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Per the discussion here, I feel this topic needs to be brought up again and decisively dealt with. While consensus in a previous discussion here was that they aren't alternative rock, every time I tried to broach the topic on a Linkin Park article talk page the discussion never realy panned out. Some Linkin Park articles still list alt-rock as a genre. So please, add your two cents to the discussion (I will also be posting links to this talk page on relevant article talk page in order to centralize the discussion here). WesleyDodds ( talk) 06:03, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Linkin Park is a alternative rock band. Have you heard songs like In Between and Valentine's Day that's what you call alternative rock. -- Freedom (song) ( talk) 19:01, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
If U2 is alternative rock, then Linkin Park definitely is. Tezkag72 ( talk) 02:31, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
After realizing that the article for Murmur was not only less than 10kb but was shorter than the article for " Radio Free Europe", I undertook some emergency expansion (even though it's nowhere near my favorite R.E.M. album). Some of our High-Importance articles could use any sort of expansion. Here's a list of all the High-Importance album articles under 10kb:
Integrating album reviews is one of the easiest tasks. All of these albums have been discusssed at length in the music press, so sources shouldn't be too hard to find. WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Question: what does everyone think of there being two infoboxes for " Radio Free Europe"? This is the legacy of there originally being two different pages for the two different single releases of the song until I merged them almost a year ago. I've considered condensing them down into one infobox, but then again they refer to two separate versions of the same song, released on separate record labels with distinct B-sides (by the way, I have the resources to turn this page into a Featured Article, but I've been hesitant to start work on it). WesleyDodds ( talk) 09:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
The current layout is way too confusing. Condense it into one infobox and then discuss the discrepancies where appropriate. NSR77 T C 21:10, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I have confirmation from Dinosar Jr. management that there *should* be a period after the name of the band. She (Amy Abrams) stated this in the band discussion page but after the "voting" took place. I would like this reconsidered and changed given the fact that the band itself wants it that way. Arleach ( talk) 05:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
"Begin forwarded message:
From: Amy Abrams <amy@bleemusic.com> Date: May 16, 2008 15:06:53 CDT To: "Tom Meyer" <tmeyer1969@gmail.com> Subject: Re: photo for wikipedia
yes, that seems correct. Thanks for keeping up the wikipedia - I try to stay out of it unless something is just flat out wrong. I missed out on the vote about the period, which is a bummer, because it has been determined by the band that the period belongs there and we've been trying to be consistent with its use. oh well... Thanks again for your help.
Amy Abrams Bleemusic, Inc.
Arleach (
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06:25, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Here's a secret: a lot of my more intensive editing as part of the WikiProject is the result of me looking at the FA and GA lists every day and asking myself, "What areas need to improved?" I typically judge this according the number of FAs/GAs divided by criteria such as bands, albums, songs, alt-rock subgenres, decades, and so on. So I thought I'd just point out some trends I've noticed. For the sake of (my own) sanity, I'll just focus on FAs.
Yes, I'm bored and filled with idle curiosity. Why do you ask? WesleyDodds ( talk) 11:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi
I've created a Supergrass taskforce page now. Please join if you can help out with Supergrass articles.
Thanks
-- TwentiethApril1986 ( talk) 13:51, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but User:-5- has put in a lot of hard work into Pearl Jam-related articles. -5- has done so much work that it wouldn't take much to turn several of them into Good Articles. This has happened: both Ten and Vitalogy were project collaborations, and both are now GAs. I implore anyone knowledgeable about or interested in the group to help out, and maybe we could bring a whole swath of these articles to GA or even FA status rather soon. In particular, I ask that those who have experience with discography pages take a look at Pearl Jam discography. Could this be a Featured List? WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Commons decided to delete the one and only free picture of Stereolab the band that seems to be available, and thus, this FA is left without one. They next roll by my area in the fall, so until then I can't take one myself. I've emailed a couple people on the Internet who've posted their own pics online, to no avail. If anyone has some stashed somewhere or can ask a friend with concert pics to donate one, that would be great. - Merzbow ( talk) 03:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Good news everyone; I just undeleted the image; commons:Image:Stereolab live.jpg. I'm not sure what language its description is in... if someone does, could you tell me please (and translate, if possible). dihydrogen monoxide ( H2O) 06:47, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I've made a lot of changes to the Supergrass discography page and have nominated it for featured list. Please leave comments.
One thing I shouldn't have done was request a peer review before I submitted the discography for FL.
