Talk:Spokesman

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[edit] removal of redirect and rewrite

People no longer become spokesmen just by being a public figure: It is now a profession.

Removed the redirect from 'spokesperson', which is a redirection in the wrong direction. Spokesman has been in existence much longer that Spokesperson, and has been derived from same.

Expanded the description of the role and skill-set of company spokesmen. I have not dealt with governments and public organisations, but there ought to be enormous similarities of the roles, responsibilities and skill sets of the representatives.

The references to Bob Uecker or Kent Hrbek have been removed. They appear to be sports commentators and not spokesmen as such, and there are no citations to back up the claim that they are spokesmen for this or that organisation. Ohconfucius 04:33, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

The redirect is also per Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a soapbox and Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms. I was going to move it myself, but you beat me to it. Bayerischermann 02:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Just for reference on the "spokesperson" and "spokesman" comparison: 39,600,000 Google results versus 98,400,000. 62,300 Google Scholar results versus 31,300 results. "Spokesman" clearly is more common. Bayerischermann 00:48, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Skill set

"Spokesmen will have antennae"? Is this a piece of jargon from the spokesman-industry, or just a strange choice of word? — Saxifrage ✎ 05:42, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Lacking an answer I'm just going to pull the whole skill-set section as original research. Anyone? Bueller? — Saxifrage ✎ 18:58, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can we find any material to explore "spokesmodel"?

I don't remember ever hearing this term before the 1980s talent-show program Star Search. Does anyone know if they originated the term? It was a category in the talent competition, which consisted largely of modeling shoots but also included the spokesmodel contestants speaking the pre-commercial-break lines. Lawikitejana 07:19, 14 September 2006 (UTC)