Talk:Sybil Seely

Date of birth
Wikipedia has January 2, 1902 as her birth date, but IMDb.com has January 2, 1900 as her birth date. Does anyone know which year is correct?Jtyroler (talk) 09:02, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Brent E. Walker's book, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel gives January 2, 1902, as her birth date. I would consider that more credible than the date given by IMDB.Eddie Blick (talk) 01:28, 26 September 2017 (UTC)


 * The year of birth has once again been changed to 1900, this time citing this search result at jewishgen.org. I am not familiar with jewishgen.org. Is it a user-generated site like many of the ancestry search sites? Eddie Blick (talk) 01:21, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Unreliable sources
I have added a "Verify" template after the IMDB citation and the two Classic Video Streams citations. IMDB is not considered to be reliable for use in WP articles. Meanwhile, this page on the Classic Video Streams website indicates that it is part of IMDB, making it, by extension, unreliable as well. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:09, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Name confusion
There seems to be a problem with her name.

The intro says “She was credited in most of her films as Sibye Trevilla”. If that was her birth name, and also the name under which she was usually credited, why isn’t this article at “Sibye Trevilla? The article never explains where the name “Sybil Seely” comes from. Presumably it’s a screen name; it’s certainly not a married name since her husband’s name was Furthman. But if “Sybil Seely” was a screen name, and it was the name she was best known as, how can it be true that she was usually credited under a different name?

Looking at the article history only confuses the issue more, as the earliest version gives her birth name as “Sybil Travillia”. Isomorphic (talk) 12:02, 18 April 2021 (UTC)