User talk:Scraggy4
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Again, welcome! Chris Roy 01:47, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi Scraggy4.
I notice you are working on BBC Sports Personality of the Year and related pages. Those are good topics, and we're glad your doing them. The articles should probably be called "BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award" rather than "Lifetime Achievement Award" and such like, because other organisations make lifetime achievement awards. I thought you might like a couple of helpful hints.
If you have already created a page such as "Lifetime Achievement Award", did you know that you can move it to a new place, wusing the 'move this page' link on the left? This is the easy way of renaming an article. Also, if you have two pages which should have the same content you can make one a 'redirect' to another by giving if the content #REDIRECT [[Other Page]].
All the best, and good wikiing. DJ Clayworth 20:51, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not sure I follow your comment on User talk:Infrogmation about a page or link being "corrupted". They seem to function for me. If you are just observing that other people made albums of the name Everything Must Go than are currently mentioned on that article, you can easily fix that by adding such information to the article. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 16:17, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
lyrics
Please go back and remove any lyrics you may have posted. Lyrics are heavily copyrighted, and we cannot display entire songs in wikipedia. thanks! Kingturtle 05:31, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
many thanks turtle. I did try and find the "rule" for this but couldn't and presumed that because they actually tell us the lyrics when we hear the song it might be allowed. glad you let me know now rather than after another couple of hundred songs.Scraggy4 17:14, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Formatting wiki songs
Thanks for your message on my talk page about formatting for wiki songs and albums (re: You Love Us). Albums italicized; songs in quotes—duly noted. Thanks! --Diberri | Talk 05:54, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)
Album covers
Thanks for putting up the Yellowcard album covers. I've avoided doing that because I'm still not sure whether fair use allows it or not (even after reading multiple discussions of it), but it sure makes the page look nice with those up there. If you'd like to, there are a few more albums by Yellowcard and Something Corporate that need album covers (and all the images are on the official sites), assuming the copyright issue doesn't apply to those either. — Jrdioko (Talk) 02:59, Apr 25, 2004 (UTC)
You will see from the page history of Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Needs cover that I have been trying to clear the complete list, in the hope that this could encourage others to use the page if it is seen as being regurlarly used. It may also possibly be helpful if the the page could be amended to include different information that users have not been able to find ie; producers, studios, reviews, etc. when they create pages for the music project. I am also slightly confused regarding the fairuse of images as the policy on wiki is extremely difficult to understand. I have scanned a lot of the album covers myself and used Photoshop to edit the image accordingly.Scraggy4 10:36, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Spinal muscular atrophy
It still needs considerable work, but there's an existing article (infantile spinal muscular atrophy) which might get you going in the right direction. I'm not aware of a link between SMA and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. SMA is characterized by the early death of motor neurons, whereas DMD is an early onset muscular dystrophy (muscles grow too large, then degenerate rapidly). Best wishes, Diberri | Talk 18:04, Apr 25, 2004 (UTC)
Album info
Yeah I've been meaning to comment, I've been a little in two minds about it, but I'm coming around to thinking it's a good idea. There's already a Needs infobox page (which has been completely forgotten about), so you wouldn't have to list pages without boxes in the table, so it shouldn't be too much work. I've been contemplating whether or not an "open tasks" style box would be worth it, to try and encourage people to bring existing pages up to spec, rather than ploughing on making new stubbish pages with albumboxes (which I'm guilty of myself).
As for formats, personally I'd prefer that particular section to basically mirror the color of the box i.e. Album, EP, Single, but perhaps we should add a separate "formats" section just below it. That would mean correcting a lot of albumboxes, though. hmmm, two minds again. I'll add something to the talk page in a minute. - Lee (talk) 20:33, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Warwick Parkway
I'm only up to D in the fine toothcomb exercise, but I'll make an exception for Warwick Parkway, the existence of which was hitherto unknown to me. I merely found an old ugly list and have been playing with it slightly obsessively ever since ... thanks for the headsup ... I guess I would have got there by about June. Ah. Whereabouts in the town is the station? It doesn't show on Multimap yet. I lied. It's there now. phew. --Tagishsimon
Incomplete infobox
I don't really understand what you're doing, but I moved it to Incomplete infobox, and didn't have any problems. RickK 01:48, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
- It's now at Wikipedia:Wikiproject Albums/Incomplete infobox. Angela. 12:22, May 2, 2004 (UTC)
I've switched to working directly from list of albums now, so it may be better if you just restrict yourself to adding pages with albumboxes from now on. When I get to where you've got up to, I'll switch back and finish off. - Lee (talk) 19:01, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
Album content
Good work on adding more albums. I have two comments:
- By project convention, we do not put the full release date of the three albums when listing it in the chronology section in the infobox. Only the release year should be there. I noticed this when you added Home.
- The day/month of the release date does not need to be mentioned in the opening paragraph of the article as it's already in the infobox. What is usually done is adding a phrase of the format "released in 2002 (see 2002 in music)".
RedWolf 17:00, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
Tip: it may be better to write full sentences to describe an album, which is more consistent with how many other articles are written here. Thanks for your effort, however :) Dysprosia 06:54, 15 May 2004 (UTC)