-- TwentiethApril1986 ( talk) 15:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Paramore is an alternative rock band right found many sources but people keep rejecting it. -- Freedom (song) ( talk) 19:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Wilco will be Today's Featured Article on June 8th. Keep your eyes peeled! WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
How come the News section on the Portal stopped being updated? -- TwentiethApril1986 ( talk) 08:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I added Underwater Moonlight to 1980 breakthrough albums because it's been cited by REM, the Replacements, Camper Van Beethoven, and the Smiths as a major influence. It was removed from the list though so if you don't want me to put it back let me know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tgodd ( talk • contribs) 23:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Any chance I can get the newsletter without actually being a member? :) I'd probably feel compelled to contribute if I actually added myself to the project, and I really a) don't think I'd be of much help and b) don't have enough time to try. Thanks, Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 03:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I've never done work on a live album article before, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to approach Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York. To start with, I'm thinking of having sections about the original performance, then the album release and chart placings, and then the home video releases. WesleyDodds ( talk) 04:39, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Do I just put the userbox on my page or what? Someone please tell me
Tezkag72 ( talk) 15:07, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
For you people into creating, expanding, and Featured List-ing discography articles, here's a number of Top/High Importance subjects that should have their discographies split off into new articles:
The Smiths,
Pulp,
Suede, and
Liz Phair
WesleyDodds (
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10:01, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
R.E.M. will be on the Main Page on July 10th. God help me . . . WesleyDodds ( talk) 22:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Crap, the day came upon me rather quickly. WesleyDodds ( talk) 04:40, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
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To implement the new C-class doesn't look too difficult: The project template {{ Wikiproject Alternative music}} needs updating by adding the necessary lines to the code for the new category, Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music/Assessment needs updating to have the new C-class as well as amendments to the B-class criteria to reflect the recent change. I'm not sure, but changes may need to be made to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Alternative music articles by quality statistics. I think that's all that needs doing, but I may have missed something. -- JD554 ( talk) 14:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Apparently we can decide to not use the rating; WP:MILHIST, for one, have decided against it. If we have articles that don't meet the B criteria, why not just label them "Start"? indopug ( talk) 23:00, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
I manually changed the thing to show C-class articles ( [1], [2]). Hopefully it'll work smoothly. indopug ( talk) 19:50, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm having an interesting discussion about this at Template talk:The Cure. I'd appreciate others people's input and I'd be happy to go with whatever consensus gets agreed. -- JD554 ( talk) 07:55, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I've requested a peer review of The Smiths discography and Morrissey discography with a view to taking them to WP:FLC. Any comments would be appreciated. Review pages are Wikipedia:Peer review/The Smiths discography/archive1 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Morrissey discography/archive1 respectively. Thanks -- JD554 ( talk) 12:28, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Anyone up for a project-wide collaboration where we work on a particular album article and its related singles, ultimately nominating it as a Featured Topic? I think this would be fun. Ideally we should choose an album with two or more notable songs with their own articles. Thoughts or suggestions? WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:02, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
A Powderfinger albums and Dream Days at the Hotel Existence FT both exist if you want examples to work off. I'll pitch in where I can on whatever you guys want to work on. — Giggy 09:34, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Another suggestion is one of the first two Oasis albums. Both records could easily be turned into FAs, and each features at least one song (" Live Forever" on Definitely Maybe, and " Wonderwall" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?) with enough material available to turn the respective article into an FA as well. WesleyDodds ( talk) 06:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
So ... let's pick one already. As personal preference, I wouldn't mind any of the albums mentioned above. Reckoning looks particularly inviting (only 2 singles + 1 Blender Greatest Songs page + plenty at Allmusic too). Melon Collie would be great too, but there are too many singles (six, if "Muzzle" counts). indopug ( talk) 11:42, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Here's a list of all the proposed albums, just to make browsing easier. I've also include the number of articles a possible Featured Topic would cover in parenthesis. This does not take into account articles that might have to be merged or created. WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:41, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
I'd say Automatic for the People or Ten. Both R.E.M. and Pearl Jam are fairly large alternative rock bands which I don't think the project has focused on much. Plus I think taking Nevermind to GA is overdue; since "SLTS" is FA and "In Bloom" is GA, it might not be a huge amount of work there. CloudNine ( talk) 09:00, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
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Anyone got any quotes for the next newsletter? What I'm looking for is utterly ridiculuous quotes by alt-rockers that will hopefully brighten your day when you get the newsletter at the start of the month. Any great quotes, list them here or on my talk page. I try to avoid using quotes from artists in the same groups as those already featured in past newsletters. WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:56, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
It's by far one of the saddest wikipedia pages I have ever seen, I have done all my limited expertise will offer, please try to add on to it. -- L0W3R1D3R | TH3 L0W3D0WN 21:24, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Caroline's Spine | |
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Origin | Phoenix, Arizona, United States (check their own MySpace Page Retard Who Thinks Its Tulsa) |
Genres | Rock |
Years active | 1993–2008 |
Labels | Anza Records, Hollywood Records |
Past members |
Jimmy Newquist Mark Haugh Scott Jones Jason Gilardi |
Nevermind and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are two articles close to GA status that largely just need the chart position sections sorted out. Any help is appreciated. WesleyDodds ( talk) 21:19, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Whats redundant adding rock music templates at the talk pages when its a alternative rock one their and why is it two sepparat projects for rock music, the rock music one scope all the one the alternative one has while the alternative one don't? -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 23:31, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
The rock music project is good for bands like Thirsty Merc that aren't particularly alternative (or particularly good), and don't really fall into any subgenre. That's why getting rid of it wouldn't be a good idea. — Giggy 09:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
That i know and when i say more controll is this scope problem for the rock music project and its no reason why it should be two different project. If you merge the rock music project you won't scope the other rock music articles the rock music one does, if you merge the alternative one and make it into the project you'll fix the redundant problem. And what's so bad being a taskforce? you can still have a newsletter or have a collaboration of the week so please explain? -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 10:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
You now what i give up with making you guys a taskforce, cause you don't want it.
