Talk:Michael Crawford

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I have removed the following text: "On May 24, 2006, Crawford is perfoming at the inauguration of the newly remodeled LaSalle Bank Theater (formerly known as the Shubert Theater) in Chicago, Illinois. The LaSalle was originally opened in 1906 as the Majestic Theater and renamed during the Depression to the Shubert. It has recently completed a $14 million, 18-month renovation."

Apart from the text now being out of date, it was completely unwikified. I also don't understand the notability of a single performance of his, unless it is, for example, at an Olympic Games opening ceremony. The LaSalle Bank Theatre seems reasonably notable as far as theatres go, but I don't think his performance at a reopening of it deserves a mention in this article. Graham talk 12:38, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

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I have removed the following:

"He will also participate in a special, as of yet unknown, presentation to celebrate."- This is now inaccurate as the presentation has occured, hence, the public know what it was.

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By watching several of Michael Crawfords Videos, it can be seen that the singer/actor is left handed, this is particularly noitceable in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em when you see the character Frank Spencer writing.

That violates the policy of no original research in wikipedia; even though it is an understandable inference (and probably easy to deduce), unless a reliable source has published information saying that he is left-handed. Having said that, I don't think the fact that he is left-handed is notable enough for an encyclopedia article; it occurs in 8-15% of the population according to the left-handed article, so it's not a unique trait. Graham87 08:20, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Yet being gay is (and I know the wordage here is wrong :-P) a trait that occurs in around the same percentage of the population, and as soon as a celebrity comes out of the closet it's chucked onto their wikipedia page...I'd say left-handedness is very much an encyclopaedic entry to his page. If you want unique traits, you can take out the fact that he won the Lawrence Olivier award because someone won it the year before him, he's not unique...you can take out the fact that he saved a crewmember, the fire bridage do that daily, you can take out that he starred in "Some mothers do 'ave 'em" because loads of people have...since when were unique traits and pieces of information a requirement for inclusion? SmUX 21:28, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Homosexuality doesn't occur at nearly the same rate as left-handedness. Look it up. Left-handedness also doesn't affect most people as much as homosexuality does, so it doesn't really need to be included. This is a bad analogy.

We can refer to a left-handed homosexual for the exact analogy between these two traits. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.181.47.3 (talk) 14:10:20, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question about citing Sources

I'm still not quite sure how to use Wikipedia fully, but I would like to know how to site sources for the various paragraphs mentioned? I have found the sources for "Michael writing a column in the guise of his character Byron" and as to his relationship with his ex-wife Gabrielle. Could someone please help me to set up the proof for these statements? Thank you. EmilyGreene1984 01:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

The easiest way is to put your source between <ref> and </ref> statements then it will come up as a footnote. A "==References==" section will also have to be created with {{reflist}} in it so the footnotes can come up. For more details see Wikipedia:Footnotes. You can optionally use citation templates if you need help with formatting the reference.

Also you probably accidentally removed some comments in your last edit. To avoid that, you can use the "+" link next to the edit link on talk pages to add a new comment. You can sign your comments automatically by typing four tildes like this: "~~~~". Graham87 08:44, 2 September 2007 (UTC)