Talk:Little Bill

Racial Undertones?

Does anyone else feel that this tv show reinforces an African-American stereotype? I think it should be noted, it's something that makes me quite uncomfortable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.1.238.20 (talk) 05:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Could you be more specific? I've watched the show, and I honestly don't see anything stereotypical about the show. To me, it seems to show the African-American community/culture in a positive, informative light. Either way, you'd have to find sources to document this. Try to find reliable sources criticizing the show. 75.206.209.156 01:17, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

The more interesting discussion about race would be about what happened during the making of the show. I was the original art director and many of the African American artists and animators were my close friends. Mr. Cosby intended that the show be a place where these African-American artists could contribute. However, none of them were able to move up in status or receive proper credit and left the show with discontent. This was not due to overt racism. However, it was due to the fact that people in charge only advanced their own friends. It led to cliques within the production that Mr. Cosby was never aware of. It was unfortunate because we all believed that the content was well intended. Osterfeld (talk) 13:52, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Project Philadelphia

What? What does that have to do with an animated kids' show? --204.246.229.231 21:24, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

I'd have to find a source saying so, but I believe Little Bill, much like Fat Albert, is set in Philadelphia, where creator Bill Cosby was born. How relevant that is to the Project Philadelphia, I don't know. 75.207.95.77 15:15, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I've heard a few people claim that Little Bill is set in Philadelphia, but in several episodes you can clearly see the Manhattan skyline. I think it's set in Brooklyn. Alexisr (talk) 19:39, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

As soon as NYC's skyline has Liberty Place in it, you'll be right! The opening of the show clearly shows a view of Center City seen from West Philadelphia. - SummerPhD (talk) 20:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

you're right. I saw it again today and wondered how I'd thought it was Brooklyn! I must not have been looking closely at all. Alexisr (talk) 05:52, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I've added Philly to the article, with a citation. - SummerPhD (talk) 20:18, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I can verify that the setting was meant to be Philly. However, as the original art director and production designer, I can tell you that many of the artists lived in Brooklyn at the time, including myself. This is why the setting appears to be Brooklyn at times. Osterfeld (talk) 13:38, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Info Box

The info box lists Bill Cosby in a starring role. Is this truly accurate? Cosby only plays the rather minor role of Captain Brainstorm. Shouldn't the starring credit be given to Xavier Pritchett (Little Bill) and perhaps Gregory Hines (Big Bill), Phylicia Rashad (Brenda) and/or Ruby Dee (Alice the Great)? I'm not totally sure how the info boxes work, so I thought I'd ask. 75.207.95.77 15:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and....is there a reason both the TV.com and IMDB links lead to Blue's Clues? :P 75.207.95.77 15:46, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I haven't seen an episode yet in which Cosby voices "Captain Brainstorm" -- the only resemblance I see is that the character looks like an animated version of a young Bill Cosby. I've heard the character voiced by Tim Meadows in one episode, and another actor (whose name I can't recall) in another. --204.246.229.235 (talk) 18:28, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

The reason many of the links lead to Blue's Clues is that the designers and animators originated on that show. If I could change the info box I would also add myself as the original art director and lead designer. The look of the show was developed by myself and Kirk Etienne by working directly with director Robert Scull and Varnette Honeywood, the illustrator of the books. Osterfeld (talk) 13:57, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Brian???

I don't usually watch Little Bill but when I watched it last time I swear the "Freckled Kid" was named Andrew. Before I change it can someone confirm this?--Anfish (talk) 13:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Wrong Link to German article

Link to German version of the article for Little Bill links to page about Bill Johnston, tennis player, not TV series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Johnston_(tennis)

Split section

I feel like the Episodes section of this article should be split into a new article detailing a list of the episodes. Right now, the list looks like bundled up garbage with some improper English. TheMeaningOfBlah (talk) 01:36, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi @TheMeaningOfBlah:, I'm not sure we really require a new article for what amounts to a single season of a typical cartoon. I can work on converting the existing content to some sort of table format (although I'm not slick with tables), but there's not so much info that it can't be presented better. And obviously any grammar nightmares should be cleaned up... Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:38, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

