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Please remove regardless of health
from the Health section (last sentence) -- that was not included in the announcement.
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Anyone have a better picture for Trebek? He looks frail and sad in that picture. It doesn’t represent the vibrant host we’ve all come to love. --AWRcore (talk) 01:22, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
- It would be good to have a photo of him with his formerly trademark mustache, that he is/was famous for -- 65.92.244.236 (talk) 23:38, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
Birth name
I removed the suppposed "birth name" of "Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek" because it is categorically untrue. I can't even imagine where TV Guide got that from. Suka in Ukrainian means "bitch". According to his autobiography, his given name is George Alexander Trebek. ... discospinster talk 20:10, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
- If you look in the talk archives, this has been going on since 2006. I don't know if it's a 4chan-style joke by a group of people, or one severely deranged individual working for 14 years to insert Ukrainian profanity on this page. That would be worth opening up a long-term abuse case and ban that user on sight. The talk page cited this TV Guide page which may be a case of WP:CIRCULAR and under less editorial control than an actual published TV Guide. I think we can safely say that Suka is an obscenity in his parent's language and would not have been his name. Unknown Temptation (talk) 20:22, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
Father
Can someone add the Ukrainian form of his father's name? "Теребейчук" surely, but how did he translate his given names? Or is the English form unrelated to his Ukrainian given name? -- 65.92.244.236 (talk) 00:04, 9 November 2020 (UTC)