User talk:Joe Vitale 5

Don't Stop the Dance

I have personally watched the music video for Bryan Ferry's "Don't Stop the Dance" several times, and as far as I can tell, Laurence Treil is the only woman featured on there, she is only dressed and made up differently. The two editions of the video are interesting. Notice that the screen shot in the article is of the nude women on the beach. I've linked this article to the G-rated version in the "external links." Pkeets (talk) 00:48, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Press (song)

Hi Joe!

Simply just press that big Edit button next to each section, edit what you want, then click on Save, you have now officially learned how to edit. Mazarin07 (talk) 09:56, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

One more message like the one you just sent me, and I will ask the administrators to ban you. Mazarin07 (talk) 12:22, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Isn't there a rule about not attacking new editors? I see no bannable offense here Mazarin. You're coming across as very sarcastic in the comment above, and I'm not surprised that it provoked a response. If you can't be helpful, then please just disappear at this point. Thank you. Pkeets (talk) 14:34, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Joe. He's posting at my page now, so I guess he'll leave you alone. There are always a few Type A personalities in Wikipedia who show up irritable and annoy everyone. There are also trolls. Some edits have to be fought to a compromise because of differing opinions. This means it's not always an encouraging environment. I would recommend strict politeness when things start to go wrong. In other words, Don't let it bother you. Pkeets (talk) 15:23, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Not all editors are unfriendly. I'm happy to help any time. Just let me know. Pkeets (talk) 14:16, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! Pkeets (talk) 06:58, 8 June 2014 (UTC),

Joe Walsh Invitation

I received your invitation to help upgrade the Joe Walsh article. That article looks pretty solid already and might just need to be promoted to the community of WP editors that decides on "Good" articles. In any case, I suggest that you compile a list of things that need to be done and then assign specific tasks to your invitees. --DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 18:01, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Don Felder

I reverted your changes because none of them were at all helpful. You blew up the photo past its ideal size, you introduced an unsourced claim about Allman teaching Joe Walsh, and you introduced grammatical errors. Please be more careful with your editing, and leave edit summaries as a courtesy to other users to they can easily see what you're changing. --Spike Wilbury (talk) 14:03, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

And your edits to Eagles as well. If you don't have a proper grasp of English grammar, you should not be editing the articles. --Spike Wilbury (talk) 14:05, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Invisible Touch

Sorry that you took offence to that edit summary, but I suppose I was just frustrated at having to look through dozens of edits when each only contained a small wording tweak. Personally I feel you're just as likely to end up with edit conflicts if you make a lot of little edits rather than just working through what you can do to the page in one edit, but really I think edit conflicts primarily occur on pages concerning recent topics. Still, I think it's probably just that our editing styles differ. Ss112 21:16, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Nik Kershaw

I think I'm done with the Nik Kershaw page. See write up for the music video of "Wouldn't It Be Good."

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	Thanks for all the work on music articles in Wikipedia. You're the best! Pkeets (talk) 13:51, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Parting Should Be Painless

Okay, all done. Pkeets (talk) 15:07, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

‎Allan Schwartzberg

I will try to put something together for the career of ‎Allan Schwartzberg at the weekend. CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 11:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

‎Allan Schwartzberg update

I suggest that we need to move discussion about ‎Allan Schwartzberg to the talk page because we are starting to take up space at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rock music, kind regards CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 20:52, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Joe. I'm sorting out some issues with Australian jazz-rock outfit Ayers Rock, which is a long term project for me. I haven't forgotten about Allan, and I do have a plan, but it might take a short while to get back to it. Have a great day. CaesarsPalaceDude (talk) 21:30, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Joe Walsh

Why did you request protection on the article? There's been no recent vandalism. Doc talk 11:19, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Recent requests

Hi, Joe. I'm on fire today. I took care of your last two requests. Check the Madness Uncle Sam (song) video description and see if you think it's accurate. Is that guy in the jodhpurs wearing a British or German uniform? I can't see it well enough in the video to tell, but I'm thinking it looks German. Pkeets (talk) 16:32, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

The Beatles Invite

	Hi! I've seen you around on The Beatles' articles... Would you consider becoming a member of WikiProject The Beatles, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of The Beatles on Wikipedia? Please feel free to join us.
Abbey Road... You're not in this picture... yet! Todo list:

Changing Commons pictures

Hi Joe. Can I advise you that if you're going to upload new versions of pictures on Commons, you check which articles use them before doing so. For example, File:Peter Gabriel The Moonlight Knight (cropped).png is used on Genesis (band), a fairly high-traffic article, and the new version of commons makes the thumbnail image here very stretched and distorted, so I had to revert it. If you are planning to make any other changes, drop a note on any affected article's talk pages first and check there's a consensus first, otherwise readers will get a surprise. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:14, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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A beer for you!

