Talk:Banjee

message: This article is in need of cleanup, so I hope that someone comes along with sources that are not blogs to add to this article.  And I'm not sure that the related terms section should stay unless these terms can be substantiated with more, and better, citations. SailorAlphaCentauri 16:46, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: *"Isaac" was vandalism.  One blog is mentioned as "an example from the blogosphere", nothing else.  Most of the other sources are newspapers.  Very, very, very well-referenced article. Shaundakulbara 18:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Very well-sourced

message: Yes, Men who have sex with men was the term used in the author's version of the article and correctly identifies who is being discussed.  Thank you for changing this back.  I have been so busy reverting vandalism I have missed more subtle bad edits. Shaundakulbara 19:18, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Men who have sex with men

message: Someone has edited this page to show "NIGGER are everywhere... or they can be black monkeys too, screw them, KKK" before the definintion of Banjee girl. It's not showing in the code. Can someone remove it please.. ta
*I removed it already, thank you.  The revision may show on your end if you refresh your browser.  Thanks again...keeping this article free of vandalism is my full-time job today as the creator is on hiatus. Help is appreciated. Shaundakulbara 20:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: There's offensive comment that I can see but cannot remove

message: WP:BLP applies to any article that includes material related to living persons.  The Banjee article presently identifies the living person in the article photo as a banjee.  The article includes a detailed quote by living person Tim'm T. West about being a Banjee.  Use of information about living persons in this article puts the article under the WP:BLP requirements. -- Jreferee 17:17, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is not a biography (which is what the B in BLP stands for). This article is not about Tim'm T. West per se. The  tag is out of place here, though of course that doesn't mean editors have free rein to add unsourced defamatory info about anyone here, either! —Angr 20:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:BLP applies "to biographical material about living persons in other articles."  If Template BLP were limited to biographies, then Template BLP would read something like "This biography must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons" or "This article related to living persons must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons" However, template BLP states "This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons" and thus placement of the BLP template is not restricted by topic.  has a parameter to  where someone can add living=yes and the text of the BLP template appears.  Restricting template BLP to only article having biography topics makes template BLP useless since  already serves that function.  In reviewing this, I discovered that use of Template BLP on other than biography topics is controversial.  Since the controversy is beyond the Banjee article, Talk:Banjee is not a place to resolve such an issue. -- Jreferee 17:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to ask at Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons and see what people there think. —Angr 17:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP:BLP 

message: Ok, we have some info on when and where the term first cropped up but there isn't any on the why of the word 'banjee'. What is its derivation?--4.131.22.181 (talk) 20:00, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There doesn't seem to be much of a concrete hypothesis in this regard, at least that I have been able to find. This dictionary calls it a word in Trinidadian Creole, albeit with a different (musical) meaning, and there is historical mention of the "wild banjee drum". Pharos (talk) 01:28, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology? 

message: There have been several challenges on the show where contestants need to portray what rupaul calls "Banjee girl realness", where the contestants come out in urban female wear, a few key items being bamboo hoop earrings, bandanas and white singlets. this is contradictory to the definition of the word in it's original meaning, but it seems to come from the same vein. The word banjee may have been reappropriated in gay culture to refer to Puerto Rican/ African American/ Carribean youth of both genders, rather than just the gay males of those demographics.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2407:7000:840C:2000:F196:383:9BEC:3495 (talk) 19:39, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rupaul's usage of the term in Rupaul's Drag Race