Talk:John Henry

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was no move per User:Bkonrad - While the John Henry of folklore is fairly well known, it seems far too common a name not be a disambiguation page. JPG-GR (talk) 19:11, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, isn't John Henry the folklore character more notable than the rest of these jokers put together? Couldn't we, therefore, move this article to John Henry (disambiguation) and switch that article in here? If nothing else, I'm going to move the steel driving man up to first on the list of possible meanings. - Nat Krause 12:51, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Isn't John Henry, the subject of the song, a real person? I'm pretty sure he is (was.)Buskertype 01:01, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The article suggests that he was. In February, John Henry (folklore) got 19182 views vs 4786 for John W. Henry and 1633 for John Henry (album). All the rest got a lot less. See http://stats.grok.se/ 199.125.109.107 (talk) 04:48, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Support per request. 199.125.109.78 (talk) 05:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Removed DictDefs
If you think these're worth it, make an article, maybe John Henry (slang), on slang uses of the name: a dictdef cannot be a Dab entry, but maybe you can make an article out of a series of dictdefs, or out of discussions of each. --Jerzy•t 22:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * A snack lunch eaten in the field (Texas prison slang)
 * A penis, variation on John Thomas
 * To play John Henry, to approach a woman
 * The common ref is to JOHN HENRY/JOHN HANCOCK, Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, William and Mary Morris, HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988, ISBN 006015862X . --Jerzy•t 22:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Shouldn't John Willie "Shifty" Henry be listed Nice1al (talk) 15:52, 22 April 2014 (UTC) --- What if your name is actually Jack Henry, and not John? Why would your page redirect to list of people who don't have the same name?