Talk:Hot mic

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A fact from Hot mic appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 September 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that at the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Ronald Reagan committed a microphone gaffe when he joked that he had signed legislation to bomb Russia?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/September.

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a list, not an article[edit]

Shouldn't this become List of notable open-microphone gaffes or something such? The actual article-type content isn't much past 100 words, followed by a whole lot of trivia.

And FWIW, a couple of decades ago I'd occasionally hear a camera director refer to "a hot mic," but much more commonly it was floor techs who'd call a microphone overloading its input "hot."
Weeb Dingle (talk) 17:49, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 9 May 2020[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 00:45, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Microphone gaffe → Hot mic – "Hot mic" is a very widely used term in the news, while "microphone gaffe" is much less common (and personally I do not think I have ever heard it). For some evidence, see that hot mic has 55,300 news results on Google, while "microphone gaffe" has just 17,500. DemonDays64 (talk) 22:43, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support Per WP:COMMONNAME._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 20:05, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom/WP:COMMONNAME. Cerebral726 (talk) 14:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per precision, concision, common name, recognizability, etc... Red Slash 20:24, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
A "hot mic" doesn't always mean a gaffe has been committed though, does it? Dennis Coventry (talk) 19:53, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Indeed not only gaffes[edit]

"a microphone that is switched on, especially without the speaker realizing" according to Cambridge Dictionary, and "microphone turned on talking to other players for a long period of time, without push to talk" according to Urban Dictionary. Ponken (talk) 12:08, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]