Something else here now. See bands like Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age and Stone Temple Pilots should be in scope of the rock music project not the alternative project. Why these bands are most known for being hard rock bands not alternative rock once. -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 10:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Ok, there's absolutely no chance of this project being turned into a WP:Rock taskforce. There's no need to and no desire to the by the members, not to mention this has been around much longer and is far more active. What's really silly is that this all started because of talk page tagging. Really, it shouldn't be causing that much trouble. If an article fits under a more specific WikiProject, add those tags. Add the WP:Southern California tag instead of the WP:California or WP:United States ones. If it doesn't fit under a more specific WP, add a tag to a broader one. It's that simple, and reduces talk page clutter. What matters in the end is the work being done on the articles themselves. WesleyDodds ( talk) 04:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/United States military history task force which is a taskforce. It has more members of then the alternative wiki project and its a taskforce and this is whats best for wikipedia. -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 09:55, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
As CloudNine said "Yes, but the alternative wikiproject is the more specific of the two", thats wrong when it comes to Queens of the Stone Age related articles, One of the genres has something to do with the alternative wiki project, while the three other genres is in scope of the rock project. If its goin to be specific the rock music project should be added and the alternative wikiproject removed. I can find reliable sources if you want to to the genres. I'm not adding it before this discussion is over okay.
Oh and their genres are hard rock, desert rock, alternative rock and Neo-psychedelia. --
Be Black Hole Sun (
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18:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 04:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
People have been constantly been inserting the fact that an alternate version of the Smashing Pumpkins song " The End Is the Beginning Is the End" appears in the trailer to Watchmen. I maintain this is not notable, because there is nothing inherently notable about a song appearing in a movie trailer (think of all the times you've heard snippets of popular songs in movie previews). Would like some more opinions on this. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:10, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
I was flicking through a Times supplement the other day and found a two page spread on Sub Pop. It looked like a good source of quotes and history, so is anyone interested in working on the article with this source? I'll e-mail the text to anyone interested. CloudNine ( talk) 09:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Alice in Chains and Soundgarden why are they under the scope of the alternative project. I know that they are both grunge bands. But both of them are heavy metal bands at least AIC. I have read in many articles but they always mention Alice in Chains as a heavy metal band and Soundgardens half carrier was releasing metal albums like Ultramega OK and Louder than Love which didn't have anything to do with grunge with the exception of the band came from Seattle. -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 21:56, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Listen, dude. I'm going to say this frankly: you need to stop. You need to stop bringing up this pointless topic of redundancy and scope. We, the Alternative Music Project members, have decided unanimously to disregard your ideas with as much respect as humanly possible. Please do not continue to revisit this discussion. From here on out it is over and done with. NSR77 T C 22:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Flea is going to be featured on the main page on August 19. It's quite a surprise considering I didn't even pursue this! NSR77 T C 17:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Newbie here, committed to working on the alternative/indie/folk bands on label Saddle Creek. This will cover Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Good Life, Orenda Fink, Azure Ray and others. I have chosen to join the project despite how very little this record label's artists fit amongst the other bands also under this very broad genre. If there is somewhere perhaps a bit more suited for me, please let mek now on my Talk page. Thanks! Corythepaperboy ( talk) 07:51, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
In the interest of trying to prevent another month passing by with no new Featured Articles by the project, NSR77 and I have been working on Disintegration with hopes of having it promoted before the end of the month. It's well-referenced (really only need to cite the sales figures), but there's some prose work and general cleanup that still need to be done. I'm going to be out of town for the next few days without Internet access, and NSR77 has been travelling, so any help and fresh eyes for the article would be appreciated. WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm finally able to check out books from my university library again, so tomorrow I'm going to pick up the Classic Albums book on Nevermind as well as a few more items so I can work on some Nirvana song articles. Any help is appreciated. Also, if someone wants me to look for a source, let me know. WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:05, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
By the way, I think " In Bloom" might be FA-worthy soon. There's not as much info on the song as there is on " Smells Like Teen Spirit", so it's almost completely comprehensive. WesleyDodds ( talk) 03:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
While we're pretty good at maintaining articles once they achieve Featured or Good article status, I'd like to suggest that project members occasionally check out other high-quality articles they haven't been involved with. People occasionally leave Wikipedia (either short or long term) or just neglect pages they've worked on, and vandalism is always a pressing concern, so it'd be good if we kept multiple eyes out on our best articles. I know I like to check out the Featured pages regularly to see how they are doing. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:21, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I notice that there's articles for a large number of non-single Weezer songs. I'm going to start redirecting some. If anyone wants to help out, I would appreciate it. WesleyDodds ( talk) 03:35, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
