User talk:Jhg812

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Rent (musical)

Hi -

Thanks for updating the current Broadway cast, but where are you getting your information? The official website only lists what was there before your changes; as does Playbill. The info you provided needs to be referenced. Thanks.—Chidom ^talk 05:35, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! You asked me where I got my information, so here it is. I last saw the play on November 22, 2006. Even though the Rent page states that the information is accurate as of December 1^st (I'll probably have to change that too), I updated the page to match the cast of the Playbill. Ava Gaudet, Moeisha McGill, Destan Owens, Matt Caplan, Robin de Jesús, (and, according to the Playbill website, Justin Brill) are no longer in the cast.

Matt Caplan left mid-August and was replaced with Christopher J. Hanke (I saw the show on August 5 and August 29; Caplan was Mark in the August 5^th show, but Hanke was Mark in the August 29^th and subsequent performances)
Destan Owens, Ava Gaudet, Robin de Jesús, and Moeisha McGill left the production between August 29 and November 12.
Justin Brill left the cast before August 5

Would you by any chance know how to cite a Playbill? --Jhg812 13:58, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I do wish they would update one of the sites!

I've added a citation; you can just change any incorrect information—I don't know how they title the cast list; I used "Cast List", it may just be "Cast" or "Players", etc.; use what's actually on the page. Also, if for some strange reason the copyright isn't "Playbill, Inc.", that should change as well. (I can't imagine there's a different copyright holder for the website and the printed version; but life is stranger than fiction, after all.)

Again, thanks so much for bringing this up-to-date. Sounds like you're a real Renthead! I wish I could see the live show; I've only seen the movie (which I have on DVD; I've lost track of the number of times I've watched it.)—Chidom ^talk 16:39, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much!

If you're ever in New York on a Sunday, you can buy tickets for any weekday for only $40. That's why I've seen it so many times; it's at least a third of the price of tickets to other shows! Jhg812 18:10, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About the Deletion of the ANTM Cycle Statistics Sections...

I know it's unfortunate that the statistics were deleted, but it's basically forbidden as per WP:TRIVIA and WP:NOR. If you were to create a paragraph with the essential information as prose, it could be included as far as I can tell. The key here is to make sure you didn't do any "original research" to figure out who was the tallest, shortest, oldest, youngest, ... In fact, if someone were to create an external website with this information, you could cite it and it wouldn't be "original research" as far as being created by a wikipedia article. It pains me as well to see all this great information go to waste, but this sort of thing has been removed from hundreds of different "challenge show" articles. A modeling challenge show would seem to be the place where things like height, weight, age would be the most relevant, and in fact are included, but the mere fact that this information is sorted could be considered "original research". We can move this discussion to the ANTM talk page if you want to discuss it further. Thanks for your comments! Plastikspork (talk) 23:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re your note

Thanks for your message. You might want to take a look at WP:ANI#Web forums using Wikipedia as a webhost if you haven't already seen it, and feel free to comment. EyeSerene^talk 20:32, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]