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A fact from La Paloma appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 May 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the motif of "La Paloma," written by Sebastián Iradier in Cuba around 1863, can be traced back to an episode during the Greco-Persian Wars in 492 BCE?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/May.

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Uruguay

This is also a town in Uruguay.Bronayur 04:06, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Curse?

Nothing about the famous curse of La Paloma? That Circus-orchestras wont play it. The mexican emperor that was executed and the re-opening of the operahouse where the singer refused to sing La Palome infront of the new goverment(Bertita Harding, 1944, 381)? /Emma

cleanup tag added

I have added the {{Cleanup}} tag. This article has numerous issues, including the publishing of the lyrics, lack of references, a trivia section, and an excessively long list of movies. 88.77.159.142 (talk) 05:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

origin of La paloma

La paloma venne registrataa a Madrid proprieta' artistica di De Iradier nel 1859. Quindi è errato dire che il motivo è del 1861 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.20.95.41 (talk) 12:53, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Most recorded song?

I am here preserving the following paragraph that had been removed because of "unreliable source":

==Most recored song?==

Guinness World Records lists Yesterday by the Beatles as the most recorded song with apparently about 1,600 recordings.[1] It has been suggested that "La Paloma" has more than 2,000.[2]

I assume that "trikont" is judged to be the "unreliable source". The paragraph, however, does not claim that "La Paloma" is the most recorded song - a difficult status to ascertain in any case -; it is just questioning the claim concerning "Yesterday" in view of the long popularity of "La Paloma". I am sure there are other candidates, among them possibly "White Christmas, Happy Birthday" and "Amazing Grace". The removal of the paragraph - based on a judgment of the reliablity of the reference - deletes a recognition that there some controvery about the "most recorded" claim, and that "La Paloma" may belong to the candidates.Ekem (talk) 15:55, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it, as the accepted most recorded song is Yesterday. The Trikont link is to a record company. I don't see this as a reliable neutral source as it's essentially ad copy and they would have a vested interest in establishing the claim to sell the CD. If other sources could be found to at least establish that there are claims for La Paloma, I don't have a problem with including it in the article. I have no idea what criteria Guinness Book of World Records uses and there certainly is the possibility of a systemic bias in favour of an English-language song over a song that may be on numerous small or obscure (to English-language audiences) record labels. I don't think this is a big deal in either case, however as the claim is established for Yesterday and is generally accepted, we would need more than a commercial source. freshacconci talktalk 16:25, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]