Talk:Stackridge

message: Does anyone know if the 1971 song "Dora the Female Explorer" is related to the current cartoon? --Laualoha 19:38, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: It has to be said that the Stackridge live performances in the 70's were a sight to behold. Much mirth coupled with a high level of musical professionalism enjoyed by a partisan crowd. An evening of true entertainment that always finishing with a community singing of Slark. Happy days indeed.  GrammarTick (talk) 23:51, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stackridge live in the 70's.  

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I inadvertently started a little editing war here recently by casually changing 'were' to 'was': a change I thought such an obvious improvement that it required no explanation. I then discovered that it seems to be controversial. Researching the subject a little, I see that 'group' and similar words have been the subject of editing wars before, as many Americans believe a group to be grammatically singular, while many Britons apparently believe it permissible to treat a group as plural, despite the fact that 'group' is a singular word with a plural form ('groups')! I'm British and have never lived in America, but on this I'm convinced that the Americans are right: the members of a group are plural, but a group is clearly a grammatically singular concept. However, to impose my grammatical beliefs on Wikipedia is beyond my powers, and trying to do is a waste of time, so I won't continue this war. Suffice it to say that you should at least be consistent: in the original text of this article, the group Stackridge was sometimes treated as singular and sometimes plural, even within the same sentence, which is an obvious error that should be corrected one way or the other. Torve (talk) 08:56, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this is just accepted style for UK and US bands respectively. No-one can say either style is "wrong" or "right". But quite agree, it should be used consistently throughout the article. So I've tried to make it consistent. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:42, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Try saying "The Beatles was a pop group" or "The Rolling Stones is a rock band" - most people in the UK would use "were" and "are" in those sentences, treating the collective noun for the group's members as covering their plurality. RGCorris (talk) 17:36, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, but I can see Torve's point. "Stackridge", as a word, is ostensibly singular. Personally I don't see a problem with mixing up was and were; there's even an argument that they can each be used, in the right context, to reflect more subtlety of meaning. But it's probably just safer to be consistent throughout the entire article?  Martinevans123 (talk) 17:43, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

text: When the name of the group is plural, I agree that it may seem natural to treat it as plural. On the other hand, I see that "the United States" has normally been treated as singular since about 1890, although it has 50 members, more than most musical groups. Torve (talk) 15:38, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Stackridge was or were

message: I noticed that there was a "dead" link to Grytpype Thynne, the band that was (in some respects) a precursor to Stackridge. I created a page for the group and included the only link I could find to the band. This was then moved to drafts. Perhaps I am being a bit dim, but there is almost no information about Grytpype Thynne around. Either the link should be removed or the fact that there isn't much information should be accepted and the page made live.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DRMorgans (talk • contribs) 14:02, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grytpype Thynne