Talk:Elaine Benes

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[edit] Personality

How come there is no section about Elaine's personality? It's just a list of facts about her otherwise.

[edit] Parallelism

We should try to make the articles on Cosmo Kramer, George Costanza, and Elaine Benes parallel.

Yeah. I especially like the personality flaws section of George Costanza's

For comparison, Jerry and George attended Queens College

i thought jerry went to nyu (the nyu woman interviews him in the "not that there's anything wrong with that" episode for an alumni magazine...) --24.181.228.103 02:05, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
This is not true. The paper in "The Outing" was only identified as "the NYU paper". Jerry went to Queens College (as did George), as revealed in "The Marine Biologist". --Satyricrash 09:49, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Horrible Picture

The picture at the top of this article is one of the worst I've seen. It needs to go.

I totally agree! It looks like it is really distorted. HORRIBLE! T. White 08:10, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
I adjusted the size of the picture so that it is not so distorted. If anyone has any further objections to this picture . . . maybe we should find another one? T. White 08:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inconsistencies

In the sectiong titled Inconsistencies, it lists that Elaine considered herself a pesco-vegetarian but later revealed that she likes duck and other kinds of meat. Pesco-vegetarians are those vegetarians who refrain from eating certain types of meat but who may partake of other types. This really doesn't seem like an inconsistency to me due to the fact that she may like fowl and such but may not have eaten other types of meat. I'm deleting this sentence. T. White 08:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm removing this section. After reading the entire list of "so called" inconsistencies I do not see where the reasoning is behind them. If you feel that they should be included, justify the reasoning. For instance, the sentence relating to the English Patient doesn't make sense because I do not see how it is a legitimate inconsistency and also in reference to her crying at the translation of the korean ladies being inconsistent with her character - there were several times that she was notably upset. Not just this time. When she was fired by Mr. Pitt, she cried as well. T. White 08:26, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fat vs Thin

To the person,who decided to delete almost half of the entire article without any discussion first: A lot of articles about TV characters discuss interesting trivia about their lives. Seinfeld in particular is a show that deals with a lot of trivia and maybe there could be discussion first about what you think is unnecessarily information. For example, dating is a huge part of Seinfeld, so discussing Elaine's other boyfriends as well as Jerry's girlfriends is in fact pertinent as they are part of her relationships in her life. thanks. --Mezaco 20:43, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

It's been discussed to bits here, here, here, here, here and here.
The fact that a show has often been referred to (courtesy of Larry David) as a "show about nothing" does not justify an article about nothing.
There are some shows that merit lists on Wikipedia. An obvious one is The List (My Name Is Earl) as it's the premise of the show. As mentioned here, List of men, women and children enchanted by Elaine Benes or List of soubriquets applied (in passing, in jest, blink and you'll miss 'em) to Elaine Benes clearly don't fall into that category.
chocolateboy 20:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Elaine Benes article.

I've always known what a good article is. I thought everyone has follow the rules and improve the article. Recently the ChocolateBoy decided its a good idea that the only contribution is Elaine's boyfriends Jerry Seinfeld and David Puddy. Although I'm still new to this, hopefully everyone should keep an eye out for ChocolateBoy. I have question his "idea" of improving the article. The idea is not to be perfect with every web page but to be creative in each page. If nothing positive has come out of ChocolateBoy than answer this question? How can I be friends with you with such negative traits? I'll be thankful that no-one has to be perfect and that's the way it suppose to be. I know I shouldn't be personal but its a question of principle.

Chocolateboy, I'm hoping you can sway me with something good instead. You helped me out, I'm straighting you out.

(Johnnyauau2000 06:35, 8 July 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Characteristics

The reason I added that 'cause compare to George, Jerry and Kramer, I don't know anything about Elaine. I would appreciate if they know how to shape up the important things in Elaine's different sides. It would be also helpful if you try not to rule out too many possibilities that would've been useful later on if anyone has a feeling that something is still missing. A bonus if they add at least 1 cite or in plain English, a website reference. Please? Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 03:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)