Talk:Love Parade

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Contents 1 visitors 2 Which cities still have Love Parade? 3 Quality of English 4 Spelling 5 Megawatts 6 Madonna 7 Anthem

[edit] visitors

loveparade.net says 1.200.000 people were there this year. So what source says 1.000.000?

[edit] Which cities still have Love Parade?

The intro paragraph says "Only the Acapulco, Tel Aviv, Santiago, and Berlin Love Parades continue to operate." Does this mean specifically "...continue to operate with the official license of the Berlin Love Parade organization"? Because San Francisco still has its Love Fest, which is simply called by a different name and not licensed (according to a later section of the article). I think the sentence is misleading as it currently stands, so I am going to delete it soon unless someone can explain sentence more clearly and provide a good source. Dave Runger 04:58, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I have deleted the sentence since it is at best misleading and unsourced, and at worst false. Dave Runger 17:19, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quality of English

The English in this article is pretty poor, as a native English and German speaker I can see that large parts have been translated directly from the german, for example:

The Love Parade may be a dinosaur

the parade produces a sound floor of many megawatts. The parade basically lives through those trucks.

This needs to be worked on. John Hayes - On Vacation^talk 10:57, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

"the german"? And you claim to be a native English speaker? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.181.37.37 (talk) 19:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

He probably meant, "the german version". In any case, he's right about the examples he gave so why go all ad-hominem on him? 80.128.83.154 (talk) 21:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling

"Loveparade" is and has always been spelled as one word (as opposed to "Love Parade"). This article should be amended accordingly.

Maybe in German, but in English "Love Parade" is overwhelmingly more common: Google finds 1,140,000 vs 334,000 for English-language pages. Jpatokal (talk) 14:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Megawatts

This statement cannot be accurate:

"With its water-cooled sound systems on every truck, the parade produces an extremely loud sound floor of many megawatts"

The largest subwoofer in the world can only consume 1kW of power*. I don't believe it can be accurate to say that the Loveparade is composed of speaker systems (or a "sound floor") of many megawatts. Thus, I changed the page, and I'm explaining the change here (is that the wrong way to go about using the Talk page? If so, my bad). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.74.102.163 (talk) 23:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Madonna

How can the Love Parade be the subject of Madonna's song Dear Jessie? Dear Jessie is on the Album Like a Prayer which was recorded back in 1988 and released spring 1989. The Love Parade didn't even exist then!

Anyone knows which kind of "love parade" the song is about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.65.1.9 (talk) 08:52, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Anthem

I just can't understand. 1-st love parade was in 1989, so what this string means "1997 Dr. Motte and Westbam Sunshine"? is this a year, then single was released, or this means date of love parade?--80.246.245.150 (talk) 10:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, 1989. The anthem is for 1997. Jpatokal (talk) 05:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)