User talk:Funk Junkie

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Yeah, it's great that you've created an account, and thanks again. Extraordinary Machine 21:45, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
I have User talk:Extraordinary Machine on my watchlist, and therefor saw your message there. Jkelly 17:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Britney Spears

Britney's music is urban. Have you heard In the Zone is what she wanted to do. Charmed36 7 September 2006

That is the direction she has moved towards and will continue.


Yes, it was on a special on E! television called Britney Spears and she did not want to be a teen star anymore. It is not reliable because it is a television source.

[edit] Chart tables

Just to let you know, the Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Tables for charts style guideline stipulates the use of the "wikitable" format with no background colour, and not {{tablabonita}} with #CCCCCC. Thanks. Extraordinary Machine 17:53, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

You can divide the chart table into two columns by doing the following:
==Charts==

{{col-begin}} 
{{col-2}}

<!-- first block of charts -->

{{col-2}}

<!-- second block of charts -->

{{col-end}}
Hope that helps. By the way, I like that song! I bought my mum the album for Mothers' Day :). Extraordinary Machine 16:25, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, she really liked it. Rae's been really hyped over here, though - "Put Your Records On" was everywhere! :). I've listened to some of the album; my favourite song is either "Like a Star" or "Choux Pastry Heart". Extraordinary Machine 12:07, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alicia Keys

That was a strange edit. You can learn probably more than you ever want to know about reverting edits at Wikipedia:Revert... but the simple version is 1) go to the article's history page 2) click on the version in the history that was the best previous version of the article 3) edit that version directly by hitting the edit link -- you'll get a warning that you're editing an old version 4) save (you don't need to change anything in the edit field). Happy editing... Jkelly 18:25, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

People from New York is the parent category of People from New York City... so there's no point in having her in both, since one is the sub-cat of the other. As for the various X-American cats, we'd need a source that actually said "This person is X-American" rather than has X grandmother, etc. Mad Jack 20:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Well, we don't use the one drop rule, i.e. if you had an ancestor who was Italian, then you, your kids, your grandkids and all your ancestors, ever, are going to be Italian-American, period. Definitely not (not to mention that the definition of "Italian-American is "an American of Italian descent", not an American of Italian, Greek, Irish, French, etc. descent). It becomes confusing trying to decide who is X-American or not, so it depends on what the sources say. I don't think we could find a reliable source that said Alicia Keys is an Italian-American or an Irish-American. In fact, most people who are 1/4 or less "X" are almost never described as "X-American", either by themselves or by news sources. As for Alicia Keys, Jamaican-American, maybe, though I haven't looked for a source that calls her that. There probably is one somewhere. Mad Jack 19:09, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
If a person is, say, 1/4 or 1/8 Italian, you would be hard pressed to find any reliable source that described that person as an Italian-American, and, similarly, you will almost never find the person themselves describing themselves as that. Mad Jack 19:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Well, "Category:People of Irish descent" is a parent category, into which go "Irish-Americans" and a bunch of other categories of Irish people across the world. It doesn't actually list any people (the way it should be). I don't see the encyclopedic value of listing people because of the ethnicity of their grandparent or great-grandparent. Just imagine if we did that for, say, Wentworth Miller. We would have twice as many ethnicity categories in his case as we do regular categories (i.e. American film actor)! Mad Jack 19:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Well I think the English thing is an accident of birth. The article says his father was just studying there when he was born (i.e. his family is American) Mad Jack 20:04, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Depends on what the source says. If the source says that the person has X ancestry, then the person has X ancestry. If the source says the person is X (if they are American) or X-American, then the person is X-American (for Wikipedia purposes). Mad Jack 23:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Feels like Home

Actually, "like" shouldn't be capitalised, because it is a preposition in this context. If the album's title was I Like Home, then yes, "like" would be capitalised; see wiktionary:like. It's all very complicated :/. Extraordinary Machine 13:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

No need to apologise; like I said, it's complicated. I only realised "like" could be a preposition way after I familiarised myself with the other prepositions. One of the reasons for this is that there are some words, such as "like", that are capitalised on Wikipedia in some contexts but not in others. Extraordinary Machine 15:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stop removing genres from articles

Beyoncé is a pop artist, and Naughty Girl and Check on It are pop songs. The latter even performed better on the Billboard Pop chart than it did on the Billboard R&B chart. Your continuous removal of the pop genre from Beyoncé articles is becoming extremely annoying. Her music is pop, she is marketed as a pop artist, and even her official site states that she is a pop artist. Please stop. --musicpvm 16:40, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

You seem to be consider being labelled as pop a negative thing. I don't see why. If Beyoncé's music did not have strong pop influences, she would not be the successful artist she is today. I have also not been the only user to revert your edits; many users have restored the pop genre in her articles. Every source on the internet also labels her as a pop musician. Your example of "Unbreakable" is not a good one. That song flopped on the Pop 100 and reached #4 on the R&B chart while "Check on It" reached #3 on the R&B chart and #1 on the Pop 100, so I don't see how the songs can be compared. Anyways, I don't want an edit war so I will start a discussion at Beyoncé's talk page. --musicpvm 16:56, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar!

The Barnstar of High Culture
For your extensive work reconstructoring Stacie Orrico, I award you the Barnstar of High Culture! --lovelaughterlife♥ (user|talk) 22:53, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


Oh, you're welcome. You deserve it! --lovelaughterlife♥talk? 19:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] And I

I see you put the pop genre back on "And I". I have been disputing with myself if it is a pop song. I had it there for a while then took it off. I'm not sure. Charmed36 22:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Emma Bunton's Downtown

Hey... just thought I'd let you know that I've moved your RM from "controversial" to "uncontroversial", as the name Downtown (Emma Bunton song) is consistent with other song articles on Wikipedia, so it can be "speedy" moved! ;-) robwingfield «T•C» 16:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mary J. Blige

I really don't even think you are fully reading the version you keep changing it to. There are many sections that are poorly written and redundant. The changes that were made on the version you keep reverting it from make the most sense. No ones reverting just because. All the info is the same just better formatted so that it follows the pattern set by the rest of the article. Studio albums have sections dedicated to them, while all non-studio albums are talked about in the section of whatever album era they came out in. Mary's Reflections album is NOT a studio album and shouldn't be treated as though it is. It is a in between album project just like her two remix albums and live album and none of them have they're own section. Try reading things first before you change them and stop looking at the fact that its just different than the last version you saw. Work with people for the betterment of articles not against them. Blakejoe 20:21, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reverted changes on The Soul Sessions

Just a short note letting you know I've reverted you changes on The Soul Sessions, because they were moving away from WP:MOS and WP:ALBUM. See specifically about using headers instead of bolding, about using ndashes, and about marking up ordered lists properly. It looks like you basically reverted all the changes I made to the version you last edited. I don't want to start a revert war, just point out why I made the changes I did. Have a nice day. --PEJL 05:12, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Joss Stone

I supplied this reference [1] on some pages but not the Joss Stone article; maybe it should go there too. This is the official web page of the Liberal Judaism movement so it should be a good source.--Newport 11:31, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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