Talk:Walter Slezak

Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.

User:Mdd, please explain what you mean by: This lemma ... doesn't offer a real quote. There is no indication that this person is actually quotable. The quotation in LOOK 1957 is not an ideal source. But as long as no older quotation is presented, it is certainly sufficient proof for Slezak's autorship. --Vsop.de (talk) 13:28, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

It was unclear whether it was a quote by Slezak, or about Slezak? And what it is referring to. Now the current article offers some context, and shows that the text is a [bad] cut from the beginning of a 1957 article in Look I still think the text is beyond comprehension. What I would understand is, something like:

• Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.
  • LOOK magazine, Vol. 21 (1957)
  • Comment on Walter Slezak's version of "keeping up with the Joneses"

The current quote as a whole, reads like a bad telegram. -- Mdd (talk) 13:43, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Actor Walter Slezak's version of "keeping up with the Joneses": "Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like." beyond comprehension and at best to be understood as a comment by LOOK on Walter Slezak's version of "keeping up with the Joneses"? Quite obviously it's not a quote about Slezak but LOOK quoting Slezak with his "Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like" and commenting that this was Slezak's version of "keeping up with the Joneses". And it's not a [bad] cut from the beginning of a 1957 article in LOOK but from LOOK's permanent category of quotes "WHAT THEY ARE SAYING". --Vsop.de (talk) 11:27, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Technically, in the current form, which is the fullest version yet found quoting Slezak directly, this IS a quote about Slezak's statement — it INCLUDES what is clearly part of a fuller statement by him, but that doesn't suffice as a coherent statement without the framing remarks, which are not depicted as clearly or precisely quoting him. Thus I retained the new info provided in the comments, but moved the quote back to the other section. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:31, 3 January 2015 (UTC)