Talk:Olivia Wilde

Claims about nobility are dubious

AFAIK, her marriage to Tao Ruspoli was not a sacramental marriage. Ruspoli, ostensibly as a baptized Catholic, cannot enter into a valid marriage outside of the Church according to canon law. While legally recognized by the state, the marriage would be invalid as far as the Church is concerned. This raises doubts about the marriage ever taking place, and therefore raises doubts about her ever being a member of the papal nobility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7000:743B:A9E5:81C8:9C6D:B540:5B1B (talk) 03:02, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

i agree Cheerwine53 (talk) 08:24, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Edit request, 9 March 2025

Addressed to regular editors @User:FMSky, @User:Drmies, @User:Jmg38, etc.

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Article tagged, {{BLP refimprove | date = March 2025}}, and section Awards and nominations tagged {{unreferenced section | date = March 2025}}

Justification: For much of the article—the Awards and nominations section a clear exception—editing has been compliant with W:VERIFY. But in addition to that full section, more recent editing has begun to move the article toward clear WP:VERIFY problems. In addition to all entries in that section, entire paragraphs of

• the Early life section, and
• the Career section, 2003–2012: Early work and House subsection

are without any sources, and there are stray further sentences thoughout that are unsourced.

The article must be tagged, (i) to make clear it is not compliant with WP:VERIFY, (ii) to alert editors to the immediate editing needs of the article, (iii) to forewarn editors that continue with unsourced edits, that they will be reverted, and (iv) as a warning to readers that we we have begun to ignore our own policies with regard to not adding WP:OR, so that the reliability of what they read is at issue.

Note, many of entries in the Awards and nominations section can be sourced, simply by reuse of sources appearing elsewhere in the article. Also, if assistance is wanted with WP:VERIFY issues, more is gained by lifting restrictions than by maintaining them. (In the time it took for us to compose and post this request, we could have sourced much of the Awards section, and added citations to many of the current unsourced sentences.) 98.226.86.66 (talk) 02:26, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Partially done, i've tagged the awards section. I dont know if the article needs a global tag on top --FMSky (talk) 17:15, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

it'd be real nice if someone could add back in her words on her sexuality; i.e. 'once bi, now identifies as queer':

https://www.vogue.com/article/olivia-wilde-bisexual-oc-character

This has been deleted for at least a year now, maybe longer (I'm not following pages regularly). I doubt whoever deleted it did so on accident.

Talonx2001:9E8:17A6:7400:F532:2DEF:AB94:9175 (talk) 07:11, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Partners

Harry Styles relationship not serious enough to warrant being listed in the infobox, not listed on his. ~2026-13956-48 (talk) 06:15, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Lead wording regarding surname

The article currently states that Olivia Wilde is “known professionally as Olivia Wilde.” This wording appears potentially inaccurate. Reliable published sources indicate that Wilde is her legal surname, not merely a professional or stage name. Vogue reported that Wilde changed her surname to Wilde at age 18 while studying acting in Dublin: https://www.vogue.com/article/olivia-wilde-cover-january-2022 People magazine has also reported that Olivia Jane Cockburn legally changed her last name to Wilde when she began acting: https://people.com/celebrities-who-changed-their-names-before-hollywood-8656508 Given these sources, would editors consider revising the lead to identify her as “Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn)” rather than describing Wilde as a professional name? Thank you for your consideration. Andi.Reed (talk) 20:22, 12 June 2026 (UTC)