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Eric Carmen

You have created both Category:Hit songs written by Eric Carmen and Category:Songs written by Eric Carmen. I have nominated the former for deletion on the grounds of the weasel word "hit" and completed the later category. --Richhoncho (talk) 08:05, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

OK that's fine. -- But that is not to say, however, that all songs may rightly be referred to as "hits." While certain songs may be immensely popular yet having never been released as charting singles, most other songs are merely album tracks.

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Please see comments in PP article Talk page. Thanks. --Noleander (talk) 23:43, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

1RR violation at Planned Parenthood

You've violated the 1-revert restriction at Planned Parenthood ([1], [2]). So has Noleander (talk · contribs). I'm not going to report either of you at this point, since it would probably just result in the article being protected and end up stalling any chance of improving it for another week. But would the two of you please knock it off? In particular, you're reinserting material that you know doesn't have any support on the talk page. MastCell ^Talk 23:45, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Noleander (talk · contribs) has self-reverted to comply with the 1RR restriction ([3]). Could you please do the same, as a show of good faith? I don't mean this as a threat, but given the level of disruptive edit-warring the article has seen, I will probably report you if you don't self-revert in the near future. You're welcome at the talk page, where the question of sourcing is already under active discussion. MastCell ^Talk 23:54, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

September 2011

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at Planned Parenthood, you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 16:07, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

My editing, including the recent one cited, is never intended to be disruptive, nor does it include original research. I seek only to be objective, and said nothing in the sentence which the other articles referenced in the paragraph did not also say. Why should it be necessary to repeat references/sources multiple times within the same paragraph??--JGabbard (talk) 19:47, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

The idea of a weak central government that had no control over the states

died with the Confederacy and was rejected by the people that drafted the Constitution of the United States. Your assertion about what the federal government was "never intended to be" is flat wrong. Factchecker atyourservice (talk) 13:26, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

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Edit warring at NTCC

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Please don't make this harder than it needs to be. You have reverted a series of good faith edits, not all of which were even mine: NTCC's website updates info to 3000 members in 100 individual churches. The 1987 incorporation is corroborated by documents listed and already referenced. Ex-military students are actually closer to 90 or perhaps even 95%, hence the "over 75% of students" should be preferred over the nebulous term, "many." Pastors tithes are funneled to senior leadership along with everyone else's, and that they are changed out frequently is already referenced in the News-Tribune article, which is how NTCC "zeroes out" escrow accounts. The remainder consists of typos or inadvertent word errors, e.g., "Mike Kinson" is a confusion of two men's names. So please do tell, exactly what is left to dispute???JGabbard (talk) 13:12, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

So you knew the Kinson part wasn't right? That just happened to be what I checked. I'm traveling right now so I don't have much time. How about this: go ahead and put the stuff back in if you know it's accurate, but of course not the Kinson part. Then the only other thing would be the sourcing. I'll go look at that as soon as I have more time. We need to have RS for most things, but the NTCC site would be okay sometimes unless we believe they might be, for example, inflating things or spinning them some way to make themselves look good. Best B^e——C_ritical 16:35, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

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References

Please use high quality references per WP:MEDRS such as review articles or major textbooks. Note that review articles are NOT the same as peer reviewed articles. A good place to find medical sources is TRIP database Thanks.

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The article is about prostate cancer not prostate cancer cells in petri dishes but in man. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:16, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

References 2

May I suggest that you look to: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/4841/1/4841.pdf See page 305 for prostate cancer. This reference is about as high end and peer reviewed as you can find.32cllou (talk) 16:49, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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charts & citations

