User talk:Leahtwosaints/Archive 10

Musician images

Hello I would like to help you, but I'm pretty ignorant about licenses myself. This is a good question to ask through Help or possibly even on IRC. I agree that there are many poor photos of public figures on Wikipedia and the usefulness of the encyclopedia would be enhanced with better ones, but I don't think I'm in much of a position to fix this matter. Please let me know if you think I can be of further assistance. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:15, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Basic copyright issues is a good starting place, and there's the also Wikipedia:Media copyright questions  Chzz  ►  00:23, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

your requests

haha, no, the problem of "ignoring" doesnt arise, i too have exams, so im quite busy, either doing only SP stuff, or trying to study. Now...

• In commons there already is a category for session musicians! i'm pleasantly surprised.  Done except one, which is giving an error, the solo pic of Steve Jordan. I will try it later.

• Yes, a singer-songwriter category is present: here. No Swiss releated category as such, but no need to create one if you just have a few images to add. However, cats such as musical groups from swiss and musicians from swiss might be of help?

• Created a multi-instrumentalists cat: here

• Created a slide-guitarists cat: here. and added pics of the musicians you listed except Sonny Landreth, some weird error again.

• The duplicate pic is this one, right?. I tagged it for deletion.

• Your sandbox is here: User:Leahtwosaints/Sandbox

• Archived it. Also left a link on your USER page to your sandbox, so it'll be easy for you to find it in future. Suede67 (talk) 17:50, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

You are one in a million! Actually, the duplicate photo that you tagged, I'm not sure what to do, since if you click the tab above on any photo to see where it's used, each version has a foreign languge (to English, lol..) using it. The duplicate that should be tagged, is one of Derek Trucks --it's all red, in the "Derek Trucks" gallery you made.

In any case, the other wikis where the tagged image was being used was replaced by a bot earlier today, so no problems there. I found the DT in red pic, tagged it. See here.

• Please, whenever you bump into a page with a photo up top, but no infobox, please just leave it on this page. It's something I do while watching TV when it's late-- mindless work, I have it down to a science.

Haha, if i find such a page, i'll notify you.

• The Swiss rock band is Gotthard, which I didn't know about but often I learn of new indy or foreign rock bands or jazz ensembles b/c the photographer who I contact for one pic, sometimes asks if I want others, and lists a bunch. If we have a page, or someone's working on doing it for each member (like YOU!), I'll go ahead and thank them and thus add something unknown. They're here: [1].

Hmmm, you could upload more images of the band/band members, if we have 2-3 (theres currently 1 on their article), i could make a category of Gotthard for you, it'll ease things, and the band category can go in the larger "musicians from switzerland" category. ok?

Blessings for helping me! Hope school is going as well as the Wikipedia! My birthday is November 10th. Of ALL the musicians over the past few years I've seen here, I share it with only one person, and different year: Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and King Crimson, when I was a kid, though he's still rocking! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 21:22, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

I do remember your birthday, cool you share it with someone. I dont think i do with anyone though, but U2, they initially "met" each other on 25 Sept, and my bday is 26 Sept, so I take solace in the fact, that the band was 1 day old that day haha! College is fine, exams are currently going on, so quite busy with studies as well, but its all good. Take care. Suede67 (talk) 21:50, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

You're too funny. U2 met just as your poor mother began going into labour! Smirk~ And, [while I quick check to make sure nobody's looking-- I'll be hitting the big 50! AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!) Now, THAT is frightening, trust me! I never thought I'd make it to 21! Then it was 25, then 30, and incrementally every 5 years from that but I never thought I'd see half a century. OMG. (It'll be our little secret, you, me, 1 million Wikipedia readers!

Hahaha, thanks for the disturbing image.

1. About that swiss band, Gotthard, no need for a category for me, I'm the one who put that great pic of Steve Lee on the band page. All but one member who have photos, and only he and another member need pages.

I see, by the way, instead of making a new page for one member, I'd say its a better idea to improve the band's page.

1. Oh, a cool thing; one of the photos I added here (from the same photographer who provided the Trent Reznor pic) also gave up a handful more, and one, Arthur Adams he talked about featuring as a photo here! I think it's time some of the photographers get credit! :)) --Leahtwosaints (talk) 22:42, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Nice! You're lucky, A couple of days before I asked a flickr user for a pic (yes i finally decided to) and he/she didnt reply, atleast yet. Suede67 (talk) 23:46, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Correction for Suede67

Badly worded above. I meant to say another editor asked about featuring the photo of Arthur Adams in the Wikipedia. It's by the same photographer that did the Trent Reznor pic that we both admired. I think that another editor has to nominate it. I'd so love to see these professional photographers who give up their work to the Wikipedia get some real credit. After all, several of them had book deals in the making --and stopped it since they gave up their copyright to us. Hey, maybe it's a solution to my concern over attribution, at least in a few cases! Check out my gallery in my userpage, so feel free to nominate when exams are over (or time permits)! Regarding your Flickr pic, if I write a "canned message" to ask for Flickr photos that you can use -and modify depending on the person you are contacting with requests, would it help? You could stash it in your sandbox, maybe. Let me know if it could help you any. I really do appreciate your help!--Leahtwosaints (talk) 20:21, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Ohh! ok, you mean this pic, uploaded by you, so I guess thats the one. Incredible. But i have never tried to get a pic featured before. And since you got permission and uploaded it, you should nominate it as well. When you get the hang of it, maybe try the new Reznor pic as well, that one is sweet too.

Nominating looks simple as well. See this page: here. Just need to paste the filename, and you are set. however the rules sound strict and since the pic is not that high resolution, it might get failed. but you can try. Theres also a facility for a peer review here: link. Could try that first, same way to nominate.

"canned message" haha, i'd love to see it! send me a mail maybe. Suede67 (talk) 20:37, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Stevie Wonder/Herbie Hancock

Many thanks for your appreciation and pointing out this lost link in the Hancock discography - and a big Happy Birthday to you DISEman (talk) 02:13, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Oh WOW Thanks! I hadn't realized that anyone knew today was my birthday. It hadn't occured to me. I edit biographies of musicians, and thus far, I've found only one that shares my birthday, (different year though!!)-- that's Greg Lake, of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Many thanks. Perhaps sometime soon you can give me some pointers on beginning an album article. It's really bad that Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman's solo efforts haven't been completed for their discography. --Or even the GA-ranked Cat Stevens article's albums. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 02:27, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Hppy B'day!

Enjoy! Have a wonderful time. Suede67 (talk) 04:27, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Cat Stevens photo

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Prince's Trust photos

Hi. Could you tell me how you determined the year of the photos on Eric Clapton and Tina Turner? I was trying to verify the dates and just can't find it. Thanks. Wildhartlivie (talk) 01:47, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

The problem I ran into with the dating was that Turner and Clapton (at least) appeared at more than one Prince's Trust concert and, for what it's worth, Clapton's clothing is different, but more importantly, he has a full beard in one and scruff in the other. I'm fairly certain the photo on the Turner page is from a different concert. Please let me know about the dating when you find out. About the credits, though, generally, the credit is given on the actual image page, but I rarely, if ever, see it on the article where the photo may appear. Wildhartlivie (talk) 04:47, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I know. I emailed him but he's on the other side of the globe, and I'm sure he'll let me know. I left a note on the Prince's Trust article about leaving no data or sources about the charity concerts, but don't ever believe anyone will care. Can we agree to remove the dates until I hear from the photographer tomorrow? I just added the pics. OK?

