Talk:Angelina Jolie

Funeral Director?

Did she really dream of becomming a funeral director? I looked in the history, but it wasn't vandalism, it looked like a valid edit. Growing up with actors as parents, you'd think she'd want to be an actress. And then she attended a theater school when she was 11--not exactly the best training to become a funeral director. Whhat is the source of this factoid?

If it's valid, we should insert why she wanted to be a funeral director. Otherwise, it sounds bogus (like it does now). — Frecklefoot | Talk 17:47, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

tattoo

I found a pic of the tattoo in question, i looked it up at babelfish and, so far as i can tell this is Japanese not Chinese. Actually the chariters were the same but there was a second chariter for chinese (traditional or simplified). If someone who reads chinese agrees that this is death in chinese as well, please change to Japanese Kanji/Chinese. Cavebear42 22:33, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I found a person who can read both Chinese and Japanese to confirm that this is the same chariter and acceptable in both. Cavebear42 23:35, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

OK, but is it the same character in both traditional and simplified chinese?

previous statement by 213.112.113.111

Please sign your comments with ~~~~ to help us make this more readable.

Yes, its the same in both traditional and simplified chinese as well as japanese Cavebear42 04:19, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

quotes

I have removed the quotes because 1. the quote given was not cited. 2. the better place for quotes would be wikiquote. 3. the link cited was likely the source of the quote and its copyright did not allow us to copy them. 4. wikipedia is not a collection of links. The best thing to do would be to find a public domain source of quotes, create a wikiquote article with them, and then come back and link the wikiquote article from here. If you could do that, I would love it because I, personally, love some of the things she says. Cavebear42 20:09, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

picture

maybe we can get a better picture here.

above comment by68.211.13.124

please sign your comments with ~~~~ to help us make this more readable.

we ahve tried to find a better pic that could be released under a public domain or free licence but have not yet cam up with one. in the case that you have one, please go ahead and put it up. Cavebear42 22:31, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This is what fair use is for. --Sn0wflake 05:36, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Not really. fair use is for "the Progress of Science and useful Arts". And in order to claim fair use "... one must demonstrate how it either advances knowledge or the progress of the arts through the addition of something new." While we are able to claim that we are adding something new to the world by working on this project, we must tread lightly on this matter. Using a picture because she looks much sexier in it surely has no interest in furthering science. If there was no possible way to find a pic that was free, then we might have a claim to fair use. That aside, I try to consider the spirit of this project as furthering the end goal. For instance, while the Wikipedia is obviously not 100% factual, more good editors than bad means that we are approaching truth all the time. In the same way by replacing fair use pictures with PD pics and by replacing PD pics with freely licensed pics, we are approaching a freely licensed encyclopedia. Cavebear42 23:01, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It is for a nonprofit cause, though. Wikipedia is simply displaying the picture, not charging money for people to see it. It is equivalent to hanging the picture on one's wall.→ JarlaxleArtemis 23:59, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)