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Giggy and I discussed cutting out all the discographies. In a physical Wikipedia release with a limited amount of articles, their role can be considered redundant to most artist articles, which generally list all the studio albums and give a basic overview of the artists' release history. If we were to do this, we should achieve a consensus about this with other music WikiProjects. I would also suggest removing all band members; those that have had notable solo careers (Bjork and Morrissey are two notable examples) could stay. Thoughts? WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:52, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Ok, aside from the discographies, here's a list of articles I feel should be removed from our selected list. Add more as you wish, and we can discuss any concerns about any listed below. WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
By the way, does anyone have an idea why not articles from Placebo (band) onward from the selection list are included in the Selectionbot page where we are supposed to paste the diff links? WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:57, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Aside from the ones listed above, Teemu08 suggested cutting Black Holes & Revelations. A few I wish to mention for discussion are 30 Seconds to Mars (not too important in the longterm), Achtung Baby (U2 barely fits unde our scope as it is, and this is the only album listed), Babyshambles (everyone cares about the Libertines instead, right?), Bloc Party (Good Article, but they're still establishing themselves), Diorama (album) (Feature Article, but not a seminal album), Ghosts I–IV (there's more important Nine Inch Nails releases), Gorillaz (mainly here because of Damon Albarn, and the article is filled with too much in-universe fictional story junk), Kaiser Chiefs (too newish and not important enough), Keane (band) (ditto), One Hot Minute (one of our best album FAs, but even NSR77 would tell you this is basically a footnote in the Chili Peppers' career), Sufjan Stevens (indie darling, but there are other indie darlings more deserving who didn't make the cut), The Decemberists (another indie darling that while a big deal to some, just isn't important enough in the broad sense). So any objects or supports? WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Alright, before we settle on the final cuts, the last thing I want to bring up is possibly cutting articles from the list of poor quality that have no chances of improvement before October 20th. Indie rock is at the top of the queue for me; it's a mess. Gothic rock and most of the other genre articles also fall into this category. We don't want to let articles full of original research and poor writing making the 0.7 selection, so what articles from the list do you think shouldn't be on there due to quality concerns? WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:21, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Many thanks: I can see that much thought has gone into this feedback, and we appreciate that! I have listed all of the articles under "remove just from WP:Alt music"; some of these may be more important for other projects, and so may remain in (e.g. Achtung Baby under the U2 project), but many will disappear completely from the selection. We also appreciate the cleanup work that's been done. I also have a suggestion regarding disappearing talk page templates, I'll mention that below. Cheers, Walkerma ( talk) 06:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Can people keep a lookout to make sure the project template isn't removed from talk pages? Be Black Hole Sun is in a habit of replacing the project template with the Rock WikiProject one. I'm not too concerned with every article under the scope of the project being tagged with our template (I for one do little tagging myself, and only for really important things), but I do keep an eye out on the class rankings displayed on the project's main page in order to gauge article quality progress, and it's really frustrating when the numbers decrease and I'm left wondering what's missing. WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:33, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
I want some second opinions: should there be articles for Fecal Matter (band) and Illiteracy Will Prevail? Both have signifigance as the earliest recorded music Kurt Cobain made (recorded as in: made on a tape machine in his bedroom). Even though Cobain and Nirvana are so notable it hurts, I have doubts that we need or should even have articles for stuff a teenage Cobain recorded before forming Nirvana and that was never made public or commercially released during his lifetime. WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:48, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
The album is nommed here. NSR77 T C 20:33, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Animal Collective discography was created last night by Pastoryam13 ( talk · contribs), and at first I thought "hmm, this is pretty good for someone's first edit!"
Except it's actually a Mogwai discography.
I hate leaving an inaccurate article in mainspace, but I really don't have time to work on this right now; perhaps one of the featured discography machines that hang around here can sort this out? One barnstar will be awarded in return :) Thanks, Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 12:36, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, there's currently an important discussion going on about the removal of genre fields in band and album infoboxes. You can read the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box? and provide any opinions you may have. WesleyDodds ( talk) 06:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
We've got only a few days left until the Wikipedia 0.7 drive wraps up, and we need to pick selected versions for some major articles. I'll take care of Alternative rock, The Cure, and Nevermind. Here are some high-priority pages that still need a version selected and/or cleanup:
Nirvana (band),
Oasis (band) (Reeeeeally needs cleanup),
U2,
Nine Inch Nails,
OK Computer,
Coldplay,
Alice in Chains,
Green Day,
Pixies,
Kurt Cobain,
Rage Against the Machine,
The Smiths,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Sonic Youth,
Foo Fighters,
Beck,
The White Stripes,
Courtney Love,
Liam Gallagher,
Stone Temple Pilots,
Kid A,
Audioslave
