Talk:Charles M. Schulz

Sentence

I'm confused by this sentence: "She asked her to marry him, but he refused." Is it supposed to say that he asked her to marry him, but she refused, or that she asked him to marry her, but he refused? -- Arteitle 00:42, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Good point :-) ... made a mistake ... should be "He asked her to marry him but she refused" ... will be fixed by the time you read this. Xamian 00:12, 8 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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Error in "Kidnapping attempt"

In its current form, the text refers to Jill Schulz as "the Schulzes' daughter", and before that it was "the couple's daughter". Neither of these is accurate. Jill is the daughter for Charles Schulz with his first wife Joyce (even checking the timeline of events here will make that clear, had she been born when he met Jean, she'd not have been old enough to drive to the house. Jill was actually born in 1958.) This should be corrected to "Charles Schulz's daughter". --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:28, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

 Done, although I didn't feel it necessary to specify "Charles" as elsewhere in the paragraph he is referred to simply as "Schulz". ~Anachronist (talk) 22:05, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

This is a MOS:SAMESURNAME situation -- for this paragraph at least, it would be better to refer to CMS as "Charles" than as "Schulz", since here are two other people named Schulz in the paragraph. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:46, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

I agree. Done. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:25, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

final strip relative to death

In a recent edit, YoYaMamma changed our text indicating the Schulz died the day before the final strip was published to the day that the final strip was published, accurately citing the just-released AppleTV+ documentary in his comments. So which is right? They both are.

Feb 12, 2000 was a Saturday. The final strip was the February 13 strip, which was a Sunday (as were all of the last few strips, as Sundays were created with a longer lead time than daily strips, so there were a few more weeks of Sundays completed when Schulz's health failed.) However, Sunday papers used to be (and perhaps some places still are, I don't know) delivered to subscribers in two chunks, with all of the feature-type material (funnies, magazine, fashion, lots of ad circulars) in a chunk delivered on Saturday while the more newsy portions arrived on Sunday. So the final strip is the February 13 strip which was published in some places on February 12. --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:57, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Category:American anti-communists

An IP editor just added some text on Schulz's contribution to Is This Tomorrow (and hey, referenced it to a book I co-wrote) and then added "Category:American anti-communists" to the page. I cannot speak directly to Schulz's attitude toward communism, but his contribution to that comic should not be taken as sufficient sign of it. This was just an art job he was helping out with and should not be taken as a sign of his belief; for the same publisher, he was working on Catholic comics, but he was never a Catholic. I suggest that someone without conflicts of interest review that category addition. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 16:42, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Scouting awards

I was a bit astonished that The Silver Beaver was described as a "highest" National-level adult award, as my Dad was awarded a Silver Beaver: It is a Council-level award, the "lowest" possible. Next highest, at Regional or National level, is the Silver Antelope; then the Silver Buffalo, the highest I knew of for a long time. Now there is also a Silver World award, I suspect for involvement with World Scouting -- and World Scouting has its own adult recognition award in The Bronze Wolf; and I bet you have to do some spectacular service for the World Scouting Association. 2601:280:5C84:1EB0:B929:DF11:C526:D4A8 (talk) 18:34, 1 October 2024 (UTC)