Here you go Padredjet (talk) 10:06, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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	well done no spam on you Padredjet (talk) 10:52, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

cheese Padredjet (talk) 10:54, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

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January 2015

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Images

Hello, I don't know why you're going around resizing football club logos, but I would urge you to stop as they look terrible when oversized. Mattythewhite (talk) 23:05, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Advice acknowledged. I don't usually edit football articles so I'm basically useless :)
Kind regards,
Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 23:08, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

All reverted now. Please do not change the sizes of club crests without discussion at WT:FOOTY or it could be assumed that you are being disruptive. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 23:59, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

That's fine, I'd also like to apologize, and let you know that I've read the above. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 08:38, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015

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January 2015

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Are you (joe vitale)? I'm also crazy Crazy.rodger (talk) 15:45, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

March 2015

Hello, I'm GiantSnowman. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Danny Rose (footballer, born 1993), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. GiantSnowman 08:47, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

You've ignored the 1-game 1-goal loan spell already listed in the infobox. GiantSnowman 10:08, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Pete Winkelman

When I reverted your edit to Pete Winkelman, I wrote the comment 'please don't offer troll food'. That was a 'brain/finger discontinuity'[!]. What I intended to write was 'please don't offer a bowl for troll food'. So implied insult unintended. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:22, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

External links

Why do you keep putting "External links" headings on pages that don't have any external links? I assume there's some reason but... I don't get it. -- Walnuts go kapow (talk) 12:38, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Same query here. Please don't do this - we don't add an external links section unless there are valid links to include. Your edits will need to be reverted. Moondyne (talk) 08:23, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

My sincerest apologies. Revert away, and don't worry about me adding "External links" in future. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 10:19, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

See Also sections

Hello Joe, could you please stop adding See Also sections to player articles with links to the season article as it's WP:Recentism. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 19:01, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Your wish is my command. Best wishes Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 19:02, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Leonardo Ulloa

Hello there JV, from Portugal,

a couple of lines explaining my changes in this footballer's introduction, and thus some guidelines: it's not necessary to include all the clubs he (has) represented, and certainly it is now mandatory we don't include divisions of clubs in the intro. Last but not least, no need to mention the goals he scored in X or Y season (unless it's something important, like in 2011-12 with Almería like I now point out in the current version) or that he scored on his debut, that is the "job" of the storyline proper.

If Mr. Ulloa had any form of international career, of course that would also be intro-material, but he has not. Last but not least, I am not a newbie even though I edit anon now, I used to be User:AlwaysLearning, but asked that my account be vanished after a serious run-in with a troll, had the intention of leaving forever, but seems I cannot :(

Sorry for any inconvenience, was only trying to help. Happy editing, cheers --84.90.219.128 (talk) 00:12, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

That's fine. 'Stay Up' & stay cool Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 09:08, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

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FAC input

Hi! Since you're a contributor to Wikiproject Rock, would you be interested in reviewing my FAC for the article xx (album)? Apart from some hollow support votes, it's received only one complete review/commentary, so any feedback would really be appreciated. Dan56 (talk) 08:02, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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Help

Hi. Please your completion fill out this Articles The volleyball team and other players. Development volleyball in wikipedia Are waiting you. Good luck. Jacilason (talk) 10:43, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Football

Hi, Joe. I went through it and tidied up a few sentences, but I'm wondering about the amount of detail in the beginning summary. I'm thinking it pretty much repeats what's below and should be cut down. What do you think? Pkeets (talk) 14:28, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Same as you. God, I sound like a robot ("every thought that's in my head, someone else has said" quote from The Who's 905) Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:32, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

John Perry

Hi, Joe. Do you have any idea where this comes from? I can't find the statement anywhere and it definitely needs a citation. "They might have done better signing to Island, whose owner Chris Blackwell made several impassioned pleas to the band, culminating in an helicopter dash to a Midlands gig where he made a final appeal for the band sign to Island."

