Talk:Pete Seeger

"Peter “Pete” Seeger " vs. "Peter Seeger"

This refers to today's editing on this. I feel that the longstanding "Peter “Pete” Seeger" provides useful information; that his commonly used first name is "Pete" and not "Peter". What do y'all think? North8000 (talk) 17:09, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

I would prefer "Pete Seeger" or "Peter Seeger, known as Pete".--Jack Upland (talk) 07:50, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Per MOS:BIRTHNAME - in the opening sentence, "Peter Seeger" is just fine. The article title, infobox, etc., give his common name. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:40, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

"Useful information"? That Pete is a contraction of Peter? This is somewhat obvious as the article title gives his common name. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:53, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

On the first half of your post, I clearly said something other than that.....basically the info is whether or not someone uses the common shortening of their name. But the second part of your post pointed out my brain fart of not thinking about the title of the article. North8000 (talk) 16:14, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Pete is a hypocorism of Peter. MOS:NICKNAME explicitly says not to include hypocorism. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:21, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Give the second part of Martinevans123's post above, I'm now neutral on the question. North8000 (talk) 19:27, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Infobox photo

Doesn't this this photo show Seeger's face much better than this one? The point of the lead image is to illustrate the subject as well as possible, and a photo where the subject faces away does not really accomplish that. I would even prefer the 1955 photo to the current one. Surtsicna (talk) 09:21, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Maybe you're right....how 'bout we each make our point, then wait a few days for others to weigh in and then decide what to? IMO the current one is a joyous looking colorful photo illustrating one of the main things he did. IMO the that you were putting is pretty stern looking, not very representative of what he was about. The other one you mentioned is pretty representative, albeit black and white. North8000 (talk) 13:24, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

You are right, he does look more cheerful in the 2007 photo. He is also holding a guitar, which helps present him as a musician. Unfortunately his smile can only be seen when the file is opened separately from the article because he faces away from the reader. And even though he looks more like a lawyer than a musician in the 2002 photo, he is still much more recognizable because we can see his entire face - in excellent quality too. The 1955 photo has the advantage of portraying him in his youth and arguably at his heyday; I don't think being black & white makes it less valuable. Surtsicna (talk) 17:10, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Good points. Maybe put the '55 photo in the infobox and the current infobox photo elsewhere in the article? North8000 (talk) 17:15, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

That sounds reasonable. We should certainly show him with his guitar in his late 80s too! Surtsicna (talk) 17:17, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Cool.North8000 (talk) 19:36, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

"questions that violated his fundamental Constitutional rights"

Seeger's refusal to answer questions that violated his fundamental Constitutional rights led to a March 26, 1957, indictment for contempt of Congress;

It's not Wikipedia's role to take a position on whether the questions violated his rights. I've changed it to questions that he believed violated his fundamental constitutional rights.

Omc (talk) 18:38, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Agree. It might have already been implicit, but explicit is better. North8000 (talk) 18:43, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

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Peter Seeger joining the Communist Party

Looking at the source for when Seeger joined the Communist Party, The Protest Singer, citation 26 on this article, I could not find it saying when Seeger joined the communist party (the article says it was 1942) or whether he was a part of the youth organization, though it does corroborate when he left (1949). As I do not know the correct procedure for marking a citation that only provides partial info I'm raising it here without making any note in the page itself. Aryn Duke of the Lowland (talk) 05:32, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

NYT obituary

Both the original NYT obituary URL and an archived URL are in a citation but the URL in the external link is only the original. It would be useful if the archived URL were included there as well, perhaps instead of the original if both can't be. Mcljlm (talk) 18:31, 14 June 2023 (UTC)