Talk:René Auberjonois/Archive 1

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A picture of the guy sans Odo makeup would be nice. 64.107.192.2 01:51, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Where's all the data conserning his career? I know it exists on the Star Trek wiki at Memory Alpha, but some of that data should be here as well. Dragonranger 07:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps could someone post a recording of how his name is pronounced? I think the article could benefit from it. Errick 05:21, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * In the meantime, it's roughly "Oh-bear-zhawn-wah" Lambertman 14:53, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Name is spelled René
As can be seen on his website, and at other places as well, the man is called René like his grand-father. I will correct the text, but I can't rename the article (since René Auberjonois already exists as a redirect). Can some admin do this ? - déRahier  talk+contrib 23:37, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * His name is "Rene", not "René". The letter "é" is not English. It is not allowed on the English wikipedia, and it is illegal for usage of names in most states in the US, including his state, New York, as well as the US federal government. His grandfather, if you read the wiki on it, was Swiss. Not American. It should be removed.Presidentbalut (talk) 16:01, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
 * The accent mark is not illegal, nor is it "not allowed" on en.wikipedia. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 14:03, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

No smurfing way
Vanity smurf was voiced by Alan Oppenheimer not René Auberjonois. Sochwa (talk) 15:30, 18 November 2010 (UTC) It's been removed. Ryan8374 (talk) 04:55, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Anal Cunt
No mention of the fact that this delightful band wrote a song titled with his name? 90.214.35.142 (talk) 10:52, 15 June 2011 (UTC) It would be irrelevant even if the band's name wasn't grossly vulgar. Ryan8374 (talk) 04:37, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * How is it not relevant that they named a song after him? Further, who cares what you find "vulgar"? This is Wikipedia, not your Sunday religion. If it sourced, it will be added.Presidentbalut (talk) 16:16, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Added section. Cheers.Presidentbalut (talk) 16:32, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, a band wrote a song with his name. If we had an article on the song, the source of the title would be relevant to that article. However, without independent reliable sources show some impact on Auberjonois, this is trivial in this article. Consider Richard Nixon. We have countless notable songs, films, books, operas, animated disembodied preserved heads, etc. based on Nixon. We do not mention Dick (film), Nixon in China (opera), Richard Nixon (Futurama), etc. in Richard Nixon because those works had no demonstrable impact on Nixon or anyone's impression of him. (All of the articles about the media items do, of course, mention Nixon.) Please note that the "sources" used to include this before are not reliable sources and do not demonstrate that the song impacted Auberjonois in any way. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 03:34, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Reformat needed
His credits need to be placed into a table format Ryan8374 (talk) 04:53, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Name spelling illegal.
His name is spelled "René" in this article. The "é" is not an English letter and is not allowed on the English version of Wikipedia. Being from New York, this foreign letter is also illegal under NYS law. It should be removed from the article.Presidentbalut (talk) 16:02, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
 * You keep using the word "illegal". It does not mean what you think it means. Please see Søren Kierkegaard, Méhée de La Touche, Cândido Rodrigues, Résumé and several thousand other illegal articles.
 * If your argument is that this is not the common name here, you might or might not have a point. There is, however, nothing "illegal" here under New York law (which is irrelevant) nor does using those dreadful "foreign" (horrors!) accents violate Wikipedia's policies. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 03:46, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes it is illegal. Look it up. Under New York law and federal law. Or do you have a source that they repealed these laws within the past few days? I should know, as my name has an umlaut. Illegal under state and federal law. Only English is allowed in the USA. (Persona attack redacted.) And yes, foreign letters and words are not allowed on English wikipedia.Presidentbalut (talk) 02:34, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
 * As the examples above make quite clear, non-English characters (or, in this case, accent marks) are allowed on Wikipedia. If you feel there are laws establishing English as the official language of the United States, I am fairly certain you are incorrect and would be interested in you identifying this/these law(s). If you feel there are laws establishing what is "legal" in American English (presumably...), again I would be interested in knowing what laws you are talking about. In any case, I have seen no indication that our use of foreign characters (or accent marks) have created any kind of legal problems for Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. I quick logic check for you, which is more likely A) you are mistaken B) the Wikimedia Foundation and McDonalds are openly violating New York and federal law since 2001 with this?
 * All of this is very lovely but does not address the question of how we should present Auberjonois' name. I would suggest a good place to start would be English. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 03:14, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Heh, if New York law says é is illegal and the name René cannot be spelled like that, the New Yorker,, and the New York Times, , are in trouble. Pfly (talk) 03:49, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Career section clean up
I think the section regarding the career should be cleaned up. If no one will volunteer, I will help clean it up. Winterysteppe (talk) 19:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

List of TV / film credits?
Is there no list of credits or on another page? Govvy (talk) 15:15, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Bonaparte
thats 1 cool ancestry to have there,related to royalty, i think this article can benefit for more on his family and personal hobbies etc.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaelic Rules (talk • contribs) 18:22, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Any source material for that claim? Speaking of the genealogy, it is all messed up on the page and should be removed.Presidentbalut (talk) 16:25, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

he's the great, great, great, greatnephew of napoleon. you can check caroline bonaparte's wikipedia page for confirmation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.49.6.225 (talk) 12:01, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

starred in frasier?
In the tv credits it doesn't mention that he starred in an episode of frasier called "the wizard and roz", is this accurate, as it does confirm it on imdb. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scraliontis (talk • contribs) 08:44, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Other Books
I think there may be an ambiguous column label: the "Year" column in the chart in the section "Other Books" (which I changed from "Other Novels"). (N.b., I also changed the column title from "Contributors" to "Author/Contributors" since most of the people listed are the authors.)

Reason for possible ambiguity: is this date the publication date or the release date of the audiobooks. They often coincide (like most of the Pendergast books). -- Jayxmn (talk) 18:41, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Personal life section
Shouldn't that be above the all the credits? Last time it seemed lost... It still feels out of place. Govvy (talk) 13:08, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Shifted it round a bit, is that better? Govvy (talk) 13:14, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Please stop burying the only role that appears in all of his obituaries
Auberjonois was a versatile actor with a long and varied career, but among all the roles he played, one clearly stands out as his most prominent. Shortly after his death, I looked up his name and saw a page of obituaries. No less than five of his roles merit a mention in the headlines of these nine obituaries. However, one role appears in every single one, and many mention no other. Find me evidence that he is equally well remembered for some other role - such as a few articles postdating DS9 in a non-specialist publication that mentions more than one of his roles but not this role. Absent such evidence: please stop taking out his role as Odo in Deep Space Nine from the first sentence of this article. ciphergoth (talk) 02:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I'd have to agree, mention of Odo should be in the first sentence. As of this post, that's how it is. Jusdafax (talk) 03:34, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * This is a problem across Wikipedia. Even in far more clear-cut cases, such as bands that are really known for a single hit, the pages are edited by trueblood fans of the band, and it can be hard to keep mention of their most famous song in the lede of the article. ciphergoth (talk) 22:57, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * You can test this theory on List of one-hit wonders in the United States... ciphergoth (talk) 23:56, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Swiss-Born?
I'm not an experienced editor so I'm reluctant to make this change myself, but he's listed as "Swiss-born" in the first sentence but then later the article states he was born in New York! This seems to be the correct location, so unless there's a technicality about Swiss citizenship via his father or something that I'm not aware of, shouldn't this be changed?

more voice credits?
He seems to have been everywhere in English dubbed animes that aren't mentioned, plus wasn't he voicing in Last Airbender in at least two roles? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C54:7680:20B2:195A:AC60:A94:94B2 (talk) 04:25, 31 July 2020 (UTC)