Talk:Street performance

message: Re: "In medieval France buskers were known by the terms troubadours and jongleurs. In northern France they were known as trouveres. In old German buskers were known as Minnesingers and Spielleute."
These are very suspect sentences. Troubadours and "trouveres" (missing accent mark here) were generally noblemen who composed poetry and song for court performance, which makes them not buskers at all. Neither were the meistersingers buskers; they were guild members, and they competed formally for awards. TheScotch (talk) 12:00, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Troubadours? 

message: I object to the sentence "In Italian it evolved to buscare which meant "procure, gain" and in Italy buskers are called buscarsi or, more simply, Buskers". There is no such word as "buscare" in Italian, that is Spanish. I am Italian and never heard the word "buscarsi", as to the idea that they are called simply Buskers, well, that's absolutely not the case.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.240.126.228 (talk) 08:40, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the sentence. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:00, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, so 81.240.126.228 you say the noun Buskers (in English) are not known in Italian as either Buscarsi nor Buskers, so what are they called then, as you didn't say, thus no fix can be thought about and done by English-language speaking editors? Additionally on this, Google Translate gave me Buskers (en) > Buskers (it) (http://translate.google.com/#en/it/Buskers ) so which is correct? Also, you say the verb "buscare" is not Italian but Spanish, but what is the term for "to busk" in Italian then? Things like this help edits get done. Thanks. (NOTE: I joined the two similar comments from 81.240.126.228 under the same subtitle on this talk page.) Jimthing (talk) 15:38, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian: wrong 

message: Why the website http://www.buzzkers.com can't be add to demonstrate street musicians performance ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buzzkers (talk • contribs) 09:15, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This article in the past has become spam pit full of people trying to sell themselves. Adding your own link is a very clear conflict of interest; see WP:ADV which states "you should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent". A mere repository of videos adds nothing to the article; there are hundreds of blogs with exactly the same thing. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 12:17, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modification deleted 

message: I have now thrice deleted the use of the word "Gypsies" but some person keeps reinstating this expression. The word "Gypsies" should not be used,  for two reasons:
:* (1) It is derogative. See Names_of_the_Romani_people, notes 20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31, and 32
:* (2) It is commonly used to refer to a lot of different things, not only the Romani people, see Gypsies disambiguation page. Hence, where the article deals specifically with the Romani people, a "Gypsy" may be understood to be eg. any other kind of traveller, ie. not a Romani. Hence it is misleading in context.
I suspect the continued use of this word is out of ignorance, and that there is no derogatory motive for using it. Still, it may be perceived as derogatory. As the word is no way essential -- or even of lesser importance -- for the section I suggest it be avoided altogether. Omitting this one word that may cause other readers problems, will not reduce the quality of the article.  clsc (talk) 22:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You suspect incorrectly, as is indicated by my various edit summaries.  The vast majority of people are not familiar with the politically correct terms for the people that have been traditionally called "gypsies", and my inclusion of the term in the article is not an indication that I wish it to be reincarnated as the work in generally usage for them, or desire for it to be re-accepted, but simply to give our readers an idea of who it is we're talking about.  With the lasted version, "inaccurately called 'gypsies'", I believe that both our concerns have been met, unless it is your goal to totally eliminate the use of the word in any context, even one which clearly indicates that it is not longer acceptable.  (Come to think of it, I'll add that as well). BMK (talk) 21:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Perfect, I think that solves all issues. Thanks. (Also, I just signed my comment above, I forgot that at first) clsc (talk) 22:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of "Gypsies" word 

message: This article is incredibly disorganized and full of irrelevant and wrong information. Several weeks ago I added (without removing any old info) a different story about the origins of the term"bottle" referring to the collected money. I also cleaned up the description of "one man band" as well. These changes were removed instantly by somebody.
Since then two other people have contacted me through busking sites that I run personally complaining that this same thing has happened to them.
The photo of Marc Dobbson the one man band is a very poor photo to represent street art! He's a festival performer with a lot of equipment and not a busker!
This article is poorly written and should be totally re-written from scratch. The next time that somebody complains to me about it I'm going to complain to Wikipedia directly...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.28.159.92 (talk) 06:53, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  to: Whoever is removing all the edits... 

message: With your  ...  ...  markup
the list looks like this:
* Busking Day
* Category:Busking venues
* Circus skills
* List of well-known busking locations
* Music Under New York
      * Skomorokh
      * Street artist
      * Street painting
      * Street theatre
Beyond being visually confusing, this mis-represents the list, as a 5 item list with the last item having a 4-item sub-list.
Its more important for content to not be visually confusing, then it is to meet your idea of visible accessibility.
i see these solutions:
* leave it as was & let the content be confusing.
* one of the  edits i made that you reverted.
* make it a one column list, which increases whitespace & scrolling.
* remove |gap=4em.
I am about to do the last as an edit.
I hope we can find a compromise acceptable to both of us.  Edit wars are not a good use of either of our time. — Lentower (talk) 22:43, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I just verified that the confusion on the Android App was removed by my edit.  I see no visible change between your last edit & my current edit on the other browsers I here at my Dad's: iPad's Wikipedia & safari app; Chrome, Firefox, AOL, & Internet Explorer on a Dell Inspiron running Windows 10. — Lentower (talk) 22:54, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: the issue with the Android App & some other browsers that only display one column despite template markup

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: FYI: Earwig gives three very high percentage hits for pages that have copied from this article, with attribution.
* https://www.englishgratis.com/elingue/elingue/en/wikimag/serie06/11.htm
* https://kuliahkaryawan.ivet.ac.id/IT/3065-2951/street-performers_21818_kuliahkaryawan-ivet.html
* and www. 360cities. net /image/jazz-musique-de-rue-rue-kereon-quimper-finistere-7425-cornouaille
Not sure I want to add them to the exclusions list, as I don't know anything about that. Someone else who knows more, feel free. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earwig