Talk:Nero Wolfe (1982 radio series)

Use of American Magazine art

As the contributor who uploaded the American Magazine illustration that's recently been added here (as well being as the person who created this article), I'd rather not see this non-free 2D art used outside of the Nero Wolfe article. I wrote the fair-use rationale language on the image page to restrict its use to the Nero Wolfe article, where I've argued that its fair use is justified. It is an informational image there, since that particular novella is discussed; and it is a significant representation of the fictional character Nero Wolfe, the subject of the article. On the radio article, the image appears to be decorative. I wish I could assert that it's free of copyright, but lacking the authority of the research to back that up I've simply contributed it as a non-free image and provided that limited fair-use rationale.

What really seems to be needed is a photograph of Sydney Greenstreet, the most notable of the Wolfes on radio. I've seen such a photo in a book — Jon Tuska's The Detective in Hollywood (1978) ISBN 0385120931 (page 60). The photo is captioned, "Sydney Greenstreet, surrounded here by beer and orchids, playing Nero Wolfe on radio." The photo credit reads, "Photo courtesy of Views and Reviews Magazine." Tracking that image down and uploading it would contribute to this article significantly.

For now, I hope there's consensus that using the Carl Mueller illustration on this article is pushing it, and that you understand why I'm removing the image. Thanks. — WFinch 02:16, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Rename

   An article entitled Nero Wolfe (radio) should have radio-related content: be about something broadcast by radio, or about a person so named and associated with radio, or about a radio (or style or model or brand of radio) called "Nero Wolfe". But this is about multiple shows prepared for radio distribution, not even really a single coherent topic. (BTW, note that while subject index articles usually are for things each having the same word or phrase as its proper name, this situation is quite similar.)
   Worse yet, only one of the radio shows in question is called "Nero Wolfe" (and not even that name is definitive; most likely its formal title was "Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe", tho the cited 3-decade-old Globe and Mail article is hard to find).
   Disambiguated titles exist solely bcz there are times when the best title for a topic is also the best title for a different topic. This is not one of those cases: Nero Wolfe radio shows describes the content more precisely -- i.e., no one, given that page as a choice would choose Nero Wolfe or Nero Wolfe (radio) bcz they had heard of any one of the US networks' NW radio shows and wanted more about it.
--Jerzy•t 01:49, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Copy vio

   At least one colleague thinks clear attribution of quoted material eliminates copyright problems on WP. Wrong.

   On the other hand, restatement in a W-editor's own words (with a citation, not for the sake of attribution but for verifiability ofWP:RS) is our bread and butter. While I think i am indicating here all the transgressed sources (in furtherance of getting equivalent info, properly cited, in place of my removals), by moving the citations for the removed material here, a colleague's practice of putting more than one citation at the end of several otherwise cite-less graphs makes the association between sources and content frustratingly vague. But here's what i've got:

• Re the 1946 MBS show:

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• re the 1950–1951 CBS one:

  My best guess is that the prose quotes before the ep list were from

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• Re the '82 CBC:

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--Jerzy•t 04:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

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