Talk:Something old

Copyright problem removed

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...and a silver sixpence in her shoe

I was curious as to why the final line of the rhyme was removed fairly recently. It's only given a passing mention now in the article and no one has reverted the change or given an explanation as to why it was removed as far as I can see. --81.108.69.166 (talk) 13:29, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

I have restored the missing text. Andrew D. (talk) 07:08, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

For the record, I think this line is worth mentioning, but seeing as it was added later and has since fallen into disuse, it should probably just be mentioned separately that this line is sometimes added with the information already included about it in the article. The way it is presented now makes an implication that it is integral and original, but that is obviously not the case, as evidenced by the fact that none of the given examples make mention of a sixpence and according to the article, it was added later. Idisestablish (talk) 13:19, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Popular culture

This section is a list of trivial instances where the theme is mentioned, appearing to violate WP:In popular culture's admonition: "passing mentions of the subject in books, television or film dialogue, or song lyrics should be included only when that mention's significance is itself demonstrated with secondary sources". Is there any reason to keep any of this? Clean Copy^talk 12:33, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Something old is itself part and parcel of popular culture. I can’t imagine popular culture restrictions applying as stringently to something falling purely with in that field. Pandeist (talk) 03:54, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Someone put a {{R to song}} template above indidate that song title(s) redirect to the article. As this also seems to happen with other types of media too, we should accommodate such references. If they get disorganised or lengthy, then we just consolidate and tidy. Andrew🐉(talk) 17:15, 18 February 2020 (UTC)