Talk:The Honky Tonk Man/Archive 1

Move
Does anyone have objections with me moving this page? The page should be Wayne Farris and not The Honky Tonk Man. Granted, I he is known as Honky Tonk Man, I feel that it should be titled Wayne Farris for purposes of the Stampede Wrestling alumni category because he was never Honky Tonk Man till the WWF. I will give you a week to voice your ojections. If nobody objects, I will move it. fishhead2100 May 5, 2006 3:19AM (UTC)


 * Oppose. Because that is indeed the name he is most known by he should go by that. How to handle the Stampede Alumni Category is something I will leave for someone else to figure out though. OsFan 16:08, 14 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Well he did do Stampede Wrestling show on May 12th of this year as the Honky Tonk Man. But this page should be titled Wayne Ferris.  fishhead2100 May 24, 2006 12:47PM (UTC)


 * If nobody else opposes then I will go ahead and move this page. fishhead2100 June 8, 2006 1:16AM (UTC)


 * That move makes no sense whatsoever. How many people know the guy as Wayne Farris? If a wrestler has a gimmick name for five years (roughly the same amount as Triple H), he usually is referred to by his gimmick name. Farris has been doing this for twenty years. OsFan 23:15, 5 July 2006 (UTC)


 * The same could be said for Sabu's page. How many people know his name is Terry Brunk?  Mr. C.C 21:36, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't know where you're going with this. I don't know it from the standpoint of whether or not you disagree with what I did, or if you'r trying to gain support for the potential Terry Brunk move to Sabu (wrestler). Anyway, Sabu's is in a different situation because there are other people/things that are known by that term. Honky Tonk Man is not. OsFan 23:01, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I wasn't trying to gain support. I was just making a point is all.  Mr. C.C. 08:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm a bit late to the party, but I'll throw out my standard "it's disrespectful to call wrestlers by their real names in the first place." I think that ALL wrestling articles should be listed by stage names, and wrestlers should be refered by as such within the articles.  Think of it this way.  If you met the Undertaker, you wouldn't go up to him and say "Hey, Mark."  In fact, he'd probably freakin' punch you in the face.  You'd be respectful and refer to him as "the Undertaker."  Same thing. VelvetKevorkian 09:55, 4 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Well Kane's page is named by his real name of Glen Jacobs. The same goes for Abyss's page.  Abyss's page is named by real name of Chris Parks.  Why should that be any different.  It's the same point.  Mr. C.C. 09:18, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. Another example is William Regal, who is listed under his real name of Darren Matthews. What it boils down to is that these are people playing a part. If "Honky Tonk Man" is the main listing for "Wayne Farris", then doesn't it follow that "David Hasselhoff" should redirect to a main listing of "Michael Knight"? Of course not. Why should pro wrestlers be any different? Bigsnake 19 03:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose If Mr. Farris has an issue with this he can come here and change it.   Rev Sysyphus (talk) 04:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Wrestling
On his website he admitted that he was an athiest, should we place him under that category?-Lord Pants
 * I have no problem with that. OsFan 23:15, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * But it says on here that he is listed as Christian. Mr. C.C. 09:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Hart Foundation Member
I found a video on YouTube where Macho Man takes on Bret Hart and Honky Tonk Man says he is a member of the Hart Foundation. Does anyone have any information on this? Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-8r8NjeEOI&mode=related&search=

Mr. C.C. 09:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * There was a time when the stable of wrestlers managed by Jimmy Hart was collectively referred to as the "Hart Foundation"; this name, however, is more closely associated with the tag team of Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart. Bigsnake 19 03:30, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

The video has been removed. 76.110.82.251 (talk) 15:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

HTM's website
As of this date HTM's website thehonkytonkman.com redirects to talkthatrocks.com, which doesn't appear to have anything to do with him. Remove from external links? Fitfatfighter (talk) 04:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned references in The Honky Tonk Man
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of The Honky Tonk Man's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "OWW": From Beth Phoenix:  From Dan Marsh:  From Hulk Hogan:  From Edward Leslie: Leslie Profile at OWW 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 12:09, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

