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Ron Burgundy was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 08 July 2012 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Cast Update

I added some information under the cast section to give a short description of the main characters of the movie. I felt that even though most of the main characters already had a Wikipedia page of their own, they should still have some information about them on this page. It gives readers more understanding of the tone of the movie.

Although the changes I made were minor, the resources I used to make the edits are from below:

https://anchorman.fandom.com/wiki/Ron_Burgundy https://anchorman.fandom.com/wiki/Veronica_Corningstone https://anchorman.fandom.com/wiki/Brian_Fantana https://anchorman.fandom.com/wiki/Brick_Tamland https://anchorman.fandom.com/wiki/Champion_%22Champ%22_Kind

Baxter

I'm not sure where the author got that from, but Baxter the dog is definitely not a Jack Russell terrier. My guess would be some sort of border terrier mix, but since no one can be sure, it would probably be best to leave that reference out.

Block of cast photos

I removed the block of cast photos from the article today, but another editor disagreed with the rationale I provided in my edit summary ("Random photos of the cast aren't desireable. Use photos specifically related to the film. Actor photos are easily available on their respective pages, for those interested", and reverted the edit.

All of the photos were added by one IP user recently. Most aren't a reasonable representation of the actor near the time the film was made, though that's a weak rationale; it's jarring to me but perhaps not to others. The vast majority of articles on films do not have these blocks of photos. I find them visually distracting; if I were specifically interested in the actor's appearance, separately from how they appeared in the film, I'd just follow the wikilink to their respective article. The IP editor added these blocks of photos en masse over the last six weeks; A number of other interested editors have removed them from those articles before I ran across them.

There's no 'rule' or even specific guideline regarding these blocks of cast photos. In a few cases, the editor added only one or two photos, and I left those, as they didn't muddy the page formatting and didn't 'overdo it'. I don't think I'm alone in preferring either no photos, or the most highly relevant. Images in articles are great, but too many becomes a distraction, in my opinion. But the editor who reverted my removals correctly noted that I didn't discuss the matter with other editors, so here we are. I'd be interested in other editors' thoughts. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 22:11, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Add "Milk was a bad choice" as a redirect?

Hello,

This movie is known for a lot of things, but it may be known best for one line: "Milk was a bad choice". With this in mind, is adding this quote as a redirect a reasonable request? All regards, TomGreene16 (talk) TomGreene16 (talk) 20:23, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]