Talk:Liz Smith (actress)

I've just removed her from the "Lesbian actors" category: AFAIK, there are no references to this Liz Smith as being a lesbian. -- The Anome 17:10, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

:Liz Smith is indeed a lesbian woman, and for some reason someone keeps removing the info about her long-term partner from the article. Someone obviously thinks it's a slur or something, which is very insulting to lesbian women! Sah10406 18:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

::This is no reference to her being one and she states she likes men, see [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2193755,00.html here]. A Bio on the Wikipedia must be correct and cite its sources.--BSTemple (talk) 17:00, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Surely the trivia about her inventing the bin liner is a joke? 158.223.1.31 12:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

It's not, I added that. She was on the Paul O'Grady show and they were talking about it breifly; I don't know how I'd cite it though. :S 84.70.45.174 16:30, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

In the article it gives Liz's dob as 11 December 1921 YET reference 1 for her biography has it as 1925? The link to the observer article dated Oct 2007 says she's 85, so would fit the 1921 date. HOWEVER there does not appear to be any Betty SMITH'S birth's registered in 1921 on the North Lincolnshire Council's online register of births, I looked to try and clear up the confusion.MBorrill (talk) 20:40, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

:I'm 99% sure 1925 could not be correct, she's older than that. Sometimes people just don't appear in the birth indexes, so she could just be on of those cases?--UpDown (talk) 11:03, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Your quite right that BMD events are often missed off from the GRO [St Catherine's] index. However the North Lincolnshire Council isn't the GRO index, it has been compiled from the Registry Offices books a database of the actual Register Office books for the BMD events for the Glanford District this covers Scunthorpe. As she was was born in the area her birth should have been recorded here and less likely to be missed off.MBorrill (talk) 15:58, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I have now solved the riddle why there are no birth register entries for a Betty Smith in 1921 because she her birth name was Betty Gleadle. An article regarding her MBE was published in the Scunthorpe Telegraph on 14th July 2009 http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/Liz-Smith-gets-MBE/article-1162904-detail/article.html which gives her real name. Cross referencing with the North Lincolnshire Register Office index locates the birth

http://www.northlincs.gov.uk/AF/an/default.aspx/RenderForm/?F.Name=YFRvq8osHRj MBorrill (talk) 05:50, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

:The [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/12771 BFI database] has checked her records which reveal she was born in Norfolk. They also say she was born in 1922. Crisso (talk) 00:44, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Looking at the BFI site it quite clearly states Glandford B., Norfolk registration district which is wrong Glanford B. [Brigg] is in Lincolnshire and the registration district for Scunthorpe area which Crosby is now a part of. The BFI have got their facts completly wrong. MBorrill —Preceding undated comment added 10:42, 3 August 2010 (UTC).

:The entry for registration of her birth at FreeBMD is [https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=hoJ%2B3m5A%2BBIlEuMrbD05uA&scan=1 this], although it is not regarded as a WP:RS. This is wholly consistent with the place and date given in the article. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:21, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

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I would like to add :Category:Royal Navy personnel of World War II to the category section of this page to reflect the subject's service in the Women's Royal Naval service during that conflict. 86.23.18.214 (talk) 17:50, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

:Would :Category:Women's Royal Naval Service ratings be appropriate? What about her time in the Royal Navy? Martinevans123 (talk) 17:58, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

:File:Pictogram voting comment.svg Note: Marking this as answered until the user responds. st170e^talk 00:32, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

:Thank you very much for your suggestion; I have now edited her Wikipedia page. I would therefore like to remove :Category:Royal Navy personnel of World War II from the category section of this page.