Talk:Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!/Archive 1

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Greatest Moments

It would be nice to include a list of the show's great moments. For example, Madeleine Albright bragging about her ability to bench press, and the continuing series of faux pas over the area code of the devil last year. Uucp

I nominate the one about GWB saying his greatest achievement of his presidency was catching a 7 lb-perch. Then the story got complicated... Wilsonbond 21:19, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

• Some thought it was funny, others thought he was probably right. Wahkeenah 00:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

There was an awfully amusing time when the song "She's Gone" was played, and a contestant had to answer who the song was in reference to. The correct answer was Harriet Meyers, whose nomination had been recently withdrawn, but the contestant answered Rosa Parks :( . Googleaseerch

While I love the show, and I like the idea... I don't think a "Greatest Moments" section would really fit with in the NPOV policy of Wikipedia. --208.106.65.48 (talk) 03:03, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

"coordinates in conjunction"

Omizzle77 recently added information about We Interrupt this Week. I'd appreciate a clarification of what the last sentance of his edit is supposed to mean:

"...as the first game show ever to be televised on the Public Broadcasting System, which coordinates in conjunction with NPR."

As far as I know, NPR and PBS are seperate entities, with some natural crossover. Is this sentence erroneously trying to claim that they are the same entitiy, or is it saying PBS has a hand in coordinating only this program? I'm afraid I can't tell what the message was supposed to be well enough to correct it... ~CS 22:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Incoherency seems to be only one of its problems.

My read is that the writer is trying to claim some sort of direct connection between PBS and NPR -- a common mistake -- but a bigger concern is the claim that WWDTM is based directly on this earlier TV show. I've never heard this nor of the show, and I'd like to some outside source for it.

I've removed it pending a cite (like, say, a Doug Berman interview saying so). --Calton | Talk 23:44, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

We Interrupt this Week and the NPR/PBS confusion

I apologize for the confusion. What I was attempting to say was that NPR and PBS are linked in some way. Also, "We Interrupt this Week" was a PBS game show that I read about in "The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows: Edition 3" and it had almost the same exact premise of WWDTM and it was carried on public broadcasting and since WWDTM is carried on public radio, I inferred that the shows must have some connection yet it was only an inference, so I think it was safe to delete it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omizzle77 (talk • contribs) 17:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Merger with Other Articles

Rather than merge this page with others, it would probably be easier just to create a category for Wait Wait Don't tell me in general — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.81.222.127 (talk) 01:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

"Select people who have appeared on the "Not My Job" segment"

Why do we have this section? It adds little (nothing?) to our understanding of the subject, and it can never practically be complete. Uucp 14:10, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

• It is also getting larger by the week. Perhaps this should at least be a separate page, so it doesn't keep growing and taking over the page here? - Corporal Tunnel 17:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I say we just prune it for notability. ^Thanks, _{Luc "Somethingorother" French} 19:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
  • We had just such a page (as a list) — I created it. It got merged into this article because I hadn't taken notes on who showed up for long enough for it to be much of a list.  — AnnaKucsma   (Talk to me!) 03:04, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps we should un-merge the list from the article, now that the list has grown unwieldy. I think the process of merging in the first place was mostly adding stuff here and making a redirect at the site of the former list. If this is the case, than common sense would dictate we simply overwrite the redirect with a cut-and-paste from the current section. Of course, common sense isn't common in the real world and is less so online (and arguably less so on Wikipedia).  — AnnaKucsma   (Talk to me!) 21:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Two-thirds of the article is now this worthless list. It should be given its own article, or converted into a category that tags the various people listed. Uucp 15:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure any such catagory would be deleted, because of lack of notability. This isn't the sort of thing that catagories are for. An appearence on WW,DTM is not something that should be appearing in the articles for each person who has appeared -- it is a very minor aspect of their careers. A new article might work if it were comprehensive -- but an incomplete list may just get deleted or merged again.

As much as I like this show, I don't feel like a list of guests is encyclopediac content. I would prefer the list be culled for notability, or eliminated alltogether. ~CS 16:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC)