User talk:MattJ

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Hi, Matt. Drums and bugles not being my speciality, it hadn't occurred to me the page was a duplicate, but someone was obviously off on a personal hobby-horse. I'll take another look. Deb 11:19, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

drum corps article reorganization
Hey, Matt. Check out the comment I wrote on the DCI article discussion page.

Thanks.

Lazytiger 23:11, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

DCI and DCA articles are back
Matt,

I greatly appreciate your contributions to the drum corps articles. I really believe, though, that DCI and DCA ought to have their own articles in addition to the drum and bugle corps (modern) article. So I brought them back to life. I'm doing this because I think the modern article is becoming too long, and there is information that is most appropriate in each organization's own article. My intent is for the DCI and DCA articles to be much shorter than the main article, and have little or no overlap of text.

I strongly encourage you to create separate articles for DCUK and DC Europe, also. Every organization deserves its own article discussing what aspects differentiate it from other organizations. I would love to know more about what makes the European organizations different than the ones in North America.

The article that I wrote for DCI covers a lot of technical aspects of the activity, which inherently are the main differences between the organizations. Those are the types of things that I think ought to be in each organization's respective articles. What I think should be in the main article is the stuff that's common among all modern corps... the show on the field. Unfortunately, we've really only scratched the surface in that respect.

I think we both tend to talk about the technical aspects of our activity. We need someone else's perspective here, someone with a bigger, non-technical picture. Hopefully, as time goes on, more than just a handful of people will contribute to these articles and they will become well-rounded. Or if I'm mistaken, if you feel you do have non-technical things to contribute (after all, we've mainly just tweaked the technical prose thus far), could we focus on that? That's where our energy should be focused now, I think.

Lazytiger 16:57, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Seek arbitration?
Greetings,

With Catherine's latest streak of vandalism on DCI/Drum Corps pages in general (check the histories), I was wondering if you and LazyTiger would be willing to seek arbitration in this issue. I'm of the opinion that Catherine thinks she can perpetuate biased views with impunity, and she'll continue a revert war as long as she can. Get back to me with your thoughts.

--Mr Bound 03:44, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

Have a look at Dispute resolution for guidance. I'm not on the arbitration committee so I'm reluctant to stick my oar in, especially as I don't know much (or anything, in fact) about the subject. However, what you've been doing looks pretty reasonable on the surface. Potentially, the vandal can be banned. Deb 17:40, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wikiproject Drum Corps
I would like to invite you to join the newly formed WikiProject Drum Corps, a WikiProject for the expansion of all things drum corps. If you'd like, add your name to the list of members, and lend a hand in some of the things we have yet to do! There's plenty lying around, but even a small contibution is very welcome. Hope to see you lending your knowledge to our growing collection of drum corps articles! Mr Bound 18:51, 15 September 2005 (UTC)