Talk:Fat Freddys Drop

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I removed the following: "Lead singer, "Joe Dookie"(Dallas Tamaira) has met aclaim (sic) for his soulful vocals. Rolling Stone Magazine listed him as one of top 50 vocalists of our generation."

If it is to be included, can a reference be provided? I did a quick Google search, but turned up nothing and am dubious as to whether it is true or not. Also, if it was in a New Zealand only edition of Rolling Stone, that should probably be specified.

One other thing, could we cut down on the gushing a bit. Neutral point of view and all. - Hn 02:07, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

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Yeah for sure, I am just learning my way around editing and creating material so any tips are appreciated. Gushing as in what you removed? I am unaware whether it was a New Zealand, Australasian or World Rolling Stone so I guess it was a good move removing that =).

Obble 2:54, May 12, 2005

Oh, I just mean toning down stuff like "unparalled success" and "Lead singer, "Joe Dookie"(Dallas Tamaira) has met huge aclaim". Too much of that makes it read a bit like a PR piece. ;) - Hn 08:18, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

This page doesn't show up on any searches. I'm reasonably new to Wikipedia so I'm not too sure how to fix that up, but if anyone could that'd be great - I started writing my own page for FFD before I stumbled on this one by accident Graphia 02:58, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

works for me. are you searching from the main wiki search box? --noizyboy 03:25, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

That's also my point, it works when you do it from the main page or click 'go' but using the search button or a search engine in Firefox only brings up the big day out page.Graphia 01:37, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

I assume your Firefox browser is using Google as its default search engine? It looks like the pagerank for the Big Day Out page is higher on a search than the actual FFD page. This is a function of Google's pagerank, rather than any problem with Wikipedia. If more sites link directly to the FFD wiki article, then that page's Google pagerank will rise. As it is, virtually nothing links to that page, hence the low rank (and low placing in search returns on Google). --noizyboy 00:52, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Move to Fat Freddys Drop

Their own website and artwork consistently uses Fat Freddys Drop instead of Fat Freddy's Drop. The former redirects to the latter. It should be the other way around. --84.193.162.115 21:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Aye, that's what I was going to say. Motion seconded! Tamlyn 10:19, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. --Hl 10:32, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Joe Lindsay 148 years old?

I just want to tell ya that *Hopepa (Joe Lindsay) is probabkly not the same dude this link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsay) directs to, cuz then he would be 148 years old!

In trying to get this message at the appropriate place I accidently removed the list of players / instruments(?)

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Robin (robintimmers@gmail.com)