Talk:Music of Detroit

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Jan 2008 edits
This page has been extensively and enthusiastically edited, but the material added needs to include sources, and be checked over for spelling, punctuation etc. Sorry, I don't have the source material to do it. --AndrewHowse (talk) 18:15, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Removed George Clinton
I removed George Clinton from the list at the beginning since he is not a hometown star of Detroit. I wish, but no. 68.41.215.129 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 03:09, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

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Hip hop section
This section contains exactly zero information about hip hop music in Detroit, it only talks about unreferenced and controversial so-called rivalries which are quite easily in violation of WP:BLP. This section needs to be fundamentally re-written to give some information about Detroit's hip hop music scene or it should be altogether deleted. SWik78 (talk • contribs) 15:04, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Contributions and references are welcome. Help out. Thomas Paine1776 (talk) 19:38, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I removed a claim by Insane Clown Posse that Detroit did not have a battle rap scene. This is entirely contradicted by the source I added which talks about Detroit's clothing store the Hip Hop Shop hosting rap battles which served as a launching point for rappers like Eminem. Just because ICP did not experience rap battles themselves doesn't mean that they didn't happen. RockabillyRaccoon (talk) 13:19, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

References, cleanup
This is a fun article to read, particularly if one happens to remember a lot of it personally; but large sections of it are poorly sourced or not sourced at all. (Some of it reads like personal recollections, and may never be sourceable.) It gets a bit "listy" in parts too, which is the death of decent prose. I added the "references" template to the article today in the hope that folks might root around and find support for some of the material that's here. I may also take a stab at cleaning up some parts of it and invite others to help as well. JohnInDC (talk) 18:15, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

"Second largest theater district"
Houston and Cleveland make the same claim. I've raised the issue at Talk:Performing_arts_in_Detroit and am suggesting removing the assertion from this and any other articles that say the same thing (barring I suppose stumbling across something more definitive). I suggest we keep the conversation in one place, so I'm linking over to that one - thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 02:28, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
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Notable artists
Is there a reason why the people on the list are alphabetized by their first names? Except for Icelanders, who, even in their phone books are done that way, on wikipedia list such as this are done by last name. However before I make changes I thought I'd check. Carptrash (talk) 15:41, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Be bold! JohnInDC (talk) 18:55, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

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"Rook"
An editor has repeatedly inserted a reference to this 1980s band, along with a YouTube link as a reference. It has been removed as many times, for what seem to me to be several good reasons. The band's notability is questionable, YouTube is not usually deemed a reliable source, and the content is arguably promotional. Perhaps I'm wrong about these things. Discuss! Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 17:31, 1 January 2019 (UTC)