Talk:Scot Halpin

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I just watched the video of this show, and in Magic Bus when the drumming part comes Keith Moon actually drums for several minutes before passing out. Scatterkeir 22:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

WTF??

This guy from the crowd sits in with The Who some 35 years ago, does nothing else noteworthy that would cause him to be included in any encyclopedia (even this lame excuse for one), and he has a Wikipedia article. It figures.-24.197.2.22 (talk) 06:10, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

History is full of people who are notable for only one thing, sometimes just a sentence they spoke at the right time. Halpin was notable enough for The Times to write about him after he died, and that's enough. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:23, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Someone sounds jealous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.215.110.114 (talk) 02:36, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Who has not, at some point in their life imagined that they were summoned to fill in for a professional as an unlikely amateur, at a critical time. He lived this moment. What a great story. A photograph of Scot would make the article complete. --Limomansuds (talk) 19:09, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't know; whatever the standards for "notability" and inclusion in wikipedia, I found and read this article, so it must have some worth. This is the kind of article that wikipedia can have that no other encyclopedia would ever include, because of lack of space, etc. It's this kind of article that makes wikipedia cool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.69.204.131 (talk) 18:42, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Which is a polite way of saying it's trivia--interesting story, though, and as long as we keep the trivia out of non-trivial articles, it's okay with me. I generally consult Wikipedia only for pop-culture fluff anyway. TheScotch (talk)

Not notable

Well, not notable enough for his own page, according to the guidelines at WP:MUSIC. However, he is certainly worthy of mention in a section on The Who page, or on a page about the tour. Just not for a page of his own. If it wasn't for this one event, noone would suggest he have a page of his own -- see WP:BLP1E or WP:ONEEVENT. (And don't suggest he's assassinated a political leader, or that his stand-in of the year award has the status of a Grammy or a Daytime Emmy or something....) Discuss. 121.45.220.12 (talk) 12:10, 22 November 2009 (UTC)Dave

Here's what the notability guidelines say: The topic of an article should be notable, or "worthy of notice"; that is, "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded." Scot Halpin meets this requirement. The references are solid: Two separate articles in Rolling Stone and one from the SF Examiner. The Who article is packed, so much so that it has spun off a number of articles--this being one of them. Some authors have spent close to a thousand pages on just one of The Who members. Unless you want to get into that within Wikipedia, we're better off with different smaller articles.Pkeets (talk)

YouTube links?

I thought links to YouTube were generally discouraged on Wikipedia (WP:EL), particularly links to pirate videos not authorized by their owners. Don't get me wrong, I think the links to these remarkable moments of Scot Halpin winging it with The Who add tremendously to the value of the article - but they do violate current WP policy, don't they? —Blanchette (talk) 07:52, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

I thought audience shot videos on Youtube were audience owned. Unless the catalog owner has some objection to the songs being played at such low fidelity, then they're legit. The Who seems to consider them pretty good publicity. Pkeets (talk) 03:31, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Smokestack Lightning

` Daltrey introduced him as "Scot", and went straight into the riff of "Smokestack Lightning ' This is an impossibility although probably an honest mistake..Daltry was the singer..he did not go into the riff..it was probably Townsend possibly Entwistle but most likely not..this is probably a typo but should be changed 2602:306:BD95:45F0:8D55:6293:A892:20E2 (talk) 20:40, 4 July 2017 (UTC)