Talk:Motorcycle (artist)

Merge this information would be best suited on the Gabriel and Dresden page as it would fit more into their story as producers. Triangle e 00:37, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No They are two different groups --Iplars 04:00, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * They are the same group, differing in only the vocalist who, if they released another single, has the potential to be someone completely different anyway. Triangle e 09:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * JES has her own tracks and Motorcycle has more singles then just, "As The Rush Comes"

As The Rush Comes should also be popular enough to grant them as their own group. Motorcyle is not just Gabriel & Dresden with a vocalist.


 * There is no information regarding Motorcycle, or their hit "As The Rush Comes" on the Gabriel & Dresden wikipedia entry. Someone needs to add to that entry or restore this page. Darkteferi 18:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Redirected this page to a genuine motorcycle artist, David Mann (painter). 67.142.130.15 18:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Semi protection
I request that this page is protected against edits by anonymous users due to the recent repeated vandalism of this page. Rich257 20:15, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * You want WP:RFPP, not editprotected. I would protect it, but I can't tell what it is supposed to point to. CMummert · talk 20:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Nonsense. David Mann is a legitimate motorcycle artist.  This can hardly be called vandalism!  Do you argue that David Mann is NOT a motorcycle artist? Hello??  67.142.130.40 20:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Correct, David Mann is an artist who paints motorcycles, he is not the band by the name of Motorcycle. This page uses the common naming scheme for disambiguation of names. Rich257 21:07, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Right, but that doesn't make much sense for a redirect page. Who is going to search for "motorcycle (artist)"? CMummert · talk 21:31, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * A page named "Motorcycle artist" might redirect to David Mann, I don't think this one should. The request for semi protection has been declined, apparently 10 changes in 5 days is not considered severe enough. Rich257 21:38, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * David Mann is not one who "paints motorcycles." He does not apply paint on to motorcycles.  He is a painter of motorcycles in his paintings. See the difference? While someone who paints motorcycles could be considered an artist, clearly one who creates paintings with motorcycles as subjects is certainly a motorcycle artist!


 * It's a different story regarding a very minor band that is not named "motorcycle" but is, in fact, named "Gabriel & Dresden." How can that be considered a motorcycle artist?  Why should a band named "Gabriel & Dresden" be considered a motorcycle disambiguation? 67.142.130.40 21:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The question is, if a reader typed the title of this article into the search box, which did they intend to find? If the answer is not obvious, then a disambiguation page is appropriate. It was going to be a redirect anyway, so there is no loss of content in making it a disambig page, and the reader only has to click one more link to go to the desired article. CMummert · talk 21:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * This page was originally a biography for the band Motorcycle. This has now been merged into Gabriel & Dresden. This page must be preserved as a diambiguation page in this case or link directly to G+D. Having this page link directly to the aforementioned artist makes no sense seeing as Motorcycle isn't a pseudonym for this artist. Triangle e 02:01, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Right now this is a disambig page. But there is no "must" about it; if an even more notable artist named motorcycle came along, we could use this page for her.  To be honest, I don't think this is a likely search term, so I wouldn't argue if someone nominated it at RfD. CMummert · talk 02:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * This page has links from other pages to it, though. That's why it worked well as a redirect previously. Someone will have to go through all the pages that link to this one and apply the redirect to the G+D page. Triangle e 03:09, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * (unindent) I just now looked at the list of "What links here". It will not be difficult to edit those pages, although there is no rush as many articles link to disambig pages unintentionally.  If there were several hundred backlinks it would be a different matter. CMummert · talk 03:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
 * We need a bot to do it for us! I'm in a cba mood to do all those links atm. Triangle e 03:46, 29 March 2007 (UTC)