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Pronunciation

How do you pronounce this word? Lincher 17:36, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the correct pronunciation is por-ghee but it is often said por-jee. Could someone render this in IPA and add it to the article? Rainbowkey (talk) 17:18, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: disambiguate. The consensus is that there is no WP:PRIMARYTOPIC here, so the unqualified title should be a disambiguation page. There is no consensus on whether the fictional work should be at Porgy (novel) or Porgy (play), or split; so I will move it for now to Porgy (novel), because the article's lede describes it first as a novel. Feel free to move or split it according to the normal editorial processes, and to improve my first draft of the disambiguation page. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:55, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Porgy → Porgy (novel) – The WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "Porgy" is the type of fish, so that should redirect to Sparidae. I'm only a bit hesitant since this article describes a book and a play. While we currently have more content on the play. I wouldn't really object to Porgy (play), though it would be best to reframe the article in that case. --BDD (talk) 18:38, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I wonder if the name "porgy" for a sea bream is a name found outside US and Caribbean? Local varieties in the Caribbean jolthead porgy, but in Japan the terminology goes to red seabream. Certainly Oppose a redirect to sparidae, references in books to Porgy are overwhelmingly to the character of the book in various incarnations. However that doesn't mean that the novel is necessarily better than Porgy (disambiguation). At the moment it has a better claim to WP:PRIMARYTOPIC than the American name for the sea bream. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:36, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We can agree to disagree on the relative merits of the fish and the character, but the red seabream is part of family Sparidae anyway. So that's usage outside North America right there. --BDD (talk) 18:41, 17 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment perhaps it should be split into Porgy (play) and Porgy (novel), in any case, both those titles should exist as redirects if they are not articles. (or renamed to Porgy (novel and play) with a redirect from Porgy (play and novel)). -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 08:01, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Split and Disambiguate "Porgy" should become a disambiguation page with the novel, play, and fish articles, and a link to Porgy and Bess (disambiguation) & Georgy Porgy (disambiguation), and wikt:porgy. -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 08:01, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Porgy and Bess and Georgy Porgy are partial title matches only, and the Wiktionary link won't be especially useful when it only describes the fish. --BDD (talk) 20:43, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Infobox and cover

I just added an infobox with 1934 first library edition. I wonder if some enterprising editor could swap it out for a 1925 first edition cover please? In ictu oculi (talk) 20:38, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]