Talk:Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)

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NPOV[edit]

I love this song (honestly) but the tone of this article is way to advocate. It needs to be neautralized to sound less praising.--Esprit15d 18:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As the one who wrote most of the article, it was hard to find much negative press on the song. It's probably out there. But my focus was to get the story about the writing of the song and its immediate aftereffects. Certainly, with more than half a decade passed since it was written and recorded, there has been been some backlash (the South Park parody is a good example). I'm hardly a rah-rah when it comes to stuff like this; I won't even go near some of the other 9/11 aftermath songs because I can't possibly be neutral about them. If you can find some good, sourced negativity/backlash, feel free to add it in. Cheemo 06:11, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Factual inaccuracies[edit]

It seems rather ridiculous to list "the world stopped turning" as a factual inaccuracy. I don't think any rational person would miss that that line is symbolic. After all, if every wikipedia article on a song or poem or whatever listed its symbolic language as "factual inaccuracies," there would be chaos. Can you imagine? ("Factual inaccuracies: Juliet could not, in reality, be the sun, as she would die of the intense heat and blot out the earth, etc." As funny as it would be to see that, I don't imagine it would be received with any degree of seriousness.)

That being said, I didn't want to just take out the whole paragraph, since somebody obviously put the time into writing a whole paragraph, with an excellent description of what would have happened if the world had literally stopped turning (very thoughtful and rather interesting, I daresay), so I just thought I'd mention it here and see what the prevalent opinion on that paragraph is. 131.162.146.86 04:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's one of the more ridiculous things I've ever seen on Wikipedia, and I'm tempted to assume it's a joke. If there's no objections, I'm scrapping the section. Vonspringer 07:32, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:WorldStoppedTurning.JPG[edit]

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BetacommandBot 16:42, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rationale is now included. Cheemo (talk) 08:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proceeds from sales[edit]

Does anybody know if proceeds from the sales of this song went to charity, or if the performer vulturously kept the money? --96.48.80.74 (talk) 09:21, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]