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Contents 1 the most electronically recorded human voice in history 2 Retrofit Topic-year headers 3 WikiProject listings 4 Bing worked with Al Gore??? 5 WP:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers priority assessment 6 Nude Weighings and Beatings of Gary Crosby 7 Cleanup and overlinking 8 Date Of Birth 9 Edits from Banned User HC and IPs

[edit] the most electronically recorded human voice in history

I doubt this means he was more electronic than anyone else. It sounds like the strange claim I've seen repeated on his fan sites that he's the most recorded singer in history, but he's actually far from it, isn't he? Off the top of my head, Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Umm Kulthoum, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau for example, were much more recorded. I think Asha Bhosle's total was something like 20,000 pop songs and Crosby's was about 1700. Surely, there must be many more singers with more recordings than Crosby (maybe even Sinatra and Elvis), and if we take "most recorded voice" literally, many more voices who aren't singers. Odradek5 (talk) 16:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Retrofit Topic-year headers

18-Jan-2008: To help keep entries in date order, I have retro-fit the higher-level headers, as on other talk-pages, for "Topics of 2003" / "Topics of 2004" (etc.) I moved all topics of 2007 together. Most topics still apply, such as fame, birthdate, and Sinatra (and Buble), so I didn't see a need to archive the talk-page yet. (I removed empty topic "==discusing==".) Notice how the topic-year headers focus new entries outside of older years. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:40, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject listings

18-Jan-2008: I have moved the link to WikiProject Golf inside the collapsible multi-wikiprojects, setting WP-Golf as "importance=Low" (however, for WP-Radio, I raised rank from Mid to "importance=High"). -Wikid77 (talk) 12:00, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bing worked with Al Gore???

do a search for "Al Gore"... what the heck, this cant be right please fix it Easmithv (talk) 05:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers priority assessment

Per debate and discussion re: assessment of the approximate 100 top priority articles of the project, this article has been included as a top priority article. Wildhartlivie (talk) 10:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nude Weighings and Beatings of Gary Crosby

The citation is already built into the sentence; Gary Crosby's book is cited. User:Professor Von Pie 11:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup and overlinking

I returned the article to its condition prior to emerson7's cleanup. I think that the "Year in film" wikilinks don't need to be thrown out. Binksternet (talk) 05:38, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

hello. thanks for the note. however, this is a classic case of overlinking , and i've restored the edits. further, in future, if there's an edit you wish to revert, please be careful to only undo that portion you challenge. thanks --emerson7 05:55, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Speaking of being careful to only undo that portion you challenge... you reverted the reference I added to the Personal life section. Do you challenge the reference?

One validation for "year in film" links is, if a reader goes to, say, 1939 in film and keys in Alt-j to see what links to the page, they may see some further places to go that aren't spelled out on the page.

The page WP:OVERLINK seems to say that only redundant links need be removed. You removed each instance of "xxxx in film". I think that's too much of a response.

Finally, I reverted your taking away of the small font tags and putting USA in place of United States. I reverted your trimming of small informational comments like (Cameo} for a cameo appearance. I reverted your taking away the Academy Awards succession box. I reverted your removal of the TV appearances. The only thing you put in that I feel I should not have reverted was the curvy open and closed quotes around the nickname Bing. I have no opinion regarding curvy vs. straight quotes in that usage.

I am reverting once again, this time with redundant links taken out. I agree that redundant links aren't necessary, and are a fine example of overlinking. I'm also copying this discussion to the article's discussion page, as it may interest others. Binksternet (talk) 06:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Date Of Birth

Bing Crosbys grave clearly states he was born in 1904. Why does it stand 1903 here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.230.193.22 (talk) 14:56, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edits from Banned User HC and IPs

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