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What Name Should This be Under

Should this article be listed under Blanche Barrow? Blanche remarried after Buck's death, then became known as Blanche Frasure - if you look at the image of her marker it has her name as Blanche Frasure. Since that was apparently her legal name when she died, is that the name she should be listed under on Wikipedia, with Blanche Barrow set up as an automatic redirect to the article. I'm thinking the article should be titled Blanche Frasure, but I'd like to know other people's thoughts before doing anything.
JesseG 19:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Although your right, but most people know of her as Blanch Barrow. There are others-some celebritys-who are presented as other than thier married names, Betty Davis for example, would not be under Betty Merrill, although that was her married name.152.163.100.133 01:34, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think I lived next store to Blanchs Aunt at one time, I believe. My3cents 20:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is no case for Frasure because she was never known to the world as that. The article is about her notability

EDITED OUT

Some of the excessive wording. Or as you "wikipedians" might refer to it as"verbage"- a thoroughly modern hip term! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.28.136.253 (talk) 04:12, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you are referring to the chopping of the lede down to one sentence it was more like vandalism

Her prison memoirs, recently discovered

While starting her prison term (mid-1930s), Blanche wrote details of their crime spree. She later gave the memoirs to her friend Esther Weiser, who put them away and discovered them in about 2001. As the only surviving member of the gang, Blanche is the only source of much of what we know, and though she did write about their activities while she was alive, apparently these prison memoirs, written while the events were fresh in her memory, recently have changed historians' view on several things. All of this should be included in this Wikipedia article. For details, see starting at 9:00 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC8yg5VawLQ (The Real Bonnie And Clyde - Documentary). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.15.115.30 (talk) 16:49, 31 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Second marriage

The article currently says, "In 1940, at only 28 years old she married 27 year old Eddie Frasure." First of all, the word "only" is inappropriate here. There's nothing unusual about a 28-year-old woman getting married to a 27-year-old man. Second, according to the article, Blanche was born on January 1, 1911. That means that she was 29 years old throughout the entire year of 1940. With no source cited, I don't know how to correct this since I don't know whether her age is wrong or the year is wrong. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:32, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Metropolitan90 there are several xml “< ref …” elements on this page (on the read view not the editor).

I know this is not related to the comment I replied on. I could not figure out how to fix the issue nor do I know how to “ask help” or raise awareness of a problem. So I thought I’ll just reply on a comment of an experienced user. Petealberts (talk) 18:40, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Petealberts: I was able to fix those issues. The problem was that there were unnecessary spaces between the < symbol and the word ref. I removed those spaces. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:58, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Petealberts (talk) 19:09, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Truman

How on earth was it Harry S. Truman's fault that she lost the sight in her damaged eye? She was released from prison in 1939. Truman was a US Senator for Missouri then (and then briefly VP in 1945 before he became President). Paulturtle (talk) 01:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article states only that Blanche Barrow alleged that it was the fault of Harry S. Truman that she lost sight in one of her eyes. It doesn't state as a fact that it was Truman's fault. She was incarcerated in Missouri, so perhaps it made sense to her to state that a Senator from Missouri prevented her from seeing an eye specialist. Jersey Jan (talk) 11:41, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

many cites with same content duplicated

references should point to sources and page numbers. sfn and efn templates are needed, I am guessing. 98.248.161.240 (talk) 04:01, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, although some more work is needed to match content to the actual page numbers, especially on the Barrow & Phillips book. StonyBrook _babble 02:40, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]