and combine the lists while adding the rest of the past spellers. — Webdinger BLAH | SZ 02:53, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
How can the bee happen in late May and/or early June? Should this be late May or early June?
- It's possible for the bee dates to fall on May 31 and June 1. --HansTAR 00:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Removed cleanup tag
After much editing and formatting, I think we can remove the cleanup tag from this article. Please discuss if there are specific cleanup issues that need to be addressed. Vernon 19:15, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
- No, the article is good now. Thanks for working so hard on it! — † Webdinger BLAH | SZ 19:47, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Well, that was fast.
Isn't this time-delayed? Hasn't been a minute since she spelled it! :) 70.178.93.149 02:12, 2 June 2006 (UTC) Impressive speed. Beat all the major news networks... including ABC, the broadcaster
[edit] Elizabeth Rice
I noticed "Elizabeth Rice" redirects to this page, when I tried clicking on her name in an article about Odd Girl Out. I see that an Elizabeth Ann Rice won the spelling bee in 1939, but I'm pretty sure that's not the teenaged actress from the 2005 TV movie, so... the redirect doesn't make much sense. Teknomage 19:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
- I nominated the redirect Elizabeth Rice for deletion. --Rob 23:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] RE: Confusing argument in the "Criticism" section
Could someone please rewrite the paragraph that begins "Defenders of the current bee format..." without the "ex post"s and "ex ante"s? Alphabetagamma 03:14, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
