Talk:The Go-Go's

message: I hate to be picky, but shouldn't this page be titled "The Go-Go's", with "The Go-Gos" redirected to it, rather than the other way around? Even though proper English would suggest the plural of "go-go" is "go-gos", "The Go-Go's" is the way the band members spell it. One could wonder whether this was for artistic license (like Split Enz) or from ignorance, but ultimately, the band's preference should be honored. -- Jeff Q 03:17, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. Then this page should be titled "Go-Go's", and both the "The" versions should be redirects. Maybe "Go-Gos" should be a redirect, too? Ugh. -- Jeff Q 05:22, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: You can go ahead and change that information. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 19:56, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
I think this article is shaping up nicely, what do YOU think??? Zena Dhark…·°º•ø®@» 18:50, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling the band name

message: Lots of groups have real "schizo-The" issues- a great example would be The Bangles: almost all of their album covers say "Bangles", almost all references to them are as "The Bangles", and the women themselves seem to switch back and forth without concern. technically the group's name is just "Bangles", but you can check them out online at their official web site- it's (wait for it, wait for it) THEBangles.com. Conversely, Eurythmics have fought  the mark of the "The" pretty loudly since day one.
Welcome to somewhere in between- while the general public may be wrong when referring to them, the band seemed to give up "The" fight long ago if indeed they ever really cared. Nonetheless, in this case the answer is pretty definitive if grammatically incorrect: the group's name is "Go-Go's"; they may not have known how to use an apostrophe but they knew they didn't like the word "The". As a final note, check their web site gogos.com- the splash page is clear: "Go-Go's" no definitive article, but a hyphen and apostrophe to make up for it.
I was going to go ahead and change the title for the entry, but thought I'd post here instead and wait 7 or 10 days- I hate to do something drastic like that without first seeing if anyone else has a strong opinion otherwise. I find it hard to believe any one but me would really care about this, but maybe I'm not so strange after all... :)
--02:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We definitely need to standardize the article text, regarding including the apostrophe or not, one way or the other. Newyorkbrad 01:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposing to resolve "The" issue 

message: No, , my edit was not "unexplained deletion of sourced material)".My edit summary said "-single performances". While you might not have understood what I meant or disagreed with me, that's something entirely different.
The material in question is indeed sourced -- to a primary source. We have books, newspaper articles, magazines, etc. as sources here. Let's see why we needed a primary source for this. The band has played on dozens of shows upwards to a hundred times over the decades. Why don't we list them all? Because, in the history of the band, most individual performances (the TV appearances and thousands of concerts over the years) are simply not noteworthy. Yeah, if you dig, you can find secondary sources that mention various appearances, especially those that occurred within the past few years. Most of these, like their set list on August 15, 1984, are not significant.
Occasionally, an individual performance is notable. Sinead O'Connor's appearance on SNL comes to mind. Those receive individual discussion in independent reliable sources years after they occur. Those belong in the bands' articles.
This performance, however, is not likely to mean anything over the years. - SummerPhDv2.0 18:43, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. Greg Fasolino (talk) 20:20, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: While I agree with what  says here, and that paragraph was indeed far too detailed, I think it is interesting to note that the GoGo's have actually performed as a band after their Farewell Tour. I'm thinking of adding just a sentence such as The band has actually performed occasionally after that tour, with a citation from some piece of news (I'm sure it would not be difficult to find one).--Gorpik (talk) 09:41, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

text: The quote that's there ("We’re not breaking up, per se—we’re just not going to be doing the touring like we’ve been doing for many, many years. We might still do a date here or there, or do a benefit or something like that, but not do the big touring anymore. So that’s what that’s about.") covers that quite nicely, IMO. We don't have a source to characterize it as "performed occasionally". At some point we will have reliable sources discussing what they have been up to these past few months. - SummerPhDv2.0 13:58, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Individual performances 

message: At present, we do not so mark Led Zepplin, Def Leppard, The Beatles, Everyday Is Christmas (album), Everyday Is Like Sunday, Everyday I Love You (film), k.d. lang, Google, Dr Pepper, Wendy's, iPhone or thousands of other proper nouns you may feel should be punctuated, capitalized or spelled differently. - SummerPhDv2.0 18:31, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Pinging SummerPhDv2.0: What's erroneous about Wendy's? Is it that the principal person behind the chain wasn't named Wendy? —⁠71.105.198.152 (talk) 20:11, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  sic 

message: Can we add power pop to the genres?Wolf O'Donnel (talk) 20:12, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genres 

message: This is one sanitized article. The AXS docu, with plenty of hard-hitting revealing statements from the band members (and ex-member & original manager) should be used to 'call a spade a spade' instead of some of the poofery here.  It got ugly. Really ugly. 104.169.18.254 (talk) 18:47, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: dig deeper