No sorry Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 21:07, 21 August 2015 (UTC)(UTC)

October 2015

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User Name?

So I noticed your user name (Joe Vitale 5) and noticed you are also working on the Joe Walsh article. I read your userpage, and it doesn't look like you are related, but perhaps you are. Are you related to Joe Vitale (musician)? He has a long association with Walsh and is also from Northeastern Ohio. --Jayron32 19:17, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

No I'm not Jayron32, Joe Vitale is a very popular name but I am in contact with the one that you're talking about, real nice guy. Have a good day Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:56, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Phil Collins

Hi, Joe. I'm just letting you know that I've reversed your edit. I know it was in good faith, so no problem there, but as the article subject hasn't expressed any particular political view and the section is really about how he has been mentioned in reference to politics, the established title for the section seemed more appropriate to me. Thanks. Rodericksilly (talk) 14:26, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Okelly-dokelly Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:34, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Mike Shipley.jpg

Good morning Joe! For my learning, if you do not mind me asking, why did you upload a cropped version of File:Mike Shipley.jpg with a larger file size? --Jax 0677 (talk) 14:57, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Morning. I thought that it looked better cropped and didn't know that I had uploaded it with a larger file size. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 19:37, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

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Andy Qunta

Hi, Joe. Is this wrong about his heritage? https://www.discogs.com/artist/424154-Andy-Qunta Pkeets (talk) 03:55, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Yes, it is Pkeets, I'm in contact with him personally and he actually had a go at the article himself! Best, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:05, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Okay, thanks.Pkeets (talk) 01:51, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

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Sheri Kershaw

Hi, I added to the article, but it's been tagged for Speedy Deletion. I challenged (see talk page), but her notability mostly rests on who she's been associated with. If you went to help defend the article, you might check in on the deletion discussion. See talk page. Pkeets (talk) 01:50, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Edit summaries, multiple consecutive edits

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Joan Jett edits

Hi Mburrell, I hope that you're doing well. I noticed your edit summery of "return of information about the assault on Mia Zapata", her article claims that she was "possibly raped". I thought that was a good enough reason to remove from the Joan Jett article that she was actually raped as it would mean that the two article contradict one another in claims. Give me your thoughts! Best, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:14, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

The Evil Stig page says rape. I don't visit the Mia Zapata page, so I didn't know of the different wording. But here are three news articles. (http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/gits-drummer-blasts-nbc-for-exploiting-mia-zapatas-death-on-tv-20140114), (http://pitchfork.com/news/34514-mia-zapatas-killer-sentenced-for-good-finally/), (http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/killer-of-seattle-singer-again-sentenced-to-36-years-in-prison/). As far as I know, there is no controversy about the rape, and it seems the page that needs to be fixed is the Mia Zapata article. Mburrell (talk) 16:29, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Ok! BW, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 10:46, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

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OK. Thank you, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 09:43, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, it was a mistake, sorry. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 12:10, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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Associoated acts

Hi there, Joe, I just undid two of your edits to Frank Zappa and Sting (musician) per the documentation of Template:Infobox musical artist#associated acts. I'm sure you'll understand . Keep up the good work and cheerzzz! - DVdm (talk) 21:23, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

By the way, I love that cat on top of this page. - DVdm (talk) 21:25, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

No worries, I understand ahah, JV5

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Hm, same problem at János Kádár and Goulash communism. I hope there are not more of these. Please stop making further changes to wikilinks that do not change where you end up when you click the link. Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 08:54, 25 December 2018 (UTC) And at Hungarian language, but this predates the notice above so no worries; fixed. Mathglot (talk) 23:56, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

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Actually, I've just redirected it to the group's article, which is a more valid target. Richard3120 (talk) 14:45, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

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Rhythm of Life

nice work polishing it up! Was just playing this yesterday :-D - David Gerard (talk) 19:42, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, sir. It is a half-decent album! ahah.

