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September 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from Genesis (band). Please be careful when editing pages and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Tiptoety 01:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Genesis (band). Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Tiptoety 01:27, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

August 2008

Please could you stop your edits on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Constantly adding red links and incorrectly changing capitalisations is not hel[ing wikipedia. Thanks MrMarmite (talk) 14:16, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

What are you talking about? I do not "constantly" add red links and I do not "incorrectly" change capitalisations. What are you sounding so cranky about? Furthermore, the "Lamb" article---with contributions by *other* people, not just me---is much better than it used to be. So chill out. And I bet I know much more about the history of Genesis than you.AL9000 (talk) 14:31, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Al..no need to get so defensive, I just saw an awful lot of edits and re-edits. I've put some work in to the Windscreen page you made and moved it to the correct capitalisation. No idea why you bring up the history of Genesis, it seems to have nothing to do with this conversation. Peace dude MrMarmite (talk) 15:43, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Very well...sorry if I misinterpreted what you said. I'll try to be more careful with editing. However, I'd like to do some more work on the "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" page, as I feel it isn't quite finished yet. Mind you, I have nothing more to add to the Overview and Live Performance sections, as I'm very happy with those. But I'd like *every* track from the album to have it's own Wikipedia page. Every song from Pink Floyd's "The Wall" has it's own page, so why not "The Lamb" by Genesis? I'd like to fix that, and I do have extensive knowledge (and references) about the songs on the album, as I am a longtime fan of the group (in case you haven't noticed).

I'll do my best, and if I make any unintentional slips with editing, just kindly fix them. Let's get that "Lamb" page finished together! Cheers. :-) AL9000 (talk) 18:30, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Genesis tracks

Hi. Whether or not every track from every Genesis album needs a wiki page is a debate worth having, however in the meantime please could you take the time to see how to create such track pages. I edited Fly on a Windshield to include the template required. It would be a good idea to follow the same layout rather than leave this up to other editors to tidy up. Also, looking at the prose used I am concerned that the text might be copied directly from the reference you mention, could you confirm that this is not the case. Thanks, and happy editing. MrMarmite (talk) 08:01, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Pink Floyd

Re. the post you left on Talk:Pink Floyd, "Apparently, a Wikipedia editor had a cow today..." – I can't see the vandalism accusation on your talk page, nor on the edit summary of the revert. As for the content of your change, ever since Wright died, some editors have been inserting comments about it everywhere they can, and other editors are undoubtably getting frustrated in reverting. I did think the edit summary sounded a little cranky, if you're asking for an opinion on that. I saw an accusation of POV, and I think the issue is that the article should only contain comments from band members regarding future reunions, rather than speculation from us. A lot of the "death notice" insertions we've seen in the last week have been more blog-like than encyclopaedic.

It's similar to a problem when new albums come out, and editors want to document every detail about recording dates of each track, online download release date, CD release date, etc. If you look at older albums by the same bands, you will just see an album title and a year are usually sufficient. Some editors seem to feel that recent information needs to be made more prominent, and be expressed in greater detail. An encyclopaedia should ideally be timeless, giving equal weight to past and recent events, or possibly more weight to past events, if those past times were the band's peak years. It should be noted that Syd Barrett's death is not mentioned in the lead section.

Sorry, I'm just rambling out my thoughts here, hoping it will explain what's going on. You can't take things too personally at WP. Right now I'm having to deal with a sore anon IP editor who didn't like me disagreeing with a change he made (even though I did agree to "meet him halfway"), and is vandalizing pages to insert complaints about it, calling me a (euphemism for vagina). :) --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 12:31, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

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