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41st United States Colored Troops[edit]

What is the most sensiscal way to refer to the 41st Regiment Infantry United States Colored Troops in order to express the USCT part as well as the infantry part? Which form is most used in sources?

41st Regiment Infantry United States Colored Troops
41st Infantry Regiment United States Colored Troops
others

--KAVEBEAR (talk) 16:12, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of United States Colored Troops Civil War units should give some insight. --Jayron 32 16:22, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah it links every infantry regiment as Regiment Infantry USCT, but I hardly find this ordering in outside sources.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 16:31, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That is the form in the list - but the individual articles either use the form 1st United States Colored Infantry Regiment, or just 1st United States Colored Infantry (changing the number according to whichever regiment you are talking about). 86.131.28.46 (talk) 17:08, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Another question: why does this source disagrees with these [1] and [2] when it comes to the date that the 41st USCT was mustered out and disbanded?--KAVEBEAR (talk) 14:37, 25 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What is sound banking?[edit]

What is sound banking?
I heard this somewhere, but wikipedia has no article about it, and google mostly give results of a company called sound banking company. 201.79.51.21 (talk) 16:37, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is banking which is sound, in the sense of in good condition, solid, strong. A sound banking system is a system of banks which is health and strong. --Jayron 32 16:41, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We'd need to see the source to be sure, but another possible meaning is storing sound samples, say for use in movies. By analogy, see seed bank. StuRat (talk) 00:46, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Those are called "sound effects libraries". See Sound editor (filmmaking), Foley (filmmaking), Stock sound effect all which discuss the concept. The phrase "sound bank" is not used in that context, as a quick google search shows. --Jayron 32 00:58, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I found plenty: [3]. StuRat (talk) 01:30, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Good find! --Jayron 32 01:37, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, "sound bank" can and does mean a bank (i.e. battery, magazine) consisting of sounds, and I almost brought it up too- except I don't think it can be used as a verb in that sense, and our OP here has a gerundive form in the header. It's not so much of a foley artist phrase as a DJ/electronic music thing, though there is some overlap. It is kind of funny to think that a bank of sounds and a bank that is sound are both sound banks :) SemanticMantis (talk) 13:33, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So a bank of sounds that was not in good condition would be an unsound sound bank. Gandalf61 (talk) 13:42, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

But what there was a healthy and strong audio repository located on the edge of a river? → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 03:38, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

Can interviews be used as references? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kipinj (talk • contribs) 18:07, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If it is published in a reliable source. It must be accessible to anyone who wants to look for it. --Jayron 32 18:12, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) Depends on what you want to use it for. Newspaper articles are often based on interviews, but an original interview would generally be regarded as data, rather than reference, in an academic paper. An interview which is not documented in a secondary source would not be a good source for Wikipedia, for example. "X told me Y" is primary research regardless of whether X was a famous person you interviewed or a friend you chatted to over coffee. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 18:17, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also note that an interview is a source for what was claimed by the interviewee, not that it is fact. So, if a person claims one birthdate in an interview, that would not trump a birth certificate with a different date. StuRat (talk) 21:26, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]