Talk:Guided by Voices

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Contents 1 VFD 2 GbV versus GBV 3 Former band members 4 Incorrect number of albums? 5 New photo 6 GBV

[edit] VFD

Article listed on WP:VFD July 6 to July 14 2004, consensus was to keep. Discussion:

Re: Guided by Voices

NPOV mess, repeated target for vandalism, is this an encyclopedic article? RickK 21:07, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)

• Keep. Perfectly encyclopedic and largely factual/neutral (which obviously wasn't the case a week or two ago). What is there to object to in this article? --rbrwrˆ 21:31, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Uh, keep, real and famous band. Everyking 23:43, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• What Everyking said. Why is this here? Ambivalenthysteria 03:51, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Keep - needs a little NPOV and TLC, but not deletion. -Sean Curtin 05:06, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• KEEP. Not sure why this has been repeatedly been targeted for changes and deletion... especially with recent changes in place. This entry remained wacky for months and months until a flurry of recent interest (including that of RickK).

End discussion

[edit] GbV versus GBV

Isn't the spelling Guided By Voices?

I don't think prepositions are capitalized in titles. Deleuze 02:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

The band's name appears as Guided By Voices on Do the Collapse, the only album where the name isn't in either all capital or all lowercase letters. QuentinJamstar 01:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

How the name is capitalized on album covers is mostly irrelevant. Wikipedia policy is to normalize capitalization of band names. See WP:NC#Album titles and band names. --PEJL 09:41, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

i changed "bestselling" to "legendary" because Bee Thousand was not a bestselling album. Sommeone else can change the adjective if they think of a better one. As long as it's not bestselling.

One tends to think that "influential" would have taken care of it... I haven't dug out my case for Bee Thousand lately, but i'm willing to bet it's Guided by Voices, hence the GbV. iamandrewssoul

"Influential" is a bit more... what's the word... encyclopia-ish, in that it can be referenced that the album influenced a number of artists. I don't know of any sources that prove that, but I'm sure they're out there. --JerryLewisOverdrive 03:55, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Former band members

The list of former band members is a little short, isn't it? :-)

[edit] Incorrect number of albums?

Half Smiles of the Decomposed is supposed to be the 15th album, but on this article I count 16? - Maarten (Talk) 18:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• I don't think Tonics & Twisted Chasers is counted (considering that on their respective pages it says that Under the Bushes is the 9th and Do the Collapse is the 11th, and Mag Earwig! and Tonics & Twisted Chasers fell between those two) QuentinJamstar 01:36, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New photo

I think we need a new photo of the band, as Bob is barely featured in it, and Bob has been the only constant GBV member - ZEROpumpkins 08:13, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's really strange to have the GBV picture not featuring Bob. QuentinJamstar (talk) 03:22, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Any new photo is fine, as long as it's free license. I recommend looking through Flickr. --Brandt Luke Zorn (talk) 03:29, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GBV

GBV is also the abbreviation of the northern German library consortium. Kdammers (talk) 05:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)