Hi, happy new year to you. You might want to note that it's incorrect to insert a space before a citation – per Wikipedia:Citing_sources#How_to_place_an_inline_citation_using_ref_tags. Also, I really can't see that a chart compiled by the likes of WLS-FM in Chicago merits inclusion in a list of an album or single's chart peaks and year-end standings. It's particularly unnecessary when we already give the song's peak and year-end positions on Billboard. Just thought I'd mention that because there's a couple of song articles I'd like to expand for Good Article status, and your addition of the WLS-FM rankings will have to go – at least, from what I can see at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums/Album_article_style_guide#Charts and links from that guideline. Thanks, JG66 (talk) 07:32, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year to you too, JG: Thank you for informing me of that protocol; I was unaware of it. I have never added spaces into text, and agree with the protocol. Nonetheless, just in the chart box sections I still feel that leaving one space makes them easier to look at it because provides a less "congested" and more aesthetic appearance. However, if only for consistency's sake I will refrain from adding them. Concerning WLS-AM (aka "World's Largest Station", now WLS-FM), their music surveys are notable and should be considered worthy of inclusion because their coverage range during the 1950s through the 1980s was 38 states and most of Canada. In either case, an article's "good" status should not be predicated merely upon an additional item of information.JGabbard (talk) 20:44, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

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A country is not a "Chart"

JGabbard, I'm going to continue reverting your changes at articles I've taken to GA or those that I am planning to. I mean, how on earth can naming the relevant chart (under a column headed "Chart") be considered "redundant verbiage" or "debris"? In the UK, for instance, there were at least three notable national charts during the early 1970s – NME, Melody Maker and the "official" chart, which was published in Record Mirror (although it was by no means recognised as official yet, because NME and Melody Maker were seen as more comprehensive in their methodology).

The approach I've followed when writing or rewriting articles is not only logical, in that each Chart column contains the name of a chart, but it's consistent with the approach applied by other editors at, say, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (an FA), Imagine (John Lennon song) (FA) and Abbey Road (GA). (You'll notice that a chart template appears in "Imagine", and there's an equivalent template for albums, although, like me, many others editors don't appear to like using it.) Regardless of whether there was more than a single chart within each country – and there almost always was, even in France, Holland, Italy and the like, I've recently discovered – full chart names appear in all those articles, and many more. They're Good or Featured status, meaning that, just like Back Off Boogaloo and Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), they've all been reviewed by others, who have obviously supported the treatment given in the Charts boxes. I'm sorry to say it, but if you actually concentrated on writing a whole article – of course there's no obligation to, but if you did – perhaps you'd appreciate the time and thought that goes into making an article work from start to finish. For instance, information given in any field or column heading in an infobox, navbox or table should work with, not ignore, the wording of that heading.

Also, could I again ask you to stop introducing a space before each reference. I'm sorry if this all sounds a bit heavy-handed, it's not my usual approach. But add that to the above, and the fact that you're often citing a chart position to a less-than-reliable source (at least, for GA standard), and you add bare URLs, making no attempt to set them as tidy references – well, it's frustrating to anyone who has made the effort to improve something for GA, and has got a second (or more) pair of eyes to review each article. Thanks, JG66 (talk) 10:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

• Hi JG, Thanks for contacting with me with your concerns. I apologize for tampering with any of your work. And you are free to revert whatever you please. I make an effort to keep the chart sections easy to look at and compare. If there is only one chart listed for a nation, I therefore prefer to hide its name behind the wikilink. I do see fit to include an aesthetic space where characters touch, overlap, or crunch together, because there is no punctuation in chart boxes to prevent this from occurring. However, I will be considerate of the issues you have raised, and will be more judicious with my edits and more consistently complete in my citations. - JGabbard (talk) 14:35, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

• • Once a subheader of "Weekly singles charts" has been added, I agree that the subheader would eliminate the need to have "Singles Chart" listed on each entry. In this case, the 'redundant verbiage' would rightly apply as being unnecessary congesting debris. 204.185.18.109 (talk) 18:23, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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Chutes and ladders?

