Talk:Anya Taylor-Joy/Archive 1

best known for
I see this pattern repeated a lot where someone is listed as "best known for" - well in this case it says she is "best known" for a role in a movie that grossed 40 million worldwide vs a movie that grossed $300 million. I mean come on now, by what criteria is an actor best known for if it isn't the literal worldwide exposure of their movies?67.83.201.3 (talk) 09:56, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Noticed this, too. Seems to be that fanboys of a particular show or movie will cite that movie/show for an actor, ignoring pretty much everything else where the actor may actually be better known for. That, or some version of recentism (citing the latest movie/show the actor has appeared in). I'm not sure if Wikipedia has an actual guideline concerning "best known for" but it would be useful if someone can point it out if there is one. — al-Shimoni  (talk) 14:52, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Editing information to education
Would like to make the following edit request. To remove Queen's Gate School from this page. It appears in two sections, in the 'Early Life' section and in the summary section on the right hand side.

The early life section will read as follows and the education section will simply be removed from the summary box.

Early life Taylor-Joy was born in Miami, Florida, the youngest of six children.[3] Her mother worked in photography and interior design and is British-Spanish.[4][5] Her father, a former international banker, is Scottish-Argentinian.[4][5][6][7][8] Taylor-Joy moved to Argentina as an infant and only spoke Spanish before moving to London at age 6. She attended the preparatory school Hill House in Kensington. She is a former ballet dancer.[3][10] At the age of 16, she was scouted as a model while walking outside Harrods Department Store by Sarah Doukas of Storm Model Management. It was through her work as a model that she met and signed with an acting agent.[11][12]

Thank you PersonalPRAssistant (talk) 11:20, 31 July 2018 (UTC)


 * The current wording is absolutely fine and shall remain. Thank you. – Davey 2010 Talk 11:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Argentine or Argentinian?
I believe but may be wrong that "Argentine" is preferred by middle class British English especially, Americans and Aussies tend to use "Argentinian". I do know from my grandfather's British shipping logs from the 1920s that he would refer to Argentina as "the Argentine". Does Wikipedia have a standard? And what do Argentines/Argentinians prefer, is there any data in such regards or do their views not count? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C8:3D03:D300:7002:EBFA:9D5B:6784 (talk) 00:55, 7 March 2021 (UTC)


 * I think the term "Argentine" is more popular and suitable nowadays. Oupals (Oupals 14:43, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * "Argentine" refers to people. "Argentinian" refers to objects and non-people. So, the former. UncomfortablySmug (talk) 05:16, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Anya Taylor-Joy filmography into Anya Taylor-Joy
This filmography isn't anywhere near lengthy enough to be split from the main article due to WP:SIZE concerns, which is the reason filmographies are split from their parent article. ~Cheers, Ten  Ton  Parasol  18:58, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Agree: The filmography is way too short to be on a separate page. QueerFilmNerd  talk 21:27, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Opossed: There are filmographies like Guillermo del Toro filmography that are also not extensive and have few references but nevertheless had no problem keeping separate. Also if you look at the number of visits to Anya Taylor-Joy's filmography, you will see that it has more than 90,000. Bruno Rene Vargas (talk) 04:12, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm fairly certain that about half of those 60,000 visits are mine. LOL.


 * In all seriousness, Del Toro is a filmmaker, so giving him his own article makes sense. He's essentially the author of all his works. The same can't be said for actors. UncomfortablySmug (talk) 05:20, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * There are also filmographies such as Idris Elba filmography that, despite having an extensive filmography, only have one reference. I was the one who put a lot of effort into creating and referencing this article and it seems unfair to me that all that work is simply lost in the history once merged. Sooner rather than later it will be necessary to separate the filmography from the main article since lately the actress appears between two and three films or series a year. Bruno Rene Vargas (talk) 05:44, 12 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Oppose: Not to be a WP:CRYSTALBALL, but I agree with Bruno Rene Vargas: if a merge does go through, it's quite possible (I'd even say likely) that her filmography will need to be split a second time as her career evolves and she gets more roles. While I don't necessarily think that a separate filmography article was needed at this point in time, fact is that it does exist and I feel like it's needlessly complicated to merge these articles if they're going to become two articles again later. Bizarre BizarreTalk modern to me 01:16, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Transclude - keep the discography separate but transclude it onto this page until it becomes too large. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:36, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Discography or filmography? Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:46, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Ha! Well if she does release an album, I'll probably at least listen to it. I meant filmography of course. Ivanvector's squirrel (trees/nuts) 21:16, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Support - Filmography's way to small to justify a seperate article however once her filmog becomes bigger than it can be moved again, I appreciate that's a lot of arsing around but seems silly having a whole seperate article for the sake of a small fimog list... – Davey 2010 Talk 21:31, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅ I already merged the filmography in the main article for now. Bruno Rene Vargas (talk) 22:12, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Spanish name hatnote
A while ago added a family name hatnote to the article saying that Taylor-Joy is a Spanish compound surname. I don't think that's true: Spanish surnames are not hypenated, and neither of Taylor-Joy's parents have Spanish double surnames themselves. It seems to me that Taylor-Joy is an English double-barrelled name. However, I don't see that it's discussed in any of the sources in the article. Should the note be removed? Ivanvector's squirrel (trees/nuts) 14:26, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Of course it should be, and I just did that. Thanks for pointing out. Mithoron (talk) 20:48, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I did not know how to say that her parents decided to join their last names, so that she had two. Her mother is actually Jennifer Marina Josephine Joy-Morancho, her grandparents also joined her surname so that she had two.--Belagaile (talk) 10:32, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

"Taylor-Joy and her family moved from Miami to Buenos Aires when she was an infant"
The text in the Early life section seems to contradict itself. Why would "Taylor-Joy and her family [move] from Miami to Buenos Aires when she was an infant" when "her parents had simply been on vacation in [Miami] at the time [of her birth]"? You don't "move from" a place you were vacationing in, do you?—indopug (talk) 09:59, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The sources do not support the term "moved" so I have changed this. CapitalSasha ~ talk 13:16, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Concerning the Skulduggery Pleasant book cover art
I would like to suggest the removal of the sentence "Taylor-Joy's likeness was used for the character Valkyrie Cain on the tenth anniversary cover of Skulduggery Pleasant, and subsequently on the seventh, eighth, ninth, and fourteenth books in the series of the same name". There is no source linked and this information seemingly stems from a couple posts on Tumblr accusing the cover artist Tom Percival of tracing his art (e.g. https://facelessxchurch.tumblr.com/post/190938307962/tell-me-this-isnt-literally-just-a-photo-of-a). Additionally, the author of the series, Derek Landy, has virtually dismissed these ideas (at least for book 14) on Twitter. It seems at best a suspected instance of sloppy art work unconfirmed by official sources and at worst slander of the artist. In neither case should the mentioned sentence be a statement on Taylor-Joy's page. ZetaBean (talk) 14:05, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I removed the unsourced claim, thanks for pointing it out. It is always fine to start discussions like this on talk pages but in the future you are also welcome to make changes directly to the articles yourself! CapitalSasha ~ talk 20:10, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

NACIONALITY
She has argentine nationality and u guys didn't put it on her profile Valentina Cyan GC (talk) 17:20, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

alot of this reads like a promo-ad
It's not encyclopedic. Some involved editor should go thru this and cast out the fannish comments and make it more 'dry.' It isn't Wiki's place to be pushing how great she is, so to speak. A more neutral article is called for. 50.111.28.86 (talk) 22:21, 16 May 2022 (UTC)