Talk: Gilda Radner
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The original article on Gilda Radner wasn't very accurate. Two major things that weren't were the fact that Gilda Radner wrote her book, "It's Always Something", after she found out that her cancer really hadn't subsided, and she didn't die in her sleep. Well, sort of. See, she died while she was going to have another operation to help her cancer, and she just didn't wake up from it. Her husband was with her when they found that she wouldn't wake up, but it wasn't like she died while in her home sleeping.
- Well, according to her husband in his own writings, she "died in her sleep," which is a much more dignified explaination than "she died on the operating table." If that's the way her husband wanted the facts to be expressed, then that should be honored. -EB-
- Extremely dubious proposition, indeed, indefensible. What happened? Where did she die? This is an encyclopedia, not a memorial album. Ortolan88
Removed from article:
- Gilda Radner is remembered as a legendary performer with a kind heart who battled extreme circumstances with a smile and open arms for everyone around her.
It is clear from the article that she was courageous, funny, and kind, so this POV paragraph isn't needed. Ortolan88 04:04 Nov 3, 2002 (UTC)
(In accordance to the response made by Ortolan88) Well, fine, but the original article made it seem like she was at home or something. It would have been fine to say, "She went in for an operation, and during the operation she died in her sleep"(in fact, that would have been the perfect thing to say) the original article leave the operation part out, and so therefore it makes it seem like, "oh, one day she was at home and was sleeping and died, just out of the blue," ..and her husband expresses in his original article to the press that she had gone in for an operation and died in her sleep, so I think he would have wanted that part there, too.
Any true fan would have wanted that in there, AND since there is a place to submit any corrections, I thought it was the good thing to do. I don't know many things about this site, but if there is a place for people to correct information, I think I should have my rights to do so. Also, encyclopedia's are supposed to enclose information about the person that is important, and her ending is an important thing for people to know, so it should be accurate. Plus to be honest, if I had died during an operation, I wouldn't want people to remember it as me just randomly dying in my sleep oneday. Would you want it that way?(December 14, 2002 -- 1:15 PM - EST. Prettypatchie@aol.com
- The whole Wikipedia is based on correcting misinformation and keeping a neutral point of view. You have come to the right place and you are doing the right thing by raising these questions. However, dying anesthetized on an operating table is not dying in your sleep. Did she die during an operation? Did she die in a hospital? Did she die while sleeping normally in a hospital preparing for an operation? That is what we need to know to make an encyclopedia article. What a"true fan would have wanted" is irrelevant. What happened is relevant. Where and how did Gilda Radner die?Ortolan88 23:22 Dec 16, 2002 (UTC)
