Talk:Oneohtrix Point Never

Name
It was mentioned in a recent article in magazine The Wire that the name "Oneohtrix Point Never" comes from the name of a soft rock radio station that Lopatin would hear while going to the dentist, 106.7 ("Oneohsix Point Seven", misheard, becomes "Oneohtrix Point Never"). Apparently he would hear this under the influence of anesthetic. -220.245.252.171 (talk) 04:15, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * For referencing: The Wire, issue 348, February 2013, page 40. -220.245.252.171 (talk) 00:10, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The first OPN release was credited under the name Magic Oneohtrix Point Never. This appears to be based on the radio station Magic 106.7, verifying what was said in the Wire issue. It might be worth mentioning in this article that Magic Oneohtrix Point Never is an alternate spelling or previous alias. -220.245.252.171 (talk) 00:10, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Infobox
To clear up the infobox a bit: listed genres with their attendant citations: gentlecollapse6 (talk) 21:00, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Experimental
 * electronic
 * ambient
 * drone
 * hypnagogic


 * This doesn't really count as a "body".--Ilovetopaint (talk) 01:25, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * You’d prefer to include an otherwise banal sentence like “his music has been described as x,y,z” when that same information can be communicated here? Seems like a stupid formality, none of those genres are controversial or disputed tags. gentlecollapse6 (talk) 03:48, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * You're not supposed to assume that everybody who listens to OPN through searching "cool ambient music" on YouTube is going to be familiar with what "hypnagogic" music is. And nobody who sees an obscure unsourced genre is going to look in the talk page for cites. If only there was some way to avoid that trouble, like say, putting refs in the infobox... --Ilovetopaint (talk) 22:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)


 * For the record, it would seem that the primary function of Wikipedia is that if somebody is unfamiliar with a term, they can....click on it. Anyway, I'm still not sure how saying "he was associated with xyz genre" illuminates anything about that genre. gentlecollapse6 (talk) 02:28, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

In general, it is bad form to edit a post after someone has already responded to it as it changes the conversation and possibly the meaning of something someone else said. This change removed a source listed in the conversation.

That edit seems to be 's effort to defend their unexplained edit removing "drone" earlier. After receiving a warning for GWAR, they returned to the article to re-remove drone, based on a statement that genres should be limited to 2 to 4 in the infobox, saying that drone had only one source while all of the others had two or more. However, one of hypnagogic's sites was defective, using an undefined ref name. Removing that source left hypnagogic with one source, so I removed it for consistency.

The removal of hypnagogic was reverted by gentlecollapse6, claiming there are two sources, though there is just one in the article. GC6 also pointed to the now fudged talk page to back up the claim.

This leaves us with two available sources for both hypnagogic and drone. In the interest of avoiding further cantankerous edit summaries, I welcome discussion of the content. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 20:19, 2 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Hey buddy, the drone source I removed was removed because it didn’t actually refer to Lopatin as a drone artist, but only referred to him as playing a drone set. You’d know this if you’d checked :) gentlecollapse6 (talk) 01:59, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Oneohtrix Point Never
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 Oneohtrix Point Never'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 "wire": From Hypnagogic pop:  From James Ferraro:  From Rain in England:  

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 ⚡ 17:59, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Requested Photo
As of 23 may 2024 (when I first accessed this page), a photo is included. I therefore have removed the reqphoto macro. Rbd001 (talk) 23:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)