How about doing this at Spiders & Snakes (song)? "Spiders & Snakes" redirects to the song article, which has a hatnote mentioning the band article. Ok? Shenme (talk) 05:02, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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• I appreciate the notification very much. The submission, however, was made moot by the intervening creation of You (Marcia Hines song).JGabbard (talk) 16:20, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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Now that I have the German cover art undeleted, shall I remove the French cover art? German was used earlier before I replaced it with Belgian cover, which I mistaken as American one. Therefore, I'll start a fresher RFC and end the other RFC. --George Ho (talk) 21:59, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

• Both picture sleeves are nice, so unless we must remove the French art, let's not. Thanks, George.-JGabbard (talk) 01:26, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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Electric Light Orchestra

Hi, I'm TrekkiELO, please help me in my quest against Synthwave.94 who constantly reverts all of my recent edit additions for Electric Light Orchestra's Weekly Chart Performance on every single with Radio & Records entry by only saying the same ole it is an unofficial/non-notable chart without any proof to back him up when I've provided references otherwise.--TrekkiELO (talk) 02:10, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

• I will be glad to do so, Trekki. We now have consensus against him! And his Talk page reveals that he has had complaints of this very nature against him before.-JGabbard (talk) 02:20, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
• Thanks, I did not know this, Synthwave.94 has been also specifically fighting me with Shine a Little Love that shows Radio & Records, which measures just radio airplay over sales et cetera, as the only #1 hit single for ELO ever from 1972-present on any US singles chart major or minor, then more R&R Don't Bring Me Down, Hold On Tight (Electric Light Orchestra song), Rock 'n' Roll Is King, Strange Magic, Evil Woman (Electric Light Orchestra song), Livin' Thing, Telephone Line (song), All Over the World (Electric Light Orchestra song), eventually he will move onto all of ELO's other chart singles!--TrekkiELO (talk) 03:20, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
• Hey, where are you?! I'm over there all by myself arguing against him! So, IF there's now a consensus, how do we restore/revert back my edits?--TrekkiELO (talk) 19:57, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

I didn't see anything at Livin' Thing to suggest that it is a seafaring song and have consequently removed that category, which you added. Categories added to an article must be supported by the article's verifiable content. Thank you. DonIago (talk) 19:36, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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Your changes at Give Me Love (and elsewhere)

JGabbard, could you please stop mucking around with song articles. I'm sorry but "mucking around" would seem to be an accurate description. I've given you the benefit of the doubt in the past, regarding your apparent obsession with adding "aesthetic spaces", removing so-called "debris" from charts sections, never failing to write "U.S." when the article's style is British English, and using unreliable sources, often formatted as bare URLs. But I'm finding it hard to see the changes you just made at "Give Me Love" as anything but obstructive. In one fell swoop, you took away countless edits I had made to improve the text with detail, and/or improving the sourcing. In another, you reinstated an external link to a site that doesn't even carry the LyricFind symbol – meaning it's a copyright violation.

I know what I'm doing, and I take a lot of pride in what I do. I took the song article to GA, and I own or have access to every single one of the sources in the article; plus I've taken part in many, many GA song reviews – so I've come to know what plenty of other editors regard as correct in these song articles. But you seem to be acting alone, without any thought for whether your personal preferences tally with anyone else's. (For instance, if it's so important to you to see a space after italicised text, why not take it up at the VIllage Pump and see if someone can design automated thin spacing in such instances?) JG66 (talk) 04:41, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

• JG66, I apologize for the blanking at "Give Me Love" today. All I did was add columns into the chart section, and I am mystified by the collateral damage that occurred. But how could the lyrics link be a copyright violation when the same site is used on "My Sweet Lord" & "What Is Life"?? And if I write "U.S.," it is only to identify American charts as such, having nothing to do with altering the British 'flavour' of musical articles. And 'debris' is usually just a chart box glitch, or redundant verbiage made unnecessary by a new subheading. Bare URLs simply reflect my intermediate skill level. I admire your expertise and experience. (What is "the Village Pump"??) My efforts are only to create articles and enhance existing articles, never to annoy another editor. Peace. - JGabbard (talk) 01:25, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks for your reply, and I'm sorry if my comments came across too harshly. I suppose I took it that, seeing as your Welcome to Wikipedia message is dated 2006, you must know better (certainly more experienced here than I am) and so were acting deliberately.
• From memory, I only came across the Village Pump through a link at my Welcome message. Here's the forum. I think it could be a good idea to either set it up so that a citation number automatically shifts along slightly, to match the sloping italic text; if that's not possible, then perhaps someone could come up with a wikicode for a half-space (I'd say the width of a full space is unnecessary), which could be inserted manually. Either way, VP (technical) would seem to be the place to head first.
• Re MetroLyrics. You're right, we link to the site at My Sweet Lord, What Is Life – and countless other song articles. But in those instances the lyrics carry the LF (LyricFind) symbol (eg My Sweet Lord, immediately after the [incorrect] songwriter and publishing credits there). There was a time when MetroLyrics carried the symbol for Give Me Love, but not any longer for some reason.
• I think it's great that you're keen to give charts info in song articles this sort of attention, btw. I guess where you and I have clashed is that I think in terms of the full article, top to bottom, so the charts section is fairly minor, in the scheme of things. But I am looking for everything to "work". Which means (and I'm referring to times when you've removed text as "debris") if a table carries a column heading that reads "Chart", then entires in that column need to be chart names, surely, not the name of a country. I know this last issue isn't relevant to this particular situation with "Give Me Love", but I thought I'd mention it now, because it has been in the past – if not there, then at "Back Off Boogaloo", "Photograph", "Crackerbox Palace", "This Song" or somewhere else.
• Anyway, happy editing. JG66 (talk) 07:33, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Please stop creating redirects.

