Editing A-list (section)

==Popular usage==
In popular usage outside the film industry, an A-list [[celebrity]] is any person with an admired or desirable social status.<ref>[http://www.ask.com/reference/dictionary/ahdict/176077/a+list American Heritage Dictionary]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013214727/http://www.ask.com/reference/dictionary/ahdict/176077/a%2Blist |date=October 13, 2007 }}</ref> Even [[socialite]]s with popular press coverage and elite associations have been termed as A-list celebrities. Similarly, less popular persons and current teen idols are referred to as B-list celebrities – and the ones with lesser fame as C-list ones.<ref>[http://uk.encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1481579897/B_list.html Encarta]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316012858/http://uk.encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1481579897/B_list.html |date=2010-03-16 }}, [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/B-list Webster's New Millennium Dictionary]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100316012858/http://uk.encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1481579897/B_list.html Archived] October 31, 2009.</ref> In 2000, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' interpreted a C-list celebrity as "that guy (or sometimes that girl), the easy-to-remember but hard-to-name [[character actor]]".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Erin |last=Podolsky |title=C-list celebrities – Three sites with information on 'that one guy' you see in movies from time to time |url=https://ew.com/article/2000/11/10/c-list-celebrities/ |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=November 10, 2000 |access-date=April 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425112407/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C278510%2C00.html |archive-date=April 25, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The D-list is for someone whose celebrity is so obscure that they are generally only known for appearances as celebrities on [[Panel show|panel game show]]s and [[reality television]]. In the late 20th century, D-listers were largely ignored by the news industry; for example, [[Paul Lynde]], by this point in his career best known for being on the daytime game show ''[[Hollywood Squares]]'', went largely unnoticed by the [[Tabloid journalism#Supermarket tabloids|supermarket tabloid]]s, and his homosexuality (which would have drawn attention for bigger celebrities) went largely unreported.<ref name="biography.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/news/tv-stars-of-the-1970s|title=TV Stars Who Ruled the 70s|access-date=14 June 2017|archive-date=May 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501190925/http://www.biography.com/news/tv-stars-of-the-1970s|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Kathy Griffin]], an American comedian who became widely known for her frequent appearances on such programs, used the term in a tongue-in-cheek manner for her 2005 TV special ''[[The D-List]]'' and her 2005 TV series ''[[Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List]]''. The term "D-list" is derived from the lowest rating used for the Ulmer scale. Other successive letters of the alphabet beyond D, as in the terms ''E-list'' and ''Z-list'', are sometimes used for exaggeration or comic effect but effectively have the same meaning as ''D-list''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Blalock|first1=Meghan|title=The 50 Most Infamous D-List Celebrities of All Time|url=http://stylecaster.com/d-list-celebrities/|website=stylecaster.com|publisher=stylecaster.com|access-date=2 September 2016|archive-date=August 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831031913/http://stylecaster.com/d-list-celebrities/|url-status=live}}</ref>