Re: Photos, I feel guilty asking people to give up what is in essence, their livelihood in favor of a CC-BY-SA or GDFL Creative Commons license. Sooner or later someone will pull their name from the credit on the page. I agree that the format isn't as nice, I just want to give people some reassurance and maybe a week of bragging rights! :) Least we can do so they know they weren't ripped off. It may seem silly to someone like you with a zillion barnstars; for me, though, choosing to be basically a janior betwixt editing, nobody knows anything of me but maybe 5 editors really. I spend time doing the mundane -creating infoboxes, finding and then negotiating for photos for use here, copyediting, wikifying. So I'm aware of the issue. My feeling is only that, with all the articles entirely unreferenced or plagiarized, why not give such a small thing to a new photographer? Or I wonder what's entailed in nominating photos for picture of the day or some such thing either on Wikimedia Commons, or here? That would do some photographers some real good. See the Trent Reznor photo at the top of his page! Perhaps if they can get some attention that way, it would help. Thanks for assisting me with this. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 05:28, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I think if the photographer can verify the dates, that is all that is necessary. It wouldn't hurt to remove the dates until that is clarified. Like I said, I just noticed that the clothing differed and Clapton had a beard in one photo and only scruff in another, which leads me to think that at least one of the photos was at a different time. The credit can be left for now, but I'd put it after the caption, not before. Personally, I was just asking since I watch the Turner article. I've noticed your username before, I've just never had a situation to ask you about. Don't be fooled by the barnstars, they come in spurts and disappear in drought. Being visible enough to get one also begs for controversy, be it in vandalism or disagreements, so they aren't all that. Several of them are from a sometimes editing partner, just to reinforce ourselves! I've not been involved in any picture of the day things, so I'm not at all familiar with how one would go about nominating one. The Reznor image is rather great, isn't it? Again, let me know what you find out and keep up your wiki-gnoming. That's what makes a mediocre article rise from the mundane! Wildhartlivie (talk) 09:30, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Great! I think it would be prudent to put the dates and the photographer's name on each file page, too. Keep up the good work! Wildhartlivie (talk) 09:44, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

I happened across [Wikipedia:Captions#Credits]], which clarifies the captions question! Wildhartlivie (talk) 11:13, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Robert Cray

I do not want to fall out with you, but in your zealous 'over wikification drive' you have added Blues music for blues, and U.K. for UK. Equally, removing record for simply 'record', rather leaves the reader open to mis-interpretation. Is that a record for jumping higher than anyone else; a notation for being a criminal; or to remain as or afford evidence of. Etcetera. The Collins English Dictionary - alone - has twenty four such variants. This is partly pedantic, BUT not everyone here has a clear grasp of English and its nuances - including me ! Just a thought. Best wishes,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 01:57, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm not seeing that the dewikification was extreme or unwarranted. I see blues rock added to genres, and an unlinked "blues" linked as "blues music". The names and abbreviations for countries do not need to be wikified, per common terms. I also don't think a track record would be understood from "record" on an article about a musician. By the way, since his place of birth is included in the infobox, there is no reason for it to be in the lead sentence, although it should be moved to the beginning of the early career section, such as changing "Cray started playing guitar in his early teens. At Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia, his love of the blues and soul music flourished as he started collecting records" to "Cray was born in Columbus, Georgia. He started playing guitar in his early teens. At Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia, his love of the blues and soul music flourished as he started collecting records." Put the reference here. Ta. Wildhartlivie (talk) 09:40, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for settling any doubt I had. Derek and I have worked in articles alongside one another for some time, and I respect him. I do, Derek. But I agree, anyone coming to learn about the life history of a musician would have to know what a record is... Or, in the case of the Simple English Wikipedia, it might be different. I used to want the entire articles to be a huge criss-cross of blue links, but after about a year of overdoing it, someone left me a note to show what would need clarification, and what would not, and that would be the test of what required wikification. I think the words that we link should be ones that truly require it. Oh, and about your wikification of the United Kingdom, (I would expect anyone who can read English would be familiar with it, but if you must abbreviate it, the period marks after "U" and "K" are correct: they designate that each word has been abbreviated, if you wish to nitpick. The use of just putting UK is casual laziness. Derek, I don't want bad feelings, really! But like me, I think you'll find when you are working to see an article reach FA status, fewer and fewer words seem ending up wikified. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 13:59, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

I'll give you 'casual laziness' - can I point you towards Wikipedia:Abbreviations which clearly states UK not U.K. As far as wikilinking is concerned, there are 32 links in the lede alone for the star rated Bob Dylan article. In addition there are duplicated links to blues and rock and roll in the first seven paragraphs thereof. So it ain't just me. Anyhow I am not falling out with anyone over this - live and let live. Have a good day. Regards,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 17:15, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

How about we agree, when it comes to wikification, I leave "your" articles alone, and you do the same for the ones I'm developing? That way we can agree to disagree, and continue to get along? I'd rather keep having the good relationship with one another that we've enjoyed for the last couple of years? OK? --Leahtwosaints (talk) 09:16, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

It's a deal !

