Talk:Bruce Cockburn

message: "The situation was that I'd spent three days in a couple of different Guatemalan refugee camps in Chiapas, in southern Mexico. All the while we were in one of them we could hear one or more helicopters patrollling the border. The week before we were there and the week after we left, this helicopter strafed the camp--as if these people had not suffered enough with the incredible violence they were fleeing in the mountains of Guatemala." from http://www.counterpunch.org/ferner01272004.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gbleem (talk • contribs) 01:48, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Experiences in Chiapas, Mexico

message: The link to humans was removed by User:Betacommand, citing spam and a few other guidelines.  However, the humans group is recognized by Bruce and his management, and the Cockburn Project that is still linked to gets much of its information from humans.  The group has been thanked within liner notes, and many members have gotten special consideration at concerts, the management office, etc.
I realize that it may look like spam, but IMHO it is notable (as one of the oldest fan group, and at one point the only Internet representation of Bruce.)  Unless somebody comes up with a strong argument against the link, I suggest that it stays.  Thoughts? wrp103 (Bill Pringle) 16:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm for keeping the link for the same reasons.  Strobilus 17:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm removing it because it's added incorrectly and it's against :WP:ELNO. Walter Görlitz (talk) 06:42, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to humans 

message: User:Rambone has added the category ex-atheists/agnostics to this article and others.  I reverted it and left a note on their talk page asking for a basis of that edit.  They have since added it again.  I don't recall Bruce ever mentioning he was agnostic or atheist.  He did have a born-again type experience.  I seem to recall him mentioning that he wasn't raised in a religious home, but I don't recall him being agnostic or atheist.  Any thoughts? wrp103 (Bill Pringle)  (Talk) 18:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Since I never got a response, and nobody else has come up with any justification for the category, I have removed it.  wrp103 (Bill Pringle)  (Talk) 20:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category Ex-atheists/agnostics 

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message: Support split - Discography section takes up more than one third of the page and should be split to a new article entitled Bruce Cockburn discography. --Jax 0677 (talk) 14:42, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bruce Cockburn discography 

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message: "Many of his albums from the 1970s refer to Christianity". They do not. Show me one lyric that refers to Christianity. They cannot be found. However, they do 'refer Christian themes". There is persecution and Christ's second coming ("Wondering Where the Lions Are"), prayer ("All the Diamonds") and many other examples. How you word the rest of the sentence, which I restored to a correct form based on the first phrase. Perhaps http://cockburnproject.net/issues/personal/christianity.html can offer guidance. Or https://imagejournal.org/article/a-conversation-with-bruce-cockburn/ or many of the others. But unless you can find a source that states that his songs or albums "refer to Christianity", it's :WP:OR and must be changed to something that is correct. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:27, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I was simply undoing a basic grammatical mistake that was added to the text. I have no interest in an esoteric debate. PaulCHebert (talk) 04:35, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for your recent correction. That was the correct approach. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:46, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cockburn and Christianity 

message: Does it have to be an album? Today I stumbled on a youtube of Fernanda Cunha (Brazilian, Jazz vocalist) covering Pacing the Cage -- and it wasn't listed here. The youtube is 
here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAZAIycWTPU . Exquisite, even if not deserving of mention. Ansak (talk) 18:01, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Covers of Bruce's songs