Talk:Monkey Business (Black Eyed Peas album)

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certifications?
what happened to the certifications section??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.166.118.112 (talk) 20:23, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Early version?
I remember listening to some pre-release version of "Monkey Business" a few years back, with less fluff on "My Style" and with "Ba Bump" titled "Bump da Bump" --217.39.35.230 (talk) 17:33, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in Monkey Business (album)
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Reference named "Bush": From Don't Stop the Party (The Black Eyed Peas song):  From The Beginning (The Black Eyed Peas album):  From Don't Phunk with My Heart:  

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 ⚡ 00:40, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Genre
Starting a discussion at Talk:The Beginning (The Black Eyed Peas album) has led to some progress and, more importantly, seems to have stopped the edit warring by socks of. To that end, here we go. The anonymous editor, who is very likely more socks of MariaJayHicky, is opposed to saying anything by the Black Eyed Peas is "pop", no matter who says it. Adding "R&B" would be a nice bonus. A direct link is "vague". Maybe if I just replace it with a blog that agrees with me and don't explain... What if I remove the sourced info I don't like and add unsourced info I do like without explanation? How about if I remove the sourced info I don't like, add unsourced info I do like and use a deceptive edit summary? I know: I'll remove a very clear reference discussing the group and calling the album "pop" and say it is "about the genre in a nutshell". Maybe I can remove it, disguised with a deceptive edit summary that I am just "filling in bare links". Perhaps if I say it isn't sourced in two sources (when it is) and say a third "isn't meant to be used" (whatever that means)... A review from Billboard? Nah, I'll just remove that without comment. Wow. Just wow. We'll start with "pop" and move on, as needed. Any questions? - Sum mer PhD v2.0 14:13, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Robert Christgau says it is "what all pop might be". |pop
 * MTV repeatedly says the group turned from hip hop and became a pop group with the addition of Fergie and says Monkey Business "pushed BEP into the pop stratosphere".
 * mic.com puts the end of the bands hip hop on "Where is the Love" and ties their pop stardom to this album, "My Humps" and "Pump It".
 * Billboard tags this article as making the BEPs pop stars.
 * Frankly, at this point I'm finding it damned difficult to find sources that don't call it pop. It is patently insane to include 8 refs (I'm sure there are hundreds more out there) to address the concerns of one banned user. I'm going to trim the list to three or so. Here's the complete list, for the record:     |hip-pop   |hip hop  - Sum mer PhD v2.0 14:39, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Doesn't pop stardom refer to from going as an underground act into mainstream success and not meaning the album's genre? Joesob (talk) 14:57, 14 July 2016 (UTC) Joesob has been blocked as a sock of MariaJayHicky.
 * Here's what I found to be useful info for albums as well as this https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rated_R_(Rihanna_album)&diff=635118627&oldid=635117811 Joesob (talk) 15:04, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * You found an edit where someone removed sourced genres and replaced them with unsourced genres, dismissing MTV as a reliable source and not explaining the removal of the other two.
 * Strange thing, Joesob: You've been editing here for all of one week and just pulled out an edit from 2014 to an article edited by socks of MariaJayHicky. You've been very interested in genre edits from the start. In fact, your very first edit was a genre change to an article edited by MariaJayHicky. Your second, third, fourth, fifth... edits? They were also genre changes to articles targeted by MariaJayHicky. That's a very unlikely string of coincidences, don't you think? - Sum mer PhD v2.0 16:23, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I found 'Sources for Estelle and I was reading through what Dan56's edits were of the articles in general and I was right about the AllMusic side bar thing; no disrespect would it kill you to fill in a bare link too, it's untidy and a right pain in the bum to see Joesob (talk) 16:29, 14 July 2016 (UTC) Joesob has been blocked as a sock of MariaJayHicky.
 * I could fill-in bare refs, but I'd be afraid I'd end up making unsourced changes to genres. You know what that's like. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 16:39, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That's not funny; do me a favour; never talk to me on here again; you're childish and I don't want to associate with you; whatever I edit, you leave alone and what ever you edit I leave alone I want nothing ever to do with you Joesob (talk) 16:43, 14 July 2016 (UTC) Joesob has been blocked as a sock of MariaJayHicky.
 * When you say "whatever (you) edit" does that mean just under this particular user name? - Sum mer PhD v2.0 16:48, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Wow who'd you think you are Catherine Tate? Put it this way Joesob edits SummerPhDv2.0 stays far, far, far away, SummerPhDv2.0 edits a page Joesob stays far, far, far away Joesob (talk) 16:51, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, I think we know who everyone is. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 16:56, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Well, that was fun. Do any non-sock editors have an opinion? - Sum mer PhD v2.0 21:59, 14 July 2016 (UTC) More IPsocking by MariaJaydHicky. WP:RBI and page protection. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 21:20, 17 July 2016 (UTC) More of the same. WP:RBI and page protection. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 17:33, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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