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 11:36, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

File:XTC bandphoto.jpg

Hi Leahtwosaints,

Thanks for uploading the new XTC photo. Just wanted to point out that it has been tagged with the following message: This image recently uploaded image was originally posted to Flickr by jlacpo at http://flickr.com/photos/52489759@N00/5034883. It has been reviewed on 12:17, 18 November 2009 (UTC) by FlickreviewR, who found it to be licensed under the terms of the All Rights Reserved, which isn't compatible with the Commons. It is unknown whether the license above was ever valid. If this image was recently uploaded, it may be speedy deleted.

I don't understand how there can be a difference in the licensing for this file compared to File:XTC UK.jpg and File:Andy Partridge.jpg? Cheers Memphisto (talk) 15:48, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Sorry Memphisto-- the reason is that there were some band members there, and all the rest were fans, etc. I have two photos that are nearly identical. I'm the one who placed the first band photo there. The other one is being uploaded now, to replace this one, if necessary, and I just emailed my friend to change the band pic that I erroneously uploaded yesterday, to change that one also to Creative Commons CC-BY-SA. Apologies for the confusion. Then, we can use part of one for at least one band member's photo, too. I don't know if you noticed I put a photo on Andy Partridge's article, where there had been none. I'm sort of surprised you are insistent on the old, incorrect photo, since --if you view my userpage, I've uploaded hundreds of photos, many which are rare and slated for book deals. I placed all the Mick Taylor, Tal Wilkenfeld, Cat Stevens and Derek Trucks photos, most of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, --well, you get the idea. Those are more recent than Jaco Pastorious, the Talking Heads, or others.

Hi again, I think you completely misunderstood my note above - I prefer the new photo of XTC and just wanted to point out to you that the photo had been tagged by the FlickreviewR bot and could be speedy deleted. I also wondered why File:XTC bandphoto.jpg was tagged by the bot and not File:XTC UK.jpg or File:Andy Partridge.jpg?

And please contact me if you want me to crop any of the other XTC photos for use in the group member articles. Memphisto (talk) 11:01, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

OK. The photos are all taken by the same photographer who has retinitis and took maybe a dozen photos of XTC --you can find his photostream for them by clicking on the photo to the link to his photos on Flickr. I wrote him when you alerted me to the to say I uploaded the one in the infobox-- that's the one I wanted most, since the other that's almost it's twin on the talk page (which is safe and uploaded properly) has one bandmate drinking from a cup & kind of covering his face. But follow the photostream from either photo, and see if there's any you think we could use to get photos for the two band members lacking pics. Maybe crop a photo and enlarge the part we need? Just take a look.--Leahtwosaints (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Echoes

You can use {{TOC left}} - I have put it in, but the TOC is quite short (a POWr TOC one might say) so the layout might be too busy like that. I tend to only use that with very long thin TOCs, 30 lines of years for example. Rich Farmbrough, 22:26, 19 November 2009 (UTC).

Susan Tedeschi

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Re:Help me JM?

