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Her mom's last name

I might be missing something here, but it sounds as if this is saying Demi's mother, Virginia, was named Virginia Guynes before marrying Dan Guynes.

Moore's parents separated before she was born, with her biological father, Air Force man Charles Harmon, Sr.[18] leaving her mother, Virginia Guynes (née King), after a two-month marriage.[19] When Moore was three months old, her mother married Dan Guynes,

I don't believe the phrase "Virginia Guynes (née King)" is accurate. She would have been Virginia Harmon before the divorce, and not Virginia Guynes until after marrying Dan Guynes. I think this would accurately read "...leaving her mother, Virginia (née King), after...." --Tenebrae (talk) 17:07, 29 September 20

What do the sources say, I'm on the mobile so it's not easy to check them? I seem to recall that they do imply that like Demi's claimed birth surname Guynes was used by King before marriage whether true or not. That said I'm happy with your suggested omission in the interim. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 21:10, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It's the Vanity Fair 1991 article, which says: "Moore's mother exercised one of her own options even before her daughter was born. She left Demi's biological father, hooking up with Dan Guynes." So it looks like, happily, we're in agreement that the existing phrasing is incorrect or at best extremely vague. Excising. --Tenebrae (talk) 21:23, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Net worth

This took some digging. First, I removed the Phoenix New Times cite since that was just a letter-to-the-editor from a nondescript person and not an RS. Then I examined the Learnvest link here, which cited BusinessInsider.com as the source here, which said, "All figures are estimates taken from celebritynetworth.com," so I used that original source as the citation. Whew! --Tenebrae (talk) 17:40, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Demi Moore

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Demi Moore's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "filmref":

  • From Julia Stiles: "Julia Stiles Biography (1981–)". NetIndustries, LLC. Retrieved June 5, 2010.
  • From Rob Reiner: "Rob Reiner Biography (1947-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved February 24, 2010.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:36, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. --Tenebrae (talk) 21:01, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

First Name

This People magazine article [1] says: Moore was born Demetria Guynes in Roswell, N.Mex., and grew up as the older child—half brother Morgan is now 28 and a film technician—of Danny Guynes, a newspaper ad salesman, and his wife, Virginia. (Her mother, Moore has said, got the name Demetria from a beauty product she saw in a magazine.) but her whole name is not listed anywhere in the Wiki-page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.124.176.207 (talk) 02:31, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]


If you click the link n-1 after her name in the lead it takes you to a footnote where sources like People are listed for Demetria whilst other sources such as Leonard Maltin say that it was only ever Demi. It also sources more recent comments by Moore where she states it was never Demetria. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 07:43, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
And sources like The New York Times and the Encyclopedia Britannica say Demetria. I'm sure no one wants there to be WP:UNDUE here, of course. --Tenebrae (talk) 00:18, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See most of Archive 1 and Archive 2 above for the discussion. This horse is dead, flogged and buried since long. Nymf hideliho! 08:30, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Amen. --Tenebrae (talk) 00:18, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oh Dear. I'm afraid I will have to disagree. Prior discussions: I've read the archives, and still don't see why you have chosen to leave out her full birth name. There have been dozens, if not hundreds, of print interviews giving Ms Moore's full name as Demetria Guynes. I assume that most interviewers requested and verified this information before printing it, and if not, there was never a denial or clarification from Ms Moore or her publicist after the articles were published. So her name stands as fact. But it seems that merely on the basis of one "tweet" from a twitter account, her true name was removed. I would also point out that Ms Moore has admittedly given false information in another case - for example, in this very Wikipedia article on her, it quotes Ms Moore's admission that she put "first marriage" on her marriage license form to Bruce Willis, not "second". Usually Wikipedia is the "go-to" source for accurate information, but in this case, the article is flawed. I would suggest you revisit this matter. 68.124.182.177 (talk) 10:18, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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