Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Powderfinger

Transfusion (EP) = GA
Another GA, guys! Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 07:29, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know how I missed it, but how cool is this? Yeah!! WOOOT! LOL. -- linca linca  04:13, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it was a few days ago :) Party time. I actually think some of those DYKs could also be passed... Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 07:59, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * So now we need to get Powderfinger and Dream Days to FA and Bernie to GA and we're right to submit for FT? That's how I see it. -- linca linca  08:09, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Good work to you guys! I had nothing to do with this one this time :-)  You got it to GA fairly quick once the edits started happening.  Keep up the good work!  Slabba 08:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I Don't Remember just passed too - That's 4 now! You can help on the next one Slab; Passenger (Powderfinger song) is in quite good shape, it just needs track times I think... &mdash; H 2O  &mdash;  09:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, the track times are done, so it's been nommed now too. We're really developing a lot of momentum now. I reckon we should start trying to get Bernie up after this. BLP articles are a LOT harder than song and album articles, but I think it's quite achievable. -- linca linca  10:45, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Certainly is a lot more info on "Passenger" now! I won't have much time to contribute until at least another week, then I'll try and help out some more tidying up the articles and adding some info where I can. Slabba 04:57, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't feel pressured to do anything you don'e have the time for. Wikipedia will still bere here when you get back. In the meantime, we'll just remove you from our project list... Just kidding. Do what you have to do. Wikipedia comes second. -- linca linca  05:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * There is no deadline...There is no deadline, unless you're Slabba. Hmm... :P &mdash; H 2O  &mdash;  07:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * LOL! :-) Had to laugh at those comments! Slabba 05:20, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Roll call
This sounds like a pretty obvious answer, since the active participants are often active, but I want to list them as bold on the project page. -- linca linca  06:00, 2 November 2007 (UTC)


 * 1)  linca  linca
 * 2) ~  Sebi 
 * 3) Slabba
 * 4) &mdash; H 2O
 * 5) jmfarquhar

Paul Piticco
Hi guys, I've just recently joined Wikipedia and your wonderful project for an awesome band, and I thought I'd try my hand at creating the Paul Piticco article listed as needed. Any comments, criticisms, suggestions, tips, or improvements to the article are welcomed and appreciated. jmfarquhar 03:51, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Dude, you rock. It just needs a bit of copyediting etc., but great work nonetheless.  I've nominated it at T:TDYK too :) &mdash; H 2O  &mdash;  04:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, welcome aboard! Generally, there's been four "main" members of our clan, with occasional input from other editors, and so to add a fifth is fantastic! The job you did creating the PP article's definitely getting you off on the right foot. -- linca linca  04:31, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) Hope I can be of help in the future. jmfarquhar 05:48, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Belter and other dead pages
I was just checking out the list of Stub articles from the link on the project page and I saw that the talk page for "Talk:Belter (song)" is still active. So I just deleted the references to wikiprojects, dunno if we need to formally delete the talk page. Also I'm sure there's probably other dead pages that need cleaning up. Slabba 07:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * On a side note, what's the go with Tiddas, it's got the Powderfinger wikiproject banner. I don't know what its connection is.  Anyone know? Slabba 07:34, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * See Passenger (Powderfinger song), among others. -- linca linca  09:31, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Mystery solved! Thanks linca. Slabba 21:19, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

GA Flurry!
Ok, we've got Passenger up to GA now, so what onto now? Should we all unite and put all of our efforts towards improving the Powderfinger article to get it to FA? Sebi has started a Musical style scratchpad for anybody who wants to contribute there (use the talk page there to discuss it too). As it looks like the Side Projects page will be deleted, not for due reason, but because consensus seems to point that way, I'm going to keep the code for the page on one of my subpages and implement it on the Powderfinger page if it's deleted. Sebi and H2O have given heaps of work towards improving the referencing on the Powderfinger article, and so now we're looking very good to make this a reality. Who's in for this? It'll prepare us to easily get Bernie up to GA (and perhaps up to FA). -- linca linca  04:40, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Stuff that needs to be done for Powderfinger can be found here and here. The styles thing is the big one. &mdash; H 2O &mdash;  08:25, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Side projects list deleted

 * Discussion moved to appropriate place, Talk:Powderfinger.

Album reviews
I've just been adding some reviews to Double Allergic, Internationalist, and Odyssey Number Five to expand the articles a bit. Let me know what you think, there is still room for improvement I reckon, but it's a start. Slabba 06:35, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice work slabster! From these we can get under the fingernails of the albums and expand them accordingly. -- linca linca  08:29, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

"Automatic"
Whilst it says on the ARIA site that Tom Whitten of Powderfinger was nominated for Engineer of the Year for "Automatic" in 1996, there is a discussion on this forum that it doesn't exist and may in fact supposed to be Double Allergic. I don't reckon we need to create a page, as a nomination for Engineer of the Year for a song no one seems to have heard of doesn't seem very notable :-) Slabba 07:00, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I think creating the Tim Whitten page would be a good idea, but we should do some checking to see why DA was referred to with that name in the ARIAs. Plus, DA received most of its nominations the next year, so it's a bit funny? -- linca linca  08:25, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * DA means...? By the way - "All i can tell ya is in 96 they toured with the BAND Automatic." - I'm with Slabba on not creating, but we should mention the Engineer award somewhere.  Dihydrogen   Monoxide  08:33, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * DA=Double Allergic. Makes a bit more sense if there's a band called "Automatic". Slabba 21:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Automatic was the working title of Double Allergic, apparently. I was talking to a guy from church about it this morning. Unfortunately he's not exactly an encyclopedically "reliable source" as it were, but it's at least a direction to look into to try to get some answers. It's strange, though, that ARIA would award it based on the wrong title. But if the band they toured with (which from memory is made up on members of Tumbleweed and Custard) recorded with Tim Whitten, then that would explain it, but it doesn't explain why they're being given the credit on the official ARIA website. It's all quite strange. -- linca linca  00:28, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps ARIA never updated after Double Allergic Automatic won? I'm confused too... Dihydrogen   Monoxide  02:57, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

These Days
I like what's been done to the "These Days" page, amazing what happens when you add a little extra info to the page :-) I reckon it could almost get upgraded from Start class. It must be close to B class at least. Slabba 05:39, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I'm thinking we GAC it soon. Internationalist will also be there shortly ;)  Oh, and Dream Days is going to FAC some time in the near future.  Dihydrogen   Monoxide  08:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Musical style on Powderfinger
I'd really like to get an "Influences" section up and running before the article goes to FAC. Below I've compiled a list of a few interviews with members of the band which discuss influences, so if anyone would like to try their hand at adding to what I've proposed further below.


 * Interview with Jon Coghill
 * Yahoo! interview with Darren and Bernard
 * Some news article that talks about Bourbon Street influences
 * And most of the sources provided on this sandbox

On different occasions, Powderfinger have cited their influences as ...