If you need help cleaning an article up, let us know. WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:57, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Important note: pages might also appear under selection lists for other projects, so place the links there as well. In some cases, they appear in selection lists for projects even if that project's tag was removed. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
You know the drill. You can add your comments about the article here. WesleyDodds ( talk) 09:24, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
So . . . anyone have any ideas on what should be my next project? I've just finished up a Featured Article Review for a non-music article, but I don't really want to work on anything I've done a lot of work on previously. For example, I've taken most of the Nirvana articles I've worked on as far as I can for the moment, so I want to rule those out. Also, anyone else looking for ideas for future projects, reply here and maybe we'll get some suggestions going for you as well. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:48, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
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Per the discussion here, I feel this topic needs to be brought up again and decisively dealt with. While consensus in a previous discussion here was that they aren't alternative rock, every time I tried to broach the topic on a Linkin Park article talk page the discussion never realy panned out. Some Linkin Park articles still list alt-rock as a genre. So please, add your two cents to the discussion (I will also be posting links to this talk page on relevant article talk page in order to centralize the discussion here). WesleyDodds ( talk) 06:03, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Linkin Park is a alternative rock band. Have you heard songs like In Between and Valentine's Day that's what you call alternative rock. -- Freedom (song) ( talk) 19:01, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
If U2 is alternative rock, then Linkin Park definitely is. Tezkag72 ( talk) 02:31, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
After realizing that the article for Murmur was not only less than 10kb but was shorter than the article for " Radio Free Europe", I undertook some emergency expansion (even though it's nowhere near my favorite R.E.M. album). Some of our High-Importance articles could use any sort of expansion. Here's a list of all the High-Importance album articles under 10kb:
Integrating album reviews is one of the easiest tasks. All of these albums have been discusssed at length in the music press, so sources shouldn't be too hard to find. WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Question: what does everyone think of there being two infoboxes for " Radio Free Europe"? This is the legacy of there originally being two different pages for the two different single releases of the song until I merged them almost a year ago. I've considered condensing them down into one infobox, but then again they refer to two separate versions of the same song, released on separate record labels with distinct B-sides (by the way, I have the resources to turn this page into a Featured Article, but I've been hesitant to start work on it). WesleyDodds ( talk) 09:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
The current layout is way too confusing. Condense it into one infobox and then discuss the discrepancies where appropriate. NSR77 T C 21:10, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I have confirmation from Dinosar Jr. management that there *should* be a period after the name of the band. She (Amy Abrams) stated this in the band discussion page but after the "voting" took place. I would like this reconsidered and changed given the fact that the band itself wants it that way. Arleach ( talk) 05:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
"Begin forwarded message:
From: Amy Abrams <amy@bleemusic.com> Date: May 16, 2008 15:06:53 CDT To: "Tom Meyer" <tmeyer1969@gmail.com> Subject: Re: photo for wikipedia
yes, that seems correct. Thanks for keeping up the wikipedia - I try to stay out of it unless something is just flat out wrong. I missed out on the vote about the period, which is a bummer, because it has been determined by the band that the period belongs there and we've been trying to be consistent with its use. oh well... Thanks again for your help.
Amy Abrams Bleemusic, Inc.
Arleach (
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06:25, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Here's a secret: a lot of my more intensive editing as part of the WikiProject is the result of me looking at the FA and GA lists every day and asking myself, "What areas need to improved?" I typically judge this according the number of FAs/GAs divided by criteria such as bands, albums, songs, alt-rock subgenres, decades, and so on. So I thought I'd just point out some trends I've noticed. For the sake of (my own) sanity, I'll just focus on FAs.
Yes, I'm bored and filled with idle curiosity. Why do you ask? WesleyDodds ( talk) 11:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi
I've created a Supergrass taskforce page now. Please join if you can help out with Supergrass articles.
Thanks
-- TwentiethApril1986 ( talk) 13:51, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but User:-5- has put in a lot of hard work into Pearl Jam-related articles. -5- has done so much work that it wouldn't take much to turn several of them into Good Articles. This has happened: both Ten and Vitalogy were project collaborations, and both are now GAs. I implore anyone knowledgeable about or interested in the group to help out, and maybe we could bring a whole swath of these articles to GA or even FA status rather soon. In particular, I ask that those who have experience with discography pages take a look at Pearl Jam discography. Could this be a Featured List? WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Commons decided to delete the one and only free picture of Stereolab the band that seems to be available, and thus, this FA is left without one. They next roll by my area in the fall, so until then I can't take one myself. I've emailed a couple people on the Internet who've posted their own pics online, to no avail. If anyone has some stashed somewhere or can ask a friend with concert pics to donate one, that would be great. - Merzbow ( talk) 03:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Good news everyone; I just undeleted the image; commons:Image:Stereolab live.jpg. I'm not sure what language its description is in... if someone does, could you tell me please (and translate, if possible). dihydrogen monoxide ( H2O) 06:47, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I've made a lot of changes to the Supergrass discography page and have nominated it for featured list. Please leave comments.
One thing I shouldn't have done was request a peer review before I submitted the discography for FL.