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Good job

I've noticed all the good work you've done on many music related articles and I wanted to tell you to keep up with your excellent work. Caden ^cool 00:04, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the compliment, Caden! I do it because I love the music and want the great songs to have fitting tributes. However, it certainly does seem like a thankless task at times, almost all the time really, so your very nice word of appreciation means a lot to me.JGabbard (talk) 00:39, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

You're very welcome JGabbard. Wikipedia is a very cold place where most editors are never thanked or even given credit for their amazing edits and hard work. I have recognized and seen your hard work and I appreciate all that you do. I am happy that we have you here and felt it was only right to thank you for all the good edits you do. Caden ^cool 00:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

A beer for you!

For your excellent hard work. Caden cool 05:04, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

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Please do you know an efficient Wikipedia administrator ?

Please do you know an efficient Wikipedia administrator (about stats completely out of order and Henrik "officially on strike") ? Thanks a lot. Best regards.--86.73.64.12 (talk) 13:49, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

• I wish I did! I use stats multiple times each day. One administrator posted that even s/he did not know how to rectify the situation, but then removed the post. - JGabbard (talk) 18:02, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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	For all the good work you provide on music related articles. Caden cool 23:51, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for writing the article about "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" by Dionne Warwick. I'm a big fan of her work in the 60s with Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

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You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

Hi could you add the chart boxes to the "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" article sections on Dionne Warwick, Cila Black, and Hall & Oates. I know you are good at this and it would help the article. Thanks. Caden ^cool 02:06, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Sure thing, Caden! I had no clue about Cilla's international success with this record, since it didn't chart in the U.S. - JGabbard (talk) 02:45, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks so much JGabbard. BTW I heard Dionne's version the other day on the car radio and thought of you. Caden ^cool 02:50, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

You're very welcome bro. You must've been thinking of the recent song article I created for her. I adore Dionne's music! Karen, Barbra, Olivia, and "Miss Ross" are the only female vocalists I like as much as her. But I'd actually forgotten she even did it since I've never paid too much attention to this song and don't associate it with her. - JGabbard (talk) 03:05, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Yeah it's true I was thinking of your recent song article on her which you did a good job on and I knew you liked her music a lot too so I thought of you. Thanks for all your work on the chart boxes. It made the article better. Do you know if there was a year end chart ranking for Warwick's cover? Caden ^cool 04:42, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

I appreciate the compliments very much. There's no official ranking for the song, but the stratified listing places it at #132. I'll go ahead and put it in, but User:Piriczki will probably just take it out. You've probably noticed that he has been aggressively redacting some of my entries which he considers substandard. :-( JGabbard (talk) 13:34, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay thanks and yes I noticed. I don't understand some people around here. Best to just ignore him and focus on your good work. Btw could you add the chart boxes for the cover by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway? Their version is underneath the Warwick section. Caden ^cool 22:02, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

A pie for you!

