Talk:Chic (band)

message: Never heard of that at all.  They could play rock in the 50s (they could invent it too), but in the 60s and 70s they had to stop due to "the discrimination of the day"?  Who wrote that?  How did a band like Thin Lizzy, who had a black frontman/bassist, ever make it playing rock in the 70s, then? (shaking head)
71.241.118.23 (talk) 18:16, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blacks "couldnt play rock" in the 70s?? 

message: The main heading "chic" appears to have been hijacked by some strange article in which the word "acronym" does not appear to have been spelt correctly. I have added some links to other "chic" items, but do others think that this new article amounts to anything?--IXIA 13:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New "Chic" article 

message: Chic are (surely) one of the most sampled bands around... shouldn't we start an appropriate section dealing with this? Alcazar, Sugarhill Gang, De La Soul, and Faith Evans all come to mind... more are found by Googling find sites such as this. Jhamez84 21:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Samples 

message: One of the main contributors to this article has asked me what Wikipedia policy is on the correct naming of a band. Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the name that is used here should be exactly that which the band used in its official documents and how it is referred to in the general media. If they referred to themselves as CHIC and that is how it was generally written almost everywhere, the article should be titled CHIC (band), but you should provide multiple sources for that that (such as a copyright page of a cd or official documents from their label). This issue was brought up over at Blink-182 where the same user who is modifying this article for WP:MOS purposes did so there. I don't particularly agree with the guideline of changing proper names for bands just because we prefer English grammar rules to the proper name, but that is the guideline. It specifically states:
* Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules even if the trademark owner encourages special treatment:
** avoid: REALTOR®
** instead, use: Realtor
** but, don't invent new formats: MCI is standard English, while "Mci" is essentially never used.
To me, as I said above, this means that if they were always referred to as CHIC, much like ABBA was never written Abba, then we should keep it as CHIC. ABBA is an acronym, but it is also the proper name of the band. It is a pronounced word like "CHIC" and not spelled out letter for letter. So it all comes down to the common usage. JHMM13 16:42, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That bit about new formats refers to not unnecessarily inventing new formats, in this case a mixed-case variant of the name given in the example, as spelling an acronym in all-caps is already standard English. But Chic is neither an acronym, nor is the mixed-case variant without precedents from reliable sources (for example the All Music Guide, Amazon and the Rolling Stone magazine). - Cyrus XIII 18:45, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeh, I agree..let's keep it as it is. JHMM13 19:09, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: p.s. All of their album covers have it written CHIC, except for this one that says Chic and another that says CHiC. Apparently they didn't seem to be all too consistent on CHIC either. JHMM13 19:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: CHIC or Chic

message: :Image:Chic-Chic.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Chic-Chic.jpg

message: Why, what, where, and how does this article need additional citations for verification? Hyacinth (talk) 11:15, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: I noticed that some of the former members like Luther Vandross, Norma Jean Wright, Sylver Logan Sharp, etc. were mentioned as associated acts while are also mentioned as former members which they are. Is it appropriate to also list them associated acts? Horizonlove (talk) 08:01, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about the associated acts