Talk:Moira Shearer

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There have been no reports that mention a cause of death that I have seen in any obits. I don't think it can be justified to describe her death as "natural causes" - unless anyone knows different. SteveCrook 19:01, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I remember reading a few years ago (I think it may have been an interview with Ludovic Kennedy) that she was suffering from a rare degenerative brain condition. I haven't seen it mentioned in any of the obits I've seen, but I assume that was her cause of death. Crisso 17:42, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I heard that as well which was why I was surprised to see one contributer here record her death as "natural causes". SteveCrook 19:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 13:40, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

British or Sottish?[edit]

Was Moira British or Scottish? There are no Scottish passports (yet) so her passport said she was British. I thought that Scottish was always a part of British (that won't be popular with Scottish Nationalists, but it's true at the moment)

What do other people here think? SteveCrook (talk) 13:52, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

She's Scottish. What's the argument? She was born in Fife. Feel free to update all the various English and Welsh artists listed on Wikipedia to British. You'll check they all have passports, right? (User talk:213.127.89.59) earlier today (10th July 2021)

Yes, but all of those people who happened to be born in Scotland or Wales (or England or Northern Ireland) are British by nationality - at least until those places get independence from Great Britain -- SteveCrook (talk) 21:41, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever floats your boat Steve. There a page of English ballerinas - could you update all of those to |nationality = British please, for the sake of good order? That would be so awesome. Everyone wants an accurate wikipedia indeed, reflecting what is written on their passports. Though I assume you know that, but don't really feel like doing it.

I don't see any harm in listing her as Scottish - I don't think there's a Wikipedia rule that only things listed on your passport are real, and I think it's pretty well-established that people from Scotland are Scottish. If you're filling in the 'Nationality' section of an infobox, that should indeed be British as it is specifically asking for a nationality; but 'Scottish' seems fine in every other context. TSP (talk) 11:43, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]