Happy Easter! Caden cool 04:10, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

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Articles about 60s music

I enjoyed reading your article about the Grass Roots' album, Two Divided by Love and I noticed that you are interested in 60s music. I look forward to reading a lot of your articles and appreciate your interest in the music of that era. Garagepunk66 (talk) 02:47, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much, GP! I'm very happy that you are enjoying my work. Sometimes it seems like a thankless task, but I can go for six months with a word of encouragement. For me, the song articles are a labor of love. The 60s are truly hard (if not impossible) to beat! The 70s are their only true competitor. I like what I see on your page as well, the memorabilia as well as several intriguing articles which have caught my eye. - JGabbard (talk) 03:49, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hi JGabbard. I noticed you added the infobox and image for the single Who's Sorry Now? by Connie Francis, and was wondering if you planned on adding the chart boxes for her? Caden ^cool 22:01, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Caden! I can certainly do that. - JGabbard (talk) 00:13, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

File:Take Your Time - S.O.S. Band.jpg

You created the European image, but I replaced it with the American image. Then the IP editor removed the US one without a reason. You reinserted the European image; I reinserted the US one without replacing the other. We are discouraged by administrators to use more than one non-free image without unless another image helps a reader understand the significance of the topic more. Somehow, administrators do not make exceptions on extra front covers, so we must choose either the European image or the American image. The song is made by the American band, so the US image is more likely. However, what's your take on this issue? --George Ho (talk) 20:59, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Probably yours makes more sense, but the images are similar enough that I really have no opinion here. It sounds like the admins are being a bit hard to please, so as long as either image remains I will be happy. Thanks for asking, George. - JGabbard (talk) 21:08, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

I tagged the European image for deletion under code G7—author requested it, i.e. you allowed it. Sounds fine? --George Ho (talk) 21:14, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Sure thing bro, thanks for your work on the article. - JGabbard (talk) 22:54, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

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A cookie for you!

Have a cookie for your work adding a chart positions table to Let's Live for Today. Kohoutek1138 (talk) 12:03, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you very much, Kohoutek!  :-) - JGabbard (talk) 12:32, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

File:The Groove Line - Heatwave.jpg and another question

I didn't realize that you reinserted the Dutch front cover. I think the side label is adequate enough. There is no need to display the band themselves as the main topic is the song, not the band. Shall I remove it? If so, I guess I must take it to FFD then. --George Ho (talk) 07:54, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

George, I prefer to display the cover art as the primary photo when it exists. In lieu of that, displaying the record label is the next best thing. Although "The Groove Line" was a bigger American hit than British hit, the cover art is European. Therefore, since you prefer the converse I am content with that.-JGabbard (talk)

Almost forgot to ask you: are you and JG66 the same person? George Ho (talk) 07:55, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

JG66 is a far more experienced editor than I am, and no I am not him, but thank you for the compliment! - JGabbard (talk)

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borked comments

You edited several articles today (special:Diff/723644608) and messed up with the comment tag. You didn't add a closing tag, which caused the categories, navboxes, succession boxes and external links to "vanish". I've fixed nine articles, but could you check if there are more? Bgwhite (talk) 08:13, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

I noticed that happening on Hall & Oates song articles but was unsure what had caused it. I apologize, will review my edits, and thanks for your assistance! - JGabbard (talk) 18:34, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

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Kent Music Report year-end charts

Hi, I just have a quick question about the year-end charts compiled by David Kent in the 1970s and 1980s: the copy of his Australian Chart Book in the British Library only has Top 25 singles and albums for each year, but I notice for some articles you've added year-end chart positions below 25... where do you get these from? I've seen top 100s listed on the forums on australian-charts.com, but I don't know where they get their positions 26 to 100 either... Thanks. Richard3120 (talk) 14:15, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

• Hello Richard -- I was given text files (for '70s & '80s only) which correspond to the information on that website, but I have no better source for the data than that. I would like to identify a better source, because when I find it I will use it. I also want to expand the data for the '60s, if such is available. I am imagining not, since Canada year-end goes back only to 1967, and New Zealand's starts at 1975. The file I have was made available on the "Lost Pop Hits" Facebook page, where we chart geeks enjoy sharing stats along with the music. - JGabbard (talk) 14:32, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

I imagine that at the time Kent published year-end top 100s each year, in his newsletter or however they were published, and the online sites have simply reprinted them, but we have no official site to refer to, just these fan pages. I just wondered if you'd had access to a better source! I guess in the book he cut them down to a top 25 for each year in order to save space.