Spebi 06:45, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Nick DiDia
Sooo...... Nick DiDia now is articled. Quite an impressive resume he has, might I say! The article needs a LOT of expansion, but it's created now. Go sick! -- linca linca  09:02, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Groovy, nice work. He's got quite a resume, so I figure there'd be a few more sources out there.  Time to google it!  Dihydrogen   Monoxide  22:37, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Nobody Sees announced!
It's official! Music video available here. Release date: December 1 (my birthday!). Hopefully, some other RS will make mention of it, and we can get an article up soon. Dihydrogen  Monoxide  03:08, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice one. It was somewhat obvious, though I was half expecting it to be "Who Really Cares?" but this is just as good. -- linca linca  06:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Powderfinger at FAC
... here :)  Spebi  09:22, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Dream Days FA
I don't understand why no one has created a comment about Dream Days becoming a featured article. Anyway, well done to you guys who did some great work on the article in bringing it to FA status. Slabba (talk) 06:40, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ha, thanks Slab. By the way, for everyone, there's a makeshift to-do list for the article at User_talk:Dihydrogen_Monoxide/Archive/November_2007.  Dihydrogen   Monoxide   ♫  06:49, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Featured Group
Okay, so now we have a Featured Powderfinger article. Woot! How about we now get all of the albums and members up to B class (and maybe even put a couple up for GA just for kicks to see what we can do to improve them) and once everything's considerably stabler and better than now, we launch into making Powderfinger a featured group? -- linca linca  03:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe it's Featured Topic ;) Internationalist (album) is currently at GAC, and the other ones shouldn't be much harder (PCentral has heaps on DA and O#5).  I'm mostly worried about Parables - there isn't that much that I can find that's of a decent quality.  Time to start listing some websites down here, if we can...  Dihydrogen Monoxide  ♫ 05:18, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * All albums at least great GA (not just another "only just passed", crappy GA) or FA (and not crappy FA, either), then we take them to featured topic candidates. :)  Spebi  05:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Either way, it'll take a while. And I don't see what you mean by "only just passed GA" - I'm sure we could go to GAR or something if there was a concern with the reviewer...  Dihydrogen Monoxide  ♫ 05:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I really don't think it's that long off, but I think the albums only need to be upper B class, likewise the members pages. To me, those are the greater areas of concern, since almost all of them are very short stubs. -- linca linca  11:14, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Back on this topic, I think it's time we finally got off our arses and improved the member pages. I've created an invitation, so I'll be inviting everybody who's a member of the Project to participate. I've started the ball rolling by bringing Cogsy's article from a barebones stub (it almost could have not been there and the result would have been the same) to what I now consider to be an upper end start class article, completely referenced and its prose is adequate now. -- linca linca  10:42, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Singles from Vulture Street
Hi all. I'm having a bit of trouble working out the order these were released in. I could only find a source saying "Since You've Been Gone" was released in March 2004, and I know Sunsets was released in June (it's a GA, etc.). At the same time, IIRC SYBG came after Sunsets. Any thoughts/ideas? &mdash; Dihydrogen Monoxide  06:09, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... I can't remember (don't)... but On My Mind was definitely first and I'm pretty sure Love Your Way was the second single. After that, all I remember them playing on the radio was Stumblin' and Sunsets, though Stumblin' wasn't a proper single, so it doesn't count. I don't think I ever heard SYBG on the radio, and I didn't get the cd single either. Sorry mate, I don't think I can help you there. -- linca linca  07:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I remember hearing SYGB now - in fairly early (May or earlier) 2004...I dunno - try some googling? &mdash; Dihydrogen Monoxide  07:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Powderfinger portal
... has been created :) Portal:Powderfinger. Help required – start by filling in some of the gaps in the Selected content, making sure to keep the selected picture and article different. If you can dig up some old DYKs, feel free to add them to the DYK talk page.  Spebi  20:09, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Mr Kneebone
I've done some work on Mr Kneebone, but can't find track times. If anybody can find them, please post them, because I think it's ready to go to GA pretty soon. A review or two would be of a lot of help too, though. -- linca linca  03:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Lost and Running
Okay, I've just done some work over here, but I still feel it needs some more TLC before I put it up for GA. Anybody? -- rm 'w a vu  11:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems you put it up. Also seems OK to me. &mdash; Dihydrogen Monoxide 02:23, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

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I Don't Remember
"I Don't Remember", one of our first GAs for a song, is now at Peer Review, because we want to see if we can pop this up as a Featured article. Then, we only need to get "Black Tears" and "Nobody Sees" up to GA (both are on that trajectory now), and we can submit Dream Days as a Featured Topic. Not much work, huh? Okay, it is a bit of work, but it should be fine. Just a bit of time. Can't hurt us, can it? Anyway, everybody spam tap the shoulder of people who know how to peer review and point them in IDR's direction. The more peer review, the better, because more improvement only consolidates the chances of passing the FAC successfully. -- rm 'w a vu  08:55, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * So far, the peer review's going really well. Anybody willing to lend a hand, feel free to head over there and look at the suggestions and see what you can do to implement them. Of course, anything else you see needing work at IDR would be great! -- rm 'w a vu  08:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:HMM
Why is Parables for Wooden Ears under the scope of WP:HMM, yet no other PF articles are? &mdash; Burningclean &#91; Speak the truth! &#93; 05:03, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Because Parables was considered to be Metal, but after releasing it, Powderfinger's style softened, such that Double Allergic wouldn't fall under HMM's scope. At least, in my opinion. dihydrogen monoxide (H20) 10:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay. &mdash; Burningclean &#91; Speak the truth! &#93; 08:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd say DA is borderline, though is the group's best "rock" album... hell, I still think it's their best, and one of the best Australian rock almbums of all time, alongside Woodface and Back in Black. -- rm 'w a vu  11:49, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:51, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

FAR for Bernard Fanning
I have nominated Bernard Fanning for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 18:33, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)