Talk:B. B. King/Archive 2

Lead sentence
Might I suggest we keep the lead sentence as it was - B.B. King (born Riley B. King; September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015) - as the style in Wikipedia is to use the most frequently used name at the start, and not necessarily the birth name. -- Fuzheado &#124; Talk 06:42, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * - WP:MOSBIO is pretty clear about these things that the full name, not the common name should be in the lede. See other articles like Bono/Cher/Madonna for example. Connormah (talk) 17:10, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

strokes?
The article says "His cause of death is a series of small strokes." and gives two references. However, neither of the references mention strokes. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:23, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
 * This has been fixed. Those refs have been replaced with a ref providing a cite which does support this. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:44, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
 * thanks. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:02, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

B.B. King died in 1958!
and he was replaced. Look at his pictures before and after 1958. Böri (talk) 06:25, 21 March 2015 (UTC)


 * That's nice. Do you have a reliable source for that other than "look at the pictures"?--Egghead06 (talk) 06:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * You can't find any "reliable source", if you think like that... But just look at his photos with Elvis Presley (in 1956) and look at his pictures after 1958, they are NOT the same person! Böri (talk) 07:23, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Do you have any reliable sources? If not, it is merely an opinion. Thanks.--Egghead06 (talk) 07:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The Talk Pages are for the improvement of the articles, not a forum for hairspray-snorting deliriums. HammerFilmFan (talk) 14:44, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Punctuation in heading.
This may just be a nitpicky punctuation-type thing, but if correctness is important in Wikipedia, maybe it needs to be considered, all the same.

Sometimes, when I think I can guess with a high probability what a topic's Wikipedia article is likely to be, I guess the U.R.L. and enter it directly, and, accordingly, I entered "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King" to look up this article. And I was a bit surprised to be redirected to a variant of this where the name was written as "B.B._King".

Isn't this, strictly speaking, incorrect? Shouldn't there be a space (or underscore) between the two initials? It looks uneven, and in fact incorrect, to see it spaced unevenly, as given. To make it even, you could close up the other space too, thus: "B.B.King" - but that looks just as bad. So all that's left is to give it as "B._B._King", which is what I initially assumed it would be.

So should it be changed to that? (I'm not sure I know how to do that, and also not sure if I would be out of line to do that without consulting others.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by M.J.E. (talk • contribs)


 * The article is titled this way per this discussion from a while back. There normally would be a space between initials, but in this case, B.B. was just part of his stage name, not the initials of his real name. And he always spelled it with no space between the letters. Therefore, we do the same thing. --A guy saved by Jesus (talk) 13:19, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

middle name?
Editors are changing his name from "Riley B. King" to "Riley Ben King". IIRC, in his autobiography he said that the B doesn't stand for anything, but I can't find my (signed) copy of the book right now. Can someone please verify this, one way or the other? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:40, 19 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, I found my copy of his book, and on page 6 he says that the B in Riley B King doesn't stand for anything. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:25, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

15 children
The article says "It is reported that he fathered 15 children with several different women and, as of 2004, had 50 grandchildren. So that must be an agreed reliable source, to be even included in this article? Why then does the infobox say he had only 3 children, with no source given? 20.133.0.13 (talk) 11:08, 8 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, the source doesn't say anything about "50 grandchildren" (so I removed that), and the "15 children" really should have a second source (but since he's no longer a BLP...). Some IP added to the infobox with no explanation - so that has been reverted. --Musdan77 (talk) 02:25, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

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Career
King started working with Bukka White when he was just 18. It was a short run. Please discuss before reverting. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 18:56, 22 June 2016 (UTC)


 * , WP:BRD is being followed here: you were bold, I reverted, now we are discussing (except you reverted my revert instead of discussing first). Anyway, these are the problems with your edit:
 * Years active: According to Troupe's linked bio, in 1946, King was still being taught by White and "though they never played in public they jammed together in private" and in 1947, he returned to farming. In 1948, he was playing on street corners and after returning to Memphis in late 1948, he entered "the music business". This source is used in the article. Another source first mentions "In 1948 King found employment with a blues group in West Memphis".  He also began working for WDIA in 1948.(ibid) A new source is needed for beginning his career in 1946.


 * Genres: Following template:Infobox musical artist, the first letter in the first genre is capitalized: "Note: most genres are not proper nouns and should not be capitalized. However, the first word in a list of multiple genres should be capitalized".


 * Occupation(s): Again, following the Infobox description: "Please observe sentence case and capitalise only the first letter of the first item (e.g. Musician, actor, singer-songwriter)".


 * Instruments: Capitalization should follow Genres and Occupation(s), i.e., capitalize first term. Also, no explanation was given for removing the hidden note "If you think an instrument should be listed, a discussion to reach consensus is needed first". It was put there for a reason.


 * Religion: This is not a supported parameter and therefore, it is not displayed. There is no point or benefit in including unusable, superfluous text in an infobox.


 * Lead: No explanation for removing the non-breaking space. Its use is consistent with MOS:DATERANGE "between dates in different years" (although there should be two more).
 * —Ojorojo (talk) 14:56, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Didn't realize they had finally formalized all that capitalization, etc. Your edit is good to go, so I have self-reverted.  The religion thing is not me though, it's been there for a while.  I'll kill it.  Thanks.  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 21:18, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

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Middle initial, again
As per his autobiography, shouldn't the article make it clear (perhaps in a footnote) that the B. in Riley B. doesn't actually stand for anything? (page 6, I think). Martinevans123 (talk) 22:42, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Equipment section
" ... a ES-355 with stereo options, a varitone selector and fine tuners (neither of which were actually utilized by B.B.) " - surely he used the tuners - does the sentence mean that he didn't use the varitone and stereo? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:51, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

WHY HE IS famous
B.B King is famous because he cut is first record in 1949. His occupation is a guitarist, singer and songwriter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.187.74.194 (talk) 21:39, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Um ... yes ... thanks for this cutting insight! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.28.165 (talk) 20:49, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Shouldn’t he be classified as Soul Blues?
Since it is ultimately a combination of Electric Blues, Soul and R&B? Dirke31 (talk) 19:40, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * You have a source calling it that? GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 22:53, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

2021 Biography
Someone recently placed an edit tag at the top of this article calling for citations from the 2021 biography on B.B., King of the Blues by Daniel de Vise. I read that book and found that it has no blockbuster surprises but it is very well sourced and documented. Therefore it could be used as a replacement citation (with page number) for any footnote currently in the article that might be considered unreliable. However, I don't think it is necessary to add citations from the book as if that would make this article better, because most statements are solidly supported already. (In other words, it would be unfruitful busywork.) So I am removing the edit tag, though I strongly recommend that book for B.B. fans and historians. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (TALK&#124;CONTRIBS) 15:47, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I added a Further reading section, with an entry for this biography. NOLA1982 (talk) 20:01, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

First year as active
If you look at different Wikipedia language versions of this article, his years as active is listed differently on different Wikipedia languagues. In this article it says his first year as active was 1942. In the article I find only info of him being active first in 1943. It would be nice with clear info and source why he is written as first active in 1942. This could then also be used on other B.B. King articles on different languages of Wikipedia. TJ Lusitanias (talk) 17:16, 28 February 2023 (UTC)