Talk:Taxi dancer

message: This was posted here to start and has been left dangling:
:Is the film Sweet Charity relevant here? -- Anon.
I have moved it into the body. -- Beardo (talk) 16:47, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Original entry from 2005 

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message: I removed the note that this was a stub.  It seems quite a complete little article. Earthlyreason (talk) 17:47, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a stub

message: Noticed that the australian-born British actress Zoe Caldwell's mother was a taxi-dancer in Australia. The current history seems totally Amero-centric. Manytexts (talk) 10:35, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
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message: The articles Taxi dancer and Taxi dance hall overlap too much for separate articles to be useful or necessary. To avoid repetition (or, worse, contradiction) they should be merged. Since taxi dancers can exist without taxi dance halls, but not conversely, I suggest "Taxi dancer" is the primary term and the other term should redirect to it (even though "Taxi dance hall" is currently the more comprehensive article). A taxi dance hall is simply a dance hall that provides taxi dancers. jnestorius(talk) 21:30, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: A Ceroc taxi dancer doesn't necessarily danec in a dance hall. I agree that removing duplidated material is a good idea, however. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:48, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, as I said, "taxi dancers can exist without taxi dance halls"; but there is nothing to be said about taxi dance halls that cannot as easily be said in a merged article. jnestorius(talk) 17:34, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

text: It is not appropriate to merge the Taxi-Dance Hall article with the Taxi Dancer article. The Taxi-Dance Hall really documents the History of Taxi Dancing. As a historic piece it examines a now extinct form of mass entertainment of the United States, which at one time drew tens of thousands of patrons. It is a vivid snapshot in time of America's history which was also picked up by the Free Dictionary’s the Article of the Day. I'm afraid if it get bundled up with the often edited and hacked Taxi Dancer article, it will become fragmented and loose its historic and geographic focus (America). However the Taxi Dancer article is not about a distinct point in time and geography, but draws readers and contributors from different countries as well. Apparently taxi dancing is still used in Argentina, Mexico, England and upon cruise ships, but its modern expression seems very different from its original form which first occurred in San Francisco. The Taxi Dancer article is a good place to draw facts about current and international trends in taxi dancing, as well as documenting taxi dancing's references in film, song, and novels. When we look at the topic "Baseball", we see a brief paragraph about baseball parks which is then hyper-linked to another main article called "Baseball Park" via the Main Article Command. In the same way that Baseball Park has it's own main article tethered to the central article Baseball, so should Taxi-Dance Hall be an independent satellite article which is tethered to the Taxi Dancer article. IMO, many of our articles have become too long as a result of excessive MERGE commands, and defeat the clarity and navigation advantage which modular structure can offer via the Main Article Command, and thus reduce the length of the articles while still giving access to all information by use of the Main Article Command's linking. By use of the Main Article Command, the Taxi-Dance Hall article is tethered to the Taxi Dancer article's History Section via the Main Article Command, and similarly the Taxi Dancer article is tethered to the Taxi-Dance Hall article's Dancers Section via the Main Article Command. As a main contributor to both articles, I have made an effort to not allow much duplicated information. And as the creator of the much researched Taxi-Dance Hall article, I would please like to hear someone with substantial experience at Wikipedia contradict my views here, before a merge is approved and/or executed. Thanks.James Carroll (talk) 16:43, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

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message: The focus is so narrowly on the US night-club scene that some obvious rebalancing is needed, or another article. For most of the 20th century in Europe and North America from about 1910 to about 1970 or 80, the most popular dancing was ballroom dancing, in its many varieties. Almost always, more women would turn up to these events than men. The system of a booklet of tickets being purchased for dances with the "house" men was quite common, and solved what was otherwise quite a tricky problem. Also, in dance schools the imbalance is still a problem! Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:14, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Narrow focus 

message: During or after a US census (1980?), it was reported that some place like Philadelphia reported an unusually high number of taxi drivers.  But, it was because prostitutes listed their occupation as "taxi dancer", and the census folks misread it.  Urban legend?  [Duck duck go and google show nothing.] 47.14.77.193 (talk) 12:29, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thousands of Taxi Drivers in Philadelphia?