Talk:Little people

Uppercase to lowercase

This is purely an issue of grammar, I changed the first letters to lowercase in the first parts because there's no reason for them to be upper in common usage, just in organization titles where they tend to make EVERYTHING uppercase (except things like of/the). Tyciol (talk) 22:37, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

an addition

from Troy_Town:

Many of the stone labyrinths around the Baltic coast of Sweden were built by fishermen during rough weather and were believed to entrap evil spirits, the "smågubbar" or "little people" who brought bad luck. The fishermen would walk to the centre of the labyrinth, enticing the spirits to follow them, and then run out and put to sea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.250.5.143 (talk) 23:11, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Little People in politics

Has anyone thought to include a disambiguation? I hear the common person referred to as "The Little People" in political contexts, but nothing here. I'm sure it was originally a literary reference, but I can't prove it. MarchHare (talk) 05:49, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I had difficulty finding a relevant article to include for that. Electorate it itself a disambiguation page and did not link to anything that fits the suggested meaning.

The phrase seems to have meant different things to, say, Stalin – "the voice of the masses, to the voice of the rank-and-file members of the Party, to the voice of the so-called 'little people,' to the voice of the people" – and Palin – "remember us 'little people' who believed in them, donated to their campaigns, spent hours tirelessly volunteering for them, and trusted them with our votes".

Neither working class nor proletariat matches the idea.

In the end I added voters here and at electorate. – Fayenatic (talk) 17:21, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

"See also" links

See User talk:Theoldsparkle#Little people for a discussion between two editors on what to include here. – Fayenatic (talk) 17:21, 17 October 2011 (UTC)