I've resolved the Flickr problem on Commons, but I'm afraid I can't help you much with the other one- presumably, when the image was cropped, there were some "auto-fixes" you weren't aware of. I've done similar things, but I don't know the details. Perhaps try asking at the Graphic Lab? J Milburn (talk) 14:40, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

I really do appreciate it. (I'd never heard of this "Graphic Lab" before)! Maybe I'll give them a try, since if it could happen to this image, it could happen to others, too. Now comes the hard part of using the photo for XTC on the article talk page-- are you any good at cropping photos from a group like that? There are two bandmates who have no photo, and another editor and I thought it might be good to crop at least one photo's likeness out of that photo. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 17:10, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Flickr

You once talked about a "handle" you always use for flickr image permission requests. Can you email me that? I've started to try asking photographers myself, I cant trouble you every time for these things! Please email it to me, thanks. Suede67 (talk) 05:09, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

No problem Leah! Sleep's important. I'll check the Commons images of yours, will notify you of what I did. 'nite... Suede67 (talk) 05:51, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

I crated a cat for the Small Faces: link. I dont think a separate category for Keeney Jones is needed. Only 2 pics of him, and the Small Faces cat itself has only 5 images. What do you say? Suede67 (talk) 07:23, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

That's fine! Thanks! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 17:10, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Re: Image that needs to be moved

Hi Leah, I am not quite sure why it seemed like it was still here, but File:AmandaPalmer live.jpg is on Commons and has been since July 2009 (I found out when I went to move it). I agree it is a very nice picture, but to become a WP:FP, an image has to generally be at least 1000 pixels in at least one dimension, so this is too small - see WP:WIAFP. Perhaps the person who took it could upload a larger version, if contacted? WP:FPC is the place to nominate pictures for FP, though you may want to try going through WP:PPR first (picture peer review). Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:29, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it. I have a great photo of her as well. Have you ever seen my userpage, and the list of all the photos I've uploaded? There's also a gallery there, where I rotate some of the particularly outstanding photos --I'd love to see the ones of Trent Reznor, Tal Wilkenfeld, or Sweet Honey in the Rock be nominated. Would you take a look? The Reznor photo alone looks like a painting, it's so perfect! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 03:37, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

I agree they are great photos (assume you mean the lead image in each article - you can always link to a photo without displaying it by putting a colon after the double brackets and before the word File, like this [[:File:Sweet Honey in the Rock.jpg]], which gives you File:Sweet Honey in the Rock.jpg). Unfortunatley none of the Tal Wilkenfeld images are at least 1000 pixels in one dimension, so they would not qualify for FP. The lead image of Trent Reznor at File:Trent-Reznor 2009.jpg is very nice, though I am afraid it has what are known as blown highlights, most prominently on the back of his hand. My guess is that the reviewers at WP:FPC would not like those - you could always try it at FPC, or better try it at WP:PPR first. PPR is nice because it is peer review for images - if a reviewer thinks the picture is good enough for Featured Picture they will send it on to FPC. If no one does, it did not have much chance at FPC (though you can still try it there yourself). I do not see any obvious problems with File:Sweet Honey in the Rock.jpg, so I would try that first, probably at PPR. I have to warn you that although I have tried several times, I have never had a successful nomination at PPR or FPC (see the never never never part of my user page if you want to see the images in question). Good luck, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 13:16, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

John Cipollina Guitars

Thanks for your help. I don't know enough about Wikipedia editing to attempt the kinds of edits I do here, but I can't resist the impulse to edit. If you can point me at a discussion of how to run text around included art, please do. And of course you are welcome to fix anything yourself.

The data about John's guitar comes from a friend of mine who interviewed him at the Fillmore back in the Elder Days.

There is a nice series of forum entries by a fellow who went about duplicating John's SG step by step: http://everythingsg.com/forum/index.php?topic=17692.0 --Msml (talk) 12:19, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Andrew Bird

What a stunning photo! Well done!!

Thank you.. whoever you are! I rather like that one myself as well!--Leahtwosaints (talk) 12:19, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

