Talk:Telethon

message: Question: what do you call something like a telethon which is on radio instead of television?
I've just noticed that Wiktionary says that the "tele" is for telephone rather than television, but which page is right?
:Answer: "tele" mean from far away televison is vison from far away
::I know that, but it doesn't really answer the question.  This entry says it's from "television", not "tele".
:::Another answer: The most common name I've heard is "radiothon." Non-commercial radio stations often use them to raise their operating budget (fully or partially) for the coming year. Some religious stations will use catchy names such as "Share-a-thon" (used by a station where I worked), "care-a-thon," and so on. Realkyhick 04:02, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology 

message: I've updated the section about the history of telethons in the United States, but we need some folks from around the world to give some info about telethons elsewhere. Realkyhick 04:02, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Telethon histories outside the U.S. (expansion needed)

message: :Telethons have also been held for endangered children on Israeli channel 2
I think something has been lost in translation here. What's an endangered child? This makes them sound like they're some sort of seperate subspecies at risk of extinction. I presume it means something like orphans or children living in poverty or something of that sort but I don't speak Hebrew or know much about Israel Nil Einne 11:41, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure why it didn't occur to me at the time, but may be it meant 'at risk' children a poorly defined but common terminology. Even that being the case, it would still be helpful to specify precisely who the target is.  Nil Einne (talk) 22:02, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Endangered children? 

message: What about criticism from animal welfare movements? It seems there is no reference about it on the article.--Pokipsy76 (talk) 11:27, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animal welfare Issues 

message: Could someone with editing privileges delete the phrase "allegedly worthy" from the introduction. It violates WP: NPOV. We don't need a qualifier to go with the word "cause" and both words express POV. 68.146.71.145 (talk) 20:47, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV issue in the intro

message: Will Wikipedia ever get it right?  The world is not the USA.  The English-speaking world is also not just the USA.  The history section only talks about the USA.  And then in the country specifics section the first country is - you guessed it - the USA.  OK so maybe America (North and South) comes first alphabetically but USA certainly isn't the first alphabetically within the Americas.  Articles or sections which only cover the USA or which don't make any attempt to be accessible to the rest of the world should be deleted.--79.34.2.247 (talk) 18:50, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yet again there's too much focus on the USA 

message: If anyone could find them, more details on the 'thank you/u very much for your kind donation' tune would be useful. It was used for telethons in the NZ but our article says without sources also in Australia. Our article also appears to be misleading, it implies the tune originated with the Australian telethons, this seems to be quite misleading as the music seems to be basically the same and the chorus only slightly modified from the The Scaffold song Thank U Very Much which came out before the stated date for the Australian telethon. These sources   seem to confirm the linkage to the Scaffold song although don't mention any Australian contributor. That said, even though the first is giving credit due to copyright reasons, it's possible that if there was an Australian contributor they simply did not require credit. (This OR suggests the tune was used in 1976 , I would guess it was probably from the first in 1975.) it's of course the tune was used in a telethon or elsewhere outside NZ or Australia although I haven't been able to find any evidence of that, then again I'm not sure if using Google UK without an account is enough to convince Google that I don't want results tailored to me in NZ. Nil Einne (talk) 21:35, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thank you very much song