Jump to content

Talk:B. B. King/Archive 2

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archive 1Archive 2

Lead sentence

Might I suggest we keep the lead sentence as it was - B.B. King (born Riley B. King; September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015) - as the style in Wikipedia is to use the most frequently used name at the start, and not necessarily the birth name. @Connormah: -- Fuzheado | Talk 06:42, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

@Fuzheado: - WP:MOSBIO is pretty clear about these things that the full name, not the common name should be in the lede. See other articles like Bono/Cher/Madonna for example. Connormah (talk) 17:10, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

strokes?

The article says "His cause of death is a series of small strokes." and gives two references. However, neither of the references mention strokes. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:23, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

This has been fixed. Those refs have been replaced with a ref providing a cite which does support this. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:44, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
thanks. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:02, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

B.B. King died in 1958!

and he was replaced. Look at his pictures before and after 1958. Böri (talk) 06:25, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

That's nice. Do you have a reliable source for that other than "look at the pictures"?--Egghead06 (talk) 06:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
You can't find any "reliable source", if you think like that... But just look at his photos with Elvis Presley (in 1956) and look at his pictures after 1958, they are NOT the same person! Böri (talk) 07:23, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
Do you have any reliable sources? If not, it is merely an opinion. Thanks.--Egghead06 (talk) 07:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
The Talk Pages are for the improvement of the articles, not a forum for hairspray-snorting deliriums. HammerFilmFan (talk) 14:44, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Punctuation in heading.

This may just be a nitpicky punctuation-type thing, but if correctness is important in Wikipedia, maybe it needs to be considered, all the same.

Sometimes, when I think I can guess with a high probability what a topic's Wikipedia article is likely to be, I guess the U.R.L. and enter it directly, and, accordingly, I entered "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" to look up this article. And I was a bit surprised to be redirected to a variant of this where the name was written as "B.B._King".

Isn't this, strictly speaking, incorrect? Shouldn't there be a space (or underscore) between the two initials? It looks uneven, and in fact incorrect, to see it spaced unevenly, as given. To make it even, you could close up the other space too, thus: "B.B.King" - but that looks just as bad. So all that's left is to give it as "B._B._King", which is what I initially assumed it would be.

So should it be changed to that? (I'm not sure I know how to do that, and also not sure if I would be out of line to do that without consulting others.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by M.J.E. (talk • contribs)

The article is titled this way per this discussion from a while back. There normally would be a space between initials, but in this case, B.B. was just part of his stage name, not the initials of his real name. And he always spelled it with no space between the letters. Therefore, we do the same thing. --A guy saved by Jesus (talk) 13:19, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

middle name?

Editors are changing his name from "Riley B. King" to "Riley Ben King". IIRC, in his autobiography he said that the B doesn't stand for anything, but I can't find my (signed) copy of the book right now. Can someone please verify this, one way or the other? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:40, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, I found my copy of his book, and on page 6 he says that the B in Riley B King doesn't stand for anything. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:25, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

15 children

The article says "It is reported that he fathered 15 children with several different women and, as of 2004, had 50 grandchildren.[1] So that must be an agreed reliable source, to be even included in this article? Why then does the infobox say he had only 3 children, with no source given? 20.133.0.13 (talk) 11:08, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Well, the source doesn't say anything about "50 grandchildren" (so I removed that), and the "15 children" really should have a second source (but since he's no longer a BLP...). Some IP added to the infobox with no explanation - so that has been reverted. --Musdan77 (talk) 02:25, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 3 external links on B.B. King. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know. This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers. —cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 01:18, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Career

King started working with Bukka White when he was just 18. It was a short run. Please discuss before reverting. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 18:56, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

GenQuest, WP:BRD is being followed here: you were bold, I reverted, now we are discussing (except you reverted my revert instead of discussing first). Anyway, these are the problems with your edit:
  • Years active: According to Troupe's linked bio, in 1946, King was still being taught by White and "though they never played in public they jammed together in private" and in 1947, he returned to farming. In 1948, he was playing on street corners and after returning to Memphis in late 1948, he entered "the music business". This source is used in the article. Another source first mentions "In 1948 King found employment with a blues group in West Memphis".[1] He also began working for WDIA in 1948.(ibid) A new source is needed for beginning his career in 1946.
  • Genres: Following template:Infobox musical artist#Parameters, the first letter in the first genre is capitalized: "Note: most genres are not proper nouns and should not be capitalized. However, the first word in a list of multiple genres should be capitalized".
  • Occupation(s): Again, following the Infobox description: "Please observe sentence case and capitalise only the first letter of the first item (e.g. Musician, actor, singer-songwriter)".
  • Instruments: Capitalization should follow Genres and Occupation(s), i.e., capitalize first term. Also, no explanation was given for removing the hidden note "If you think an instrument should be listed, a discussion to reach consensus is needed first". It was put there for a reason.
  • Religion: This is not a supported parameter and therefore, it is not displayed. There is no point or benefit in including unusable, superfluous text in an infobox.
  • Lead: No explanation for removing the non-breaking space. Its use is consistent with MOS:DATERANGE "between dates in different years" (although there should be two more).
—Ojorojo (talk) 14:56, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
@Ojorojo: Didn't realize they had finally formalized all that capitalization, etc. Your edit is good to go, so I have self-reverted. The religion thing is not me though, it's been there for a while. I'll kill it. Thanks. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 21:18, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on B.B. King. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:07, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on B.B. King. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 05:13, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 6 external links on B.B. King. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:04, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on B.B. King. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 17:05, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on B.B. King. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

