Talk:Pay-to-play

message: Is this really a disambiguation page? --Miss Dark 01:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's not.  At most, it's a multi-stub article that could be split apart, but it's not necessarily clear it needs to be split apart.  --Interiot 19:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Huh?

message: I deleted the assertion that pay-to-play always refers to commercial bribery; the unsourced statement was not true, as the rest of the article makes clear. I moved the unrelated statement about insurance to its own section; since it's a different phrase I'm not even sure it belongs, but leaving it for now. Then moved a statement from the politics section to the intro because it captures essence of common denominator of most forms of pay to play.
--Popsup (talk) 12:00, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: In different places throughout the article, the phrase is used inconsistently: sometimes capitalized, sometimes not; sometimes hyphenated, sometimes not. This probably is a result from different usages in the real world. IMHO uncapitalized, hyphenated throughout would be best but the article already has an unhyphenated title. Suggestions?
--Popsup (talk) 12:00, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistent variations

message: pay to play is equivalent to 
bribery?  money for political favors?
money for publicity or access?
or is there some other understanding?  --- i don't always understand how it is used
in popular media.
-sio.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sio6627 (talk • contribs) 18:36, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  confused by popular usage 

message: The article's lead-in briefly mentions sports, but then the article says nothing about. Learning about why "pay-to-play" is a bad thing in sports is exactly why I came to this article in the first place. There have been several shows and movies recently that talked about high-school or college athletes being involved in controversies for being payed to play on a team. It would be helpful for anyone (including viewers of these shows and movies) if the article explained what the problem is and why it's bad. Synetech (talk) 23:16, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The above point is important, but perhaps even more important that the above is where the situation is reversed; i.e., in the situation where U.S. school districts, in response to budget tightening, increasingly require the families of participants, especially in expensive to outfit activities such as football, band, cheerleading, and similar are increasingly requiring parents to pay substansial fees for their children to be allowed to enter or continue in them.  This is quite a controversial area, particularly since it tends to limit participants in these areas to the children of the more affluent, which smacks to many of unfair discrimination.  If this is not to addressed in this article, it needs to be addressed somewhere in Wikipedia with a redirect from here.  75.246.239.252 (talk) 01:49, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports 

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message: Why does “free-to-play” have hyphens, but “pay to play” doesn’t?―PapíDimmi (talk | contribs) 00:25, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyphens 

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message: The article title "Pay-to-play" should be hyphenated, per American Heritage Dictionary and Oxford. Would there be any concerns with such a change? Thank you, A145GI15I95 (talk) 07:18, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title 

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