Talk:We Are Family (song)

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Fair use rationale for Image:We Are Family.jpg
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Proposed merge
All versions of the same song should be treated in the same article. This seems to be a standard practice; see, for example: It's My Life (Talk Talk song), which also covers the No Doubt version, or Because of You (Kelly Clarkson song), which also covers the duet single with Reba McEntire. -- Shelf Skewed  Talk  06:18, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Link to The Full Monty
Should it be linked to the film The Full Monty or the soundtrack for the film? Wrongusername (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC).

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Release date
For several years, the article listed the release date in the infobox as September 18, 1979. This is obviously incorrect since the record was on the charts much earlier in the year. About three years ago someone changed September to March, a more plausible date but retained the date of the 18th. It was more recently changed to May but again keeping the 18th. Neither source cited for this change support a specific release date, one refers to the UK release which was apparently later and the other references some non-specific chart information. This record entered the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the Cash Box and Record World charts, the week ending April 28, 1979 which precludes a possible release date of May or anytime after that. The song was the follow-up to a previous hit, was already a hit on the disco chart, and had a very high debut position which indicates that it probably made the chart in its first week out, making a release date of Sunday, March 18 very unlikely. The actual release date was most likely mid-April. Piriczki (talk) 20:31, 24 March 2017 (UTC)


 * If the source does not give the release date shown, you are free to remove that date. Your original research and its conclusion of "most likely mid-April", however, is a different issue.


 * Additionally, this leaves the change to song length unexplained.


 * For whatever reason, we have one or several vandals and/or incompetent editors who are making changes to exactly this type of information with either no explanation/source or very bad explanations. (One that comes to mind is that because a song was release in February 1984, it obviously must have been recorded in December 1983. Along with such logic are often unsourced/unexplained changes to, additions of or removals of song lengths, recording studios and similar information.


 * These editors typically have ignored all attempts to discuss the issue or have conversational styles that seem to indicate WP:CIR is a likely issue. (This clearly isn't the case here.)


 * In any event, given your explanation, I'm leaving the old date off, removing the new date as unsourced and restoring the previous legths. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 20:44, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

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Signature Song
Should this article say that this song is often thought of as the group's signature song?Vorbee (talk) 16:55, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Done (diff). Hoof Hearted (talk) 18:00, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Fainter text
Does anybody know why the three sentences under the sub-heading "Origins and meaning" appear to be in fainter text than the rest of the text?Vorbee (talk) 20:54, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
 * These sentences were tagged in April 2017 as needing a citation cn. Hoof Hearted (talk) 18:03, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Genre category as of now none
- I saw Special:Diff/1234018434. That edit seemed like there is no genre category at all. There is (Category:Songs about families) which, unlike a genre, is a topic. I couldn't find any sub-category that this song would fit, the closest is (Category:American disco songs). Yes, the (Category:Disco songs) is too large, however I wonder what is the rationale to leave this article without any genre category? Thanks. --- Cat12zu3 (talk) 04:43, 12 July 2024 (UTC)


 * "Sister Sledge songs" is under the category"American disco songs" MagicatthemovieS (talk) 17:07, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * OK. If no one made it move, then I would add this genre category. Thanks. --- Cat12zu3 (talk) 01:23, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh, my bad, (Category:Sister Sledge songs) is under (Category:American disco songs). OK, thanks. --- Cat12zu3 (talk) 03:56, 13 July 2024 (UTC)