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December 21

Has there ever been a ≥26-team soccer double round robin?

The United States league is not a round robin and the Argentinian soccer table has been almost a 26-team double round robin home and away but not quite (51 games instead of 50). Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 05:13, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

I don't know (and am no more capable than yourself of researching the answer), but I would observe that because of playing-season lengths, fixtures congestion (teams play or potentially play in various other tournaments in parallel, and sometimes in end-of-season play-offs), the financial and time costs of travelling away, and the physical limitations of players (who will accumulate injuries over a season), 46-50 league matches per season approaches the limits of what is logistically and humanly feasable. Assuming a double round robin format, any sensible footballing authority will either cap the number of teams in a league or split it into two regions. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.194.245.235 (talk) 15:07, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

I suspected the difficulty of finding 25+ was cause fatigue and/or logistics, guess I was right. And I was wrong, I remembered 26 from trying to find the largest sports "division" I could find in a reasonable amount of time (in this case the whole league league is 1 "division", cause soccer leagues don't often do the USA-style thing of 2+ concentric circles with a small inner sanctum of the most frequent opponents). The Argentine top league has been 26 with the usual extra game cancelled making each team's inner sanctum 26 teams instead of 2 but it's only single-round robin. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:04, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Transcription of lyrics

Hello, I am trying to transcribe some songs and I was wondering if there were websites online where I could get help on lyrics I am stuck on. I was listening to these recordings, [1] and [2]. I wrote down some lyrics but it is tough to decipher some of it. Here is what I have so far, [3] and [4]. Is there a community of individuals somewhere online who could help with this? Gandalf the Groovy (talk) 13:19, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Google has tons of song lyrics. Google the song name + "lyrics" and see what turns up. I wouldn't say they're always accurate, but they provide a guideline. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:29, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

I have already tried that but these versions are heavily modified from others written online. The only way to find these ones is by listening to the recording. Gandalf the Groovy (talk) 14:51, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

" I wouldn't say they're always accurate" That's putting it mildly. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 16:48, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

This blog post about an entirely different early African American folk song led me to mudcat.org, which seems to be a folk music discussion forum. (I guess these are more gospel, but probably same general subject area.)  Card Zero  (talk) 13:50, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

James Dolan Radio City Music Hall controversy

I notice a new controversy involving James Dolan. He allegedly had someone kicked out of a show at MSG. The controversy in question involves the Radio City Music Hall. I’m not sure which controversy section it fits under? Or if it belongs in the Radio City Music Hall article instead? The Cadillac Ranger (talk) 20:58, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

This isn't the place for article content questions, this will be best asked at either WP:BLPN or individual article talk pages. But the answer is likely that this doesn't belong in any Wikipedia article. Nil Einne (talk) 09:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for telling me the place to ask questions about a biography of living persons. The Cadillac Ranger (talk) 18:57, 22 December 2022 (UTC)