Talk:Sonny Osborne

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April 2007[edit]

I wrote the original bit about Sonny's banjo playing being progressive, but I don't think it's fair to categorize his music in general as proggressive bluegrass, so I'm gonna delete the word "progressive". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jesticator (talk • contribs) 23:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would (and did) characterize his music as progressive bluegrass, but I'm not going to get into an argument or a revert war. I state that his music is progressive based on:

Non-traditional chords and chord progressions
Early use of electrification and drums by the Osborne Brothers band
Prolonged "jams" in live performances

While his music seems less progressive today, if you consider it in the context of the time, I consider it very progressive. I'm sure it would be pretty easy to find a citation from Bgrass Unlimited saying so, although I don't have one handy. Cmadler 00:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

reversions explanation[edit]

On 17 January 2024, Smasongarrison (talk · contribs) repeatedly removed Category:American patent holders and replaced it with Category:American inventors, saying they were doing so per WP:DIFFUSE. I reverted them several times because replacing a subordinate and finer category with its broader next-level-up is the opposite of what Wikipedia:Categorization#Diffusing large categories says. Many edits later, Smasongarrison explained that they were actually doing it IAW this discussion deprecating "patent holder" categories. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 00:15, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for not realizing you'd reverted the change. I had assumed that it was one of the pages that didn't actually get moved after I got timed out for mass moving. I have hotcat set to link to WP:Diffuse, because that's typically what I'm doing with hotcat. I'm not sure what the purpose of your comment is, as I pretty quickly cleared up the issue once I realized what was actually happening. Mason (talk) 02:08, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! I understand bots edit very quickly and can preclude catching the edit summary error until thousands of edits later. I just left this summary here to explain to anyone looking at the history; our back-and-forth, with only summaries for explanation, might look like an edit war or an actual content disagreement, and I just wanted to clarify that wasn't the case. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:23, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]