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Contents 1 Article rehaul 2 GAN on hold 3 wrong information 4 Image 5 Copyedit 6 The Calm

[edit] Article rehaul

There's a lot more work to be done. There should be some stuff about the Eminem/ICP feud added, and if anyone has any books about the group, they should look through them and see if any of the citations to ICP's online biography can be replaced with citations to those books. Citing printed sources is very important if you want to see this article listed as a featured article at some point. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 19:33, 4 May 2008 (UTC))

[edit] GAN on hold

• General practice is to name the band members as early as possible.
• Free infobox image would be needed for FA.
• "Although the duo has been criticized for the violent content and perceived immaturity of their lyrics,[6] they have earned one platinum album and four gold albums." - I don't get the although; one of these shouldn't affect the other
• "work with the group" --> work with them would sound better
• "and the Insane Clown Posse formed the record label Psychopathic Records, and released " - doesn't read well with lots of "and"
• "Disney had stopped production of The Great Milenko to avoid further controversy, Disney denied" - repetition?
• "In David Browne's review of the album for Entertainment Weekly, Browne writes" - keep tense consistent and just use "he" the second time
• "During the 20 August 1999 episode of The Howard Stern Show, Bruce and Utsler clashed with fellow guest Sharon Osbourne, a rift that emerged from an earlier incident in which Coal Chamber, whom Osbourne managed at the time, were fired by the Insane Clown Posse two shows into their tour with Biohazard, due to poor ticket sales, leading Coal Chamber to try and sue Bruce and Utsler for breach of contract" - eek, long painful sentence
• You should say how much their albums sold after that Osbourne bet.
• Newspapers in italics (I noticed The Onion) need italics.

And leave me a note when done. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 11:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I've completed all tasks but the free image, and the albums sold. King iMatthew 2008 21:25, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

The last one (album sales following the Osbourne bet) was tough, but I finally found something. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:01, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

And passed! dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 00:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Good job guys, and MCL. Now get this to FA. :) - Merzbow (talk) 19:08, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] wrong information

just so you know, the Insane Clown Posse have two (2) platinum albums —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.72.215 (talk) 19:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

• At the time this article was written, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers had not been certified platinum by the RIAA, whose website states that the album was certified on May 14th. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 08:16, 25 May 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Image

I took a tip from the Radiohead article, which uses a Photomontage of bandmember photos, and combined the individual photos of ICP into one file so that they can be used in the Infobox. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 08:53, 25 May 2008 (UTC))

That looks really good! dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 10:27, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Clever. Can I suggest that you play around with the gamma in Photoshop to lighten the background on Shaggy's? - Merzbow (talk) 17:43, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copyedit

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[edit] The Calm

The CD the calm is not discussed at all in this article, it was the first release after the jokers card's making it seem important to me. Anyone want to edit this and add the Calm. thanks MCL MACK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.40.67.87 (talk) 06:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

The article doesn't have to discuss every single little thing that the group puts out. It discusses all of the main LPs to date and a few of the EPs. There's really no need to write about every single release. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 18:51, 12 June 2008 (UTC))