Talk:Beta (climbing)/Archive 1

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Is there any citation for the origin of the word 'beta'? I've heard this many times, but I have to admit that it sounds like folk etymology to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.37.209.182 (talk) 10:45, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Extended narrative is delightful and oh-so-not Wikipedia format
I have to say I love the extended narrative from someone close to the original source of the term beta. And from a personal perspective, it's valuable and I wish it would stay on Wikipedia forever. However, unless that's been published in a climbing magazine and can be cited/quoted legally, it probably needs to be moved to the talk page (please editors, don't just delete it! Copy it to the talk page as a favor to humanity..) Stevemidgley (talk) 23:38, 6 March 2019 (UTC)


 * yeah, theres totally nothing about jack asking "you want the beta, max?" on the cited reference where it says it came from.. all it contains are stories about the betamax videotape, the "play on words" thing seems to be arbitrarily added from a who knows what source. it should probably be removed, unless thats what were doing nowadays? Snarevox (talk) 07:58, 9 November 2022 (UTC)