Talk:Jennifer Love Hewitt/Archive 2

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Hewitt for Wonder Woman

I want Joss Whedon to cast Love as Wonder Woman in the new movie he's making. She would be perfect in Love is power, Love is justice, Love is Wonder Woman. --Unsigned comment from 66.208.246.186 07:25, August 4, 2005

Anonymous user at 66.208.246.186, I think you misunderstand what the Wikipedia discussion forum is to be used for. This is not an appropriate place to post opinions like this. It is to be used to discuss the content of the Wikipedia article itself. --Yamla 17:36, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

I agree with Yamla. For those who want to comment on how great of a person Hewitt is, they should consider visiting fan forums and websites, instead of an online encyclopedia.

Her background

The references I've seen to her background - all essentially with the same wording ("German father, Italian mother") - probably stem from her IMDB entry. And the IMDB has plenty of crap trivia notes that have been proven wrong, yet still have gotten copied and pasted over and over the net. I've never seen a first-hand source, something like an interview where she says "My mom's Italian", etc. I was the one who added the German/Italian trivia to her bio a while ago (probably under an anom address), back when I trusted the IMDB and didn't realize that they were the cause for a lot of misinformation on the net. Her parents both have very British names & surnames, and so do her grandparents. Maybe she has some distant Italian or German ancestry, who knows, but not enough to qualify her as "Italian-American" (the criteria for inclusion into the ethnic categories is 1/4 of whichever group). Vulturell 03:14, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for writing your rationale for the recent ethnic change - you should see that people will challenge you if you make significant changes to articles without any description in the Edit summary. I couldn't find another source for the German/Italian descent claim so the removal is valid unless someone else finds one. However, I am not sure that the description "English-American" best descibes her (I notice you have had similar discussions on your talk page). I don't believe having British sounding surnames is a reliable indicator of ethnicity. --PTSE 03:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Based on the names, it just seems likely that she is at least 1/4 British by ancestry (the rule we usually use in the "ethnicity category department" is 1/4 of whichever ethnicity to be included) so I guess it's fine, I doubt she's "all British" anyway. Sorry for not putting in a description - I make so many edits at a time, at such a fast pace, that I just like to put whatever in and move on. Plus of course I don't think I'd have enough space. However, I am certainly willing, glad, and able to answer any questions about a specific edit.Vulturell 04:58, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

If IMDB can't be trusted, Wikipedia has a serious problem. I believe I have referenced IMDB several times, because I thought there were professionals working on IMDB to ensure its accuracy. Does anyone have more information with regards to how well we can trust IMDB? Stiles 01:52, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

It has been proven on varoius websites that Jennifer Love Hewitt is also of German and Italian descent as well as English, although it seems like some people want to "Anglicize" Jennifer Love Hewitt by making her "ENGLISH-AMERICAN" when it has been proven through various sources that she is more than just English or primarily English. She is probably more Italian and German than English. She has even crossed herself (the way Catholics do) when on the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn in 2002. English usually aren't catholic. Usually they are Anglican (Church of England). Love is not Anglican. Maddawg1967 02:19, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

A lot of Christians cross themselves. Yes, many sites on the web have this info on Hewitt, but they are not first-hand sources (i.e. don't come from Hewitt's mouth herself, like an interview would). I believe this rumour started in one place and got repeated all over the web, like too many similar ones have. I've never seen a quote or anything of the like. Rootsweb.com listed her grandparents, and none have even vaguely Italian or German names. From what I can tell, Hewitt comes from a pretty typical small town "Texas" background - mostly English Isles origin. I'd guess she was Protestant, but non-practicing, although that's irrelevant to this discussion. Vulturell 02:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname curious italian names? Bixio, Craxi, Oxa, Gaberscik, Oberdank, Schmitz (Aron Hector Schmitz)... nobody can know if she is really italian...

Hey Stiles!I have something,we can trust them over websites we have never heard of and will have much worse things than IMDb, like some website said that she was lesbian!IMDB does not say that!And also Wikipedia will have glitches here and there!User:Trampton