-- TwentiethApril1986 ( talk) 15:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Paramore is an alternative rock band right found many sources but people keep rejecting it. -- Freedom (song) ( talk) 19:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Wilco will be Today's Featured Article on June 8th. Keep your eyes peeled! WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
How come the News section on the Portal stopped being updated? -- TwentiethApril1986 ( talk) 08:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I added Underwater Moonlight to 1980 breakthrough albums because it's been cited by REM, the Replacements, Camper Van Beethoven, and the Smiths as a major influence. It was removed from the list though so if you don't want me to put it back let me know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tgodd ( talk • contribs) 23:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Any chance I can get the newsletter without actually being a member? :) I'd probably feel compelled to contribute if I actually added myself to the project, and I really a) don't think I'd be of much help and b) don't have enough time to try. Thanks, Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 03:02, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
I've never done work on a live album article before, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to approach Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York. To start with, I'm thinking of having sections about the original performance, then the album release and chart placings, and then the home video releases. WesleyDodds ( talk) 04:39, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Do I just put the userbox on my page or what? Someone please tell me
Tezkag72 ( talk) 15:07, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
For you people into creating, expanding, and Featured List-ing discography articles, here's a number of Top/High Importance subjects that should have their discographies split off into new articles:
The Smiths,
Pulp,
Suede, and
Liz Phair
WesleyDodds (
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10:01, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
R.E.M. will be on the Main Page on July 10th. God help me . . . WesleyDodds ( talk) 22:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Crap, the day came upon me rather quickly. WesleyDodds ( talk) 04:40, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 22:23, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
To implement the new C-class doesn't look too difficult: The project template {{ Wikiproject Alternative music}} needs updating by adding the necessary lines to the code for the new category, Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music/Assessment needs updating to have the new C-class as well as amendments to the B-class criteria to reflect the recent change. I'm not sure, but changes may need to be made to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Alternative music articles by quality statistics. I think that's all that needs doing, but I may have missed something. -- JD554 ( talk) 14:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Apparently we can decide to not use the rating; WP:MILHIST, for one, have decided against it. If we have articles that don't meet the B criteria, why not just label them "Start"? indopug ( talk) 23:00, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
I manually changed the thing to show C-class articles ( [1], [2]). Hopefully it'll work smoothly. indopug ( talk) 19:50, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm having an interesting discussion about this at Template talk:The Cure. I'd appreciate others people's input and I'd be happy to go with whatever consensus gets agreed. -- JD554 ( talk) 07:55, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I've requested a peer review of The Smiths discography and Morrissey discography with a view to taking them to WP:FLC. Any comments would be appreciated. Review pages are Wikipedia:Peer review/The Smiths discography/archive1 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Morrissey discography/archive1 respectively. Thanks -- JD554 ( talk) 12:28, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Anyone up for a project-wide collaboration where we work on a particular album article and its related singles, ultimately nominating it as a Featured Topic? I think this would be fun. Ideally we should choose an album with two or more notable songs with their own articles. Thoughts or suggestions? WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:02, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
A Powderfinger albums and Dream Days at the Hotel Existence FT both exist if you want examples to work off. I'll pitch in where I can on whatever you guys want to work on. — Giggy 09:34, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Another suggestion is one of the first two Oasis albums. Both records could easily be turned into FAs, and each features at least one song (" Live Forever" on Definitely Maybe, and " Wonderwall" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?) with enough material available to turn the respective article into an FA as well. WesleyDodds ( talk) 06:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
So ... let's pick one already. As personal preference, I wouldn't mind any of the albums mentioned above. Reckoning looks particularly inviting (only 2 singles + 1 Blender Greatest Songs page + plenty at Allmusic too). Melon Collie would be great too, but there are too many singles (six, if "Muzzle" counts). indopug ( talk) 11:42, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Here's a list of all the proposed albums, just to make browsing easier. I've also include the number of articles a possible Featured Topic would cover in parenthesis. This does not take into account articles that might have to be merged or created. WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:41, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
I'd say Automatic for the People or Ten. Both R.E.M. and Pearl Jam are fairly large alternative rock bands which I don't think the project has focused on much. Plus I think taking Nevermind to GA is overdue; since "SLTS" is FA and "In Bloom" is GA, it might not be a huge amount of work there. CloudNine ( talk) 09:00, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 1219 articles are assigned to this project, of which 380, or 31.2%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subscribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 11:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Anyone got any quotes for the next newsletter? What I'm looking for is utterly ridiculuous quotes by alt-rockers that will hopefully brighten your day when you get the newsletter at the start of the month. Any great quotes, list them here or on my talk page. I try to avoid using quotes from artists in the same groups as those already featured in past newsletters. WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:56, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
It's by far one of the saddest wikipedia pages I have ever seen, I have done all my limited expertise will offer, please try to add on to it. -- L0W3R1D3R | TH3 L0W3D0WN 21:24, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Caroline's Spine | |
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Origin | Phoenix, Arizona, United States (check their own MySpace Page Retard Who Thinks Its Tulsa) |
Genres | Rock |
Years active | 1993–2008 |
Labels | Anza Records, Hollywood Records |
Past members |
Jimmy Newquist Mark Haugh Scott Jones Jason Gilardi |
Nevermind and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are two articles close to GA status that largely just need the chart position sections sorted out. Any help is appreciated. WesleyDodds ( talk) 21:19, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Whats redundant adding rock music templates at the talk pages when its a alternative rock one their and why is it two sepparat projects for rock music, the rock music one scope all the one the alternative one has while the alternative one don't? -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 23:31, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
The rock music project is good for bands like Thirsty Merc that aren't particularly alternative (or particularly good), and don't really fall into any subgenre. That's why getting rid of it wouldn't be a good idea. — Giggy 09:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
That i know and when i say more controll is this scope problem for the rock music project and its no reason why it should be two different project. If you merge the rock music project you won't scope the other rock music articles the rock music one does, if you merge the alternative one and make it into the project you'll fix the redundant problem. And what's so bad being a taskforce? you can still have a newsletter or have a collaboration of the week so please explain? -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 10:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
You now what i give up with making you guys a taskforce, cause you don't want it.
