Jump to content

Talk:Running to Stand Still

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Good articleRunning to Stand Still has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 28, 2010Peer reviewReviewed
April 5, 2010Good article nomineeListed
July 31, 2010Good topic candidateNot promoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 10, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that two decades after its release, the U2 song "Running to Stand Still" remains strongly associated, in different and sometimes unwanted ways, with the Ballymun Flats tower block in Dublin?
Current status: Good article

Standstill

[edit]

I wanted to add this sentence

The title is spelled as Running to Standstill on some releases. This shifts the meaning of the title somewhat, standstill being a noun, while stand still is a ???

when I realized that I don't know what should be in the place of the ???. Does anyone know? MrTroy 22:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've never seen it spelled that way on anything official. The new article does elaborate on the meaning of the title. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:51, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image

[edit]

Does anybody happen to have an image of the band playing the song from the ZooTV or Vertigo Tours? Considering its size the article seems to be a bit devoid of much outside of text. I think a live image would help the article out a bit. MelicansMatkin (talk, contributions) 01:52, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I looked through my far-away-and-dark photos that everyone loves here so much, but the one Vertigo Tour show I saw where it was played, I didn't take a photo of it. Otherwise it would already be in the article, then out of the article, then ... ;-) There are a bunch of photos of it on Flickr, but the only one with any kind of CC license was this one from a Vertigo show in Boston, and as I understand it it has some license attributes that aren't compatible with Wikipedia. Wasted Time R (talk) 02:26, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Another good thing to have would be one of those 30-second ogg audio clips, but I haven't done one of those before and don't have an MP3 of the song to start with. Wasted Time R (talk) 02:27, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, I know Merbabu went to a couple of ZooTV shows; maybe he has an old image of it he'd be able to upload? Suede67 might be able to help with the audio sample; he's done a few from No Line on the Horizon for me, and he probably has the song. I'll try to find a good spot that can relate to something important in the article and ask him if he'd be able to work that for us. MelicansMatkin (talk, contributions) 03:03, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Edit: I've listened to the song and I think that for our purposes, 1:22 to 1:47 would work best. This fits inside the 10% rule and covers not only the musical style described but also the lyrics "Sweeter the sin, the bitter the taste in my mouth / I see seven towers but I only see one way out / You've got to cry without weeping, talk without speaking...". MelicansMatkin (talk, contributions) 03:10, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Seems good to me. I have photos from Zoo TV too, but nothing involving that song. Wasted Time R (talk) 03:13, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, Suede67 cut and added the audio sample (thanks very much!); what do you think? MelicansMatkin (talk, contributions) 03:42, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good to me, and I thanked Suede67, and thanks to you for setting it up. Wasted Time R (talk) 04:00, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As I just said to Melicans, I once had a whole roll of 36 photos from B-stage at ZooTV Sydney (yeah, a whole 36 photos in 2 hours was pretty extravagant back then) but I can't find either the negatives or prints. They've been lost over the years. :-( Thus, kinda ironic when the whole concert is on DVD (which I'm in) and we still don't have useable images. The night before (when Adam was hung over) I was in the stalls and Bono fell and sang the song on his back. --Merbabu (talk) 06:26, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The person who took the 2005 photo previously mentioned has been kind enough to change the license to CC-BY-SA, so it can now be used and is in the article. Wasted Time R (talk) 04:44, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome article!

[edit]

That's it, but seriously, for a song article, I got 10x more out of the song than I ever did! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 12:40, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks ... Wasted Time R (talk) 12:50, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

[edit]
This review is transcluded from Talk:Running to Stand Still/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Lampman (talk) 09:27, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I recently did a review of Ultraviolet (Light My Way), and the issues I have with this article are pretty much the same as with that one. But I guess these are standards you U2-editors have arrived at through long practice, so I won't argue too much about it. Also, I felt that the part about the popularity of the term tended a bit towards WP:OR.

These aren't serious enough issues to prevent a GA promotion, however. The article is well written, well referenced and well structured. Good job! Lampman (talk) 10:07, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks very much for the review and the pass! Wasted Time R (talk) 10:51, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Running to Stand Still. 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) 21:11, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Running to Stand Still. 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) 17:58, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Running to Stand Still. 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) 09:09, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Running_to_Stand_Still&oldid=1200840560"