Talk:What's Going On (song)

message: Prior to my edits today, the article contained quite a bit of detail about the 1987 Cyndi Lauper cover, including chart positions by country, lengths of the different dance club mixes, multiple photos, etc.  There was actually more detail about this cover than there was about the original version!  I removed quite a bit of it as being irrelevant and rather confusing -- some sections didn't make it clear whether it was referring to the original or the cover.  The data is there in the history if someone decides it should be reverted, or perhaps it should become its own separate article? I also reorganized all the cover versions into one major section.  Vandelay 22:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cyndi Lauper cover

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Whatsgoingonsingle.jpg

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:994TDC Cyndi Lauper 062.jpg

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message: The article says:
"On 20 January, 1971, seven months after recording the song, a prominent Los Angeles radio disk jockey leaked "What's Going On" to his station. Soon, the country was playing the record unbeknownst to Berry Gordy who still had not given anyone permission to release it. Gordy was astonished however when word came that the song was one of the fastest-rising and fastest-selling songs of the country. Within a month, it had reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100"
This prompts a couple of questions:
*1.How could a DJ leak the song? Surely someone on the inside of Motown, or close to Marvin Gaye, would have had to leak it to the DJ (the DJ's name?)
*2.Is the story verified or could it be an urban legend?
*3.Did Marvin know the song would be leaked?
*4.Shouldn't the page mention that the song was actually released before it went top ten?
*5.Were there unofficial singles or tapes in circulation during the appr. ten days between the DJ playing it and the official release (date from infobox)?
This article needs some cleanup, less florid language and more solid knowledge. Strausszek (talk) 02:40, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unofficial release? 

message: I have added a couple of qotations and cited Dr Lick's book Standing In The Shadows of Motown related to bassist James Jamerson, to start the addition of corroborating sources.  I don't have a copy at the moment, but there will no doubt be much that can be verified in this article by using "Marvin Gaye: What's Going On and the Last Days of the Motown Sound" by Ben Edmonds.Ethdhelwen (talk) 18:13, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible sources for the Recording section and elsewhere

message: About the contrast, you could even say that the contrast between the message and the jive conversations make this song an oxymoron.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrakd002.302 (talk • contribs) 12:15, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Note

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message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. This song was found to be the primary song with this name, demonstrated with page view data. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 14:59, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: What's Going On (Marvin Gaye song) →  – Page views indicate that the Marvin Gaye song is far and away the primary song, receiving more views in any given day than the other songs with the same name get in a month put together. There are also several cover versions discussed in the article, which may make it confusing for users looking for those without knowing the original artist. Turnagra (talk) 00:44, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: In my oppose vote, I stated that "there are 21 entries listed upon the What's Going On disambiguation page", not that there are 21 songs. Also oppose redirecting incomplete dab What's Going On (song) to What's Going On (Marvin Gaye song). What's Going On (song) should flow to the What's Going On#Songs dab page. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 00:46, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just trying to point out that, since "song" would still be part of this article's title, it doesn't matter how many entries are on the dab page, only how many songs, and there are only two songs with articles, both of which get a small fraction of the views of the famous song. No one would expect an article about a book, TV series or album under the proposed title. Station1 (talk) 05:10, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

text: I'm pretty sure the time clock on reverting recent undiscussed moves runs out in less than 5 years. If there is a lack of consensus, the current title should be considered the longstanding stable title. This would certainly not be the only case of a partially disambiguated title that redirects to a completely disambiguated title. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:28, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 22 May 2022