Talk:List of Miss America titleholders

Name of article
Is there any reason why the name of this article is List of Miss America titleholders, as opposed to List of Miss America winners? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 19:48, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Refer to the case of Vanessa Williams who won in 1984 but was pressured to resign. She was replaced by Suzette Charles who held the TITLE but did not actually WIN the pageant. Martindo (talk) 00:50, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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winners by state
This page List of Miss America winners by state was "merged" into this article but none of the info got incorporated. Updated thru 2018


 * Notes

1 Competed as Miss Columbus, Ohio

2 Competed as Miss Tulsa, Oklahoma

3 Competed as Miss Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 Competed as Miss Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

5 Competed as Miss Greater Camden, New Jersey

6 Competed as Miss Bertrand Island, New Jersey

7 Competed as Miss Memphis, Tennessee

8 The initial 1984 winner was forced to resign and give her title seven weeks prior to the end of her reign

There have been no Miss America winners from the following eighteen states and two U.S. territories:


 * Miss Alaska
 * Miss Delaware
 * Miss Idaho
 * Miss Iowa
 * Miss Louisiana
 * Miss Maine
 * Miss Maryland


 * Miss Massachusetts
 * Miss Montana
 * Miss Nevada
 * Miss New Hampshire
 * Miss New Mexico
 * Miss Puerto Rico
 * Miss Rhode Island


 * Miss South Dakota
 * Miss Vermont
 * Miss Virgin Islands
 * Miss Washington
 * Miss West Virginia
 * Miss Wyoming

Czechia2016 (talk) 13:37, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

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Notes column should be Notable in regard to the pageant
Death is notable on the individual page of the titleholder, not here, so I have cut all such info. Notable here means a first for the pageant, a future career or other fame, a family relationship with another winner, etc. Martindo (talk) 00:52, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Gallery of Titleholders
It's appropriate to include these photos according to WP:Gallery: "A gallery section may be appropriate in some Wikipedia articles if a collection of images can illustrate aspects of a subject that cannot be easily or adequately described by text or individual images."

However, it seems to me that each image should ideally be inserted into a new column in the list. If that requires too much shrinkage of the photos, then IMO the gallery should be at the bottom of the page. Martindo (talk) 20:37, 2 August 2023 (UTC)