Talk:Love (band)

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[edit] Wording

In the first section the line: "The band's critical reputation far exceeds the limited success they experienced:" confuses me. Does the "limited success", as I think it does, refer to financial success? --chiefhoser 00:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV check

What's your problem with the neutrality of the article Love (band)? Discussion page was blank. Thanks Jolomo 28 June 2005 17:11 (UTC)

(The above was copied from my Talk page, for my answering below.)

— Well, chronologically:

  • Someone else had previously elected this article for NPOV check, and thought it obvious enough to not justify it on the Talk page.
  • Then, someone else elected to replace the normal tag with a hidden HTML comment.
  • Then, when I recently copyedited this page, I put back the normal NPOV tag instead of the hidden HTML comment, as explained in my edit summary "{{NPOV}} instead of hidden comment", and as visible in the diff.

Now, of course, the reason why I replaced the hidden comment with the tag – instead of simply deleting it – was that I had, too, found the wording quite biased or fanboyish, without external sources/quotes/charts to back it up: "one of the finest 1960s albums", "beautifully melodic songs", "marred by a prolix side-long instrumental", "winsome yet twisted vocal style". One of those could maybe float, but all accumulated, that's a lot of POV for such a short section.

You're right I should have done the two previous guy's job and documented it on the talk page. Done ;-) ←#6  talk 1 July 2005 17:01 (UTC)

  • Sorry about that — should have read the history more carefully. Agreed, the authors have gone overboard, but to me the "winsome" quote (with a reference, too) captures his singing perfectly, but I aggree that the prolix line is a bit flowery. That album is typically listed as a top album of the 60's (I'll track down a reference), maybe line could be changed to "one of the most distinctive albums" of the 60's? It's certainly that. Thanks for your feedback. Jolomo
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