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The quality of this page is really low. For example, every sentence starts with "Tracy Torme."é

I edited it so that "Tracy Torme" is replaced with "he" in a number of occurances. Q0 12:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite "Political Views" segment

As per the current discussion on this page, I have switched more "Tracy Tormé"'s to both "he" and "Tormé" but this part of the article in particular bothers me.

The section merely parrots what is in the interview with no real reason for being here (i.e. it doesn't appear to be linked to anything important)
It is too list-like
The general tone of the section is weak and "floppy" (lacking a better word).

Some of these points have already been discussed and attempted to be amended by users already but it could do with a total rewrite. 195.93.21.37 15:46, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The political views section is important because a person's political views is relavent to a biographical article about that person. In addition, some connections to the show Sliders (which Tracy Torme created) have been made to his politics. I have reorganized that section to make it less floppy. I think it is better now except for the paragraph that begins with "Torme is an ex-Democrat..." Q0 08:22, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DELETE "Political Views" segment

I don't have the energy or care enough for an edit war, but I think eliminating this section is totally the right thing to do.

Honestly, the man barely passes the test of relevance himself. His personal politics-- which don't show up a lot in most of the work he's done-- are pretty much irrelevant.

Just because you have a source doesn't mean the source material warrants inclusion. --108.28.83.224 (talk) 10:23, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If this information was really relevant, it would have been cleaned up in the two years since the cleanup notice went up.--160.111.254.15 (talk) 14:44, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fictional references

I've changed the "Fictional references" heading to read "Other work". That section is about Tormé being a writer for Star Trek, which is in no way a fictional reference. A fictional reference would be if he were mentioned on an episode of a TV show or something. Haddock420 (talk) 16:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clean-up of January 2016

In response to concerns raised at this article's nomination for deletion, I've done a massive clean-up. This entailed removing the entire section on the subject's political views, as well as the unsourced material regarding Star Trek. I've also removed the material on Sliders, because (i) it was sourced only to a speech made by the subject and (ii) little of it was of encyclopedic value to begin with. The transcript of the speech remains as an external link. NewYorkActuary (talk) 19:57, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for later expansion

Tracy is discussed a fair bit in Mel Torme's book It Wasn't All Velvet, which is available on OpenLibrary. Miyagawa (talk) 10:26, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Re. Sliders

Hi, does anyone know what happened? Seems that for as yet unknown reasons Season 5 was cut prematurely. Yet from the sound of it the networks actually did suggest funding at least 3 episodes after, for whatever reason they never did. Maybe in a parallel Universe... ? also does anyone have contact details for Tormé