Talk:Diamond Rio

Early comment
We really need a better image of the group. The current image only shows three of the group members. Ten Pound Hammer • (((Actions • Words))) 01:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Rewrite made
I just gave this article a serious overhaul. Feel free to let me know what y'all think of it. Ten Pound Hammer • (((Actions • Words))) 04:36, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Fantastic. It looks like an actual article now. Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk? ) 21:09, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Meetinthemiddle.jpg
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GAN on hold
Looking mostly good. Leave a note on my talk page when done. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 09:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Infobox...quite a few fields not filled in...origin, etc. Check the template's page and see if there's anything you can add to it
 * "Since its foundation..." - wlink the instruments in this section
 * "Due to a series of health issues" - for everyone in the band? Or else, who was sick?
 * "has also recorded seven studio albums" - also isn't necessary
 * Ref 3: format=html isn't necessary as this is assumed
 * "In 1993, Diamond Rio also contributed..." - unsourced paragraph :(
 * "Also in 1994" - this could read a bit better..."later in 1994" perhaps? (if it was later)
 * "This cover, which peaked at #48 on the country charts, also received a music video; the video won a Video of the Year award from the television network CMT." - needs ref
 * Some of these sections are really short...is there no more information on how the album was produced, what happened outside of recording...nothing?? If not, just merge some sections...these regular headers looks bad
 * "the only exception is on the band's later albums" - this could be more than a minor exception...best to say which ones
 * "and "One More Day" -- songs which" - change to an en dash (–)
 * Biographies section should be renamed to "Side projects", I'd say

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Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 00:39, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

'70s band also called Diamond REO
There was also a hard rock band called Diamond REO who apparently had the same idea for their name. 98.246.183.207 (talk) 19:17, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

GA Unlisted
This article has benn unlisted as a Good Article. However; there are no suggestions for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Tomsv 98 (talk) 20:07, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 one external links on Diamond Rio. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090512022409/http://www.vintageguitar.com:80/features/artists/details.asp?AID=2101 to http://www.vintageguitar.com/features/artists/details.asp?AID=2101
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20070930032445/http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1451674/20020105/bentley_stephanie.jhtml to http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1451674/20020105/bentley_stephanie.jhtml

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Harv errors
I was happening by this nice article and saw that its use of the citation templates isn't being done properly and is causing Harvard reference errors. I'd like to help. If you'd like, you can enable a tool that shows where the errors are; I have made good use of this tool: Edit your own common.js and add the line: "importScript('User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js'); // User:Ucucha/HarvErrors". You can check out the tool's documentation. I'd be happy to go over an example error from the article and explain how to correct it. All the best, Prhartcom (talk) 14:32, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

It actually looks like there's only two problems. The first causes a few dozen errors, but it's still only one problem: The Roland (2009) sfn inline citations are not properly referring to its reference in the Sources section. The second is similar: No effort was made to make the Whitburn (2008) inline citations refer to its reference in the Sources section. When I say that they should "refer to its reference", I mean the goal is to allow the reader click on the citation and it takes them straight to the reference, highlighting it for them. I'll go ahead and fix these and then you can see exactly how to do it yourself next time. It's actually kind of cool when it works. Harvard references are great, especially for multiple inline citations that need to refer to a single reference. Here is an example of an article I once wrote that does it, and here is an example article I once fixed for someone that does it. Note: Of course none of this is a GA requirement, but it's good to get it actually working. I fixed a few other common errors while I was here. Best, Prhartcom (talk) 00:29, 28 February 2016 (UTC)