Talk:John Philip Sousa

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1 Dead media links
2 Urban Legend
3 List of marches
4 King Cotton 1895

[edit] Dead media links

It looks like the media links went dead. Anyone know what happened? Were they always dead? Mirror Vax 22:02, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Specifically, I'm referring to these:

Stars and Stripes Forever (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- performed by the U.S. Air Force band
The Aviators (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- performed by the U.S. Air Force band
Problems playing the files? See media help.

Mirror Vax 00:09, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Answering my own question: they were erroneously deleted in a mass purge of suspected copyrighted files. Mirror Vax 02:31, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Urban Legend

I deleted the line that JPS added the "usa" to his surname as a patriotic act because it is false. JPS's father's surname "de Sousa" is a very common and very old Portuguese surname. Nothing was added to it and was not originally just "So". Portuguese surname prepositions like "de" and "da" (literally, of and from) was dropped by many Portuguese-Americans. --Miguellabrego 21:12, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Deleted again. C'mon, folks! this kind of bubblehead fluff doesn't credit Wikipedia. --Wetman 09:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I believe the PhilipsoUSA "bubblehead fluff" can be put in this article since it is an actual urban legend about Sousa. As long as it specifically states the urban legend is false, it's fine. (anon. post from User:SousaFan88)

Even fluff needs a source, saying where this urban legend is noted. Unsourced fluff could be added interminably. I won't revert this again, but I'll notify SousaFan88 that it does require a source. --Wetman 19:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Here's the only place I could find it. http://www.dws.org/sousa/content/blogcategory/7/26/ It should be noted that the site itself doesn't have a source about the myth.

[edit] List of marches

Before the extending list of red-linked marches gets out of hand, can we get a reference to an on-line complete list of Sousa marches, and then list here just those famous enough to have individual articles? A weighted list is useful; an incomplete list of "Sousa marches that come to mind" doesn't aid the reader. --Wetman 19:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

The most renowned online site about Sousa today is the Dallas Wind Symphonys sub-page http://www.dws.org/sousa/index.php I was actually losing faith in the site until they just recently updated it. Here you will find an adapted list of Sousa works from "John Philip Sousa, An American Phenomenon". I will add it to the article. (anon.)

An anonymous contributor has added a redlinked ""Processional (Wedding March)". Is this an alternative title? At any rate, with a link to a complete list, shouldn't all marches that don't have their own articles be deleted from this partial list? --Wetman 05:33, 4 November 2006 (UTC)