Something else here now. See bands like Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age and Stone Temple Pilots should be in scope of the rock music project not the alternative project. Why these bands are most known for being hard rock bands not alternative rock once. -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 10:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Ok, there's absolutely no chance of this project being turned into a WP:Rock taskforce. There's no need to and no desire to the by the members, not to mention this has been around much longer and is far more active. What's really silly is that this all started because of talk page tagging. Really, it shouldn't be causing that much trouble. If an article fits under a more specific WikiProject, add those tags. Add the WP:Southern California tag instead of the WP:California or WP:United States ones. If it doesn't fit under a more specific WP, add a tag to a broader one. It's that simple, and reduces talk page clutter. What matters in the end is the work being done on the articles themselves. WesleyDodds ( talk) 04:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/United States military history task force which is a taskforce. It has more members of then the alternative wiki project and its a taskforce and this is whats best for wikipedia. -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 09:55, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
As CloudNine said "Yes, but the alternative wikiproject is the more specific of the two", thats wrong when it comes to Queens of the Stone Age related articles, One of the genres has something to do with the alternative wiki project, while the three other genres is in scope of the rock project. If its goin to be specific the rock music project should be added and the alternative wikiproject removed. I can find reliable sources if you want to to the genres. I'm not adding it before this discussion is over okay.
Oh and their genres are hard rock, desert rock, alternative rock and Neo-psychedelia. --
Be Black Hole Sun (
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18:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 04:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
People have been constantly been inserting the fact that an alternate version of the Smashing Pumpkins song " The End Is the Beginning Is the End" appears in the trailer to Watchmen. I maintain this is not notable, because there is nothing inherently notable about a song appearing in a movie trailer (think of all the times you've heard snippets of popular songs in movie previews). Would like some more opinions on this. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:10, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
I was flicking through a Times supplement the other day and found a two page spread on Sub Pop. It looked like a good source of quotes and history, so is anyone interested in working on the article with this source? I'll e-mail the text to anyone interested. CloudNine ( talk) 09:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Alice in Chains and Soundgarden why are they under the scope of the alternative project. I know that they are both grunge bands. But both of them are heavy metal bands at least AIC. I have read in many articles but they always mention Alice in Chains as a heavy metal band and Soundgardens half carrier was releasing metal albums like Ultramega OK and Louder than Love which didn't have anything to do with grunge with the exception of the band came from Seattle. -- Be Black Hole Sun ( talk) 21:56, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Listen, dude. I'm going to say this frankly: you need to stop. You need to stop bringing up this pointless topic of redundancy and scope. We, the Alternative Music Project members, have decided unanimously to disregard your ideas with as much respect as humanly possible. Please do not continue to revisit this discussion. From here on out it is over and done with. NSR77 T C 22:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Flea is going to be featured on the main page on August 19. It's quite a surprise considering I didn't even pursue this! NSR77 T C 17:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Newbie here, committed to working on the alternative/indie/folk bands on label Saddle Creek. This will cover Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Good Life, Orenda Fink, Azure Ray and others. I have chosen to join the project despite how very little this record label's artists fit amongst the other bands also under this very broad genre. If there is somewhere perhaps a bit more suited for me, please let mek now on my Talk page. Thanks! Corythepaperboy ( talk) 07:51, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
In the interest of trying to prevent another month passing by with no new Featured Articles by the project, NSR77 and I have been working on Disintegration with hopes of having it promoted before the end of the month. It's well-referenced (really only need to cite the sales figures), but there's some prose work and general cleanup that still need to be done. I'm going to be out of town for the next few days without Internet access, and NSR77 has been travelling, so any help and fresh eyes for the article would be appreciated. WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm finally able to check out books from my university library again, so tomorrow I'm going to pick up the Classic Albums book on Nevermind as well as a few more items so I can work on some Nirvana song articles. Any help is appreciated. Also, if someone wants me to look for a source, let me know. WesleyDodds ( talk) 10:05, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
By the way, I think " In Bloom" might be FA-worthy soon. There's not as much info on the song as there is on " Smells Like Teen Spirit", so it's almost completely comprehensive. WesleyDodds ( talk) 03:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
While we're pretty good at maintaining articles once they achieve Featured or Good article status, I'd like to suggest that project members occasionally check out other high-quality articles they haven't been involved with. People occasionally leave Wikipedia (either short or long term) or just neglect pages they've worked on, and vandalism is always a pressing concern, so it'd be good if we kept multiple eyes out on our best articles. I know I like to check out the Featured pages regularly to see how they are doing. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:21, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I notice that there's articles for a large number of non-single Weezer songs. I'm going to start redirecting some. If anyone wants to help out, I would appreciate it. WesleyDodds ( talk) 03:35, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
