Talk:Lynda Barry

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PBS doc[edit]

What is the name of the alleged "recent PBS documentary"?

It was titled 'Grandma's Way-out Party!" and it co-starred Kevin Kling. It debuted on Minneapolis/St Paul PBS (they made it) back in the early 90s, like maybe 1992 or 93. It was great! They drove cross-country from Minneapolis to Grandma's birthday party out on the West Coast, and stopped at lots of touristy/interesting places along the way. Loved it! PBS doesn't seem to have a copy of it any more. 8(

Lynda Barry- Richland Center, Wisconsin[edit]

Did Lynda Barry lived in Richland Center, Wisconsin????Thank you-RFD 15:42, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. In an interview she stated: "Well, actually, I'm a native of Wisconsin, about four hours' drive from where I'm sitting now. I did grow up in Seattle..."[1]. Prentice-Hall, the publisher, says in her bio that she was born in Richland Center.[2] --Baron Larf 18:53, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pook, huh?[edit]

That's kind of a dirty trick, putting a link in a Wikipedia article that redirects back to the same page you linked from. I'm just sayin'. rowley (talk) 00:11, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Misuse of {{Where}}?[edit]

It seems to me that {{Where}} is misused in the following paragraph, the final paragraph in the Personal life section:

In 1994, Barry suffered a near-fatal case of dengue fever.^[where?]

Although {{Where}} can be used to ask for missing geographical information, its primary use (and the only use that appears on a mouseover) is to disambiguate a geographical reference (like the name "Oxford") which can be found in different parts of the world. The tagged statement above contains no geographical information at all, so how can something that doesn't exist be ambiguous?

The statement that a person had a particular disease is not inherently expected to specify in what geographical location the person contracted the disease. This use of {{Where}} looks to me like simply an editor's expression of curiosity about where Barry contracted dengue fever, but a statement like the one above would not ordinarily be required to supply geographical information. Therefore, I think this instance of {{Where}} should be removed. The fact that it has stood there ignored for a year and a half also argues for its removal. —104.244.192.86 (talk) 06:20, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Further explanation of my edit[edit]

I think I should have linked MOS:PSEUDONYM instead in my edit summary. "Lynda" seems like it would not count as a hypocorism (which is the rationale given for this edit); moreover, the omission of Jean should mark "Lynda Barry" as a professional name. Kolekant (talk) 05:28, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]