WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 05:41, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know what George's attitude was during the 1907 music hall strike ? Johncmullen1960 08:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
James Booth's father; Francis died in 1890 in Ashton under Lyne and the 1891 census has Sarah Jane his mother and James in lodgings in Crickets Lane, Ashton under Lyne. This is in contrast to what is written and is perceived by others as he is supposed to have left home aged 13 - Should I spoil a good story?
1891 Census: Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 3277; Folio 127; Page 13; GSU roll: 6098387. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Velpremus ( talk • contribs) 21:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
This article is a cut-and-paste, as described here: http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/plagiarism/0485.html -- Ssilvers ( talk) 20:03, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
George Formby's mother, and the widow of George senior, died in August 1981 at the age of 102. The source for this information is www.gradwellphotography.co.uk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.131.27.68 ( talk) 01:37, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Should we really list all of these recordings of songs? Are they notable? I think it would be better simply to summarize his recording career in a narrative paragraph and note any particularly popular or enduring items. Compare George Baker (record singer). -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:05, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Infobox says 1 child, text says 12 children. AnonMoos ( talk) 22:56, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
As George Formby the father would never have used the suffix "Sr.", believe that this page is incorrectly disambiguated. Anyone got any good ideas for a more appropriate disambiguator? -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 09:12, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
It seems (from a very brief glance at the list of sources) that "George Formby Senior" is a way in which he is now referred to, so the present title doesn't seem to be particularly bad. It will probably be of more help to readers than a birth date (and the fact that Formby wasn't his birth name also perhaps makes the birth date a little less suitable as a disambiguator).-- Kotniski ( talk) 13:46, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Rob, I take the points you make, above. I suspect there is no wholly satisfactory solution and the best we can do is a working compromise between strict conformity with the usage of the last century and the needs of our modern readers.
The father was, naturally, never known as "senior", but nowadays not one person in a hundred who has heard of George Formby thinks of anyone other than the toothy ukulele player. It would, I think, be unhelpful to the majority of readers in 2011 and beyond to call the father "George Formby" and the son "George Formby Jr". I really believe for disambiguation purposes it is best – though not what he called himself – to call the father George Formby Sr. After all, I don't suppose Pitt the Elder was known as Pitt the Elder till Pitt the Younger came on the scene. But by all means bracket the (Sr.) if you are more comfortable with that.
I see the flaws in this, but it seems to me that the best, or at any rate the least bad, option is to keep the father as Sr and the son as George Formby tout court on his own page, adding "Jr" on the dab page. I hope this addresses the aspects you want covered, but if I have missed the point, please let me know and I'll have another shot. Tim riley ( talk) 14:53, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
He had quite a lot of children. Any record of where they ended up? 109.154.9.232 ( talk) 21:39, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 05:41, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know what George's attitude was during the 1907 music hall strike ? Johncmullen1960 08:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
James Booth's father; Francis died in 1890 in Ashton under Lyne and the 1891 census has Sarah Jane his mother and James in lodgings in Crickets Lane, Ashton under Lyne. This is in contrast to what is written and is perceived by others as he is supposed to have left home aged 13 - Should I spoil a good story?
1891 Census: Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 3277; Folio 127; Page 13; GSU roll: 6098387. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Velpremus ( talk • contribs) 21:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
This article is a cut-and-paste, as described here: http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/plagiarism/0485.html -- Ssilvers ( talk) 20:03, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
George Formby's mother, and the widow of George senior, died in August 1981 at the age of 102. The source for this information is www.gradwellphotography.co.uk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.131.27.68 ( talk) 01:37, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Should we really list all of these recordings of songs? Are they notable? I think it would be better simply to summarize his recording career in a narrative paragraph and note any particularly popular or enduring items. Compare George Baker (record singer). -- Ssilvers ( talk) 00:05, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Infobox says 1 child, text says 12 children. AnonMoos ( talk) 22:56, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
As George Formby the father would never have used the suffix "Sr.", believe that this page is incorrectly disambiguated. Anyone got any good ideas for a more appropriate disambiguator? -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 09:12, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
It seems (from a very brief glance at the list of sources) that "George Formby Senior" is a way in which he is now referred to, so the present title doesn't seem to be particularly bad. It will probably be of more help to readers than a birth date (and the fact that Formby wasn't his birth name also perhaps makes the birth date a little less suitable as a disambiguator).-- Kotniski ( talk) 13:46, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Rob, I take the points you make, above. I suspect there is no wholly satisfactory solution and the best we can do is a working compromise between strict conformity with the usage of the last century and the needs of our modern readers.
The father was, naturally, never known as "senior", but nowadays not one person in a hundred who has heard of George Formby thinks of anyone other than the toothy ukulele player. It would, I think, be unhelpful to the majority of readers in 2011 and beyond to call the father "George Formby" and the son "George Formby Jr". I really believe for disambiguation purposes it is best – though not what he called himself – to call the father George Formby Sr. After all, I don't suppose Pitt the Elder was known as Pitt the Elder till Pitt the Younger came on the scene. But by all means bracket the (Sr.) if you are more comfortable with that.
I see the flaws in this, but it seems to me that the best, or at any rate the least bad, option is to keep the father as Sr and the son as George Formby tout court on his own page, adding "Jr" on the dab page. I hope this addresses the aspects you want covered, but if I have missed the point, please let me know and I'll have another shot. Tim riley ( talk) 14:53, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
He had quite a lot of children. Any record of where they ended up? 109.154.9.232 ( talk) 21:39, 19 May 2013 (UTC)