Talk:Sandra Caron

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I see no evidence that the creator of this article was banned at the time he created it. He had been blocked for a week, but the block expired before he created this article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 10:32, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Mea culpa. --Closedmouth (talk) 13:33, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:50, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that Sandra Caron once tried to halt a BBC radio series depicting her sister as a drunkard?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Santa statue (New Zealand)

Created by In Vitrio (talk) and Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 360 past nominations.

Launchballer 11:29, 26 December 2025 (UTC).

• okay, let's do this – nice new article, Launchballer! new enough, long enough; hook is interesting; no image provided and a QPQ has been done. A few concerns:
  • I'm concerned that the hook unduly focuses on a negative aspect of a (recently) living person.
  • Is ukgameshows.com a reliable source? Not sure any information should be resting on it, which makes a sizeable paragraph a little nerve-wracking.
  • "following extreme weight loss and several falls" looks to be the same as the language in tvtropes.org; is it a backwards copy?
• Hopefully the issues can be resolved or I'm off-base on them- let me know :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 01:28, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

No idea why I didn't get a ping for this, but yes, TVTropes is a backwards copy. (I created an account to check the page's history and it turns out there's less than two hours in it.) UKGameshows.com is a group blog with an editor used for non-contentious information from the program itself, I think this is reliable enough for the information. I need longer to decide what to do about the hook.--Launchballer 12:27, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Hmm. If I had access to the Picturegoer source I'd suggest something along the lines of "that Sandra Caron changed her name to avoid associations with a woman once described as "the most highly paid woman in British show business in the 1950s and 1960s"", perhaps @In Vitrio: would like to provide a quote from the source (or better yet, say where they got it in case there's a trove about). I'm personally of the view that legal action is not necessarily unduly negative, and (in my non-legal expert opinion) Caron filing over a show that doesn't mention her is a case where it isn't.--Launchballer 04:01, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

Picturegoer is on British Newspaper Archive. Exact quote is that "I don't want people to think I'm exploiting Alma's fame and popularity. That's why I changed my name to Sandra Caron. There are far too many examples in show business - films especially - of younger sisters using their elder sister's star value as a means for jumping on the gravy train themselves. I don't want to do that. You see, I want to become a star. I want to see my name in lights. I want to act, make people laugh, make people cry. I want to get to the top. BUT ON MY OWN ABILITY AND TALENT." (caps in original) The punchline in the article is a journalist thought she was Leslie Caron's sister... In Vitrio (talk) 08:06, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

@Theleekycauldron: What else do I need to do here?--Launchballer 06:48, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

• @Theleekycauldron: Have your concerns been resolved? Z1720 (talk) 16:38, 31 January 2026 (UTC)
  • sorry that this fell off my radar! I would say that I don't think group blogs are reliable for really anything (except for things like ABOUTSELF and SMEX, of course), and I'm not exactly convinced about the hook because people who sue who because they don't like coverage areee not always looked on kindly. I'll leave it to someone else to decide whether those are valid concerns or whether this can go forward. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:01, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

In the interest of moving this forward, I've cut that source. What do you think of ALT1: ... that Sandra Caron changed her name to avoid associations with a woman once described as "the most highly paid woman in British show business in the 1950s and 1960s"?--Launchballer 11:50, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

• - new enough nom. Long enough. Sources checks out to prose. Hooks looks ok. BabbaQ (talk) 18:21, 4 February 2026 (UTC)