Talk:Minstrel

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[edit] Questionable edits

I think these uncited anonymous changes are basically wrong, but I don't really know the topic well enough to say. The notion of calling, say a 19th century (or later) street singer a "minstrel" in any but a metaphoric sense seems wrong to me. I'd appreciate if someone who knows more about the history of music would weigh in. I'm going to tag it with {{expert}}. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree, though googling certainly doesn't confirm it. Tuf-Kat 02:05, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

GOOGLE IS THE FINAL WORD ON EVERYTHING! Fuck Google, it's hardly the source of all knowledge. If you know something and Google doesn't say it then trust yourself and hunt out another source, if you've time... Anyway, a less offensive but likely equally unimportant point is that the same photo of a "modern-day troubadour" is being used for a "modern-day minstrel". Which is he meant to be? Given the distinction between the two that I had always assumed and that the Googling wonders of Wikipedia seem to confirm, he can hardly be both. Unless he's neither... (The argument from whoever posted the photo will be "But he's playing the same music". So what? The mediaeval minstrels played much of the same music as the mediaeval troubadours and there's a distinction.)88.66.62.104 23:17, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Since this mostly plausible massive uncited unwikified anonymous addition also removes external links and interwikis and sneaks in the words "butt sex", I'm going to guess that it is plagiarised from somewhere and is basically vandalism, so I am reverting. - Jmabel | Talk 03:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Ha! It was just rearranged paragraphs from this very article. - Jmabel | Talk 03:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Can we get a picture from a manuscript or something, instead of the pseudo-parodic RenFair fellow? Chubbles (talk) 01:47, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Agreed! An authentic historic depiction would be A Good Thing.

65.213.77.129 (talk) 18:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)