Talk:Street performer

I vote to combine the 2. "Street Performers & Buskers" says it all. With one category, it'll also be easier to clean-up/edit when it's just going to be spammed anyway. In fact, one person has vowed to keep spamming the busker page until it favors them most. Others are putting their whole websites on the busking page hoping to sell something. Regardless, let's keep the page factual, honest, and fair.

Busking and street performing not the same. Do not merge.
Please do not merge these two topics. The only thing that the share is the venue, in every other way they are very different forms of performance as the entry of street performance clearly states. If you merge busking and street theatre, then you might as well merge opera and ballet because they share the same stage.

One of the main reasons to have a street performing entry is to make clear the distinction between this and busking.

hello all, some of the people you refer to as walk by acts frequently can gather large crowds that form around them too. I would say that busking is the same as street performing and "street theater" is a seperate entity. Now days the word busking is all the rage for most of these people to identify with.

Again - busking and street performing are different, do not merge
Regardless of the size of the crowd that walkby acts draw, the nature of the performance is inherently different, and it is the nature of the performance that is defined in this wikipedia entry, not the size of the crowd.

I admin the street performance page and have kept it completely clear of spammers for the duration that I have been involved, so this is neither a reason to merge or a problem for the entry on street performer.

By reading the street performer entry, it is obvious why there should be a separate entry to that of busking, there is really no need to merge for reasons of clarity of practicality, and do to so would be destructive to both entries.

As for the entry for street theatre, a redirect to this entry should suffice. To say that busking is the same as street performing yet that street theatre is different is being mistaken at best and elitist at worst. Street performing as defined here is a type of theatre and as such is also defined as street theatre, but not busking. This is made clear in the entry.