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[edit] Article improvement

The White Stripes article and the Jack White article are both good articles. Meg's should be in the ranks with those articles. Let's address some fo the issues it has. I'll start working on it today, and see where we can go from there.--Esprit15d 18:13, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Going good so far. :D --S-man 08:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Andrew Perry interview

I think we need to get rid of this Andrew Perry interview. I looked at it, and the interview was apparently with Jack, not Meg. This should probably go on the Jack page. --S-man 08:38, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, it was with the both of them, but you're right, maybe it should be chucked. She does talk in it more than most (which is usually almost not at all), but it's not really a Meg interview.--Esprit15d 17:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

I'm putting a trivia in. There's tons more things we all know about her, that we're probably just too lazy to stick in. I'm putting in things such as the MegBot, the bartender job, the animals, the pre-tour videos, etc. I will also tidy up the trivia in the Jack and WS articles. --S-man 17:58, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MegBot

Shouldn't we put something in about this whole crazy MegBot thing? This MegBot stuff is starting to get pretty popular around White Stripes fans, and I think something should be added about it. --S-man 00:33, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Alright, did it. --S-man 08:34, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
It's so popular because it's so true. -MegBot Believer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.130.135.149 (talk • contribs) 20:07, June 20, 2007
it is very much true. poor megbot malfunctioned during their last tour. jack went back to his brendanatron recently.

[edit] Early life/Personal Life

Why does info about her marriage to Jack White specifically fall under 'early life' rather than 'personal life'? 'Early Life' sections on wikipedia almost exclusively cover the person's childhood and adolescense, as opposed to 'anything before they were famous'. If we don't have any info right now about her childhood, we don't need a 'Early Life' section. This is just needlessly cluttering up the page, when the info about her marriage could easily be categorized as 'Personal life'. Rodeosmurf 20:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed72.8.116.175 20:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Birthplace

Minor point: there are no hospitals in Grosse Pointe Farms. Bon Secour Hospital is in Grosse Pointe City, or she could have been born at St. Johns, in Detroit very close to the Farms. Or she could have been born outside a hospital. A2Kafir 01:33, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm....I'm thinking... --S-man 08:37, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
I am, too. I forgot about Cottage Hospital, on Kercheval in the Farms. So ignore me! A2Kafir 13:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Ahh..yes. Okay. --S-man 20:30, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Bourbon/Fav Tipple thing

We can't link this. I got this from the WS trivia on their vh1 page, which asked various questions about them. It gave a fact about the answer on top of the question after that. The question was "What job did Meg have before she was a drummer", which was Bartender, and the fact for it said that bourbon is her favorite tipple. Go to the VH1 trivia and you'll see. --S-man 08:45, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Infobox Picture

As a British viewer of the French and Saunders Show, in which the pair parody Meg White's voice and the reason she rarely sings (i.e. that Jack doesn't allow her because she's terrible), I find the infobox picture of her singing hilarious. Did someone do this intentionally? That aside, perhaps a picture of her drumming would be more suitable, as well as that being what she is best known for, it would allow me to stop laughing at the irony... --Evilhairyhamster 21:36, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] School of Rock

When was she referenced in the school if rock? should it be put on the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.155.230.187 (talk • contribs) 16:01, August 10, 2007

The drummer tells the bass player girl that girls can't drum. She disagrees so he says to "name two great chick drummers." The bass girl says Sheila E. and Meg White. The drummer replies, "She can't drum!" Dayleyj 15:38, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Acute anxiety

Added a comment about and referenced the recently reported acute anxiety problems she is having. Placed it in the Personal Life section Admuz 13:54, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sex Tape

Rumor has it that she has a sex tape. Can anyone confirm this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by GrimReaper39614 (talk • contribs) 09:32, September 24, 2007

It's hit the net pretty hard. Typical online rumour milling. Worse than housewives in a sewing circle! Looks like a fake to me. Amphetachronism 18:10, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
It's fake. The rumor started with a joke post here: http://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?t=193275 which used a piece of random amateur porn that was posted on postyourgirls.com on Sept 12th that vaguely looks like Meg. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.86.210 (talk) 18:13, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Pitchforkmedia has the first official statement about it here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/45845-sex-tape-definitely-not-meg-white —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.86.210 (talk) 18:19, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
For the record, the video is not a fake. It's not Meg White either, but there is no manipulation or editing. Someone didn't take a regular amateur sex video and alter it to make it look like Meg, it's just that the woman happens to look like Meg naturally. Be careful about using the word "fake", since, even though it's not Meg, there's actually nothing "fake" about the clip itself, unless she's faking her pleasure, which wouldn't be anything new. - Ugliness Man 08:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Section altered to include origination of rumor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.43.236 (talk) 02:28, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

It's worth noting that the person who "proved" this video is fake is the band's publicity agent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.172.184.39 (talk) 05:36, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Seems someone removed any mention of the sex tape. 81.23.48.22 10:40, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

This is a textbook example of why the biographies of living persons policy exists. When crap like this slips in, it becomes dangerous for Wikipedia to have these rumours in the article mainspace.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 03:34, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
And the article has been semi-protected for two months now.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 04:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)