Talk:Joanna Merlin

Actress vs. actor
Having recently chatted with Joanna, she noted that she prefers the gender-neutral "actor" to the gendered "actress" as a career descriptor. I recommend that we change the descriptor in both the opening sentence and the infobox. Being that I have a personal connection, I will not do this myself, but if there's anyone watching this page, I encourage them to consider the validity of this request and act as they see appropriate. --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:16, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Two edits requested
I have some WP:COI on this topic (I know Joanna, and more in conflict, I was a friend of her sister Harriet and commercially wrote about her on more than one occasion.) I am suggesting two edits:
 * 1) As I explained above, Joanna voiced to me the preference for the gender-neutral "actor" over the gendered "actress"; this would apply both to the lede and the infobox (but not, of course, to the name of the award.)
 * 2) The sentence "Her family also included her older sister Harriet Glickman (1926-2020) who would go on to gain recognition when she helped persuade Charles Schulz to add a black character to his Peanuts strip" is off in a subtle way. Harriet received little attention at the time; the attention came in 2010 (when I wrote about her in the magazine Hogan's Alley and the book The Peanuts Collection) and then came a larger round of attention connected to the promotion of 2015's The Peanuts Movie. Obviously, my COI here is large, and I cannot point to a URL from 1968 showing her not getting recognition, nor am I asking for specific recognition of this in the article, but all I'm suggesting a slight wording change for accuracy that requires none of that: replace "when she helped" with "for having helped", so the time of the recognition is not tied to the time of the persuasion. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:29, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

requested edits made. Gender neutral usage of actor is fine and clarification of language regarding Harriet seems appropriate. Tchouppy (talk) 14:39, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Restoring "actor"
As long as attention is being paid to this page (may she rest in peace), could someone restore the gender-neutral term "actor" to the first sentence, as Joanna preferred? It was sent back to "actor" by a single-edit IP, without any discussion or reflection of what was on this page. Thank you. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 01:01, 17 October 2023 (UTC)