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Contents 1 Dark Side of the Moon 2 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 3 Meathead 4 The Man and the Journey 5 NIN 6 Your edits to Year Zero (album)

[edit] Dark Side of the Moon

Didn't mean to, uh, "rub you the wrong way" with my edit. I think it's understandable with the massive amounts of vandalism that went on yesterday (since Pink Floyd was the featured article) that this appeared to be yet another case. And I've never heard "cum" used in that sense before -- the wiki article doesn't even address this usage. Your edit to "turned" is much more clear and universal. Oh, and God bless you. Hoof Hearted 14:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Of course, "cum" on that page is translated simply as "with", but you're right — "turned" is a bit clearer. BotleySmith 15:54, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Meathead

Hi BotleySmith, nice to see someone else arguing for Meathead to be kept on the AfD (other than rabid fanboys). I note that you're on EchoingTheSound too - would anyone there know of some good references for the Meathead article? GeorgeBills 17:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

My suggestion is that you send PM's to Meathead himself, and also Drunkpoet and Leviathant (who know him personally and contribute to the NIN Hotline)... perhaps they have some more clinching third-party sources. BotleySmith 21:25, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Man and the Journey

Hey, nice job on that article, I've been waiting for someone knowledgeable about the subject to do that (which you obviously are). Nice work. --Alcuin 03:26, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NIN

Good luck with the article, and I hope it reaches whatever standard you've set yourself for it. I hope you can set your sites to other NIN articles sometime, as they're in need of TLC. LuciferMorgan 03:56, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll try, if my head doesn't blow up during finals this semester. BotleySmith 18:27, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Lol, make sure your studies are your first priority. Good luck with the semester. LuciferMorgan 19:08, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I was just coming by to wish the same. I just had a look and it looks to be at another level from where it was a few weeks back. Good luck. Seegoon 00:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

There's really nothing more that needs doing in terms of the band logo or the album covers (if somebody nevertheless asks for more on an album cover, see Image:The Whole Of The Moon Waterboys Album Cover.jpg as a model). Image:Ninmarch06.jpg, on the other hand, is somewhat troublesome. How do we know that this photograph comes with an implicit license to redistribute (your point number two of the fair use rationale)? What makes us sure that this is meant for press use, as opposed to being an attractive photograph to help drive traffic to the band's website? Further, it would be entirely reasonable for someone to argue that it is replaceable, especially given that the band continues to perform. Flickr currently has three hundred CC-BY images tagged "Nine Inch Nails" (and twenty four CC-BY-SA ones). From a brief glance, a lot of these are either very dark photographs of the backs of people's heads or mislabelled album cover photographs, but, still, we should be able to find something useful. The de: article is using Image:NineInchNails.jpg, for instance. I imagine that Image:Ninmarch06.jpg will get deleted sooner or later as part of the {{promotional}} cleanup that has begun, so I'd really recommend finding a replacement for it. Jkelly 18:50, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I went through this with The Waterboys, and I will admit that finding freely licensed photographs of a reasonable quality was a time investment. That said, I've had a lot of success asking people to donate their images, either by messaging them through Flickr, posting requests on fan forums, or sending out Wikipedia:Boilerplate requests for permission to website owners. Getting freely licensed media is rewarding though -- once it is done, it isn't going to get deleted in some fair use crackdown, and it can be used by every project, not just en. Let me know if I can be of help. Jkelly 19:11, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

If you get any releases, make sure to forward them to permissions AT wikimedia DOT org. If you let me know that you've done so, I can keep an eye out for them. Jkelly 19:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Year Zero (album)

I'm sorry I had to widescale revert your edit, but there should not be any carriage returns in the reference template we're using on the page, per Wikipedia:Embedded citations. I tried the same thing over in the Brett Favre article, and I was shot down for it. Feel free to add your other changes back in, but don't change the warning in the tracklisting section. The bigger and more noticeable it is, the less likely it is that these rabid NIN fans will add in the info that we can't have. Thanks. –King Bee ^{(T • C)} 19:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

As I said above, feel free to put your other edits back in. I just reverted your changes because I didn't want to manually go back through again and erase the carriage returns that should not have been added. I am not going to put your edits back in; you have the ability to do that yourself. –King Bee ^{(T • C)} 06:18, 17 February 2007 (UTC)