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: Well, I found my copy of his book, and on page 6 he says that the B in Riley B King doesn't stand for anything. ] <sup>]</sup> 03:25, 28 May 2015 (UTC) : Well, I found my copy of his book, and on page 6 he says that the B in Riley B King doesn't stand for anything. ] <sup>]</sup> 03:25, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

== Punctuation in heading. ==

This may just be a nitpicky punctuation-type thing, but if correctness is important in Misplaced Pages, maybe it needs to be considered, all the same.

Sometimes, when I think I can guess with a high probability what a topic's Misplaced Pages article is likely to be, I guess the U.R.L. and enter it directly, and, accordingly, I entered "en.wikipedia.org/B._B._King" to look up this article. And I was a bit surprised to be redirected to a variant of this where the name was written as "B.B._King".

Isn't this, strictly speaking, incorrect? Shouldn't there be a space (or underscore) between the two initials? It looks uneven, and in fact incorrect, to see it spaced unevenly, as given. To make it even, you could close up the other space too, thus: "B.B.King" - but that looks just as bad. So all that's left is to give it as "B._B._King", which is what I initially assumed it would be.

So should it be changed to that? (I'm not sure I know how to do that, and also not sure if I would be out of line to do that without consulting others.) <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

:The article is titled this way per ] from a while back. There normally would be a space between initials, but in this case, B.B. was just part of his stage name, not the initials of his real name. And he always spelled it with no space between the letters. Therefore, we do the same thing. --] (]) 13:19, 26 May 2015 (UTC)


== 15 children == == 15 children ==

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middle name?

Editors are changing his name from "Riley B. King" to "Riley Ben King". IIRC, in his autobiography he said that the B doesn't stand for anything, but I can't find my (signed) copy of the book right now. Can someone please verify this, one way or the other? Bubba73 02:40, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Well, I found my copy of his book, and on page 6 he says that the B in Riley B King doesn't stand for anything. Bubba73 03:25, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

15 children

The article says "It is reported that he fathered 15 children with several different women and, as of 2004, had 50 grandchildren. So that must be an agreed reliable source, to be even included in this article? Why then does the infobox say he had only 3 children, with no source given? 20.133.0.13 (talk) 11:08, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Well, the source doesn't say anything about "50 grandchildren" (so I removed that), and the "15 children" really should have a second source (but since he's no longer a BLP...). Some IP added to the infobox with no explanation - so that has been reverted. --Musdan77 (talk) 02:25, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

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  1. Troupe, Quincy (June 4, 1958). "BB King: American Blues Musician, b. 1925". Jazzandbluesmasters.com. Retrieved February 17, 2010. ...was born on a cotton plantation, in Itta Bene , Mississippi, just outside the delta town of Indianola.
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