Talk:Wizard rock
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[edit] It's a music genre!
December 10, 2006
Okay, then let's merge Rock 'n Roll with Elvis.. Wizard Rock, is a music genre as is any other, there is no reason for it not to have it's own article in the format of other music genres. As stated below, 'When searched for Wizard Rock many MySpace articles appear.' Well if we simply treat wizard rock a music genre others will too.
Wizard Rock, is not only in the Harry Potter fandom, it contains many other bands, related to other books, therefore redirecting it is not the right thing to do.
I suggest an article to be formed named 'Wizard Rock' and 'List of Wizard Rock bands', as it is not right to treat this genre unfairly..
Best Regards, Hp Fan 9374 - Alex Douglas
[edit] Pruning or merging
I think this article could use some serious pruning, particularly the section on examples of Wizard rock bands, because these look like just a bunch of spamlinks to myspace and other personal web sites. If these bands aren't notable enough to have a Wikipedia article, they're not notable enough to have a text+link mention in this site. In other words, everything but Harry and the Potters should be removed (or at the very least, delinked).
Another definite possibility is to merge and redirect this article to Harry Potter fandom. What do you think? --Deathphoenix 14:57, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- I certainly think that this does not warrant it's own article. I agree with some serious pruning getting rid of the majority (if not all) of the non notable content and then merge whatever's left with fandom. Death Eater Dan
18:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
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- I have hacked at the text, removing some blatantly biased comments not conforming to WP:NOR & WP:NPOV. Whats left is a brief introduction, which I think is perfectly adequate to describe a decidedly small limited appeal subject (the bands I mean, not HP of course :) Death Eater Dan 20:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks (did you prune the this, or the Dumbledore article?). When I have time, I plan to delete all the myspace (and similar) links and then run a Google PageRank & Alexa check on the rest of the links. --Deathphoenix 20:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- Yep that sounds like the best way of dealing with all the band links. I pruned this article tonight, I cleaned up the Dumbledore article last night after it had been butchered all day with some bloody awful editing. Death Eater Dan 21:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, okay. I was a little confused. --Deathphoenix 21:34, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- Hi DeathPhoenix I too am a tad confused now..... what happened to my edit? I hacked at the text and removed all the crap (as in my earlier post above on the 21st Feb) after I clicked save on my edit I came straight here to put it on the talk page. I'm now back after a 3 day wikibreak and find no sign of my Feb 21st edit in the history and therefore you ended up having to do the pruning yourself even though I had already stated I had done it (penny has now dropped why you asked what i had pruned). EH? oh well it's all sorted now and good work on the merger. Death Eater Dan 18:20, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
- Hi DeathPhoenix I too am a tad confused now..... what happened to my edit? I hacked at the text and removed all the crap (as in my earlier post above on the 21st Feb) after I clicked save on my edit I came straight here to put it on the talk page. I'm now back after a 3 day wikibreak and find no sign of my Feb 21st edit in the history and therefore you ended up having to do the pruning yourself even though I had already stated I had done it (penny has now dropped why you asked what i had pruned). EH? oh well it's all sorted now and good work on the merger. Death Eater Dan
- Ah, okay. I was a little confused. --Deathphoenix 21:34, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- Yep that sounds like the best way of dealing with all the band links. I pruned this article tonight, I cleaned up the Dumbledore article last night after it had been butchered all day with some bloody awful editing. Death Eater Dan
- Thanks (did you prune the this, or the Dumbledore article?). When I have time, I plan to delete all the myspace (and similar) links and then run a Google PageRank & Alexa check on the rest of the links. --Deathphoenix 20:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- I have hacked at the text, removing some blatantly biased comments not conforming to WP:NOR & WP:NPOV. Whats left is a brief introduction, which I think is perfectly adequate to describe a decidedly small limited appeal subject (the bands I mean, not HP of course :) Death Eater Dan
- Agree with placing this as a section under fandom. Rather more reservation that no subject is worth mentioning unless it has its own article already, that seems rather a blanket ban on articles covering several topics. However, someone would need to have something interesting to say about them to make them worth a mention. Some might be included as examples of the sort of name? (but I see a couple are) Sandpiper 22:36, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Someone already completed the merge; I removed the merge tag from Harry Potter fandom. SujinYH 16:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tweaked text and removed external links
To prepare for the likely merge, I tweaked the text and removed all links to the myspace and freeweb domains. In addition, I removed "The Rita Skeeters" (lolisandpotts dot com has no Alexa rank and a Google PageRank of 2/10), "Draco and the Malfoys" (evilwizardrock dot com has an Alexa rank of 4,597,651 and a Google PageRank of 0/10), and "Hollow Godric" (hollowgodric dot com has no Alexa rank and a Google PageRank of 0/10), though I've mentioned the first two in the text with no links. --Deathphoenix 16:06, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
