Talk:WordGirl

Pretentious flapdoodle. Sanctimonious bombast. David Marjanović 01:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I forgot to cite a source. The precise choice of vocabulary, which is way beyond my own, comes from Pharyngula. David Marjanović 19:52, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changers

I changed the shorts. They sound like the ends of the show.

I read on the Wordgirl website that Becky was in fifth grade. Would that make her ten or eleven instead of nine? I think she's supposed to be the same age as Tobey. Can somebody tell me where you got this information?70.250.203.117 22:31, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I de-redlinked the episodes and actors; if they get pages of their own, then we can re-link them. Also, to whomever changed the shorts, sorry if I fubarred your formatting, but there were weird boxy-things all through your descriptions and ep titles, which leads me to believe you were using some unusual character instead of the apostrophe.Gladys j cortez (talk) 21:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing?

Anybody have a valid source on the name of the guy who does Reginald's voice? I couldn't find one...Gladys j cortez (talk) 01:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I know who it is. I'ts H. Jon Benjamin. My name is Wyatt Leahy, but call me Norbert. I am a very devoted WordGirl fan. I have taped all the episodes of WordGirl exept "The Birthday Girl/ Granny Sitter", "Two-Brains Forgets/Banned On the Run", "Violent Superhero/Big Business" and "The Handsom Panther/The Butcher, The Baker, and the Candlestick Maker". And I have seen all of the episodes exept "Violent Superhero/Big Business" and "The Handsome Panther/The Butcher, The Baker, and the Candlestick Maker". The reason I have not been able to see these two is because, for the first time in my life, I am going to public School. I miss being Home Schooled.

-Wyatt Leahy A.K.A. Norbert

Quotes...anyone's thoughts?

Do we really need the Quotes section? It seems a)unencyclopedic (it's not like these are quotes that have crept into the popular culture--we're not talking about a show with Simpsons-level popularity) and b)out-of-context--if you haven't seen the show, you've got no idea why those quotes are relevant/funny/whatever; and if you HAVE seen the show, you're probably not looking to Wikipedia as a source of quotes from it.

Anybody have any thoughts on this issue?? Gladys j cortez (talk) 20:55, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Characters

We need some more characters like Birthday Girl. 70.107.140.188 (talk) 21:06, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, since Birthday Girl just showed up this past week or so, and wasn't even listed on the PBSKidsGO page (just checked again: still isn't), I think it's been an understandable omission thus far. However: done.Gladys J Cortez 23:51, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll keep on looking for any new characters that we'll missing. 70.107.140.188 (talk) 17:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A minute ago, I emailed the site and asked the question, Why you didn't put Birthday Girl on your site. 70.107.150.42 (talk) 20:20, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May we please, for the love of all things good and happy, come to an agreement...

...on the following teeny-tiny, infinitesimal little editing convention (which is going to cause my head to blow CLEAR OFF MY BODY the next time it is ignored, although I say that calmly, civilly, and in the most collaborative, consensus-based way possible)?

All together now:

"WordGirl".

This is how it is spelled on the PBS Kids site,[1].

Not "Wordgirl". Not "wordgirl". Not "Word Girl". Nor "Word girl". But "WordGirl". Big W, big G, no spaces.

My sanity is at stake here, fellow editors. Am I a crackpot? Quite likely. I used to be an English teacher and I simply cannot HELP it; bad capitalization, bad punctuation, bad grammar all drive me BONKERS and though I try, I simply CANNOT ignore them.

Your are NOT a crackpot. Now, Norman Bates, HE'S a crackpot. You shouldn't go insane over a word spelling. And if want to see a Crackpot, see my horror script that will be made into a movie in about 2014.

-Norbert

Please. Think of the children/kittens/ecology/economy/crackpot-old-ladies-in-Chicago. I thank you, from the bottom of my heart...and from my cheek, in which my tongue is firmly planted (but seriously. Big W, big G. Not difficult.) Gladys J Cortez 05:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My goodness! You're right. If I had created the show, that's not how I would have spelled it, but sadly there's nothing I can do about it. I think it's sort of confusing because most of the time on the website WordGirl is spelled in all capitals. 70.246.73.118 (talk) 16:46, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quotes revisited...

If nobody provides a valid reason to keep it, I'll be BOLDly deleting the Quotes section soon. If you've got a compelling reason for it to be kept, please speak now.... Gladys J Cortez 22:56, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Theme Song

I found the lyrics to the WorldGirl theme song at http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/index.html?linkPage=themeSong and wanted to include them on this page, but was concerned that it may not be acceptable to copy them. Can this be done? Also, who sings the theme song? Eythcobb (talk) 03:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, unfortunately that would be a copyright violation. Not sure who sings it, incidentally. Gladys J Cortez 13:12, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding the link to that page may be okay, though. Including it outright and in its entirety in a Wikipedia artticle, though, may be something else. -- azumanga (talk) 23:36, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Characters

Two comments: 1. While the little write up on each character is nice, using headings for all of them weighs down the table of contents. 2. The narrator should probably be listed as a major character. He's certainly got a lot more lines than the Botsford family. --Steven Fisher (talk) 19:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Too long"

One editor on this page has expressed an opinion (via the "long" tag) that this article is too long. I have left edit summaries to try to bring the individual here to discuss possible suggestions; so far he/she has given no response other than to replace the tag. What do all of you think, though? Is the article too long? If so, what should we trim, or should we move a section of this article to a linked second article (i.e. "Characters in WordGirl" or something similar)? Does anyone have any suggestions? Gladys J Cortez 16:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]