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[edit] Keri Russell Links to August Rush

Then comes Keri Russell to introduce her film's nominated song, Raise it up from August Rush Then it was time to perform “Raise It Up.” The song started slowly, with a rhythmic synthesizer, then built toward soaring gospel-tinged vocals. The performers danced and beamed, and the audience... Good Luck To Joseph Jamal (Raise It Up)"August Rush" tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell)


Is this the right place to suggest links? I'm sorry, I didn't realize not everyone could add and edit things on Wikipedia (I thought that was the point). I want to suggest the following 3 Keri Russell-specific fansites to be added to the External Links section:

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.170.252.12 (talk • contribs)

No, these fansites are inappropriate under WP:EL, as you know. --Yamla 22:30, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
What about this rule? "If there are many fansites for the topic covered by the article, then providing a link to one major fansite (and marking the link as such) may be appropriate." I'm not trying to be a smartass, I'm honestly confused why this page doesn't allow fansites but I see many fansites listed in External Links sections of other subjects, often edited in by people who are not admins of Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.170.252.12 (talk • contribs)
There are not, as far as I know, many fansites for Keri Russell. There's certainly a few, but not really enough to link in to a directory or anything. And your other point is correct, many other articles on the Wikipedia don't adhere to this guideline. Today alone, I removed inappropriate external links from well over a hundred articles. --Yamla 22:47, 23 October 2006 (UTC)


KR is most famous for her 98-02 role as Felicity Porter on the show Felicity. I added these links ( see below ) from the Felicity to here, KR's page. Yamla scolded me; called me a spammer; said the links r inappropriate, etc. What do you all think? Another wiki reader RockyMM said quote

  "links r interesting, not neccessarily spam" .

KR is most famous for her Felicity tv show, soI think definitely links to & about Felicity tv show are appropriate. What do you all think?

The 3 links are
You say tv.com is not appropriate? It is reuptable.
The felicitypage.com is a very nice site about the show.
The noelcrane.com is/was directly affiliated with the show.

Also, Yamla said that noelcrance.com requires flash proprietary browser plugins. I dont even know what those are, but I dont have anything downloaded (I'm not allowed to) to this computer: no shockwave or flash, no adobe reader , not even windows media player! But I am on a cable hi speed internet connection so may b that's why I see the site/ the site loads?

The site does require flash. This comes preloaded on many people's computers but still, Wikipedia policy (see WP:EL) is not to link to sites that require proprietary plugins. Note that I have not claimed that tv.com is not reputable, only that the content is to do with the character that Keri Russell played and thus should be linked only in an article about that show. An episode guide adds nothing about Keri Russell, only about the character played, and thus is inappropriate here. The last link, the felicitypage link, is a fansite. Note that it is not a fansite for Keri Russell, mind you, but about the show. Again, appropriate to link in an article about the show (actually, it's a fansite so it would require justification even under WP:EL) but it is not appropriate here. This article is about Keri Russell, not the characters she's played. Of course, we need to mention those characters but only in so far as this information directly relates to Russell. --Yamla 00:33, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
I must say that I agree with Yamla here. I made a mistake when I reincluded some of the links to the Keri Russell article. I was not paying attention that this was, in fact article about Keri Russell. So these links are fine for Felicity article, but not for Keri Russell article. In fact, NoelCrane.com has nothing to do with Keri.
The problem with Flash content in external pages is not very well defined in Wikipedia policy. I undrestood that, unless it's completly unavoidable, pages where external plugins are a necessity for exploring or were lack thereof would make that page meaningless should not be in External links section. NoelCrane.com falls in that category, but some kind of refference must be in Felicity article, because it's pretty much part of the show. But that is material for that article, not this one.
So, in the end, Yamla did the right thing, and I was wrong.
I would like also to suggest to you, 208.58.196.156, to register on Wikipedia, because it would make your editing easier, you could edit semi-protected pages, your edit history would be confined to your username, and also it would be easier to talk to you.RockyMM 13:31, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] KR's Religion Discreprenacy( Jew or Sciento?)

I moved this to discussion because I couldn't confirm it:

  • "Russell is mistakenly referred to as Jewish. In a 2006 interview, she referred to her "Jewish grandmothers," but was using the phrase to describe her close friends. Russell is not Jewish."
  • There seems to be a discreprancy here somewhere - some older articles said she was Mormon, a few new ones say she's Jewish, and then someone submitted the above paragraph. Does anyone know for sure? Mad Jack O'Lantern 23:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  • I don't know if this is what the first user was citing, but this cites her as Jewish [1]:

"Keri Russell denies Scientology rumours Thursday, May 4 2006, 20:20 BST - by Fiona Edwards

Keri Russell has laughed off rumours that she will be following Mission: Impossible III co-star Tom Cruise into Scientology.

Russell, who is Jewish, giggled at the rumours circulating about her changing faith, saying that they were 'nonsense'.

She told The Daily Mail: "I had all my Jewish grandmothers calling, going, 'Is Keri a Scientologist? Do we have to be worried?'

"I was like, I'm never going to live it down."

Russell, who plays an agent in MI:3 but found fame in the US show Felicity, said the journalist who wrote the article was threatened with legal action by her manager who told him: 'I am going to sue your ass!'"

The Keri Russell story is a very weird one. It originates from a Vanity Fair article that did not explicitly say she was Jewish. It just had the "Jewish grandmothers" comment. The writer of the article took her seriously on that, and said something along the lines of "don't worry media savy bubbes, you granddaughter, etc.". Now, all these sites like the Daily Mail took that and explicitly said "Russell is Jewish", even though the Vanity Fair articles only had the grandmothers comment. More than likely - they assumed. It may or may not be a mistake - i.e. the initial comment may or may not be a joke. Mad Jack 17:55, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How about a picture for the article?

It would be nice to have a picture of her in the article. We could use one of many pictures circulating aroun the net under "fair use" rationale. What others think?--RockyMM 17:06, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

is there a reference for this "As of 2006, Russell resides in London, Ontario, Canada."?

[edit] Stuff about pregnancy...

I really think that that info is trivial, and should be removed. I'm just feeling sorry for the guy who went all the trouble to properly cite sources, but THAT MUCH information about her is absoultly out of scope of Wikipedia. --RockyMM 21:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree that some of these quotes and details are probably trivial. But I think - in general - that the personal life section is fairly small as is (when measured against WP:GA and certainly WP:FA standards). Should be expanded.... Mad Jack 09:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)