checkY An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 09:20, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Middle initial, again

As per his autobiography, shouldn't the article make it clear (perhaps in a footnote) that the B. in Riley B. doesn't actually stand for anything? (page 6, I think). Martinevans123 (talk) 22:42, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Equipment section

" ... a ES-355 with stereo options, a varitone selector and fine tuners (neither of which were actually utilized by B.B.) " - surely he used the tuners - does the sentence mean that he didn't use the varitone and stereo? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:51, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

WHY HE IS famous

B.B King is famous because he cut is first record in 1949. His occupation is a guitarist, singer and songwriter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.187.74.194 (talk) 21:39, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Um ... yes ... thanks for this cutting insight! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.28.165 (talk) 20:49, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Shouldn’t he be classified as Soul Blues?

Since it is ultimately a combination of Electric Blues, Soul and R&B? Dirke31 (talk) 19:40, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

You have a source calling it that? GenQuest "Talk to Me" 22:53, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

2021 Biography

Someone recently placed an edit tag at the top of this article calling for citations from the 2021 biography on B.B., King of the Blues by Daniel de Vise. I read that book and found that it has no blockbuster surprises but it is very well sourced and documented. Therefore it could be used as a replacement citation (with page number) for any footnote currently in the article that might be considered unreliable. However, I don't think it is necessary to add citations from the book as if that would make this article better, because most statements are solidly supported already. (In other words, it would be unfruitful busywork.) So I am removing the edit tag, though I strongly recommend that book for B.B. fans and historians. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 15:47, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

I added a Further reading section, with an entry for this biography. NOLA1982 (talk) 20:01, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

First year as active

If you look at different Wikipedia language versions of this article, his years as active is listed differently on different Wikipedia languagues. In this article it says his first year as active was 1942. In the article I find only info of him being active first in 1943. It would be nice with clear info and source why he is written as first active in 1942. This could then also be used on other B.B. King articles on different languages of Wikipedia. TJ Lusitanias (talk) 17:16, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Manual of Style

Title of this article does not conform to MOS:SPACEINITS, which prescribes periods and spaces after initials in personal names unless the subject styles themselves otherwise, so CCH Pounder. Example given is J. R. R. Tolkien. Is B.B. King an exception? My favorite reference work (Donald Clarke's Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music) thinks not, but "B.B." seems rusted on in Wikipedia. I'd boldly change it, but would then feel obliged to change all incoming links, and may not live that long. Doug butler (talk) 23:04, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Apparently so, per Talk:B.B. King/Archive 1#Requested move (2011), though this was over 12 years ago. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 09:40, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
@Doug butler: I think another RM could be in order here. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 13:08, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
@Neveselbert: Done, after several false starts Doug butler (talk) 16:30, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 8 September 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – MaterialWorks 17:17, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

B.B. King → B. B. King – It is acknowledged that most references to this musician style his name as "BB King" or "B.B. King" but not by such an overwhelming majority as to demand overriding the Manual of Style (MOS:SPACEINITS), which is quite clear on the subject, citing as an example J. R. R. Tolkien. As two examples of the requested style, see Donald Clarke Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music 1998 (Second edition), and the interpretive sign "A Guitar Named Lucille" (Commons file /Twist AR BB king Marker 1.jpg) Doug butler (talk) 16:10, 8 September 2023 (UTC) Doug butler (talk) 16:09, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
  1. ^ Troupe, Quincy (June 4, 1958). "BB King: American Blues Musician, b. 1925". Jazzandbluesmasters.com. Retrieved February 17, 2010. ...was born on a cotton plantation, in Itta Bene [sic], Mississippi, just outside the delta town of Indianola.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:B._B._King/Archive_2&oldid=1245848634"