Talk:Bobby soxer (subculture)

message: It would be good to have reliable sources - the term does exist, it can be found roughly 50 pages from the end of "Rabbit at Rest" by John Updike. I just think it would be good to have some newspaper cuttings with it (surely that can be found somewhere by Sinatra fans), and also possibly to find out who coined the term.Zigzig20s 13:13, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References? 

message: Mentioned in Tampico (song)... AnonMoos (talk) 04:07, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference

message: Bobby Flemington ought to be identified.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.208.34 (talk) 13:20, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The vandalism has been removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.38.224 (talk) 10:51, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flemington  

message: Is there any consensus as to whether a hyphen is appropriate for this term (and the article title)? Robert K S (talk) 12:46, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyphenated or not? 

message: I went to school in the fifties and sixties and went to a lot of sock hops in our gym, but I have no idea what a "flop dance" is.  A search with Google did not help.  Can someone either explain or remove this? 37.99.42.97 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 08:31, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  unexplained term 

message: This photo should be updated or removed. This is not a bobby soxer in the photo, at least not by her attire. Can we please find a better example? She is not wearing bobby sox, a poodle skirt, and not wearing saddle shoes. 
The young woman in the photo is obviously marching in a parade, and dressed in a parade uniform. Again, this is not a photo that illustrates the bobby soxer attire. Discuss. B'H. 69.113.156.172 (talk) 21:36, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate Photo - Not a "Bobby Soxer" but of a [[Majorette]] 

message: This article has had a global unsourced tag for 27 months. Any material tagged that long can very legitimately be challenged and removed. Slightmile has repeatedly restored it with no effort to provide a source, in violation of WP:V. How long does the information need to remain in the article unsourced? Another 27 months? Indefinitely? 75.191.40.148 (talk) 15:03, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you made any effort to improve the article, by trying to find sources, etc.? Are you challenging any of the material for any other reason beside the existence of that tag? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇  15:09, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No one has. Are you saying that if no one tries to provide a source, the information should stay in the article indefinitely? 75.191.40.148 (talk) 15:19, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It's common knowledge of people who lived in the time. Yes it does still need proper sources. If 75.191 wasn't so busy being combative maybe they could help with that. I saw the opinion of Woodroar below. SlightSmile 16:06, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Your opinion about what is "common knowledge" is not a reliable source. Anyone who has been on Wikipedia a few months knows that, much less nine years. If Slightsmile wasn't so busy trying to wikiboss with no regard for policies maybe he could spend a minute or two to find a source instead of reverting. 75.191.40.148 (talk) 16:11, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Why does this movie, song, and band get a special mention? Is the age range actually 13 to 25? Too often there is no source, it's simply "I was listening to [some piece of media] and it mentioned [subject], let's put it on Wikipedia" or "this is how I remembered [subject] some 60-80 years later" (or worse, "this is my interpretation of [subject] via [other people or media]"). Neither of which are in any way appropriate for Wikipedia and I tend to remove unsourced cruft like this on sight. We should let reliable sources guide our content, and if content is removed then it should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source. Woodroar (talk) 16:33, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

text: I'm not too sure about the baton twirler but maybe it can stay till we find something more accurate. She wearing bobby socks and looks high school age - good enough. SlightSmile 19:33, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated restoring of information that has been unsourced for 27 months 

message: Hi everybody, I am a student who is editing this stub as part of an educational assignment. My class is centred around Wikipedia, which has been a great experience so far! I will be adding 2000 words to this page and editing up until May 31, 2021. I appreciate and welcome any feedback! Sydneygirlbigworld (talk) 12:04, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding content as part of an assignment