Talk:Blaze Starr

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This article could really use an image, and several turn up with a simple Google search, but I don't know that any of them can be used because of copyright issues. If someone can find a usable image, please add it. -- Scarequotes 05:54, May 8, 2004 (UTC)

I cut this paragraph because I don't think there's enough evidence to include it in an encyclopedia-style reference work:

Starr is also rumored to have had flings with other well-known men, including John F. Kennedy. Some sources claim that he had sex with her the day of his famous 1960 debate with Richard Nixon and gave her partial credit for his winning performance that evening.

It can be put back in if more evidence is found. -- Scarequotes 17:38, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion moved from Wikipedia:Featured article candidates

Withdrawn. I'll work to fill out the article and see what I can do about an image, but it's not going to happen within a week. Self nomination. The article could use an image -- and if anyone can provide one that's not a copyvio, it'd be appreciated -- but I think it's well-written and compiles a lot of information that's around in dribs and drabs elsewhere on the Web. Also, Blaze has led an interesting life. -- Scarequotes 02:09, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

Object - for a (potential) featured article, it's pretty short. It's lacking the biographical birth and death dates, it has no picture, and some of the formatting is iffy. →Raul654 02:14, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
- She's still alive, and I can't find any record of her birthdate (only the year -- nor can the reference librarians I've asked about it). Any suggestions for formatting fixes? Scarequotes 02:33, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
  - Ok, I gave it a once over. For future referece - in general, the article name should be in the first sentence, and it should be bolded. The only things in the article that should be bolded are the article name, and any terms that redirect to it. (I have redirected Fannie Belle Fleming, so I left that bolded). But with that said, it's still fairly short and still lacking a picture.

→Raul654 02:47, May 9, 2004 (UTC)

- - Thanks for the copyedit -- the article's better for it. Perhaps the Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style should be updated with the rules for bolding, however; it makes no mention of redirect terms, and I was following the "If the subject of the article has more than one name, each new form of the name should be in bold on its first appearance" suggestion. -- Scarequotes 22:40, May 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] past tense?

the article starts off with her being adressed in the past (she "was" a stripper) - not sure, but isn't the past tense in biographical stuff reserved for dead people? Afterall she's known as a stripper, so she "is" a stripper, even though she doesn't work in that business anymore? (clem 19:46, 31 August 2005 (UTC))