Talk:Sister Golden Hair

message: EDIT: I went ahead and changed the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.200.99.134 (talk) 19:27, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song interpretation 

message: You can't make a change like that based on your feeling about what the song means.  Something that radical would require a sourced confirmation from the lyricist that your meaning is the correct interpretation.  Therefore, I have undone your changes.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.132.2.53 (talk) 17:34, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The interpretation in which Sister Golden Hair is the singer's girlfriend doesn't fit with the lyrics. Why did he try to make it Sunday? Why set his sights on Monday? What does "Sister Golden Hair surprise" mean? Why would he describe himself as a correspondent? I provided a logical, line-by-line interpretation of the lyrics. I don't think it has anything to do with my personal feelings about what the song means. Can you provide an equally fitting explanation in which Sister Golden Hair is a girlfriend, or can you provide a reliable source? I think people hear the phrase, "I ain't ready for the altar", and assume it's about commitment issues because that's a common theme and many people can relate to it. However, that only works when the phrase is taken out of context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.200.99.134 (talk) 03:44, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There doesn't seem to be any basis for either interpretation.  I tagged the sentence as needing a citation -- if none is provided soonish it should be removed. -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 04:20, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The ultimate source for an interpretation should be the lyrics themselves. The validity of an interpretation should be based on how well it fits with the lyrics. Sometimes multiple interpretations are reasonable. I think the interpretation with the nun fits well. I explained the meaning of each line, and I don't think I had to make any stretches in logic. However, if people feel none of the proposed interpretations are convincing, perhaps that section should be removed altogether.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.200.99.134 (talk) 22:23, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, for a Wikipedia article, the source for an interpretation of the lyrics needs to be an interpretation presented in a reliable source and not original research by an article editor.  It doesn't matter how convincing either of the proposed interpretations are -- if they're not from a reliable secondary source, they shouldn't be here. (Personally, I think that any explanation of these lyrics that doesn't take into account the songwriter's probable consumption of illegal substances is missing something, but unless that is from a good source, I'm not putting my speculation in.) -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 01:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song Interpretation 

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message: This addition by a now gone IP last month, made absolutely no sense:
:"With just 4 weeks in the top 10, the song would tie for the most weeks in the top 10 of all number-one songs since it reached number one, tying with Get Down Tonight and not another number one song until nearly 25 years later, and not one number one song had spent fewer weeks in the top 10 until another 4 years later."
An attempted correction by  (changing "most" to "fewest") didn't really help.
While I think I might understand what the first half was trying to say, I cannot be sure and it hardly seems to be worth mentioning. The second half is impenetrable word salad.
Were this to have cited a reliable source for whatever the claim is, I might have A) been convinced it was worth mentioning and B) tried to reword it for clarity. Failing that, it's gone. - SummerPhDv2.0 17:17, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomprehensible claim