User talk:Funeral/Archive 4

Sloppy American English
Yeah, I know, I was looking for the rule and I realized since the band is American, the sloppy English gets to stay.  Blizzard Beast  ''$ODIN' 17:55, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Citations on thrash list
Well I have added the citation for the metallica edit. I am keeping the annihilator citations as for now, but I am not adding any more citations related to albums. Weltanschaunng 09:04, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains is a current Good Article, but now it is a FAC! I would appreciate if you were to comment on Featured article candidates/Alice in Chains. Thank you, Skeeker &#91; Talk &#93; 23:51, 14 December 2007 (UTC) Thank you, Burningclean &#91; Speak the truth! &#93; 23:20, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello, would you mind commenting on Featured article candidates/Alice in Chains again. I fixed anything that was needed from the previous nomination and expanded it vastly.
 * Thanks for the support, this article is tough. I am trying to get a picture of Layne but I don't have access to Flickr, do you? It is Alice N' Chains, my guess would be that the sites you saw that name on are probably personal sites. (just assuming) Glam was such a short time there it is not much to mention. Do you have Alice in Chains albums? Music Bank was just certified platinum. Burningclean  &#91; Speak the truth! &#93; 23:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar
Wow, thank you very much. This is my first banstar, and FA. Alice in Chains FAC isn't going so well. :( Thank you, Skeeker  &#91; Talk &#93; 23:49, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! :-) I would have commented on the Alice FAC but I saw your comment saying you wanted to close it. Funeral 23:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

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Chinese Democracy
You did a phenomenal job on Chinese Democracy. Thank you, Burningclean &#91; Speak the truth! &#93; 20:19, 22 December 2007 (UTC) Thank you, Burningclean &#91; Speak the truth! &#93; 03:46, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing an article like that has a lot of edit wars. Happy new year :)

re. Chinese Democracy
I'd say an A class would be fine here - it covers the information quite well, etc. &mdash; Dihydrogen Monoxide (Review) 04:17, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Your comments req'd
Your 2 cents here would help slow the swell of the "musically impaired" from damaging an already bad article. Merry Christmas. 156.34.222.133 (talk) 00:06, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Have a safe and happy holiday season! Merry Christmas! 156.34.142.110 (talk) 13:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Have a great Christmas, Funners! ;-) - I hope you get everything you want from Santy :-D Take care! Scarian Call me Pat  13:21, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks guys, have a great Christmas too! Funeral 18:17, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep an eye on...
Did some cleanup, with references, to Keith Richards. "Mr Anonymous" (an anon who violates WP:OWN across several Rolling Stones related articles) doesn't care for the content and deletes it along with the citation. He is passionate about his Rolling Stones fanboyisms... but hasn't got 2 clues when it comes to 6 string details. His IP bounces (rotten anons :D )... but if you catch him can you rv and throw a warning at him. Eventually he'll stop and play by the rules. Merry Christmas! 156.34.222.133 (talk) 03:29, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'll keep an eye on him. Which articles in particular? I've only seen him on the Stones article and Keith Richards. Funeral 19:24, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * In most cases he edits the main RS page and only slips over to band member pages every now and then. For the most part his edits are valid. But he does assert too much WP:OWN vio when it comes to text he doesn't personally like. He's more ignorant than normal lately... perhaps too much Christmas cheers??? He might get better when he sobers up :D . 156.34.222.133 (talk) 20:23, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up on the 3 revert rule. BTW, have you advised anyone else regarding the rule since I am not the only one reverting, and have you looked at the Talk page and edit comments to see why I have been reverting. You will also see the charge of vandalism careless used. Somebody is hell bent on adding Les Paul fannish trivia to the Keith page. cited a policy on Notable Instruments I have asked for three times. Mr Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.227.57.169 (talk) 20:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

The above personal comments are over the line and damages the editors' presumptious knowledge of Wikpedia form. I expect an apology and will note that I never have done the same with anyone. Mr Anonymouos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.227.57.169 (talk) 21:13, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I've seen the talk page and he's given valid reasons why the LP should be included there. Funeral 22:18, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you very much for the barnstar! It's made my evening. Merry Christmas to you too, and thank you for all your hard work on the Axl article! Best, DanielEng (talk) 03:08, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Can you...
Can you delete this nonsense:


 * In 1969, Hendrix met film director Edmund Darris in front of the Baby Grand Night Club where Hendrix was to meet with Albert King. Hendrix gave Darris tips on how to tune in the "Spanish" tuning and how to play guitar. Darris went on to become a great guitarist after this meeting.

