Talk:Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band

message: Hi folks, let's add some more data on the Band. :-) Could someone add the words to the Alma Mater? Also, should we start a section on "our" versions of "their" fight songs?
P&G
VentrueSabre 04:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I did find one article that mentions the fight song lyric joke, which actually is done by many other schools so hardly unique. Generally we cannot reprint lyrics because they are copyright of the authors, of course. W Nowicki (talk) 23:17, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Start of NUMB discussion 

message: I think this whole spelling nonsense should just be removed.  However it's spelled, it's truly inconsequential.  And the reason this is verging on an argument is because virtually all of the content here is original research. johnpseudo 03:13, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * If it is indeed spelled grynder today, you need to provide citations that show that to be the case. The standard on Wikipedia is verifiability.. please see WP:V. The grinder spelling has citations and as such must be the spelling used until citations showing otherwise are given.  Please note that I am not now nor have I ever been associated with the NUMB, I was a member of the Marching Illini so I have no preconcieved notions on this issue.  -- Upholder 05:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

text: * In that case, it's probably Original Research (see WP:OR) and should be removed entirely.  The standard for inclusion is Verifiability.  If there's no references, it should be removed. -- Upholder 19:33, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ...which I mentioned at the top of this talk page on December 3rd.  99% of this article is original research and should probably be removed, but if nobody is interested in going through and removing it or finding citations, it will remain as is.  I disagree that the web sites I cited are "outviously out of date".  In the absence of any better references, I think they support leaving the spelling as "Grinder".  It's good to have verifiability in everything we can, and in this particular case, we can.  johnpseudo 21:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Grinder vs. Grynder

message: Hi, I have a question about the descriptions of the Spirit Leader and Grinder/Grynder hats. Rather than edit the article, I thought I'd bring this up in the Talk section.
When I was Spirit Leader in the early '80s, my hat was a black felt cap "festooned" with various buttons. It was bought at the "first" Rose Bowl appearance by NU. It sounds like the description of the current Grinder's hat. And conversely, the Grinder who served with me had an olive drab aviator soft helmet. Given the current writeup, it sounds like the hats for the offices changed at some point (mid '90s perhaps?). 
Any comments?
Thanks! --VentrueSabre 01:08, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about Spirit Leader hat and Grinder/Grynder hat 

message: :Image:NU seal.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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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems odd anyway to use the general school logo here. Can we get, say, a closeup of a band uniform? Or a block "N" or anything close to a logo. W Nowicki (talk) 23:17, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:NU seal.jpg

message: : ...and their Kashoosha school.
Because so much is unsourced, it is hard to tell "in jokes" from vandalism. I was in the band '75 - '79 and have no idea what that means. Assuming it was some kind of mistake. Or maybe refers to the band camp near Kenosha? Ah, it seems some vandalism left over from someone chaning the name of Ksjusha Povod? Still would be nice to have sources for these. W Nowicki (talk) 00:11, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Kashoosha

message: Regular restoration of this unsourced material is disruptive; it is coming directly from the university.  If Northwestern wishes a page full of such trivia, it can set up its own web page; this is an encyclopedia, not a fan page. Scr★pIronIV 13:44, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Several sections have been removed for lacking references/citations. They had been tagged for that problem (and potential deletion) since December of 2017. Removal might seem extreme and there might be fear of losing valuable, though unreferenced content. In reality, each deleted section remains available in the article's history and can be resurrected from that history once it is suitably cited so as to adhere to Wikipedia's requirements for verifiability. A section-by-section approach is suggested. ShoneBrooks (talk) 04:04, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of unsourced material