Talk:Keely Smith

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"Keely admitted today, September 17, 2006 during her concert at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center that she's 78 years old and that she was born in 1928. --XQ28Guy 05:42, 18 September 2006 (UTC) Mike XQ28Guy"[reply]

Khatru2 21:11, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Overlinking[edit]

This article was terribly overlinked! I removed some of it[1]. For instance, links to "Virginia", "New York City", and "record producer" all are close to another link to a more pertinent article that should already include that link, and are therefore shadowing the helpful link. I don't see any reason for a link to "marriage"; the article has no more connection to it than any other article of a person who ever married, and it is highly unlikely that someone would read that article and then decide to find out about marriage. Same goes for "divorce" and "professional". I left one of the three links to "duet (music)", because it's a borderline case. The link to the US is not necessary per the examples at Template:Infobox_musical_artist.

A particularly silly case of overlinking was "[[Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus|Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus]]". Why extract the link to "Grammy Award" from the perfectly pertinent link to the specific award? — Sebastian 20:25, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think that having linked "Cherokee" and unlinked "Irish" so near each other borders systemic bias, as it subconsciously suggests that being Cherokee is somehow "less normal" than being Irish. (It assumes that readers, on reading that she was born of part Cherokee and Irish descent, will be likely to want to know more about the Cherokee people but not about the Irish people. I can see no rational justification for such an assumption. Either keep both links or remove them both.) Also, I don't see the point for the pipe in "Norfolk, Virginia" (why isn't Norfolk, Virginia good enough? I know that all-blue is harder to read than all-black, but half-blue and half-black is even harder), nor for the links to "album" and "compilation album"; having links to the individual albums would make more sense. "Count Basie" is particularly bad in that context, because I think that many readers won't have the palest idea of where such a link might go. --___A. di M. 12:31, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done that, but I see that many album titles are red links. Can someone familiar with Keely Smith tell whether those albums pass WP:NM, and remove the red links to albums which don't? --___A. di M. 12:37, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A picture of Keely Smith[edit]

Whoever is 'in charge' of this article can't find a picture of her? She was a deadpan comedic foil to the antic Louis Prima. She also had a great voice. StevenTorrey (talk) 20:12, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

StevenTorrey, as with all other articles on Wikipedia, no one person is responsible for this article. If you know of a copyright-free picture of Kelly Smith, please add it to the article or post it on Wikimedia Commons so that someone else can add it to the article. I agree that a photo would be a good addition, but I don't know where to find one that is eligible for use here. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:17, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Birth year[edit]

I can see that her birth year is 1932, and that this is supported by good sources( eg: this) . I can also see sources that are less reliable (this and this and a OTRS email that indicate she was born in 1928, and some reliable sources like this. It seems that we may have an actual birth year and one concocted for professional reasons. Perhaps a matter that should be in the article - Peripitus (Talk) 12:22, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

When we have two dates, we put in both. See: WP:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Uncertain, incomplete, or approximate dates. – S. Rich (talk) 22:05, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've some of the refs. Topic.com looks like it uses WP data, so not used. Jango.com does not have a date of publication. I thought I saw the paragraph in Clavin but can't see it now, so the ref is tagged page needed. I note that "Authority Control (VIAF) " uses 1932. – S. Rich (talk) 23:00, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

She is listed on the 1930 US Federal Census as 2 years old. See ancestry.com or US Federal Census Year: 1930; Census Place: Norfolk, Norfolk (Independent City), Virginia; Roll: 2472; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0109; Image: 792.0; FHL microfilm: 2342206. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.53.48.49 (talk) 00:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Fever[edit]

I'm a little puzzled. Sam Butera sings Fever in Hey Boy! Hey Girl!; does Smith also sing it? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 15:05, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]