True, but the infobox at the top of the article says that the show had 4 seasons. TheMeaningOfBlah (talk) 11:23, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Right, but the content only amounts to 60 lines. I dunno. I could go either way here. Maybe it does burden the page, especially once I break out the various seasons. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:35, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

IMO, collapsing the seasons takes care of any "burden" concerns and keeps it all together without the inevitable duplication having two articles would create. - SummerPhD (talk) 17:39, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Indeed. TheMeaningOfBlah (talk) 01:37, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi SummerPhD, I'm confused what you mean about collapsing the seasons. Do you mean literally wrapping the entire ep list in collapses, or do you mean not presenting each season as an independent table? After converting the eps to tables, it seems more intuitive to create a List of article. I'm on board with that if anyone still thinks it's a good idea. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 10:00, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

My suggestion is to collapse each season. If readers are interested in reading all the details, all the material is there. If not, they can easily scroll on to the next section. I have no strong feelings on this, other than a general dislike of the proliferation of list articles. - SummerPhD (talk) 16:21, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

OK. Sounds good to me barring any other input from other fascinated editors. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:31, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

production

My uncle produced the show and says that these production companies I post made it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:301:77b4:ebd0:ccbf:172e:a2a1:4c1d (talk • contribs)

We're going to need to go with something a little more concrete than your assertion that your uncle told you something. We can't walk into a library and ask your uncle. We can walk into a library and research newspapers, books, magazines, etc., so those are the kinds of references we need. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:25, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Alice the great's brother and sister

What are there names and what episode are they mentioned in? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:301:77B4:EBD0:6857:5DD8:EEBD:D8F9 (talk) 20:21, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 10 September 2016

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved with consensus (non-admin closure) — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 00:29, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

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Little Bill (TV series) → Little Bill – Per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC: Little Bill redirects here and has been since 2008, and the Sainsbury's mascot is so obscure that the article does not name it. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 20:13, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

• Support per nom and WP:CONCISE. An RfC recently closed saying there was no consensus for disambiguating article titles that don't conflict. Pppery 20:36, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
• Support seems reasonable. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:51, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Recurring problems

Please see Talk:List of Little Bill episodes#Recurring problems. - SummerPhD^v2.0 04:03, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Editor not paying attention

