Talk:Norman Wisdom

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Copy Vio?

substantial amounts of this article are trawled from the official norman wisdom site http://www.normanwisdom.org

? That site no longer appears to be live. -- Arwel (talk) 17:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, then the link should not be there, right? Replaced link to official site with link to the last version in the wayback. Lomedae ^talk 14:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Date of parents' marriage

Anon editor 82.38.33.211, making their only edit to Wikipedia, has changed the date of the marriage of Norman's parents from 1912 to 1915, which would make Norman illegitimate. Since this editor has not provided any citations to back up this edit, and it's the only edit s/he has ever made, I'm regarding it as vandalism and reverting it per WP:BLP. -- Arwel (talk) 08:58, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Norman seems to be in trouble (recent article in Daily Mail)

Revealed: Why Sir Norman Wisdom's family won't let his friends see him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=474778&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments

"As Sir Norman Wisdom sits alone in his spartan room in an anonymous nursing home in the Isle of Man, he must wonder how it has come to this.

The floor is covered in lino, the hospital-style bed uncomfortably hard. His furniture consists of two plastic chairs, a plastic wardrobe and a plastic chest of drawers. There are few mementoes, rarely any visitors, and little to break up the monotony of his days."

Sounds much like happened to Brooke Astor the New York socialite.

All to common. There is a wikipedia article about it (elder abuse) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_abuse

The article was total rubbish, made up by the newspaper. Totally refuted by his agent and an article in today's News of the World -- SteveCrook 22:58, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Norman J Wisdom?

Why does this middle initial keep getting added to this article. If this is indeed his correct middle name, someone better tell Sir Norman himself cos he is doesn't even know this!

Eugenespeed 23:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the official records and his name is listed as Norman J. Wisdom. I haven't yet discovered what the J stands for. His mother's maiden name was Targett. The entry is given on page 313 of Births Registered in January, February and March 1915 of the FreeBMD Birth Index for England and Wales, 1837-1983, with a reference (presumably) to the official record in Volume 1a, Page 1033. Hope that helps. AncientBrit (talk) 00:10, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the record of his marriage in 1947 also shows "Norman J" Mayalld (talk) 19:03, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

filling room?

In an exclusive interview on 27 August with the News of the World, journalists were given access to Wisdom's now filling room and routine at the home, where he claimed to be happy and content in a routine which his family and carers considered kept him safe from the memory losses associated with his condition.

I don't understand what this is meant to mean. Filling room? Or is it meant to be filing room? Jooler 09:13, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're reading wrong.

His now filling room, as in, he's getting more stuff so his room is filling up.

It may have been empty when he first moved in.

Eugenespeed 14:16, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It needs to be reworded it does not make sense as it is, there is not enough context to understand that "the room is filling up". Filling with what? Water; furniture; object d'art; mementos; presents; people; detritus? etc? Jooler 20:03, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm Stuart Halliday of the normanwisdom.co.uk site and I'm in weekly telephone contact with his family. Kim Wisdom told me that his room at the Home was initially empty as people with his condition can break out into uncontrolled emotions like anger/frustration (see [Multi-infarct dementia]).

Thankfully Norman hasn't shown this symptom. His room now contains familiar objects from his past (photos of family, etc.) and he's happily settled in. His mates on the island take him out for car trips virtually every day.

Sadly people who are not medical experts seemingly saw this bare room as a sign he was going into a sort of prison and made a big fuss about it in a newspaper.

--Quatermass (talk) 10:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification. I'm sure that I speak for everyone in expressing our personal sympathies for the family and wishing Norman well. cheers Kbthompson (talk) 11:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Death?

Why has 81.77.220.101 added a date of death to Mr Wisdom's page? I have heard no official announcement of such a thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RossMcG (talk • contribs) 03:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sky News seemed to have a page, but have since taken it down, and the BBC have not said anything, so a mistake by Sky News perhaps? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.56.48.112 (talk) 18:49, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.normanwisdom.com/ says

"BREAKING NEWS : News Reports are false - Sir Norman Wisdom Alive and Well. I have just Spoken to Nick Wisdom and he has confirmed Norman is fine." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.9.211.186 (talk) 19:23, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

oopsie.

Awards

There are no awards on his page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.66.94.91 (talk) 19:03, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed it. Have a nice day, Rosenknospe (talk) 08:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]