Talk:Sonny Osborne

April 2007

I wrote the original bit about Sonny's banjo playing being progressive, but I don't think it's fair to categorize his music in general as proggressive bluegrass, so I'm gonna delete the word "progressive". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jesticator (talk • contribs) 23:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I would (and did) characterize his music as progressive bluegrass, but I'm not going to get into an argument or a revert war. I state that his music is progressive based on:

• Non-traditional chords and chord progressions
• Early use of electrification and drums by the Osborne Brothers band
• Prolonged "jams" in live performances

While his music seems less progressive today, if you consider it in the context of the time, I consider it very progressive. I'm sure it would be pretty easy to find a citation from Bgrass Unlimited saying so, although I don't have one handy. Cmadler 00:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

reversions explanation

On 17 January 2024, Smasongarrison (talk · contribs) repeatedly removed Category:American patent holders and replaced it with Category:American inventors, saying they were doing so per WP:DIFFUSE. I reverted them several times because replacing a subordinate and finer category with its broader next-level-up is the opposite of what Wikipedia:Categorization#Diffusing large categories says. Many edits later, Smasongarrison explained that they were actually doing it IAW this discussion deprecating "patent holder" categories. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 00:15, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

My apologies for not realizing you'd reverted the change. I had assumed that it was one of the pages that didn't actually get moved after I got timed out for mass moving. I have hotcat set to link to WP:Diffuse, because that's typically what I'm doing with hotcat. I'm not sure what the purpose of your comment is, as I pretty quickly cleared up the issue once I realized what was actually happening. Mason (talk) 02:08, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

No worries! I understand bots edit very quickly and can preclude catching the edit summary error until thousands of edits later. I just left this summary here to explain to anyone looking at the history; our back-and-forth, with only summaries for explanation, might look like an edit war or an actual content disagreement, and I just wanted to clarify that wasn't the case. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:23, 19 January 2024 (UTC)