Talk:Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?

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I made some additional changes to fix up awkward phrasing here & there, and also corrected a couple of spelling mistakes. 141.105.156.227 (talk) 23:00, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

I have made a few minor edits where necessary, including spelling and grammar, as well as rephrasing and adding/removing some links (added BBC and removed for the people that don't have wiki pages). Is there is still some information to be added to this page? It seems as though there is room for additional information if resources are available. Otherwise, good article. MtADorey (talk) 17:54, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

The article itself seems to have a lot of factual information. One thing you can attempt to do, is explain some of the cases that have been presented on the show, along with the main years where this show excelled, its audience, and why it went off televison. Overall the citations and linkages between major key figures within this article tie together, which helps form a well layed out wikipedia page. A little more elaboration could not hurt. Good job! GSaundersLikeGlue (talk) 18:58, 28 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GSaundersLikeGlue (talk • contribs) 18:32, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

I agree that including some explanation about some of the artifacts or episodes could be beneficial to your article if resources are available. I've noticed other articles about television shows include episode lists which is something you could consider. I made some minor edits that were mainly grammatical but other than that the article is good! --Adamsml9 (talk) 15:53, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

missing material
This material was already covered in Wikipedia, in an extensive section of the article 20 questions. That section includes a considerable amount of information that is not in this article. This article contains a small amount which is not there.

There are two ways to proceed:
 * 1) Merge the unique material in this section into the general article. Make a redirect from this title, and all punctuation variants of it, using the format to the section, using the format #REDIRECT 20 Questions. ,which links to the exact section. Use an edit summary for each indicating what you are doing, including the exact version by edit ID of the other article.
 * 2) Maintain this as a separate article. Merge the unique material from the other article with its references into it, which will take some ore-organization, so it's considerably more difficult than the first choice.  Under the section heading for the material in the main article use the tag  followed by a sentence or two summarizing the content. See [[WP:Summary style}} for the rationale of this technique.  Use edit summaries  including the exact version by edit ID of the other article. Make redirects for all punctuation variants. Adjust the "about" line  of the 20 Questions article and all other articles in the set to indicate the presence of this article
 * 3) If you do this, you will have to decide if you wish to cover only the US show. If you do, you need to indicate the existence of other versions. If you want to include them all--which I think is preferable--this problem does not arise for you will include that material also.

You would have found the page if you had searched Wikipedia first, before starting it. I suspect you checked well enough to see if there was a page with the exact same title, but not thoroughly enough to see if the material was covered in other articles. And it seems to be that you should have also found in the sources some indication that it was a pre-existing game, and therefore would probably be covered (and there were versions outside the US--and a related later US show -- see the main article.  DGG ( talk ) 01:48, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't see the duplicate information you refer to, DGG. The Twenty Questions article (to which 20 questions redirects) does not appear to mention almost any of the information contained on this article. Would you please clarify? Neelix (talk) 11:03, 18 April 2013 (UTC)


 * You seem to be right--I read more carefully and see this is a different show than either the US or UK versions discussed in the main article, but making use of many of the same concepts to a particular format and purpose that was distinctly different. apparently the similarity of the name confused me. My fault--I was going too quickly. But the relationship is still close enough that the articles ought to have some significant amount of content referring to each other, and that disambiguation pages will be needed, to avoid confusing others also. Indeed, it would seem that the use of this title was presumably due specifically to the expected viewers knowledge of the parlour game.  DGG ( talk ) 00:58, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Title - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?
While the page is titled "Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?", the first line refers instead to the show as "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?". The title plate of the show is a rotating box with "Animal", "Vegetable", "Mineral" and "?" on the four faces. Additionally, the BBC's programme database (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p017bdl3) has it listed as "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?".

Is there any good reason for the page title being different, or could/should this be corrected?

109.144.170.48 (talk) 15:43, 23 November 2014 (UTC) cfmdobbie


 * I've moved it to the correct title. Many thanks, Rothorpe (talk) 16:58, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

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Legacy
I think it's a stretch to say that "How Many Hats?" was a parody of this show. It's much closer to What's My Line? (and its myriad inferior imitators). For a start, two of the panellists are clearly modelled on Isobel Barnett and Gilbert Harding. --2A00:23C6:3E03:2801:C13E:5C55:4247:CE19 (talk) 09:31, 4 September 2020 (UTC)