Talk:Maria Shriver

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

This article is within the scope of the following WikiProjects:

WikiProject Biography     (Rated Start-Class) This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. Biography Portal Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] WikiProject Chicago      (Rated Start-Class) Chicago Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chicago, which aims to improve all articles related to Chicago. Start This article has been rated as Start-class on the quality scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. WikiProject Illinois (Rated Start-Class) This article is part of WikiProject Illinois, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Illinois on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale. WikiProject California (Rated Start-Class) This article is part of WikiProject California, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale. WikiProject Massachusetts (Rated start-Class) Massachusetts Portal Maria Shriver is part of WikiProject Massachusetts, an effort to create, expand, and improve Massachusetts-related articles to a feature-quality standard. For more information on this project or to get involved see the WikiProject Massachusetts project page. Start rated as start-Class on the assessment scale

I noticed the article refers to her as "Maria Owings Shriver Schwarzenegger". She's never taken his last name legally or in public.

Contents 1 Birthday 2 Personal Life 3 First Lady?? 4 Lost Job 5 special olympics picture w/ husband

[edit] Birthday

According to most sites, [1][2][3] she was born November 6, 1955, and this is consistent with being 47 in October 2003.[4] Sites like NNDb are not really trustworthy. Gimmetrow 02:42, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it's actually February 6. I was browsing through a public records list and there are two Maria Shrivers, one under Feb 6 and one under Nov 6. The one under Feb 6 has a middle name "Owings" and has shared residences with a Sargent, Eunice, and Robert Shirver.--Fallout boy 07:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I provided four references for my edit, you provided none for your reversion. If you can provide a few verifiable references, then the reasonable solution is to give both dates. Gimmetrow 11:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

None of those sources are reliable. Please see WP:RS. I have removed them as inappropriate. Quatloo 19:29, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

My source was peoplefinders, BTW. Does she have any sort of official bio? --Fallout boy 02:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The only "official" bio I know of is on the state of California site, which gives no birthdate. Peoplefinders seems to have four listings that may be her. I can't see details without a fee, but from what you say above some have Feb 6 and others Nov 6. Where did peoplefinders get its data, and why does it have four listings and two dates? I'm willing to have a big footnote listing a bunch of refs for each that makes no claim about "the truth." Gimmetrow 05:30, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Personal Life

I don't know what the protocol is for Personal Life sections in Biographies of living people, but this section seems to divulge unnecessary levels of detail where family is concerned... Descriptions of the full names and schools of all children, in addition to a family mass schedule, seem to be an excessive level of information.

This appears to be not only an issue of privacy, but also potentially an issue of safety, given that the mentioned children are those of a highly public politician AND international celebrity. In other articles about living celebrities, a simple list of the first names and birth years of children seems to suffice. perhaps that should be adopted here.

This issue is also reflected at the page for Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Branman515 03:37, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First Lady??

Is it correct to refer to the position of First Lady as a political office, by using language like "assumed office in..." or "incumbant"? I thought the term First Lady was merely a respectful, traditional label. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.4.141.8 (talk) 13:22, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

How can Maria Shriver be JFK's siter if her parent's are different from his:

>[Maria] was the second child and only daughter of the politician Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the >sister of the former President John F. Kennedy

>[JFK is] the second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.155.190 (talk) 00:58, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

>It seems like that's just the wrong grammar. It means to imply that Eunice is JFK's sister, but it can be interpreted as though Maria is JFK's sister. I think a small re-write would be better. SyNiKaL (talk) 07:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lost Job

It initially said that Maria left her job at NBC but she was told to leave by NBC. Though she understood the reason, it was not her initial decision to leave. They asked her to. I am at this moment watching 'Oprah' and she is the guest and just explained this. Thus i edited her page to say so.

[edit] special olympics picture w/ husband

Can't we get rid of that picture? She looks a thousand years old in it... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.231.32.39 (talk) 17:17, 12 March 2008 (UTC)