Talk:Gil Schwartz

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Lazenby (talk · contribs) / Bing, Stanley Bing, Stanley

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Is the bit about Mill Valley being among the top 10 places to live at all relevant to this article? Can it simply go away?

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This is not impartial and has self-serving POVs all over the place:

In January of 1996, a fatuous, drunken journalist who had happened to work with Bing at Esquire decided to share what had been a closely held secret since 1984 with a mean-spirited reporter from the New York Times. And so it was that on a Monday morning, as a blizzard hit New York, the Times published a breathless article revealing that Bing was actually Schwartz, who worked for a big media company.

Did Bing write this article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thomas AM (talk • contribs) 19:45:27, August 19, 2007 (UTC).

Yes, he did. He wrote it as Lazenby (talk · contribs) on 16 November 2006. Lazenby is a character that Stanley Bing frequently mentions in his columns.Jmkleeberg (talk) 21:44, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Of course he wrote it[edit]

And I certainly don't think it disqualifies the article, or Wikipedia.

Stanley Bing is a character, not a real person. So it is only very proper, clever and fun that his bio is writen by his creator. I see it as one more virtue of the whole system of open contributions, and a source of pride for Wikipedia.

I emphaticaly motion to keep it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmellof (talk • contribs) 12:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Place Where He Works[edit]

Is there any reason why instead of saying "CBS", the article says, "big media company" with a link to CBS? I would think since this is an encyclopedia, that we should just be saying CBS, and not provide a link/clue, that sends us to CBS.

I think CBS should be put in there. But I will hold off a bit on this, to see if anyone can justify why we should NOT change it to CBS. Asc85 (talk) 01:41, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

/* Publication of identity */ citation for revelation of Bing's identity.[edit]

I've added a citation for the January 1996 Times article that reveals Bing's identity. The article does not indicate whether its author worked with him at Esquire, so I've put a verification tag on that. I've also removed the "unsuccessfully tried to raise issues" bit; the "unsuccessfully" is completely subjective, and while I think the "tried to raise issues" part is probably true, I felt reaching that conclusion required too much synthesis to include in the WP article. --some jerk on the Internet (talk) 15:57, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source of natural causes[edit]

Where did the source of natural causes come from? MikaelaArsenault (talk) 00:19, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. These sources are saying heart attack, so I just added that instead.

https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-gil-schwartz-dies-age-68-stanley-bing-humorist-cbs-20200504-xzmheoabcje5leant2636askua-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-05-03/gil-schwartz-dies-cbs-obit

MikaelaArsenault (talk) 00:25, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]