The official website
I'm not sure why, but some editors keep changing the official website's URL to the wrong one, every time I and a few others try to correct it. The official URL is http://honkytonkman.net. Please look at the website and you will see that much. The old website was http://thehonkytonkman.com, but it appears to now be owned by a radio station (indicated by the fact that the one link from the site is to said radio station. That, plus the fact that it is an insulting website, means it is not appropriate to be placed into the external links section of this article, since the external links policy states (paraphrasing) that websites which are insulting and not neutral to the subject are not allowed. Please leave the proper site intact as official sites are allowed in external links sections, but fan (or non-fan) sites are not.  Raven1977 Talk to me My edits  16:58, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

"Cool, Cocky, Bad" is WRONG
The theme song was actually entitled "Honky Tonk Man" and can be found on Piledriver -- The Wrestling Album II. It's a different song than the Honky Tonk Man originally used as theme music, which, arguably, was likely also called "Hony Tonk Man" based on the refrain, but this particualr song was performed by the Honky Tonk Man himself. The phrase "I'm cool, I'm cocky, I'm bad" was the hook in the chorus, but not the title of the song. I've edited this portion of the article to reflect the correct name of the song. See the entry of Piledriver -- The Wreslting Album II to substantiate this claim. 76.214.208.106 (talk) 04:42, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * While the title of the song may indeed by "Honky Tonk Man," I did insert a sentence referring to the hook line in the chorus to help readers identify the song. Briguy52748 (talk) 20:01, 3 June 2009 (UTC)]]

Butch Reed
Honky did not replace Butch Reed against Ricky Steamboat and Reed was not absent that day. If you look at YouTube, Reed is in the back celebrating with HTM after her won the belt and on his shoot Reed said he was never scheduled to win the IC title or even wrestle for it that day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.201.188.178 (talk) 22:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in The Honky Tonk Man
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of The Honky Tonk Man's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "wwebio": From Dustin Rhodes:  From Ted DiBiase: </li> <li>From Davey Boy Smith: </li> <li>From Miss Elizabeth: </li> <li>From Dwayne Johnson: </li> <li>From Stone Cold Steve Austin: </li> <li>From John Layfield: </li> <li>From Bret Hart: WWE.com biography</li> <li>From Randy Savage: </li> <li>From Edge (wrestler): </li> <li>From Chris Jericho: </li> <li>From CM Punk: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 18:49, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

He was a teacher.
I saw the annual years ago with a picture of "Mr. Farris" as a Junior High School teacher. If anyone has the "proof" will someone plese add this to the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.141.193.12 (talk) 09:01, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Injury to finger, any clarification regarding the tour?
Regarding the injury to his finger sustained while on tour with UCW, there is the following statement: "He is expected to finish the tour with UCW, although the injury may prevent him from wrestling."

Since, after nearly 3 years, its safe to assume that the tour has indeed finished, is there any clarification on whether he did wrestle again on the tour. As it stands, it seems improper to use IS and would be better to use WAS. I would have edited it as such, but the second part of the statement says: "although the injury may prevent him from wrestling." If the first part of the statement is edited to its past-tense, the second part should also be edited to past-tense to clarify if he did or did not wrestle on the tour again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrZoolook (talk • contribs) 22:24, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Less tech talk
This is not accessible to the non-fan. What are "fan favorite turn" and "face turn"?Kdammers (talk) 03:47, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The first use of the word 'Turn' (under the section 'World Wrestling Federation (1986–1991)') is linked to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms in which the use of 'Turn' is described. It basically means the change from a 'Face' (good-guy) to 'Heel' (bad-guy) - or vice-versa. I will add a short description to the article, but if we were to describe ALL wrestling phraseology in-line, the article would be more description of phrases then character depiction. MrZoolook (talk) 05:24, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

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Relationship to Brian Christopher
The child of your cousin is your cousin (once removed), not your nephew or niece. Nephews and Nieces are the children of your siblings only. GimliDotNet (talk) 20:54, 31 August 2022 (UTC)