Talk:Speakers' Corner
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[edit] Article title
Regarding my last change. I have no idea how to change the title of this article... TA
- I think Speaker's Corner should redirect to Speakers' Corner rather than vice versa. Am I wrong? "Speaker's Corner" would suggest there was only one speaker, wouldn't it? For those who hate apostrophes altogether, Speakers Corner should be another redirect. But would we also need lower case c's (Speakers' corner etc.)? <KF> 22:43, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)
The proper name is Speakers' Corner and such should be the title of the article... The question is: how to change it? TA (10-10-2004)
- Hm ... I just tried the "move" function, not expecting it to work, but, surprisingly, it did. I have no idea why: I had always thought it wasn't possible to move a page to an already existing title. I hope that by doing so I haven't caused any trouble. <KF> 19:40, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
'without fear of legal repercussions'. Is there any authority for this?
[edit] "Climb down"
Need information specifically on war in Iraq demonstration paragraph (specifically intent of phrase "climb down", as well as general intent of paragraph (if it should be included at all)). See original intent here (previous revision). Due to no better { {expert} } option, listed at Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention/Applied_Arts_and_Sciences#National_parks. Telso 09:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Nearly expert
As a regular speaker and part-time researcher i count as nearly an expert, I've read the act and the parliamentary debates, as well as some history texts which I've been meaning to use to update the page for a while (in fact I did but then lost it due to connexion errors).
Speakers corner in Woodford Square in Port of Spain Trinidad is both delightful and civilised yet gets to the full story of virtually any subject broached. It's called "The University of Woodford Square" for good reasons and frequntly is divided by interest into "classes".
[edit] media reference - monty python life of brian
Re: request for citation - many versions of the script on the web have the phrase: "At one end of the market there is a speakers' corner, with many strangely bearded and oddly dressed PROPHETS attempting to attract an audience." eg: here & here
Speaker's Corner seems a fairly obvious inspiration for this scene, given the elements of competing speakers, religious topics and hecklers:
"the film depicts a row of such prophet-wannabes declaiming their visions a la Speaker's Corner at Hyde Park": here
Maybe an authoritative citation is going to be hard to come by so I've rephrased the reference instead and removed the citation request.
Hakluyt bean 16:00, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A great german forum...
Yeah :) The link so described does not seem to have much (or anything) to do with the physical Speakers' Corner (any of them) but, although it seems to be spam, I'd like to leave it for now as the use of the name or idea of Speakers' Corner in for example commercial/political forums may be worth writing about. I may move it somewhere more suitable then. Hakluyt bean 02:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] reprocution?
"any subject without fear of legal reprocutions" appears in the blurb or introduction of this article. I've looked up reprocution at answers.com, dictionary.com and i've googled "define:reprocution" and all come up blank. Surely "repercussions" would be a more fitting, appropriate word, since it's actually in most dictionaries?
[edit] None in US?
The last time I was there, there WAS a speaker's corner/soap box in Independence Park near the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its purpose is exactly as described in this article. Is it still there? 147.240.236.8 20:53, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
