User talk:Sparky47933

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February 2013[edit]

Hello, I'm C.Fred. Your recent edit to the page The Andy Griffith Show appears to have added incorrect information, so I have removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.

Aunt Bee looks to be the established spelling. If you disagree, please explain at Talk:The Andy Griffith Show and provide a source that backs up the change. —C.Fred (talk) 22:23, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since you found it neede to undo my edit you and most others don't know that the Bea in Aunt is short for Beatrice Unfortunately illiteracy is becoming an all too common problem in this country today As you said that Bee is the accepted spelling does not make it correct I'm so glad to see that you were eager to jump on something and "correct" it incorrectlySparky47933 (talk) 22:47, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted is, by definition, correct. More to the point, Wikipedia isn't always about what's correct but about what's verifiable. If a preponderance of sources and web sites (including but not limited to IMDB) use the Bee spelling, we will, also. —C.Fred (talk) 22:53, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You'll have to take the correctness of Bea versus Bee issue up with the writers of Andy Griffith. The character is always called Bee in sources. In this case, if it's modern-day "illiteracy" (and I'm certain that the writers knew what the diminutive of Beatrice was), it's really more than fifty years old. Furthermore, I'm not certain that Aunt Bee was ever called Beatrice, so it's an assumption on your part that Bea was appropriate. Wikipedia doesn't work with hunches: we need sources. Acroterion (talk) 19:45, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]