I just posted on Template talk:Certification Table Entry#New Zealand sales about New Zealand charts and why the charts before May 1975 aren't reliable (they weren't based on sales) and should not be used on Wikipedia. I really don't know where any of the List of number-one singles in 19xx (New Zealand) articles come from, and if they are before 1975 they are certainly based on listener polls rather than sales and shouldn't be on Wikipedia (none of them are sourced anyway). Richard3120 (talk) 15:09, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Front covers of Shake Your Groove Thing

I see that you added the Belgian and Dutch front covers of the single. Allow me to replace them with the US side label if you don't mind? --George Ho (talk) 10:03, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

If you do so, I would prefer that you replace the Belgian, leaving the Dutch sleeve at the article's head. Thank you very much for asking, George. - JGabbard (talk) 18:32, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Done that, but I put the US one on the top and the Dutch one on the bottom. By the way, I invite you to WT:SONGS#Images of oldies songs. --George Ho (talk) 19:03, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

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Quarterly rankings

Quarterly song article pageview rankings are now posted on my userpage! - JGabbard (talk) 04:44, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

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Adding "singles" to chart headings for songs

I've recently noticed that when adding chart information to song articles, you add the heading "Weekly singles charts". It's not necessary to specify this; it's quite clear what chart singles chart on and the cases where this would be confusing would be few and far between. It is also at odds with the naming scheme of "Year-end charts", as you don't usually specify these are "Year-end singles charts". Please consider dropping the "singles" part and just write "Weekly charts" to be consistent with other naming standards, like for album articles. Albums are overwhelmingly not specified as charting on "Weekly albums charts" on their articles. Thank you. Ss112 18:57, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Additionally, can you please not add any more individual radio station statistics for songs? You added several of Chicago radio station WLS-FM's chart positions, and this would fall under and violate WP:BADCHARTS pertaining to "one retailer", especially given as it's one city's radio station. We could cite every major city's radio station's chart; it's irrelevant and would clog charts sections up. Thank you. Ss112 19:41, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

I've seen your recent edit summary reverting another user who removed the WLS chart, and do not edit war over this; you are contravening Wikipedia policy (see WP:CHART#Single-vendor/single-network charts: "Charts which rank material from a single vendor or network are generally unsuitable for inclusion in articles. They should never be placed in discography tables or tables of charts."), as it is against policy to put individual radio stations' positions on articles, regardless of how many states they reach(ed) or how big their potential audience is. Half the sites you're citing are also not reliable sources. They are logs of information located at IP addresses, and oldiesloon.com looks like a cheap blog site and not a reliable source of information. Please avoid adding this in future Ss112 20:39, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Ss112: I'm OK with leaving out the word "singles", although I prefer that it remain. Apparently this is a trend. However, if omitted above the box, then to be consistent it should also be excluded inside the box as well, from names of individual chart entries. I am otherwise opposed to its omission in the column header.

OldiesLoon is not a blog, although it is an IP address. However, U.S. Cash Box listings are also provided via IP address.

WLS' listings (OldiesLoon) are included only on a limited number of select entries. Being from Australia, you might not understand the rationale for the inclusion of WLS among major national and even international charts. It is significant because it is not just an average radio station in an average city, but is the most famous radio station in the strongest music market in the world. Being near the center of North America, its audience covered more than half the continent, and therefore was broader than the coverage of similar stations on either the East or West Coast. WLS is therefore more notable to Americans and Canadians than would be listings for national markets smaller than metro Chicago, such as Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand, or Scandinavian nations. In short, America's immensity justifies such an exceptional inclusion, at least on a limited basis, particularly for songs which WLS popularized, such as "Please Please Me," the first Beatles song played in America. - JGabbard (talk) 00:42, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