It seems that both of the accounts complaining here have been indeffed as WP:socks of the same problem user; I'm therefore hatting this blatant gaming and disruption, and striking their comments in accordance with policy. SnowRise let's rap 22:53, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Anyone intelligent enough to view the recent improvements I made to see that the user edit warring must want to have it their way and isn't right? The errors Snow Rise thinks I made were not removal of content but rather general cleanup of spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, lowercase, commas, unnecessary double-parenthesis, etc. It's no wonder why people vandalize on here. Don't let my new account fool you. I know what I'm doing. It's a total waste of time and disruptive (not to mention annoying and controlling). Instead of leaving it and the editor reverting coming here, they think I need to go out of my way instead and seek "consensus" instead of fixing anything wrong (if that's the case which it seems highly unlikely). Please see recent edit history instead of leaving the article worse like it is now: [1] Givethebest (talk) 07:17, 26 July 2022 (UTC) Givethebest, I am a WP:pending changes reviewer who reviewed your edit while working on the backlog. When I come to an article through that capacity, I must consider that even simple edits may be construed as controversial in the context of previous edit warring, and refuse certain classes of edit that create issues through violation of policy or are just inadequately explained. Your edit removed some content and your edit summary did not explain why. In fact, your edit made a fair number of changes with no more explanation by way of your edit summary than the two words "Overall improvement" ...which is not really what we're looking for in edit summaries, incidentally. The edit itself also introduced an error in grammatical noun-verb tense agreement, though if it had been just that one issue alone, I would have approved your edit and fixed the grammar in a follow-up edit. In any event, I then invited you by way of my own edit summary to either seek consensus here, or at least provide a follow-up edit with some explanation in your edit summary for why the removal of content was undertaken--which was the bare minimum I could accept if I was going to ok the edit. You then simply reverted me, with the borderline uncivil (but in any event certainly needlessly antagonistic) edit summary of "Pay attention: nothing removed". Which was both inaccurate and did nothing to address the general concerns I already had in the edit. As to you entreating us to "Don't let my new account fool you. I know what I'm doing." I'm going to put aside for the moment some of the questions that raises, and simply point out that if you are as experienced as you claim, you should know that, even if I hadn't been a pending changes reviewer, and this had been a run-of-the-mill reversion, you would still bear the WP:ONUS of justifying your edit before re-introducing it, once it had been challenged. And that we don't treat the need to seek consensus as a dirty word concept, but rather the cornerstone of how this project operates. And when I therefore had to reject your edit a second time, with another politely worded and detailed edit summary explaining the reason further, you still opted not to give me some rational argument to show that you were actually aware of the removal and giving a justification for it. At that point, with you indicating you didn't even see the issue, my hands were tied, because as a PC reviewer, I can't ok removal of content when the editor is indicating they don't see the removal at all. I actually agree that the edits here are trivial and not likely to break the article one way or the other, but--if I may be blunt--you're the one who is needlessly accelerating the issue by having an incredibly histrionic reaction to literally the lowest bar of evidence you will ever be asked to give here: a cogent and meaningful edit summary. If you can't be bothered to give that without losing all patience, discipline, and willingness to WP:AGF, I'd think you're going to have issues here, because that's the absolute floor of baseline engagement and communication expected here, however long you've been around. SnowRise let's rap 08:44, 26 July 2022 (UTC) :: I didn't read all of the very long messages above but based on the edit history, I think I see what Givethebest was doing. Not sure why it shows up like portions are missing. I previously edited the article so I'll do them one at a time and see if it works. Please don't revert before I'm finished. It's not likely anyone will pay attention to this discussion so a consensus would probably take a very long time. I see that there are mistakes that Givethebest attempted to fix. One being that Cosby's first name is repeated in the lead. Littlebitof (talk) 18:41, 27 July 2022 (UTC) Done. For some odd reason when Bill Cosby was linked in the character section, it showed up like text was removed via the different versions, but there wasn't. It looks confusing since two have similar words (Little/Bill/Glover, etc.) so I'm not sure why it appeared that way. User talk:Givethebest wasn't wrong. Littlebitof (talk) 19:27, 27 July 2022 (UTC) FYI: The portion Snow Rise claimed was "missing" is right above the difference revision(s). Clearly there was nothing about Cosby's son removed which could have easily been seen by looking above the edited section or scrolling down to see the Revision at 05:47 July 26, 2022. This needs to be a lesson to all future editors in general who have the "power" to accept or deny pending changes without actually taking the time to view it more thoroughly. Good thing I came along and wasn't too lazy to make the corrections... I saw the confusion with one edit which I fixed. Editors could do minor changes instead of edit-warring if it's not exactly the way they want. Lastly, schooling good faith editors or expecting them to provide longer edit summaries to avoid getting reverted is unproductive. I'm not arguing. Just saying. Right side pending (Givethebest): Glover household William "Bill/Little Bill" Glover Jr. (voiced by Xavier Pritchett) is an inquisitive and imaginative boy. He is known as Little Bill because his actual name is Bill Jr, and his father's name is also Bill. Little Bill is based on Bill Cosby's son, Ennis William Cosby. William "Bill/Big Bill" Glover Sr. (voiced by Gregory Hines) is Little Bill, Bobby, and April's father, as well as the husband of Brenda. He is also known as Big Bill because his actual name is Bill Sr. Left side accepted (Littlebitof): Glover household William "Bill/Little Bill" Glover Jr. (voiced by Xavier Pritchett) is an inquisitive and imaginative boy. He is known as Little Bill because his actual name is Bill Jr, and his father's name is also Bill. Little Bill is based on Bill Cosby's son, Ennis William Cosby. William "Bill/Big Bill" Glover Sr. (voiced by Gregory Hines) is Little Bill, Bobby, and April's father, and is the husband of Brenda. He is also known as Big Bill because his actual name is Bill Sr. P.s. Please see Wikipedia articles on Ownership, Stewardship and Bullying. Also, study the original revision (directly above and below not just side-by-side): [2] Thanks! Littlebitof (talk) 00:47, 28 July 2022 (UTC) |} Little Bill is Ennis Cosby didn't Bill Cosby saying an interview about the characteristic Of Little Bill is based on his son and didn't he say that he is Big Bill 108.50.139.220 (talk) 16:08, 3 June 2023 (UTC)