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Giggy and I discussed cutting out all the discographies. In a physical Wikipedia release with a limited amount of articles, their role can be considered redundant to most artist articles, which generally list all the studio albums and give a basic overview of the artists' release history. If we were to do this, we should achieve a consensus about this with other music WikiProjects. I would also suggest removing all band members; those that have had notable solo careers (Bjork and Morrissey are two notable examples) could stay. Thoughts? WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:52, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Ok, aside from the discographies, here's a list of articles I feel should be removed from our selected list. Add more as you wish, and we can discuss any concerns about any listed below. WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
By the way, does anyone have an idea why not articles from Placebo (band) onward from the selection list are included in the Selectionbot page where we are supposed to paste the diff links? WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:57, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Aside from the ones listed above, Teemu08 suggested cutting Black Holes & Revelations. A few I wish to mention for discussion are 30 Seconds to Mars (not too important in the longterm), Achtung Baby (U2 barely fits unde our scope as it is, and this is the only album listed), Babyshambles (everyone cares about the Libertines instead, right?), Bloc Party (Good Article, but they're still establishing themselves), Diorama (album) (Feature Article, but not a seminal album), Ghosts I–IV (there's more important Nine Inch Nails releases), Gorillaz (mainly here because of Damon Albarn, and the article is filled with too much in-universe fictional story junk), Kaiser Chiefs (too newish and not important enough), Keane (band) (ditto), One Hot Minute (one of our best album FAs, but even NSR77 would tell you this is basically a footnote in the Chili Peppers' career), Sufjan Stevens (indie darling, but there are other indie darlings more deserving who didn't make the cut), The Decemberists (another indie darling that while a big deal to some, just isn't important enough in the broad sense). So any objects or supports? WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Alright, before we settle on the final cuts, the last thing I want to bring up is possibly cutting articles from the list of poor quality that have no chances of improvement before October 20th. Indie rock is at the top of the queue for me; it's a mess. Gothic rock and most of the other genre articles also fall into this category. We don't want to let articles full of original research and poor writing making the 0.7 selection, so what articles from the list do you think shouldn't be on there due to quality concerns? WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:21, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Many thanks: I can see that much thought has gone into this feedback, and we appreciate that! I have listed all of the articles under "remove just from WP:Alt music"; some of these may be more important for other projects, and so may remain in (e.g. Achtung Baby under the U2 project), but many will disappear completely from the selection. We also appreciate the cleanup work that's been done. I also have a suggestion regarding disappearing talk page templates, I'll mention that below. Cheers, Walkerma ( talk) 06:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Can people keep a lookout to make sure the project template isn't removed from talk pages? Be Black Hole Sun is in a habit of replacing the project template with the Rock WikiProject one. I'm not too concerned with every article under the scope of the project being tagged with our template (I for one do little tagging myself, and only for really important things), but I do keep an eye out on the class rankings displayed on the project's main page in order to gauge article quality progress, and it's really frustrating when the numbers decrease and I'm left wondering what's missing. WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:33, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
I want some second opinions: should there be articles for Fecal Matter (band) and Illiteracy Will Prevail? Both have signifigance as the earliest recorded music Kurt Cobain made (recorded as in: made on a tape machine in his bedroom). Even though Cobain and Nirvana are so notable it hurts, I have doubts that we need or should even have articles for stuff a teenage Cobain recorded before forming Nirvana and that was never made public or commercially released during his lifetime. WesleyDodds ( talk) 05:48, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
The album is nommed here. NSR77 T C 20:33, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Animal Collective discography was created last night by Pastoryam13 ( talk · contribs), and at first I thought "hmm, this is pretty good for someone's first edit!"
Except it's actually a Mogwai discography.
I hate leaving an inaccurate article in mainspace, but I really don't have time to work on this right now; perhaps one of the featured discography machines that hang around here can sort this out? One barnstar will be awarded in return :) Thanks, Fvasconcellos ( t· c) 12:36, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, there's currently an important discussion going on about the removal of genre fields in band and album infoboxes. You can read the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box? and provide any opinions you may have. WesleyDodds ( talk) 06:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
We've got only a few days left until the Wikipedia 0.7 drive wraps up, and we need to pick selected versions for some major articles. I'll take care of Alternative rock, The Cure, and Nevermind. Here are some high-priority pages that still need a version selected and/or cleanup:
Nirvana (band),
Oasis (band) (Reeeeeally needs cleanup),
U2,
Nine Inch Nails,
OK Computer,
Coldplay,
Alice in Chains,
Green Day,
Pixies,
Kurt Cobain,
Rage Against the Machine,
The Smiths,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Sonic Youth,
Foo Fighters,
Beck,
The White Stripes,
Courtney Love,
Liam Gallagher,
Stone Temple Pilots,
Kid A,
Audioslave
If you need help cleaning an article up, let us know. WesleyDodds ( talk) 07:57, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Important note: pages might also appear under selection lists for other projects, so place the links there as well. In some cases, they appear in selection lists for projects even if that project's tag was removed. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
You know the drill. You can add your comments about the article here. WesleyDodds ( talk) 09:24, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
So . . . anyone have any ideas on what should be my next project? I've just finished up a Featured Article Review for a non-music article, but I don't really want to work on anything I've done a lot of work on previously. For example, I've taken most of the Nirvana articles I've worked on as far as I can for the moment, so I want to rule those out. Also, anyone else looking for ideas for future projects, reply here and maybe we'll get some suggestions going for you as well. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:48, 28 October 2008 (UTC)