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[edit] The Below

I'm pretty sure that the below are just trolling vandalisms. I'm not sure I can revert them because they are evidence of wrongdoing by the anon. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 01:27, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

To clarify, I meant remove them because the FARC candidacy was placed here after these were... I wasn't sure it would be appropriate to simply remove them rather than reverting. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 00:02, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I removed them. Who cares about reporting it? They troll, we delete their comments. All even. TheImpossibleMan 13:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC) www.lost.eu/4de64

I'm sorry, but the English language should come before a pop song. I find it completely ridiculous that this comes up before the word itself. Wikipedia's priorities are completely retarded. And no, I'm not signing my post.

Huh? Freshacconci 10:29, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, anonymous, this is an encyclopedia not a dictionary. And yes, I am signing my post and not editing anonymously, but that's just me. John Cardinal 05:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Album infobox

I know the article already has a Beatles Single infobox, but Something is also the second track on Abbey Road - should we have a box for that as well? -MBlume 01:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

What for? Johnleemk | Talk 09:50, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I think you should have a 'look this up in Wiktionary' box as well, seeing as something is a common word in the English language as well. comment

comment?

[edit] Willie Weeks on bass

I removed (for now) the assertion George would rather have had Willie Weekes play bass on the song than Paul. There were two references for this quote, neither of which when I visited them said anything about wanting WW on bass. I don't object to it being in the article (in fact, I vaguely remember hearing it somewhere before), but it needs a proper reference - a few Beatles FA's have been removed lately for poor referencing and this should not be another one. Wwwhhh 15:38, 17 December 2006 (UTC) www.lost.eu/4de64

[edit] something not being the only beatles song sinatra performed.

I made the change, there is further proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_%28Frank_Sinatra_album%29

The quote on the article DID said that something was the only beatles song sinatra performed, but the quote is wrong :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.252.5.9 (talk) 18:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Something single.jpg

Image:Something single.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Vandalism

See I hadn't heard about this Stephen Colbert guy from anywhere other than Wikipedia as I'm not American, but he does exert some power. Did he tell people to specifically vandalise this article?--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 12:45, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "At the time, many believed..."

The "At the time" sentence that leads in to Harrison's quote is weak and unnecessary.

• It's weak because it doesn't say specifically who believed, and worse than that, it claims many believed without verifiable evidence to support the claim. Harrison's quote doesn't support the claim because Harrison isn't a good source for what everybody believed or presumed. Specifically, the statement says "many believed," but the evidence (the quote) only supports what Harrison thought people presumed. That's different. Harrison may not have even been referring to the generic "everybody" but rather a more specific group such as "everybody [in my social circle]."
• The sentence is unnecessary because it doesn't add anything notable that Harrison's quote doesn't already supply.
• The sentence is also weak because of the repetition of the intro phrase: At the time, many believed that Harrison's inspiration for "Something" was his wife at the time, Pattie Boyd.

Why doesn't the article just present the evidence with less adornment? That would be more accurate, and improve the narrative to boot.

Harrison said, "Everybody presumed I wrote ["Something"] about Patti, but actually when I wrote it I was thinking of Ray Charles."

This is not a big issue because many people probably did believe "Something" was about Pattie, and the paragraph in question is a minor bit in a single article and there are bigger problems to solve. My objections are based on principle and what I think is good, encyclopedic content. I added these comments because I strongly disagree with the recent edit summary about this paragraph, "Citation unneeded as reworded -- Harrison himself says this." — John Cardinal 03:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "not a major hit"

A #4 hit for a song already released on an album was quite a feat in those days in the UK. I would dispute this tag. --Jd204 20:16, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I sometimes see a weird anti-George attitude in the UK (I'm thinking of, for example, Tim Riley's Tell Me Why which is often really harsh on George). So I'm guessing there's a smugness in that George's first and only Beatle a-side "only" went to no. 4 in the UK. I may be wrong, but wasn't George always more popular in the US as a solo artist? But I agree: "not a major hit"? It's top 5: that's a solid hit. Freshacconci | Talk 22:11, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

currantly i havee no idea what this page is about so hi bye ty —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.196.216.208 (talk) 18:43, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

For me, It sounded like "not a major hit for a group like The Beatles". #4 is not a great succcess anyway. --JohnEmerald 14:34, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Of course it was a major hit! It reached the top five and stayed in the charts for three months. I'm rewording. Pawnkingthree (talk) 16:19, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What about the pronoun?

Wouldn't a person who searched for "something" be more likely to be looking for the pronoun? Someone the Person (talk) 02:05, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Not in an Encyclopedia. A dictionary, maybe, but Wikipedia is not a dictionary. (John User:Jwy talk) 02:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

The image is too small to be sure, but I don't think the single in the picture is correct. "Something" was the A-side, which would mean that the label should be the dark green "un-sliced" apple. "Come Together" would have the "sliced" apple label as the B-side. The single in the picture has a one-word title and is a B-side, which would make it "Revolution" (A-side "Hey Jude"). --Jdd204 (talk) 02:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Music Video

I think the music video should be mentioned in this article. It is somewhat a classic video with images of the Beatles with their girlfriends and wives. But its up to you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.255.98.194 (talk) 06:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)