Talk:Bob Russell (television presenter)

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The only information that I have concerning Bob Russell was that he hosted the Miss America Pageant from 1940 to 1946, 1948 to 1950 and finally in 1954. Sorry we can't be of more help but no one working here now was around when Mr. Russell was the host. Thank you

Liz Puro - Office Administrator Miss America Organization 222 New Road, Suite 700 Linwood, NJ 08221 609-653-8700 ext 121 Fax: 609-653-8740 e-mail: liz@MissAmerica.org www.MissAmerica.org

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From: Receptionist Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:38 PM —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.193.117.66 (talk) 17:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: move to Bob Russell (television presenter). -- tariqabjotu 02:57, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Bob Russell (entertainer) → Bob Russell (beauty pageant host) – (unbundled as requested) On the borderline where you'd expect (entertainer) to pass WP:CRITERIA, but his WP:Notability was mainly in long-runnning control and administration of Miss America and other pageants, and printed WP:RS sources reflect this "host Bob Russell" 5 GBooks and variants vs only "entertainer Bob Russell" 1 GBook. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:47, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

• Support; "(entertainer)" is always a bad way to title an article, and all articles titled that way should be moved to another title. I suppose there will never be a consensus for moving certain present articles, but they are still wrong. 168.12.253.66 (talk) 13:40, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. Pageant host, yes, but also tv presenter, emcee, tv show creator. The article calls him an "entertainer". Seems like the title should as well. Dohn joe (talk) 01:12, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

WP:AT says WP:AT CRITERIA 2. Naturalness – The title is one that readers are likely to look or search for and that editors would naturally use to link to the article from other articles. Such titles usually convey what the subject is actually called in English. So that question is how do WP:IRS treat the subject, Bob Russell organizer of Miss America, per WP:CRITERIA. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:53, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

• Weak support. "Entertainer" is too generic, although this may be too specific. Consider (TV personality), (TV host), (pageant host). "(beauty pageant host)" seems to win on assisting in recognizability. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:02, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
• Support Bob Russell (television personality) or Bob Russell (TV personality) per SmokeyJoe Bob Russell (television presenter); per WP:DAB and WP:AT, novel disambiguators should be avoided, and no title uses (pageant host), much less (beauty pageant host). At some point, the (TV personality) and (television personality) articles should be standardized, but for now, the usage is pretty even, so I don't have a preference there. --BDD (talk) 23:52, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Almost anything is better than (entertainer), and (TV show host) (pageant host) etc. are fine. The "novel" DAB argument doesn't apply here because because Category:Beauty pageant hosts is thinly populated, only 2 even need dabs, and very few of those were mainly known as beauty pageant hosts, most just did it as a sideline. The dab (television presenter) is better than "personality" - personality means Z-grade celeb fluff who appear on reality TV for their 15 minutes of fame. Bob Russell was a TV show host and TV presenter. Except that in the refs he is less known for TV and more known for Miss America which exists outside TV, as the article shows he didn't, perhaps by choice, have much of a career as TV show host outside beauty pageants. — Preceding unsigned comment added by In ictu oculi (talk • contribs) 01:32, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Some good points. Yes, I think (television presenter) is a better choice. --BDD (talk) 04:24, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

(television presenter) is also fine. As User:SmokeyJoe said "(beauty pageant host)" seems to win on assisting in recognizability, but I read SmokeyJoe also thinks it too long. (television presenter) would do, as presumably beauty pageants that weren't televised weren't too notable. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:14, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

"(television presenter)" would be fine. "(beauty pageant host)" Doesn't both me for its length. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:39, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

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