Talk:Jim Carrey

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Religious beliefs[edit]

The article mentions that he regularly attends a Presbyterian church with his familyand is weird. The article from which it is sourced, however, is really old. The article also mentions that exact phrase right after it states that he is not married. Since he is not married anymore, I think the statement should be removed. Also, at the bottome of the page it lists him as both Presbyterian and Roman Catholic. Any objections? El Diablo Volador Sunday, October 15, 2006

Fixed the table[edit]

It is amazing how fast jim carrey actually died after the hoax was discovered. He was pronouned dead just before midnight on June, 7, 2013. They are now looking for Will Ferrell for questioning and possible joint suicide attempt. News is no longer develping. Jim carrey dead at the age of 51. Very sad! Somehow everything after the table was somehow added into the last row and column. Now, I'm not a usual editor, but it'd looked horrible. So, using the code examples of another page with a table I managed to fix it. Yay. Also, I hope that the Spiderman 4 rumour is right. That would be awesome.

Citations needed in early life[edit]

In Early Life, it says "His mother was of French,[citation needed] Irish,[citation needed] and Scottish descent[1]". I should've copied it before I edited it, but before (I don't know how to do the formatting for it) it was larger than the rest of the text and red, saying something like "Citation Non-Existent" (in both places). I edited it just because it really stood out among the otherwise black, smaller text, and there's already the standard "[citation needed]". I guess it just looked kind of "un-encyclopedic".  :P

(Psychonaut25 - 13355p34k / C0n7r1b5 01:05 AM EST, 6 April 2013 (UTC))

References

  1. ^ "Jim Carrey Online • View topic – Scottish Interview & Clip". Jimcarreyonline.com. Retrieved February 7, 2011. 

Semi-protected edit request on 9 January 2015[edit]

Please change Jim Carrey's successor in Riddler actor from Incumbent to Cory Michael Smith. 2602:306:2474:E219:1DB4:E3EE:A31A:784B (talk) 15:11, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — {{U|Technical 13}} (etc) 19:02, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
@User:Technical 13 we don't usually cite sources in succession boxes like that when both actors have articles. That Smith plays the Riddler in Gotham is easily verifiable with reference to our article on him, our article on the show, our article on the Riddler, and numerous external sources like this one. I admit it's annoying when anons come along and make edits to article text without citing sources, or requesting others do it for them, but in this case if the IP had given you a source, would you honestly have cluttered up the box by adding that unnecessary source to it? Hijiri 88 (やや) 13:28, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Hijiri88, I would likely have added a sentence to the body someplace citing the source and updated the box accordingly. — {{U|Technical 13}} (etc) 14:58, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Why? It's not really relevant. I'm actually a bit ambivalent on these "succession boxes" when referring to actors playing well-known licensed fictional characters to begin with. Carrey played the character once in a mostly-forgotten movie. Then again, our Billy Dee Williams article is a worse offender -- the character is actually referred to as "Harvey Dent" rather than "Two-Face" just because the actor never played "Two-Face". (>.<) Hijiri 88 (やや) 15:21, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Candid picture of his family looking flustered and upset?[edit]

Why does this article currently feature a picture of Carrey standing over a young child who is clearly not the then 21-year-old daughter mentioned in the accompanying paragraph? If this child's identity is not public then is it really appropriate for us to be including a photo that was apparently not taken with his or his parents' consent? The picture also doesn't appear to add anything to the article, since it can only confuse when according to the accompanying text he had been in a mid-to-long term relationship with Jenny McCarthy for three years (the child is not his, hence not being mentioned in the accompanying text).

After writing the first coupla sentences above I realized that maybe our article on the child's biological mother named him -- it does. But if we don't actually give any details of the family in question in text, then why do we have this somewhat awkward photo of them?

Hijiri 88 (やや) 13:16, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 February 2015[edit]

Please change the word "check" to "Cheque". 77.99.49.23 (talk) 20:16, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

{Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: It is spelled "check" in American English, which is appropriate for this article. See WP:ENGVAR RudolfRed (talk) 00:30, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Considering he was born in Ontario I dispute the appropriateness of using 'American' english. - A Canadian Toker (talk) 16:13, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Style edit request on 5 May 2015[edit]

For style, I would suggest removing the second sentence of the first paragraph ("Carrey has received two Golden Globe Awards").

For style, in the tandem with my previous edit, I would also recommend changing "Known for his highly energetic slapstick performances, he has been described as one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood" to "Known for his highly energetic slapstick performances, Carrey has been described as one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood".

Dandy Black (talk) 13:44, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
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