Party, party! Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 19:48, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

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Mia Khalifa

Greetings. It is recommended to not replace redirects with piped links, as you did recently at Mia Khalifa. More info is at MOS:NOPIPE. Thanks. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 01:06, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

And again at Belle Knox, where you changed the target of a link inside a direct quote, which is highly discouraged. Please stop this. Thank you. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 23:59, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

And if you look carefully you'll see that that was edited before both of your messages. Please be more diligent. Thank you, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 20:12, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

You're right, my mistake. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 22:54, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, I have been a Wikipedian since 2014 so any mistakes I do make will probably be due to a force of habit in my editing style rather than anything purposely disruptive but I'll bear this in mind, and work on it. Thank you, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 15:41, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

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Separating Diana Ross' Thank You track listing into vinyl sides

Hi Joe. I'm not sure, as you didn't provide an explanation, why you separated the track listing of Thank You by Diana Ross into vinyl sides when the album was released in 2021. Vinyl is no longer the dominant format, as you know, and there's nothing to indicate the album was intended for the vinyl format (and it definitely was not vinyl-only). So I've reverted this change. Fair enough if this were Ross's albums from before the mid-80s, but not for an album released in 2021—if you are making these sorts of unexplained changes on other articles, like separating albums released beyond the 1980s into vinyl sides, you should have a very compelling reason to do so like those I just mentioned or not be doing so. Also, we don't need to explicitly credit the liner notes in a citation per MOS:ALBUM—it is expected this is where personnel come from. Thanks. Ss112 08:49, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

OK, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 20:35, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Joe. Just jumping into my old thread here to say you don't need to capitalise the 's' in 'revxscore' in Template:Album ratings. It's been decapitalised for years now. Also, I don't know if you're still doing so, but as I've just seen your edits from earlier this month on Christine McVie (album), just a reminder to not split albums released after the vinyl era (so from the 1990s to present) into sides, unless you can demonstrably prove the album was still intended for the vinyl format. I think albums released after 1982 with CDs becoming a thing then (even if it did not become the predominant format until the late '80s) are an edge case so I don't even think say, albums released in 1984 need to be split into vinyl sides if they aren't already. Ss112 03:45, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

But with all due respect, weren't cassette tapes with sides one, and two the leading formats at that time?

Thanks, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 20:16, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Do you have a source for cassette sales exceeding vinyl sales in 1984? Also, again, please stop re-capitalising the 's' in "score" in Template:Album ratings. It was decapitalised in the template documentation years ago. Ss112 02:08, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Booths

Please remember always to check your links: the blue link in your photo caption set the supermarket as being in the lake. I've fixed it. PamD 07:00, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, I did not realize as I'm not from those areas, and just expected the links to be where they were if that makes sense. Naive rather than lazy, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 16:05, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

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You must have made like 20 edits in 50 minutes on the article In the name of love. Ever heard of the Show Preview feature ?! I mean, your work is very good and appreciated, but damn ... that insane list of edits in the history! -- Lyverbe (talk) 11:16, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

If it improves the article than that's all that should really matter as that's all that the reader really sees anyway IMO (better than not improving the article at all I should think?). I have reading, and some spelling difficulties (I have to Google spellings often) which may seem ironic given how prolific I am here but the small edits help me to check things off whilst making sure that I make no mistakes (I still do), and I would struggle to proof read anything that I've corrected... Hence doing things in small doses making any of this possible for me. I understand your issue, and why you've raised it but it feels like an essential way of editing for me that has worked since 2014... Almost a decade ago now, I'm feeling very old. Thanks, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 11:48, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

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"The" Manchester music

Thanks for your edit just now on Manchester. I learned something now about the MOS and how bands name "The xxx" are described within articles. It's something I'll remember for future edits, but I do however notice that if this is a rule it's not consistently followed or enforced. A quick look-see at The Verve showed relatively poor compliance, while The The was much better but nowhere near 100%. Would it not be better to fix all music articles before reaching out elsewhere? Just a (polite) thought... 10mmsocket (talk) 14:23, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

I spend most of my time doing this on articles, honestly. Manchester was just next on that "list". Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:26, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

I know what you mean. I do similar on other issues. 10mmsocket (talk) 16:43, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Hlists for credits

Hi Joe. I had reverted your Whammy! track listing edit back on April 3 because I don't see anything in WP:TRACKLISTING that suggests writing credits should be formatted with the hlist template and separated by bullets. (In fact the examples given there use plain commas as separators instead of any special mark-up.) Additionally, WP:STYLEVAR states When either of two styles are acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change, and that edit-warring over style, or enforcing optional style in a bot-like fashion without prior consensus, is never acceptable.

