Talk:The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson/Archives/2016
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Incorrect capitals
Why is "starring" upper case in the article title? It shouldn't be. The screenshot does it properly. Rothorpe (talk) 20:41, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
- See the capitalization used at the show's official Web site. The name of the show is a proper noun, and as such every word is capitalized regardless of how it was stylized in the title screen that appears in the article. General Ization Talk 02:20, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Walk-off in 1967
The article doesn't mention that Carson quit the Tonight Show in a salary dispute in 1967 and was off the show for three weeks. 68.146.233.86 (talk) 02:06, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
- The article will not mention this unless someone provides a reliable source that says so. See WP:BURDEN. Do you have one? General Ization Talk 02:17, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
Use of "absolute language" and false precision with figures
FORMAT Section - "(prop comedy) acts (Gallagher being a prominent example) only appeared on nights when guests hosted the show."
It is an error to use "only" here. Antenna TV (ca 2016NOV05) , within the last several weeks has twice rerun episodes with Carson as host and Gallagher doing "prop comedy". Reference 10 is about Gallagher on another show and is silent about prop comedy appearing when Carson was host.
I may misunderstand the "no original research" policy, but a simple factual fix for this error would be to cite the date of each episode (or the Antenna TV rerun??) as exceptions: This phrase should read something like: "acts (Gallagher being a prominent example) rarely appeared on nights when Carson hosted the show (exceptions were etc...)."
PROGRAMMING HISTORY Section - "By the mid-1970s Tonight was the most profitable show on television, making NBC $50 to $60 million ($181,709,000 to $218,051,000 today) each year"
1) To use "today" is a common misusage on Wiki-entries, which immediately causes the reader to discount it. What does "today" even mean? Within 24 hours of the edit it's incorrect.
2) False precision - it is invalid to extract six significant figures (181,709,000) from one significant figure (50 million).
3) This phrase should read something like: "making NBC $50 to $60-million ($180 to $220-million in 2016)"