VanzKantDanz

Pink Floyd personnel lists

Hello VanzKantDanz,

You have been making recent edits to the personnel lists of articles on most Pink Floyd albums, to add more detail to the specific brand or model of instruments used. You have done this three times, and each time your changes have been reverted. Can I offer some advice?

I think that if these changes are valid, they would be welcome, and the reverts do not necessarily mean they are unwanted or are being disputed. The problem, I suspect, is that you are making these changes without saying where you are getting your information. Wikipedia requires that detailed edits such as these come with references. There may also be problems with the format you are using to insert these details, when they change credits as printed on the album covers.

Another problem is that you are making very similar changes to so many articles, such as replacing "bass guitar" with "Fender Precision bass" on most. Some editors may suspect you have read that Waters used that model, and just presumed he used it on everything he recorded. Are you using a reference that says this make of bass guitar was used on every album whose article you are editing? And that no other model was used additionally on those recordings? It may be that you do have a reference source which says exactly that. But you need to state what it is.

Another problem may be that, in general, album credits should quote exactly what is printed in the official album notes. If additional information is provided, it should be formatted in a way which makes it clear that it is a deviation from the official credits. For example:

• Roger Waters – bass guitar (Fender Precison)[reference to where you found this], vocals

or

• Roger Waters – (Fender Precision)[reference] bass guitar, vocals
• David Gilmour – guitar, vocals (also bass guitar on "One of These Days")[reference]

Hopefully these suggestions will help you make edits that will endure, and they will be welcomed as good contributions to these articles. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 13:06, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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