Talk:Paula Deen

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Contents 1 Additional info needed 2 Butter 3 Interview with Larry King 4 Smithfield Controversy 5 Paula Deen Magazine correction of Link & Text

[edit] Additional info needed

I wrote this article. I need dates for the opening of her restaurant locations, as well as her birthdate. An exact date for her divorce and ages of her sons (to be put at the time of her divorce) would be appreciated as well. --Kitch 22:13, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Got the birthdate, but can't find anything on exact divorce date or restaurant openings as of yet. Cheers! Air.dance 02:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Butter

Why does Wikipedia not want to link Paula Deen to butter?

Perhaps because she has nothing to do with butter. The article already reads like a fawning fan's love letter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.165.188.30 (talk) 20:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

PAULA DEEN not having anything to do with BUTTER? My guess is that if she could make love to a stick of butter she probably would. Every single episode has her putting copious amount of the stuff into every dish. I'd say there should at least be a mention of her penchant for butter.—

Doesn't heavy cream rank right up there as well, on her list of obsessions? --75.87.75.90 (talk) 05:11, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Interview with Larry King

I thought I would add a link to transcript of an interview Paul did with Larry King. Among other things, she admits to an affair with a married man and smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes a day!

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/06/lkl.01.html Ella Menopee 17:59, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Smithfield Controversy

If someone could add information about her Smithfield spokesperson position, and the ramifications of this contract, that'd be great. I'm afraid to make changes to biographical articles, though. A simple googling of deen smithfield controversy yields tons of information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.171.24.208 (talk) 01:55, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paula Deen Magazine correction of Link & Text

Hey would like to see about a minor correction to the Cooking with Paula Section and correcting a minor item with the link to paula's magazine website. When I made the correction yesterday I was warned it was spam and a conflict of interest for my change. If you want details see mytalk page.

So following the posting guideline for wiki, I am posting to the talk page for review by independent Wikipedia editors. See Conflict of Interest posting guidelines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:EL#Advertising_and_conflicts_of_interest)

I would like to see about posting a link to the following site as a correction to an external link that already exist on the Paula Deen definition page within Wikipedia. Currently the link references http://www.pauladeenmagazine.com/ . While this does go to the correct site due to redirect that we have in place on our server it is not the correct URL. http://www.cookingwithpauladeen.com is the correct URL. This is not for promotion of the site. It is just a minor correction of an existing link.

In additon I would like to check on changing a line of text from:

Cooking with Paula Deen Deen launched a lifestyle magazine called Cooking with Paula Deen in November 2005

TO:

Cooking with Paula Deen Deen launched a bimonthly lifestyle magazine called Cooking with Paula Deen in November 2005 published by Hoffman Media LLC. (Leave the bolding out)

Again this is not self promoting our site or the company I work for. It is just stating a fact. There is not a link back to the company site. This follow the posting guidelines for wiki and simular "published by" statments are in the place in the Paula Deen wiki already and throughtout other wiki entries.

Due to the fact that I work for Hoffman Media the publishers of this title I am submitting this for an independent review of the content. I am the programmer for the web team not the web marketing group. This is intent for stating facts and correct links, only. It is not a site generator. Again the link meets the guidelines for an external link. The rerfence published by Hoffman Media also meets all publication guidelines and examples that I have seen in Wikipedia.

Thanks You, (LeverettPowell (talk) 13:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC))

PS. This all started due to this wiki entry having the following three messages at the top: 1)"This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject." 2)"This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards." 3)"This article needs additional citations for verification."

I am trying to help out and meeting items 1 and 3 from the message on the top o this wiki entry.