If it's a matter of personal preference, I'd probably agree that bullets do look better, but we can't really use that as a guiding principle when editing. To my knowledge, there is nothing in the MOS here that states credits have to or should be laid out in that fashion. Hope that helps. Cheers.—The Keymaster (talk) 21:50, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

I usually go off if the infobox has them first, and it did, and still does... So thought that it would look more congruent with both that, and the track listing having hlists. Thanks, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 20:47, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Annabella Lwin and Durango Dank songs

Hi Joe! I am new to this. And I had seen that */Annabella Lwin/* was featured on two songs 1. I kiss The Morning Sun Song and Mo Money Song; with musical artist and producer Durango Dank. I tried to follow the same format. And yet, Binksternet Michael Knowles (Producer), and egghead6; shut me down "Claiming promotions, and spam. And yet it's the same format. And instead of these two keeping open minds, and think like educators, for the betterment of your craft, and your platforms. these two should take the necessary steps to advance the work they try to do. Instead of Shutting ME DOWN! these 2: ARE TROLLS in the Metaverse! AND THEY HAVE BEEN INDEXED AS SUCH! These two could learn a lot by your work! And the Legacy you will leave behind for others to admire, and walk in your footsteps. Be the teacher, the educator that you are just in your work alone. But I would really like to learn how this all works. And share ides, and stories. Not just getting canceled, and blocked. (A Troll in the metaverse comes in many forms. This form is entities that destroy stories based off what they feel, or perceive! To the actual reality of events, and circumstances; that don't fit the heavy handedness of "Binksternet Michael Knowles" (Producer), and egghead6 actions toward other people uploads. The Good news Artificial intelligence knows al! And it all stars with our voices, and cross talk indexing. But I'm sure once these two realize they are not in good standing with SOCIALCREDITSYSTEMSCORESANDRANKINGS.COM. 2601:282:700:ED50:FDBC:DC3A:A783:F80 (talk) 14:39, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

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Seconded. Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:02, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Sources, please

Hello, Joe. I know you have been here for a while so I'll skip the convenient template. However I saw on Billy Idol that you assigned him some band in the infobox which is mentioned in the prose only once as having existed for a single set in 2018. Do you have any sources you can cite that "Generation Sex" is an actual, ongoing act? If you do, please add them when you revert my reversion of your edits. And could you, in future, please use edit summaries? Thanks, — JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 18:32, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

They're currently on tour. Just Google them, I mean they played Glastonbury Festival recently too so if you think that this is some imaginary or one-off performance band then I don't know what else to say. Thanks for the reversion, and edification, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 15:55, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Alice Cooper

Hello Joe, Why are you refractoring all these talk page posts ? - FlightTime (open channel) 14:17, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Felt like cleaning it up, and adding links to the pages that people were referring to would make it easier to read, and thus post/respond to. A more congruent-style may also help others (like me) in the aforementioned ways, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 14:23, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

I wouldn't do that - FlightTime (open channel) 14:56, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

I agree with FlightTime; please don't do that. It's appropriate to move newer threads to their proper location at the bottom of a Talk page, or use a template to sign unsigned posts, or even to fix WP:LISTGAP and MOS:INDENTMIX problems, as I have done here, but not to actually edit somebody else's posts. I've just reverted that exact string of 31 edits, but have left your previous string of 6 untouched. — JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 20:56, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Understood. Thanks, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 22:14, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Please review WP:OVERLINKING Thanx, - FlightTime (open channel) 03:28, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello, again, Joe. While I'm here whining, I might as well complain about something else: I see that of the 93 edits made to Alice Cooper in this calendar month alone, all but 6 were made by you. You made 61 edits in a two-and-one-half-hour period this morning, most of them of about 20 bytes or fewer (but none marked as "minor"). These all appear in my watchlist, listed separately, so it's quite overwhelming. I'd therefore like to point you to three more pages, which might help you fit in more successfully:

