User talk:Rm w a vu/Archives/2007/April

April foolishness
Thanks for the minor entertainment on my user page. I've added your prank to the (more realistic) count. Maybe someday I'll get vandalised like the Wiki-stars. Best, -- LeflymanTalk 23:01, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Changing to
Careful. You can't just replace the hyphen with a pipe, you need to swap the order, otherwise you're making it 10 out of 8 (which seems to be rendered as 10 out of 10) instead of 8 out of 10. I happened to notice this on Room for Squares, but if you have done this elsewhere, you might want to fix that. Have a nice day. --PEJL 09:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Whoops! I'll glance at the others. I only changed it on John Mayer pages, but I think I did on about 3 of them. I'll see what I've done. linca linca  09:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

About the WID picture:
Thanks! I totally forgot to do it, but thanks anyway ;)

Hamada333 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamada333 (talk • contribs) 20:15, 8 April 2007

John Mayer and Clay Cook
Hello Linca. I've seen you around for a long time and you've made a lot of positive contributions to the John Mayer page as well as to Wikipedia in general. But I noticed that recently you added a fact stating that John Mayer was coerced into moving to Atlanta. The word "coerce" (which you can confirm at any dictionary site) means to force someone to do something against their own will by abuse of power or threat of brutality. In fact, coercion in a crime in the United States that carries a sentence of jailtime. I am sincerely sure that's not what you meant to put; I am sure you just chose the wrong word. Because of that, I rephrased the sentence to show that Clay was the Atlanta native and that John went with him, and I took out the coercion bits. However you have reinstated the information, claiming that (1) it's referenced and (2) "City Love" shows that he actually wanted to live in New York. I'm the one that added the references you are referring to, and they don't support this claim. It was definitely Clay's idea, he convinced John, but John was a grown man and made his own decision, and continued to live in Atlanta after he and Clay had their falling out. Also, the first line to "City Love" is "I never liked this Apple much," indicating that John didn't like living in NYC; he moved their because that's where his record label was. Regardless, I don't want this to turn into an edit war, and I want us, and any other editors, to help keep the Mayer article a good one, and maybe one day a featured one; I'm sure you want the same thing. But to do that everything has to be not only referenced and accurate, but NPOV, and well-written, even seemingly small details. To say that someone committed a crime that they actually didn't violates WP:BLP. The line "as fate would have it" isn't really appropriate for an encyclopedia, since fate (like God or karma) isn't a force Wikipedia recognizes. Also, the paragraph mentions twice that Clay is from Atlanta. I have not reverted the sentence you added, since I was hoping you could make the modifications yourself. The sentence also does not have an inline reference. But, maybe we can collaborate to see if in a concise, referenced way we can convey: (a) Clay is a native of Atlanta, (b) it was his idea to move to Atlanta and (c) they were in a band called Lo-Fi Masters and (d) their career started in earnest there. Looking forward to seeing what changes we can make.-- Esprit15d (talk ¤ contribs) 15:44, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Great! The new wording looks good to me.  Interesting info aobut NYC.  I'm glad this came to peaceful resolution.-- Esprit15d  (talk ¤ contribs) 02:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Tnavbar editing
Let me take a look at what you've got in mind. You also might want to contact User:Dispenser (if you haven't already) who came up with that usage and integration of Tnavbar. :-) 14:54, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Powderfinger Record Sales
All I did was add to what is already there. E.g. Internationalist is certified 5 x platinum. 5 x 70,000 = 350,000. There is nothing mentioned about international sales. This is an Australian band, with certification by ARIA. If they are certified 5 x platinum then it is only for Australia. If they were certified for international sales it would done individually by country, therefore you would have to list all the certifications from each country. To remove the totals means you do not understand or just don't want anyone else contributing to this topic. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dptalbot (talk • contribs) 13:03, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

Part 2. You are talking nonsense. If a record is certified gold in Australia it has sold 35,000 copies. If someone adds the certification information (I did not add it) to the album/single as eg. gold or 5 x platinum, doesn't it make sense to state what gold or platinum is? Gold/platinum is not uniform around the world. I was not sure when reading the original article what gold/platinum were, so I went to the ARIA website and found out. I then added this info as a note so people know what gold/platinum equals (in Australia). For you to talk about assumptive/pre-emptive sales figures is nonsense. Its either 35,000 units sold for gold certification or its not. Its not relevant if you think/know Powderfinger sold more than 35,000 units worldwide. The certification is for Australian domestic sales only. I do not know how to make this any clearer. I suggest you think carefully about what you are objecting to and then re-read the above. Your argument as it stands is nonsense. Dptalbot 05:17, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Tag on Silent House
I've tagged this article not because I don't like the Dixie Chicks (I love 'em!) but individual songs are not regarded as notable - see here for details. Ideally the information needs to be part of an article about the whole album... Best wishes, Kim dent brown 13:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Kathleen de Leon Jones.JPG
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