Talk:Muscle Shoals, Alabama

message: Is it an archaic spelling of mussel? Grant | Talk 07:34, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that would seem to be the case. David Spector (talk) 01:58, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of the name?

message: There's no reason to list every last piece of music recorded within the city limits, for Chrissakes.  Just give a link to the Shoals 500 or whatever.
- 12 June 07 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.79.225.43 (talk) 14:07, 12 June 2007‎
: I agree.  Wikipedia is not for arbitrary lists like this.
: --199.209.144.15 16:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: (I have not informed myself about what the list looked like, so no opinion.)--Jerzy•t 07:14, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: This is retarded.

message: I have retrofitted further sub-headings into this sub-section. My purpose is to produce two two-levels-below-top-level sub-sections, from the single contrib that User:Feedkillchain contributed, within a pre-existing top level section by another editor on a different discussion topic.   In the interest of, on one hand, letting our colleague Fkc's original organization of their contrib stay clear, and on the other hand, of shielding Fkc's intent from against confusions resulting from Fkc having -- with admirable resourcefulness -- reinvented structures similar to those provided by typical Wiki-markup, without using those markup facilities, i've taken the liberty of restructuring the two major subdivisions of their single contrib into two sections (and i shall am already inquiring about the ambiguity of the term "this section".--Jerzy•t 14:19, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Critiques in two areas, based on local and professional experience) 

message: NEW ADDITION TO CONVERSATION BY A LOCAL:
I am not writing this to be inflammatory or reactionary, but this article is absolutely ridiculous and I feel I must also chip a little bit of my opinion in here.  I am a record collector and know collectors from all over the world - and, yes, Muscle Shoals is highly esteemed the world over (particularly in Europe) for the recordings made there.  However, I am also a writer, musician, and record producer FROM Muscle Shoals, and my first-hand experience leads me to have major grievances with this article.  Almost everything from the sentence "It can be said that the same attraction that artists such as Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and The Rolling Stones felt to the area remains intact today" to "Among the musical celebrities with homes in the area are George Strait, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill" is either
A) biased opinion that cannot be substantiated as fact
B) wildly exaggerated fact (the "classic" era famed by collectors peters out in the late 60s and is all but gone by the early 70s.  1980s Muscle Shoals recordings are almost "FAME"ed for their bad production, late-period records for star artists that nearly destroyed careers(Bob Dylan's Christian period, Cher's decline in the 70s, Mink Deville's seemingly conscious avoidance of relevance), and a general loss of touch with the mainstream of pop music while simultaneously falling out of favor with musicians, hipsters, collectors, and critics.
C) completely fabricated (Faith Hill and others mentioned do not live here, although George Jones did at one point)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Feedkillchain (talk • contribs) 08:37, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Factual errors) 

message: ...ALSO
Very little of the content of this article is cited from a credible resource (if at all).  Most of that which is cited comes from cites owned by the city of Muscle Shoals or owned by Fame studios itself.  This is more of an advertisement than an unbiased article.  The "WC Handy Festival" referred to in the uncited closing section is a relatively small event and the musicians referred to are mostly aging bar band dudes who play long sets of bad covers and never quite made careers of it.  The stuff about Paul Simon and the Swampers is completely true, however.  What the article doesn't quite express is that the government ran off Henry Ford and Rick Hall ran off Aretha Franklin and all the soul musicians.  Also not explaines is how W.C. Handy, Hellen Keller (not even mentioned in this article as a local of Tuscumbia, part of the Shoals Quad Cities referred to several times), and Drive-By Truckers all struggled here to much indifference and discrimination and did not receive recognition until after they had fled the Shoals area.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Feedkillchain (talk • contribs) 08:37, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Self-serving sources) 

message: *I completely agree.  This section is pathetic and completely biased.  The language is almost absurd.  The entire section should be re-written. Wikipediarules2221 05:57, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Comment criticizing ambiguously specified section)

message: :Image:Muscle Shoals sign.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Muscle Shoals sign.jpg

message: EDIT: The Geography section only contains two sentences of information, both of which are already covered elsewhere in the article. After reading more on the Wiki guidelines for city pages, I see the geography section is warranted, but very insufficient. I'd like to get input as to what information should go into it, such as any facts that there may be that are lesser known (must be verifiable) or a good source in general for the section. Caroofikus (talk) 21:19, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Geography Section

message: I have removed the entire History section because it was a blatant, nearly verbatim, copying of the copyrighted material from The History of the City of Muscle Shoals at the City of Muscle Shoals website. Although the material was referenced to that page, the copying of this material goes well beyond fair use.--ShelfSkewed Talk 15:10, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section copyright violation 

message: I have removed a significant amount of material of the history section because it does not meet out standards.  Material must be referenced by reliable sources and must adhere to a neutral point of view.  Language used must not be "fluffy"; Wikipedia is not for a glowing tourist brochure.  Keegan (talk) 05:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed more content 

message: The article lists Leon Russell as a jazz musician. He is a rock musician. 50.164.139.121 (talk) 22:58, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leon Russell is a rock musician 

message: Why does this article make such a big deal about the town having sidewalks? Why are sidewalks and their benefits explained as if no other town had sidewalks? Are sidewalks rare in Alabama?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.27.234.101 (talk) 05:30, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  sidewalks? 

message: The article states, "After the Revolution, Cherokee attitudes toward the new U.S. republic were divided, as settlers increasingly encroached on their territory. An anti-American faction..."
This doesn't seem to make sense, as Native Americans were here first, and for a very long time (perhaps beginning 15,000 to 30,000 years ago), and therefore must be considered Americans even more so than the European colonists and their new independent country. The Native Americans were perhaps opposed to the taking of their land or destruction of their culture, but that at most makes them people who were opposed to the United States, not anti-Americans. David Spector (talk) 01:56, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Were native people "anti-american"? 

message: Hi , I removed the word Alabama from the short description because it's already contained within the article title, so it seems redundant to include it in the s/d, when that is supposed to be as brief as possible. Why do you think it should remain as it is? Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 00:42, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short description