Talk:John Harlan (announcer)

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There are disputes that he was a sub-announcer for Wheel of Fortune during its early years, but this has not been confirmed.

bcz it doesn't sound like a notable fact in the context of his bio -- or in any context but obsessive fan-cruft. Further, my research has turned up no hint of what a "sub-announcer" is; it is used a handful of times in WP as a barebones description and does not appear in Wiktionary or a Webster's Collegiate. The contexts suggest it is not the equivalent of "substitute announcer", a term it shares on his IMDb page. With a verifiable definition or explanation, it probably can be used in WP, but at present it is as useful in our articles as "whatchamacallit".
_ _ FWIW, it should be noted that that IMDb article includes

"Wheel of Fortune" (1975) TV Series .... Sub-announcer (1975)

(meaning the show began in '75, and he appeared on it either (not sure which) in '75 or in the '75(-'76) season). If there is a credible dispute with IMDb's version, the article would have to say what circumstances render unreliable that high-resource site. (They can afford to look at libraried videotapes to see which announcers were credited, and compare voices in the unlikely case that there are two announcers with the same name.)
--Jerzy•t 04:57, 2 November 2005 (UTC)