From the Jimi Hendrix article? Its in the Guitar Legacy/Fender Stratocaster section. Anything that "Floogus" has created related to this Darris crap has been nom'd for AfD as a hoax. I can't edit the Hendrix page because its a prot. Thanks! 156.34.142.110 (talk) 16:57, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the cleanup on that!.

Got time to cast an opinion? Read the last paragraph in the lead-in for the Metallica article. Is it just me or is that total pov, original research, weasel wordy, anti-band/whiny cry-baby sounding paragraph? Alternative rock sounding? Selling out? Many fans were?... it's pretty bad.... like it was written by a 12 year old. That's just my take on it. Thoughts? 156.34.215.179 (talk) 08:57, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It does look very bad, but I'm not sure what to do - there are sources for everything in that paragraph further down the page, although it could be a bit more neutral. I made a small attempt here... any other suggestions? Funeral 18:22, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Clarify an edit for me
Was the previous correct? I had looked at that edit myself and used my Firefox spell checker (I use the English_Great Britain plugin for spellcheck) and it didn't underline the 'ense' version as incorrect in the en_GB spellchecker. Not saying your edit was wrong... just guessing that the Firefox dictionary is missing something and is there a third party source for British spellcheck that I can go to for confirmation when I am doubting the integrity of the Firefox browser. BTW... in case I forget later... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!! 156.34.215.179 (talk) 18:20, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Strange... it doesn't identify the 'ence' version as incorrect if I use the Yank dictionary. And it doesn't tag the 'ense' version if I use the Brit dictionary. I don't use the Canadian dictionary too often to compare because it leans towards the more central, Ontario-ish region of Canada for examples which means it might as well be using the US dict. because Ontario is more like the 51st state then it is a Canadian Province. Here on the east coast our English tends to be more "auld" or proper (GB-ish) as we maintain our 'motherland' roots more here and tend to avoid being 'Yankefied' at all costs.(unlike our Ontario cousins who are just a bunch of plastic brown-nosers :D ) I am going to see if Mozilla has more up to date plugins... perhaps I am behind the times. 156.34.215.179 (talk) 19:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Funners!
Do you feel you're ready to be an admin yet? Scarian Call me Pat 20:18, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps in a few months, not right now, though. I don't think I'd have a successful RfA without any FAs or GAs. Funeral 18:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Feel like an AfD?
the List of punk bands is in bad shape. No header paragraph. Many entries are dab or dictionary links. It says "punk" bands but half the entries aren't... or never were punk. They might look like punks or act like punks... but they certainly don't/haven't played punk rock. It's mismanaged enough to warrant category replacement. Thoughts? 156.34.221.33 (talk) 13:59, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Cool! Do you want to weigh in on the discussion at ...And Justice for All (album). The more opinions the better. Even if they disagree with mine. 156.34.221.33 (talk) 14:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If you have time. I just did an overdue cruft clean on the horrid Power ballad article. Could you keep an eyeball on it to some that my do's don't get undone. Feel free to chop more if you wish. I knocked over 4K off of it. 156.34.221.33 (talk) 18:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll keep an eye on it. Funeral 18:27, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Your removal of Metallica
This is a BBC article, what you mean it's a mirror of wikipedia? This is a source of reference we could rely on. Tell what would you consider more reliable.--Harout72 (talk) 18:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The best selling list has more Wiki mirror links then just the Metallica one. The Mariah Carey ref was another crap BBC link that even their disclaimer says could be false and not to quote them as a source. It was just a blog entry and likely a copy/paste of Wiki. I think the article should be tagged as an {untrustworthy} resource. 156.34.221.33 (talk) 19:15, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there a template for that? There's a red link when you add to the page. Funeral 19:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm looking. I think there is something along those lines.