IPA

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Uploads list

Hey, in your list of musicians whose pics you have uploaded, you have mentioned Mark McClelland. Which one?! Can you give me a link? He was the founding bassist of Snow Patrol. Suede67 (talk) 08:57, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh, that's right. That was when we met. I offered to upload a photo of him from Flickr, and listed it in my userpage in anticipation of doing so, but you were not so interested in photos at that point- saying, "There's already a band photo here, and there's already a photo I can use of him", and "I'm not ready for "Little Doses" yet, etc. Since I only upload when I know there's a need (like no photo, or a crappy one) or a request from someone, I don't do it, not wishing to hassle everyone in Flickr and overburden the people in Commons. So sorry, it's probably the only error on my list up there, which isn't even comprehensive.. there were a lot of uploads I don't even remember offhand, unless I stumble upon it, since originally, I worked with an IP address and asked another editor, AKP on my list of teachers, to upload photos for me back then in like, 2006-7 I think. Sorry. You want one of McClelland? I can still look. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 11:47, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Haha, now I remember, i dont need one now, dont worry, but thanks for the offer. Suede67 (talk) 13:04, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Yusuf Islam cropping

Is this what you wanted? I have recropped it, but left the contrast as in the original. That's how it is in the article now. If you don't like it, just revert to the old version on Commons. Please give me a link if there is still another picture you want cropping so I don't have to hunt for it. SpinningSpark 18:30, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh, forgive me, I'm SO sorry! It was another photo, and had been a while, so I didn't recall if I had asked you to crop it, or not. Unfortunately, someone else did it, but on the up side (for me, anyway), you really helped the Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam photo. I'll try to be really specific. Damn. Of all the editors here, you've helped me more than any other, and I do apologize. If you ever want any Wikignome basic but time consuming work done, please do ask me. I'm not a total moron- just computer-illiterate. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 18:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Re:Got an easy one (for you, anyway)!

If the user who uploaded them is the same as the person who owns the Flickr account, there shouldn't really be a problem, but it may be worth saying something about it also being available on Flickr, and that the uploader and the Flickr user are the same on the image page. It may also be worth matching the licenses on Flickr and Wikipedia, if possible. If you feel the photos are likely to be challenged, or you are uploading on behalf of the copyright holder based on email permission to release the images under a certain license, then it would be best to file an email with OTRS- basically, the email giving permission from the copyright holder should be forwarded along with links to where the images have been uploaded to permission-en AT wikimedia.org. You can read more about this process on this page. Does that answer your question? J Milburn (talk) 10:26, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I'm dumber than I look (?!) I just want to know the process by which I should either (A) do whatever is required to remove the little tag, and (B)Remove it. SO simple you'd assume I knew that, huh? However, along with that, you touched on something else I need from you; your ORTS account. I have two photos sent to me by email by a well meaning publicist for the Cat Stevens article that User:Tvoz and I agreed to contact for a face shot photograph of him while young, at least. Can I email you the message (with attached photos)? I haven't ever tried to upload anything not in Flickr yet. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 14:09, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Which little tag are you referring to? As for your second question, that does depend on a couple of things- you can send it through the official OTRS address, if you like, and someone will get to you in due course, but you're welcome to forward the email to me personally at jmilburninfaerun AT gmail.com, and I'll take a look at it for you, and upload the image/explain why it's not possible? J Milburn (talk) 22:45, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Reference

Hey, while a LOT of your additions aren't cited, this one stands out because an IP just changed it back... do you have a reference that he was born in LA? The lede still reads Utica. Tan | 39 18:11, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

"New York born..." Tan | 39 18:12, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

No, I don't. Ah, shit, that's one of yours? Owch. Sorry. Look at the history before I found it last night (my penance for working through the night!) I wondered about that, since I follow and add photos- as both of Joe Bonamassa's photos there are ones I placed, I usually do some Wikignome work. Last night, after looking at the list of blues players in Wikipedia, and checking to see which ones needed what.. I came back to that article, and someone had written that he was born in Los Angeles in the opening, but the infobox didn't reflect that. I thought someone would surely figure it out. (I edit about a half dozen articles, from Derek Trucks, Cat Stevens, etc.)-- matter of fact, just turned my attention to Mick Taylor and especially, Rory Gallagher (can really use other editors to bring that article from Start to C at least!! --that is a hint, but, Bonamassa is not one of mine. Feel free to revert until someone puts some inline citations to cover what could have been a great start at the article! I'm as confused by it as the next person. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 19:07, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Bass of Doom

Hi Leah,

I fully admit being a bit of a nerd about this subject! Jaco had two main Fender jazzes, one fretless and one fretted. Both were 'stolen' from Jaco.

