Talk:Freak on a Leash

Orphaned references in Freak on a Leash
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Freak on a Leash's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "awards": From Jeremy (song):  From Word Up! (song):  From Are You Gonna Be My Girl:  From List of awards and nominations received by Korn:  From Korn:  From Land of Confusion:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 02:52, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Release Date Mixed Info
I don't know enough about editing Wiki to update the references properly, but currently, in the 'Music Video' section it says the video was released Feb 5, 1999, and references a URL that is dead but is archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20110605143643/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1430983/korn-freak-video-debut-on-friday.jhtml - That is an article from Thursday, Feb 4th 1999 saying that the video for the song is scheduled to release "Friday" (implying the next day, Friday Feb 5th, 1999).

In the song infobox thing, it says the song was released Feb 25, 1999 (20d later than the above date), and references a book. However clicking in to that reference, you can see that it's actually saying that that's just a date when the song hit #1 (in context, presumably on the MTV show Total Request Live, since it's saying the notable thing is that's the first time something not BSB / NSync was #1 - at the time, TRL was less than half a year old.)

The Feb 25 single release date is also stated but not referenced in the opening paragraph of the article.

It's possible that the song's regular release as a single (on radio or as a purchasable single) was a different date than the video being released, but it seems unlikely it'd be 20 days after the video. I can't find any source material saying one way or another, and the only reference for the Feb 25 date is definitely not actually saying that was the release date. SevYote (talk) 20:27, 18 September 2023 (UTC)