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It'd be great is Sale of the Century came to GSN same for it's sister show Scrabble.

--Nextbarker 04:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)nextbarker[reply]

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OR and commentary

Much of the discussion under the 1983-1989 section of "Staff & broadcast history" is OR and opinionated commentary. How can it be verified that Sally Julian left because of "dissatisfaction with her performance"? There's a great deal of material about the ratings: how the show did in comparison to Child's Play, Press Your Luck, the "dying" $25,000 Pyramid, the "flop" Blackout and the 1988 version of Family Feud on CBS, and the fact that the show lost clearances to syndicated programs on many NBC affiliates. Those two entire paragraphs are completely unsourced. And, as frequently happens in the "Episode Status" section, we get subjective information such as the original version is "believed" to have been wiped (source?) and it's "uncertain" whether the 1973-1974 version has been. This information is out there. The fact that the author of a Wikipedia article doesn't know something does not mean "it is unknown." That's a subjective statement of the limits of the author's information. Somebody knows it, just not the person who's contributing to the article. If the information is not publicly available, it shouldn't be mentioned at all. JTRH (talk) 20:16, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I just noticed that the "episode status" section has been citation-tagged for almost two years. Can anyone do anything to improve it? JTRH (talk) 20:18, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

June 2013 update

This article needed serious editing. The broadcast history section was entirely unreferenced and contained large amounts of WP:OPINION. Several details were repeated throughout (taping locations/studio origination, airdates, etc.). Before undoing my most-recent edit or re-adding material, please consider WP:MOS, WP:V, WP:N, WP:TV and other appropriate guidelines. 68.55.123.86 (talk) 01:21, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Per the issues addressed, I have demoted the article to Start-Class, for now. It has the potential, however, to return to B-Class status with some work. --Bentvfan54321 (talk) 01:56, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sale of the century models

Who is the beautiful blonde model that was on the show from 84 -89..Her first name is Karen as referenced by Jim Perry.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.34.39.174 (talk) 15:29, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Doubtful I'll be able to add it to the article, given its source, but per this page (http://hellyeahsotc.tumblr.com/post/110859111348/finally-was-able-to-id-one-of-the-syndicated-ale) her name was Karin Elise Ross. Blozier2006 (talk) 04:50, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Scheduling

Scheduling vs. other channels is significant, however it really needs to be backed by third party commentary or other RS, rather than just bald statements of what was scheduled. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:43, 11 August 2015 (UTC).[reply]

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