 * Power ballad links to a whole sh*tload of pages that use it incorrectly as a genre! I am going to be busy cleaning up that junk. Rock Soldier is probably to fault for half of them. He would know a correct genre is one fell out of the sky-landed on his face-and started to wiggle. 156.34.221.33 (talk) 19:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

We can use either {disputed} or {primarysources} or both. I'd say both... with a little note on the talk page as to why. Thoughts? 156.34.221.33 (talk) 19:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Both sound good, definitely the second one... Do you want to add them? I'd do it myself but I need to go now. Funeral 19:36, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Chevelle
Would you mind taking a look at Chevelle, and commenting on Peer review/Chevelle? would like to skip GA and got right to FA. I don't have access to Flickr as of now because I use my parents computor (I'm only 14) and they don't really like it tampered with. I probably will ask to get an account on it. Burningclean &#91; Speak the truth! &#93; 21:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That is just fine. But when Featured article candidates/Chevelle comes up soon will you comment? I am just going to wait until the Alice in Chains FA is finally done. Thank you for all of this anyway. Cheers. Burningclean  &#91; Speak the truth! &#93; 22:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

List cleaning
I see you AfD the nwobhm list. I haven't looked at the progress of the other one. I have been monitoring the List of Christian rock bands list and keeping it nn clean. But I crossed paths with an inclusionist who thinks linkless or red links are useful. I suppose it could just as easily be AfD too. And with it I guess List of Christian metal bands can go to. Thoughts? 156.34.212.152 (talk) 13:30, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The EMO list looks like a bunch of OR. With the Christian metal list you probably wouldn't get much trouble out of circumsisoflix. But uber-troll E tac would likely put up a stink. Unless he's drunk again and then he may not notice. 156.34.212.152 (talk) 13:53, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Yikes, where did that one come from? Hard to keep track of them all. I watch "player" lists more then I watch "so-called-genre" lists. Many of the player lists are strewn with red links. One list I've always wanted to tackle is the List of harmonicists. It is riddled with embedded spam links to nn's all over the world. Any mass cleaning would likely get rv'd if I went in "solo". Would you be able to help? I might enlist Webhamster (a good red-link remover) and Scarian. That way it would be more thorough. 156.34.212.152 (talk) 14:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * We knocked that cruft/spam list from over 11K down to 4.6K. Excellent work! Thanks for all your help! 156.34.212.152 (talk) 17:12, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ummmm... List of pop punk bands... at one point in just the last few days some had listed The Ramones on this page!?!?!?!... kill it... please... kill it quickly... :D 156.34.212.152 (talk) 02:31, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Chubbles is troubles again. He doesn't understand what a resource is I guess. Since he plans to remove its validity as an encyclopedic list I guess you can go ahead and AfD the List of Christian rock bands. 156.34.212.152 (talk) 14:49, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ... The Christian rock list is done. Funeral 15:03, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Boy your fast! Quick response to as far as cleanup goes? Where were these people when the other redundant lists were nom'd? Unless, of course, these users are just anti-Christian bigots or something? Perhaps they have a different agenda. My agenda is simple... anti-unencyclopedic content, anti-nn spam, anti-redundancy, anti-inclusionism. Thanks for your help. How about the C_metal band list too? E tac is probably hung-over and sleeping :D. 156.34.212.152 (talk) 15:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Like I said before, Circumcisionflicks probably isn't a concern. E tac will whine... if he's sober enough to read. 156.34.212.152 (talk) 15:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * This message is for 156.34; I guess he'll be somewhere else tomorrow, so I suppose this is the best way to contact him. I wish you would wish seeing people like me ("people like me"?) as your enemy. I'd be perfectly willing to treat you as an equal if you weren't so destructive and unilateral, polarizing in your characterizations, and careless. And, you have a dynamic IP to hide behind, so you don't have to take responsibility for your edits. What do you get out of this? Chubbles (talk) 01:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