The bass of doom was the fretless that he smashed and had Kevin Kaufman rebuild. It was so badly damaged that the body and headstock had to be splinted with a figured maple face. There are photos of the newly rebuilt bass in Milkowski's book, and it was featured in Bass Player magazine a couple of years back when it resurfaced.

The fretted one had the very distinctive wear to the upper bout, where a large patch of the paint is worn away just below the upper horn. This bass also re-appeared recently and still looks essentially the same. This is the bass in the photo in which Jaco is playing with his shirt off.

They're great photos, by the way.

Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 21:48, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I was really glad to find both of the photos from Jean-Luc, as I told you. You seem to know a good bit about guitars. Would you give me a hand and have a look at the Rory Gallagher article and see where that section (or any, actually) can be improved? I'm on the article rescue group, and have chosen this, (as well as half a dozen others) to edit, and there are lots of inaccuracies in it- I haven't even really begun to do much more than expand the introduction somewhat roughly, and begin editing the early years, which I have the references for, and will insert them this week. But I can surely use help and am still looking for other editors who would be willing to assist with various sections of his aricle, including the guitar section, text expansion/referencing, and Seriously, the discography! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 06:54, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Leah,

I'll have a look at it and see what I can do... might take a while as I've got a few others I'm editing heavily at the moment.

A Journeyman editor is essentially nothing... I'd seen other people's user pages and they all had the 'senior editor' box etc. They're based on edit counts. I thought the 'journeyman' entitlement was funny so I added it. With 7111 edits you'd be 'entitled' to one of these...

This editor is an Experienced Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

Impressive, huh? :) Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 10:36, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Yep... I'm not sure they mean anything, but they're colourful if nothing else! :) Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 11:38, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

GAR notification

Letting you know as a major contributor to the article in question that I have opened a good article reassessment for the Cat Stevens article. You can read my comments at Talk:Cat Stevens/GA1. Cheers, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 19:52, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Dates and interwiki's

Well I think the idea is that if you are going to the "Czesky" wiki you will know what "Czesky" means - wheras you could possibly be on a wikipage of a language you don't understand. There could be a mouseover, in fact I would say it is a good idea, since I have never been entirely happy with it as it is (being the sort of person who would want to go to strange pages in languages I can't read). How this would be done, I can't say, maybe css, maybe software change. The place to take this is Village Pump/proposals I think.

The delinking of dates has taken a long time and much argument to arrive at (we used to think it was a good idea to link them). The situation now is that "Full-date unlinking bot" is unlinking all the full-dates, (day, month and year) but not other dates - assisted by various others. Clearly years in birth and death should also be unlinked, but FDUB's brief was as narrow as possible to avoid the arguments that were expected - but didn't arise. So in summary, yes delinking is helpful, especially odd years in birth/death fields, but all the "full dates" should get done by Valentines day, so no need to put yourself out over those.

Rich Farmbrough, 22:41, 14 December 2009 (UTC).

The Dirty Mac

thanks for the message. The Dirty Mac is already mentioned in the "other instruments" section of Keith's article; i doubt it really belongs in the info box, but i won't take it out. i won't be much help with Cat Stevens, sorry - i just don't know anything about him. Sssoul (talk) 10:07, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Rory Gallagher discography

I've added the above discography. Let me know what you think. I left the original discography in the Rory Gallagher article as haven't yet put in the BMI figures in the table as they don't have a reference. If its all OK with you just delete the discography content from the article and add a

Main article: Rory Gallagher discography

link. Cheers DISEman (talk) 07:55, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Re:Shouldn't a photographers name be removed from the photo itself?

Yeah- in theory, non-watermarked images are better than watermarked images. Both Commons and Wikipedia have {{watermark}}, with which the images can be tagged. I will now tag the image to which you linked me. (Also, I'll reply to your comment above, which I did not notice...) J Milburn (talk) 22:35, 18 December 2009 (UTC)