I understand why you're including it, but i'm following Wikipedia policy. I don't see how me being from another country prevents me from acknowledging that it was influential. I am aware of the size of the market, but it still represents a singular network/radio station, albeit a popular one. Again, I didn't come up with the rule; I'm just following what bigger sticklers for policy would be doing if the articles were recent and more widely visited. However, I don't understand the point about "more notable to Americans and Canadians than [other countries]". Wikipedia doesn't exist to solely cater to Americans and what they want to read. There's plenty on Wikipedia that concerns things the average American probably doesn't care about. Yes, sure, a lot of them are "classic" hits by American bands and songs that were big there, I get that, but international readers would be and are reading those articles too. Ss112 00:51, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

To clarify, even if the scope of WLS-AM's audience had been less than almost continent-wide, the size of just the Chicago market alone makes its charts at least as significant (especially to North Americans) as the charts of New Zealand or the smaller European nations might be to Australians such as yourself. Wikipedia's general policy is a good one, however, in cases such as "Please Please Me" and perhaps some others, the need for a few notable exceptions should be acknowledged, particularly when the station is mentioned in the article.

Sorry if I was less than clear in my earlier statement. - JGabbard (talk) 01:42, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Then personally, I think it should be included in prose, not chart sections, as the policy says they "should never be placed in discography tables or tables of charts" (emphasis added). I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who will take issue with this. I mean, how many other others will there be? You could make a case for all of them. If your reversions of me on "Please Please Me" alone over trivial things that are standard elsewhere are anything to go by, I really am going to disagree with there being others. Ss112 02:24, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Also, although I added extra text in between and although you may think it "looks cluttered", it's also Wikipedia policy (per WP:PAIC) that "ref tags should immediately follow the text to which the footnote applies, with no intervening space." So reverting me there is again, contravening policy. I don't think there should be any exceptions when in many other places on Wikipedia, ref tags directly follow italic text. Ss112 02:30, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

I believe that the policy for references was made with prose in mind, not chart boxes. Even with italicized text, punctuation typically precedes references in prose. Punctuation, however, does not exist in chart boxes. An aesthetic space merely serves as invisible punctuation so that characters do not overlap, which enhances the appearance of the chart boxes. Placing an extra space in prose unduly lengthens articles. But not so with chart boxes. So the policy is a good one, but needs to be tweaked to allow for special cases. Rigidly following policy fails to take aesthetics into account and is a detriment to the appearance of music pages and perhaps some others. - JGabbard (talk) 02:58, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter where it is, it should be in both prose and chart sections to be consistent. I'm following policy here because you don't seem to understand this is done everywhere else on Wikipedia except on pages you're focusing on. I don't see any aesthetic issue with it; in fact, it looks aesthetically worse to me with a space. Sorry to be curt, but I don't think there's anything left to discuss because policy is on my side. IF you wish to debate the policy, appealing to me isn't the place to do it. Please don't revert my edits elsewhere over what we've discussed here; that will constitute an edit war and I've made multiple other fixes in most of my edits and haven't focused on just "smashing references up against italic text". Ss112 03:03, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I have seen the same thing on many other pages. Yes, it is standard. And yes, it is "technically" policy, about which I am making an assumption. But none of that stops it from looking like crap in these instances. And no, I will not edit war, nor am I appealing to you but just to anyone who may happen to read this exchange. The only thing I would ask of you, Ss112, is to focus on turning Wikipedia green and not red, even though it is much easier to do the latter. Good day to you. - JGabbard (talk) 03:15, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

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Adding false chart information