An encyclopedia. 156.34.212.152 (talk) 01:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ha - come back of the year. :-D Scarian Call me Pat  10:23, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Chubbles is a sincere editor who understands that what he does is not popular. Look at his userpage. 90% of his article creations are prods. And, of those, 50% could easlity be AfD since they are a useless waste of space on Wikipedia and serve no purpose other than to provide free advertising for what is nothing more than an bar room musician. Being signed to a notable music label means nothing if you don't actually produce any product. And if your in a local bar band that gets asked to open a few shows for a notable act... who f*cking cares? A band I was in had an album that knocked a Van Halen album out of number 1 position on a Mainstream Rock chart in Italy. Big f*ckin' deal! If anyone ever tried to make an article for that band I would speedy delete it in a heartbeat. One of the guys I played with for years is now into big time music for network television shows and is musicial director for a few of the "Idol" acts that do the good will tours for the military based in Afghanistan and Iraq. Someone made an article for him a long time ago. It was a very well written and in-depth page. I AfD'd it. It's gone. As should all these other useless musician pages. Argh! OK there... rant finished... happy joy-joy editor returned :D. 156.34.142.110 (talk) 14:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Question about a "NON"-genre
Take a look at Melodic rock. Its one of those "also known as" situations. Think ti would safe to simply re-direct it to the Main AOR Radio format article? I will post the notion on the talk page. 156.34.142.110 (talk) 15:12, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd say redirect it to AOR too. Funeral 00:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

re: Urinominous
I've read that list before. When it showed up in my Gibson newletter email one day it sparked my interest as a potential ref for something "Wikipedia-ish" I guess I spend way too much time here if thats the first thing I thought of But I ended up passing it over because I couldn't figure out who this Chris Gill fella was??? What are his pro reporter credentials? Was it essentially just a blog entry from a Gibson Online clubmember? The top metal solos of all time certainly flew under my own radar... most of them anyways... as far as solos go. Is the Highway Star solo on that list? :D If I knew who the author was I would've taken it more seriously. It's like those bbc.co.uk links being added to the list of top selling music artists when it turns out most of them are just blog copies or direct rips from Wiki. I guess I just didn't feel secure about the WP:V of it all. I personally see black metal as the 'comic relief' of heavy metal. Music made by hypocrites. They fall over backwards to make anti-christian music but when their Grammie or Grampie dies they're perched right up in the front row of the church at the funeral saying Amen and the end of every sentence the priest utters. But I digress. My opinion on BM means nothing. It's certainly the one genre of music that isn't represented on any of the notable X player anything lists. I have no problem with one being added to any of them. Especially this Eurodipodous guy since he was whacked by another BM musician... it all makes for some good corpse-painted soap opera. :D. Can you determine whether this Chris Gill Gibson.com author is a legit writer? And can we find more cited text about the guy that mentions his gear? I thought all black/death metal guys used B.C.Rich??? :D Just kidding. 156.34.210.254 (talk) 00:45, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Good sleuthing. He's got experience. I have no problem with you adding Euroguy back. I have been reading the Strat player talk page and it looks like some players can be removed even with a reference. There is some featured list building going on over there and if they move on to the Gibby list then it's likely that a few ref'd entries will get the boot... that's consensus I guess. Add him back. I will browse my I_viewer for any other mentions for him and the Les Paul usage. It's likely that there are some available in Norwegian so I can't read them. 156.34.210.254 (talk) 01:30, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll try and find some refs, but I'm really busy at the moment so it might take a few days. Funeral 00:00, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

An anti-anon
Keep an eye on this guy would ya? Removing well placed maintenance tags without reason because they were placed by a scummy IP and therefore they are spam. :D 156.34.210.254 (talk) 13:39, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Awesome revert time on Bruce Springsteen vandalism
Best way to discourage the louts. Well done. David in DC (talk) 03:25, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :-) Funeral 00:02, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Your thoughts...
You may want to comment here. 156.34.214.181 (talk) 02:39, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I left a comment about the band lists, but I don't have any opinion about the list of drummers or list of guitarists... I don't see how they can possibly be used as a resource but I don't really care about them being there. Funeral 16:39, 14 January 2008 (UTC)