• Help:Show preview (mentioned to you in August 2016)
• Help:Minor edit
• Help:Edit summary (mentioned to you in July 2016)

I'm surely not the only editor who will be grateful if you would use Preview more often and combine multiple edits before publishing your changes. And when your edits are minor ones, please mark them as such. A brief explanation of what you're doing is also always welcome. Thanks, — JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 12:26, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

You can’t mark them as minor on your phone or else I would have — a lot of these edits had to be done one by one as I was sorting out references— and I could only do that as I saw them — as I had to individually search each link manually switching between windows full screen (which took me three hours). It was just as tiresome, and as overwhelming for you as it was me, I’m sure… but I’m finished with those sort of edits to that article. Other than them being minor, I actually really cleaned that up. If my editing style that has been here since I first started editing articles is a conflict of interest then I don’t know what I can do. Regards, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 15:41, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello, do the edits you made on Bill Skarsgård such as this not count as WP:COSMETIC? From what I can tell none of the changes are visible in practice and were not made accompanied by other changes that did. TylerBurden (talk) 05:35, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Is the problem that I didn’t mark them as minor? If so then sorry. Working on my phone doesn’t give me as much freedom — including marking edits as minor. Thanks, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 13:15, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Like the link says "edits of such little value that the community deems them to not be worth making in bulk" such edits aren't considered worth making in the first place, at least not accompanied by other meaningful changes. TylerBurden (talk) 05:31, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

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Pointless edits

Wow. 26 edits and not one of them materially improving the article. All of them pointlessly adding or removing spaces here or there, or a capital letter in a template. Seriously, stop. Or at least put all your pointless edits into a single edit. Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:00, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

You're not even consistent. In this edit you changed === Film === to ===Film=== (removing spaces inside the heading markup) and in this one you changed ==External links== to == External links == (inserting spaces inside the heading markup) . What's the point? Wikipedia users won't see any difference, and Wikipedia editors will either prefer one way or the other, or not care. Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:30, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

One chronology only on album articles

Hi Joe, please stop inserting additional chronologies for albums. There was a consensus against doing this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums/Archive 62#Multiple infobox chronologies. The only real time extra chronologies are accepted now is when more than one artist is credited on a song or album. Thanks. Ss112 11:22, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Understood. I just thought that it made it easier to go onto the next studio album rather than have to go to artists template box or click through live album, compilations, and etc, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 00:26, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Confusing edit

Why did you make this series of edits? It seems like (comparing two revs) all you did was add white space. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:08, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Just for you to revert, evidently enogh. ―Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 00:12, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

You made 10 edits in a row and all that was changed was "Portland, Oregon, U.S" to "(Portland, Oregon)", which is not an improvement. Instead of being sarcastic, can you tell me why you did all of that? How are those edits improvements? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:13, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

To be, or not to be, to make all articles look similar or the same in their formatting, so that they're easier to read, and more up to date. Please forgive me for my transgression ―Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 00:18, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

You ask for good faith from others and then you act like this. Why? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:40, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

All humans are hypocrites, especially the ones that pontificate —

Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 01:09, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Fascinating. Please stop making dozens of edits to whitespace across the millions of articles here. Thanks. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:27, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

So is Laura Veirs someone that you’re a fan of ? As I saw her play live last year, and met her briefly afterwards

Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 02:46, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

I've heard one song of hers and it was nice. You're a bigger fan than I am, evidently. Was she a nice person to meet? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:50, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Sort of, she was in the merch stand at the venue, and clearly only interested in signing things that people bought — but she was still magnanimous enough to sign my gig ticket for me … I can’t consider her in any way rude when the singer for Blancmange had a whole freak out over meeting people — despite telling people that he was going into the merch area to sign things for people, and he again, just freaked out, and whomever it was that was with him was bullying the people trying to meet him. A total fuck up. I understand that he was wary after having had a bad bout of Corona… but why go into a merch area where you’re going to meet people then lose your shit over it? Belied common sense, and left me both confused, and disappointed.

Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 03:45, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Agreed: that's not being a good businessman and that was clearly all he was trying to be, so total failure. How was the show? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:50, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

For Blancmange? Even without that experience, a bit shit — the singer is still in fine voice but his backing band were awful. He sounded like a Blancmange tribute act — or at worst, a karaoke singer. So put that together with the weird none-meeting wherein he stormed off after looking at me for a couple of seconds, and well, it’s bad business all round ! Haha. They say not to meet your heroes but Morrissey was nicer to me than him, and who’s supposed to be the hated one? I shook his hand, and had a very awkward conversation in which he seemed to either not respond at all or act like a diva (fake). Strange meeting, and a declined photo. “Not in Waitrose” with a covered mouth was his response to that question …

Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 04:28, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

I mean Laura Veirs, actually, but what you wrote all tracks with my intuitions about those guys. I can say that meeting R.E.M. twice, they were perfect Southern gentlemen (without the negative connotations). ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:24, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

How did that meeting come about? Usually I only meet famous people if I have a backstage pass to… but Morrissey, and Alexander O'Neal were random — and Morrissey was nicer than O'Neal who seemed more interested in my black lady friend than me myself (very strange considering she wasn’t a fan so a big creep move on his part to be honest as he seemed irritated by me; yet Morrissey did not lol)

Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 05:30, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

After their show in Indianapolis, they walked down the line signing autographs and patiently listening to bad poetry and at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, they descended into the crowd briefly. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:37, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Haha nice one! With the amount of gigs that I go to you probably get performers leaving the stage/barriers only once out of every ten gigs (you can look on my user page to see a list of my gig going). I always find it quite awkward as I prefer to watch shows than to interact with or touch the performers during shows! Another interesting story from me is being crushed into Mark Burgess's armpit during a Chameleons show! Oh I have all the stories, and they’re all cringeworthy haha.

Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 05:49, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

It's almost never worth it and nowadays, I am much less interesting in bothering these poor guys when they're just trying to enjoy their evenings (unless they deliberately give you the opportunity to say hi). And ultimately, all I have to say is "Wow, you do good at music", which is literally all that millions would have to say to them, so no need to bother them. But it was fun to meet them in particular. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:56, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Strange that you should say that because usually I try to ask technical questions or talk to them about people that they’ve worked with. I think that making them think more about what they’ve got to say can make them either more open or closed off, dependent on who it is. Some people love the sycophancy, and others deplore it… So I suppose I’ve learned that if you’re going to try, and make an impression on a famous person. Don’t talk to them like they’re a famous person - though when I met Morrissey, I said that I loved all of his solo albums, even Kill Uncle, and that made him gasp “oh!”, as he flailed his arms over his head, and took a step back . I confuse celebrities but then again, I run the risk of coming across as a none-fan… but they probably prefer that if you actually want a conversation… but then again, a lot of the time they don’t anyway hahaha.

Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 06:22, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Fred Schneider and the Shake Society

Hi Joe. I passed by the article for Fred Schneider and the Shake Society and noticed you changed the en dashes in the track listing to em dashes and changed the tracks to be continuously numbered. As per WP:TRACKLISTING, en dashes are correct here, and we actually had a lengthy discussion at WT:ALBUMS a while back and amended the MOS to clarify that track listings should always follow the numbering on the original format. (For LP sides, you would start at 1 for each side, except in rare special cases.) Please keep this in mind going forward. Thanks! —The Keymaster (talk) 06:57, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Quite old edits but fair enough, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 07:00, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

And actually, looking at it further, you also changed "Technical" personnel to "Production and artwork" and linked common instruments, both of which go against what is stated in WP:PERSONNEL. I'm happy to change all of it back for you, but please be mindful of this and change it to the correct formatting if you encounter any examples in the future. Thank you. Cheers! The Keymaster (talk) 07:07, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Once you put the magnifying glass on me — I start to melt away, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 07:19, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Heh. No hard feelings. The Keymaster (talk) 07:25, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Hearsay (album)

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Jeez, this took a while to be nominated for deletion! Haha

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Confusing edit

Why did you do this? Looking at the two revisions before and after, they seem identical. Is there something I'm missing? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:46, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:21, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

What was the purpose of this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Javier_Bardem&diff=prev&oldid=1197062339

Are you deliberately making thousands of edits that just move around whitespace? Why are you doing this? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

To make every article appear the same when read from an editor's perspective, Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 06:47, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

These do look the same. There is no difference between these. Please stop shuffling around line breaks across hundreds of edits in millions of articles. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:49, 19 January 2024 (UTC)