Talk:(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

message: I know what a dock is, and I know what a bay is, but what is "the dock of the bay"? Is it just a pier sticking out into a bay or what?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.225.26.33 (talk) 07:24, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stupid Question 

message: I recall reading in a UK magazine (Mojo?) that Redding learned to whistle for the whistled riff on the record; he wasn't able to before.  Does anyone have a source for this? JulesH 21:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just going to ask, who did the whistling. Otis huh. --218.223.193.144 11:51, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Funny, I heard on a US radio station that he intended to finish with another verse, recording the whistling in its place and passing in the plane crash before he could get back to it.  No source at all, but I wonder if there's any record about who recorded it, why, and if it was ever meant to be replaced. 76.168.95.118 (talk) 23:31, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whistled riff 

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--JeffGBot (talk) 22:18, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link 

message: I'm looking for information on the Pearl Jam cover.  I've heard it in a live version, but I can't locate a published recording.  Is it a bootleg?  Part of a live compilation?  Anyone know?  I was hoping to see a link to it here.
Thank you.
Medleystudios72 (talk) 14:22, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pearl Jam cover 

message: My uncle actually wrote this song and sold it for very little money to a record company..  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.106.158 (talk) 01:27, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This whole page is false, 

message: I am a new editor and I am working on editing this article because I think that it needs to be updated and have more content added. Any suggestions will be helpful. I couldn't find the name of the boat that Otis rented while he wrote (sittin' on) the dock of the bay.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cali Defined (talk • contribs) 00:03, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: No header

message: Origins section contains essentially the same story repeated twice. The sentence describing Otis' death leads right into a section about his recovery after polypectomy surgery, which is very confusing.
Reception contains a poorly placed quote by Geoff Brown, should be reformatted.
209.6.52.109 (talk) 15:21, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy edit tag 

message: I made corrections to some minor errors on the page as a part of this course.I reworded a few sentences in the lead and origin sections so that they provided better clarity. Agunth2 (talk) 21:24, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyediting

message: Reception: Legacy
“Rolling Stone ranked The Dock of the Bay number 161 on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the third of five Redding albums on the list.”
(I assume ‘third of five’ is to mean ‘third highest of five’.)  Perhaps Rolling Stone revised the list either before or after that was written. In the version I found on their website (dated May 2012), I saw only three Redding albums: "Dictionary of Soul" (#254), "The Dock of the Bay" (#161) and "Otis Blue" (#78).
--Starling2001 (talk) 22:09, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rolling Stone Greatest Albums 

message: Why does Sammy Hagar's version get so much attention? According to the citations, it's not good. Also: the "37th worst guitar solo" of all time seems to have two soloists - according to the wayback machine citation, it's Hagar that ruined it.
It should get a mention, not a paragraph. I intend to prune it. MrDemeanour (talk) 17:41, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Pruned. MrDemeanour (talk) 14:37, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sammy Hagar 

message: Glen Campbell also did a cover, that was very good and well received. 162.72.37.20 (talk) 02:04, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glen Campbell 

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: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) BilledMammal (talk) 15:35, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay →  – Per MOS:TITLECAPS, "on" should be in lowercase. Moscow Connection (talk) 20:50, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

text: The guideline for this in regards to phrasal verbs versus prepositions tends to always be controversial since editors tend to have different opinions on whether or not "on" or whatever related word is a preposition, which puts its preferred capitalization ("On" vs. "on") into question, so moving this to full discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 21:40, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Okay. --Moscow Connection (talk) 21:59, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

text: --Moscow Connection (talk) 22:25, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: "(Sittin' on)" isn't being used as a disambiguator here. It's part of the song title. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:33, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is an unnecessary natural disambiguation, but let us not quibble about terminology. The point is that  redirects here and always has. But there has been some confusion over its ambiguity. It is currently flagged as From an ambiguous term: This is a redirect from an ambiguous page name to a page or list that disambiguates it. But it doesn't redirect there. That redirect would be to The Dock of the Bay (disambiguation). But that DAB gives only partial matches except for Dock of the Bay (newspaper), a stub about a short-lived publication in 1969. The song is the clear primary topic for Dock of the Bay, and this is a perfectly good and more concise title for the article on the song. And there is need for stability, see this history of the proposed target. Andrewa (talk) 10:47, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

text: *Because the historical significance of this song is carried by the Otis Redding version, which was uppercased. The next most important version of the song is Michael Bolton's, which was uppercased. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:03, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

text: *:There are lots of sources that discuss Otis Redding's version, and both "on" and "On" are used among them with no strong preference, based on the sources linked here. Do you have a source to provide showing the Otis Redding version has it uppercased? PhotogenicScientist (talk) 03:13, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: *Nope, all original research by looking at the releases of Redding's recordings of the song. A few even truncate the title, such as suggested above by , to "Dock of the Bay". But overall the uppercase would be most familiar to readers who know the original recordings.  Randy Kryn (talk) 03:27, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: *:Sure, but in most all those pictures, every single letter of the title is capitalized - quite a different format than we use for article titles. PhotogenicScientist (talk) 13:22, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: *You know what I mean, when the cases are mixed "On" is uppercased. Uppercase "On" is the prefered casing for Redding's recordings. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:38, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: *:Author preference would definitely matter here, but I'm just not seeing that there is a preference (either from Otis or Stax). Most of their releases just capitalize everything. I see this one from Otis, where "on" "of" and "the" are all capitalized, a format not seen in most all other sources. And I see this one where only "on" is capitalized, but it's from a German compilation album - not exactly more definitive than the number of publications that use "on" and "On" interchangeably. PhotogenicScientist (talk) 14:04, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 8 March 2023