Talk:Kevin Bacon

High school years in Philadelphia. Sourced from the 1976 Parkway Beta yearbook and classmate Ronald Moskovitz

Kevin Bacon went to Parkway Program High School in Philadelpha. He attended their Beta unit at 21 South 21st street, which was at the corner of 21st and Ranstead. His principal at the time was Julius C Bennett. His homeroom/Tutorial teacher were Julius Reeves and Reverend Dorothy Watson Tatem. Parkway Beta's 1976 yearbook has a picture of Kevin in the book. He was well regarded by his classmatesRchefhoagie (talk) 01:18, 6 March 2014 (UTC) Since Wikipedia says the high school at Masterman was added in 1976 it is clear that Kevin Bacon class of 1976 did not go through high school there. Kevin went to middle school at Masterman and high school at Parkway Program Beta.</ref></ref> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcityline (talk • contribs) 02:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 September 2016

Kjester123456 (talk) 23:27, 4 September 2016 (UTC) he grew up roman catholic and when he got a little older he went to not to believe in god

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. @Kjester123456: An assertion like this must be backed up by a reliable source. —C.Fred (talk) 23:32, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2017

Change the broken link in reference 47 to:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140314085857/http://economiccrisis.us/2009/06/may-god-spare-mercy-victim-tells-madoff/ 212.36.61.2 (talk) 15:08, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

•  Done Actually ref #46 at this time. General Ization ^Talk 15:14, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Kevin Bacon high school

Kevin Bacon attended the Society Hill Playhouse Theater Program for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia in the Fall 1974. He earned high school credit and performed the lead role in "The Serpent". Upbeatable (talk) 04:18, 30 November 2017 (UTC) My source is myself as I attended the program with him.

Bacon Day

I fell across this tweet:

Reconciliation Bridge will be lit in orange, yellow and red for Bacon Day!— East Village (@EastVillageYYC) December 31, 2017

So, is Bacon Day connected with Kevin? 74.205.219.213 (talk) 19:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

No. National Bacon Day, December 30, is connected with bacon. General Ization ^Talk 22:48, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion ... for avoiding exaggeration in a certain template [instance]

The status quo (now)

This comment is based upon (the "Awards and nominations" section of) the [currently] 'Latest revision as of 18:31, 10 January 2020' version of the article. (However, most of what it says here has apparently been true for years; ["!"]; going back to October 2017.)

Currently [see above for the details of which specific version I looked at], the {{BLP unsourced section}} template instance (in the wiki-text) -- right at the beginning of the "Awards and nominations"] section of the article -- still says:

{{BLP unsourced section|date=October 2017}}

...which expands to (something like) THIS:

the word "any" there, is an exaggeration (now)

IMHO every word of that -- [what that template instance says] -- may well be true, except for the word "any". Probably -- most likely! -- some editors have worked diligently, since October 2017, to improve the situation by adding "some" -- (admittedly, maybe not enough ["yet"]!) -- of the needed "references or sources".

What should * * * not * * * be done

Since there may well be room for "more" improvement, I am not "at this time" recommending the major step of removal [now] of the template instance (in the wiki-text) that says "{{BLP unsourced section|date=October 2017}}".

What I "am" saying

I am just noting, for the record, that because of the harsh language used in that template -- specifically, the use of the word any [as opposed to, (let's say), the word enough] -- it has become an [instance of] exaggeration. (Granted, maybe it was not an exaggeration [yet] in October 2017; but, ... that was then, and this is now.)

What should be done [e.g.]

I am not sure whether there already exists an alternate template (or, maybe some [optional?] "parameter" for this template? -- that is, for the "{{BLP unsourced section}}" template) that would allow the displayed box to say "enough" instead of "any"; ... that is, to say

This section of a biography of a living person does not include enough references or sources [...]

instead of saying

This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources [...]

; but if not, then IMHO there should be a way to do that (a way to cause it to say that).

If an alternate template is being considered, then maybe it could be called "{{BLP weakly sourced section}}" or "{{BLP insufficiently sourced section}}" ... or something like that.

If an [optional] "parameter" is being considered, then maybe it could be called "any-enough", and it could have a default value of "any" ... in which case, the use of a command such as "|any-enough=enough" (or whatever the command should be, to override the default [value]) could be optional, to be used only when someone wanted the expanded instance of the template to say "[...] does not include enough [...]" instead of "[...] does not include any [...]".

Please forgive my ignorance, and [feel free to] enlighten me -- (clue me in!) -- if there is already such an alternate template, and/or an [optional] "parameter" like "any-enough" ... that I do not yet know about.

Any comments?

Thanks for listening. Any comments? --Mike Schwartz (talk) 19:09, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 August 2021

There's a massive Swastika taking up the whole page... Probably should remove it? 90.211.61.174 (talk) 13:50, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

I can't see one. --Ferien (talk) 16:36, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

This was actually due to template vandalism, so an edit here wouldn't have affected it. It was fixed when I responded. --Ferien (talk) 11:09, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Planes Trains and Automobiles (1987)

Kevin Bacon's small but credited appearance in the film Planes Trains and Automobiles (1987) is not mentioned in the article. I suggest this be included somehow. Andreas Toth (talk) 08:18, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 November 2022

Current:

In 1988, he starred in John Hughes's comedy She's Having a Baby,[12] and the following year he was in another comedy called The Big Picture.[18]

To:

After a cameo in John Hughes' 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles, he would go on to star in Hughes' 1988 comedy She's Having a Baby and Christopher Guest's 1989 comedy The Big Picture. 207.181.234.72 (talk) 19:04, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Done, thank you IP! Next time, please provide a source which supports the statement you want to add, to make things a bit simpler for the responder. Ovinus (talk) 04:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 January 2023

"Loverboy" is misspelled "Loveryboy"in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph of the page. 209.122.228.82 (talk) 18:40, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 March 2023

In the movies Bacon directect it is said he directed the movie Loveryboys, that has to be Loverboys I suppose. ZENODotus (talk) 04:35, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done General Ization ^Talk 04:49, 3 March 2023 (UTC)