Hello, I'm Nqr9. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Rio (song) have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. I noticed that you added a false Australian end of year chart position for for Duran Duran's "Rio" for 1982 of #134, on 26 October 2015, citing ARIA's top 50 singles of 1988 page as the reference. Firstly, the end of year charts are not calculated below #100 (or, at least only a top 100 is published). Secondly, the single peaked at #60 in Australia; it would be extremely unlikely for a single peaking that low to make the end of year chart. Thirdly, the reference you cited in no way supports the information you added to the page. Your edit appears to either have been a bizarre, careless mistake, or an act of vandalism.Nqr9 (talk) 02:36, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Nqr9: Thank you for bringing that entry to my attention. I add thousands of chart stats to Wikipedia, so it is inevitable that a glitch will occasionally occur. I seek to use the most reliable sources I can find, and to cite them accurately. I refer to a database file for my Australian entries, and there does appear to be a slight discrepancy with the ranking (#140 vs. #134). However, although "Rio" was sorely underappreciated in your nation since it reached only #60, a year-end ranking does exist for that song along with other stats which may be found here: http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=40275. (The stats for '83 appear to have been removed from the source cited.) And yes, I agree that ranking does seem quite odd, but if you take exception to it then I can only refer you to the webmaster of that site, or the original poster.-JGabbard (talk) 03:17, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I am familiar with the site you refer to, and have seen that thread before. A word of caution though: that user's 'next 100' charts in that thread are not official; but rather, reflect his or her individual tastes. I know it's not immediately obvious when looking at that thread - I thought the same thing as you (that it was an official top 200 for each year) until it became glaringly obvious (i.e. due to the inclusion of some very low-charting singles, and even some singles that missed the top 100 weekly charts altogether) that it wasn't. While there definitely is some 'official' chart information posted on that site (mosly from the site admin, username bulion), you need to always be cautious when using it as a reference. I'm not sure if you are Australian or lived in Australia during that period, but if you were familiar with the Australian charts of that era, it would soon become obvious that this 'next 100' is not a continuation of the official chart. But even further than that, the 'official' Kent Music Report/Australian Music Report end of year top 100 charts are somewhat not what they might appear to be either, as David Kent calculated his end of year charts from chart runs (using a points system), rather than actual sales. So that's why, for example, "Dancing In the Dark" is ranked higher (#1) on the 1984 end of year chart than "I Just Called To Say I Love You", even though it only peaked at #5 and spent a mere 11 weeks in the top 10 (whilst the Stevie Wonder song spent 8 weeks at #1). Unfortunately, the first sales-based end of year chart available for Australia is the ARIA top 50 end of year chart for 1988.Nqr9 (talk) 04:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

I appreciate you sharing that info, Nqr9. That explains a lot, and I will keep that in mind as I use that site. - JGabbard (talk) 04:43, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Ronnie Sessions

Please don't add redlinks to articles unless you plan to make that article right away. See WP:REDNOT. Also, please don't assume that all of my edits are just means to inflate my edit count. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 05:23, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

• ETA: I also didn't realize that I had removed the link to Tossin' and Turnin' in the process, so I restored that. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 05:24, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanation, and I apologize for my assumption. As for redlinks, it is not incumbent upon the initiator of a redlink to be the creator of an article. WP:REDYES - JGabbard (talk) 14:52, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

For future reference

When you comment on an "Articles for deletion" page, your opinion will almost certainly be disregarded if you sound like a conspiracy theorist, or make claims unrelated to Wikipedia policies.  :-)Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:15, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Just as I disregard shills and sockpuppets. My opinion may not be worth anything, but I just wanted to be "Captain Obvious" and connect a few dots pointing to the elephant in the room.

It's fine to opine, I guess. It's up to you.Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:31, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

No, these particular opinions aren't acceptable. (1) JGabbard has claimed that the murderer is a certain politician, in violation of BLP (2) JGabbard has repeatedly cast WP:ASPERSIONS at other editors. Both of these could get somebody blocked, but usually not after a number of warnings. Geogene (talk) 22:12, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

JGabbard, your insertion of personal opinions into the AfD may be going too far beyond the scope of the AfD, and I'd suggest removing them or striking them out. You can read why at WP:SOAPBOX and WP:BLP. Better move fast before the roof caves in.Anythingyouwant (talk) 22:49, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, AYW. I have removed politicians' names and aspersions at other editors, as well as softened my tone. But I do not see a great need to retract my brief analysis of the irrational deletion frenzy.-JGabbard (talk) 23:53, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

I appreciate your rewording, Captain; feelings can run high during an election, and strong emotions in a discussion between encyclopedia editors are like a tiger in a newsroom. I agree with Anything that adjusting your tone to obey WP:AGF and ASPERSIONS is likely to inspire others to give more weight to your opinion. FourViolas (talk) 00:17, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

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