Talk:Wahoos

A Winner of the September 2005 West Dakota Prize

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This entry, one of an unprecedented 52, has won the September 2005 West Dakota Prize, awarded for successfully employing the expression "legend states" in a complete sentence.

Edits of November 21, 2005

Statements such as "The nickname is of uncertain provenance," "The most legitimate theory comes from official University of Virginia sports documents," and "there is no theory suggesting why the University would have adopted a nickname based on another school's cheer" have been removed to improve the accuracy and reduce the bias of this article.

The sentence "Legend states that Natalie Floyd Otey came to Charlottesville's Opera House in 1893 and sang "Where'er You Are, There Shall My Love Be"" and succeeding information about that song were removed despite winning the Dakota award because they were inaccurate and misleading. Otey's second name is spelled Flloyd; it was the Levy Opera House; and the more important song she sang was "Wah-hoo-wah." A note was left in to allow for students possibly singing the chorus of that song to another of Otey's pieces.

Merge with Good Old Song

No to the merge, but: This wahoos page should be about the name wahoo; it's currently about the song. There's lots more to be said about wahoos, and the song oughta be removed from this page. As it stands if you remove the wahoo page you don't remove much, and if anything this page gets merged into Good Old Song, not the other way around. B.S. Lawrence (talk) 19:17, 1 November 2008 (UTC)