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[edit] Disambiguation

As Mali's dominant political party is named A.D.E.M.A. also (and is often written ADEMA), I'd like to move this article to Adema (band) with a redirect notice at the top of the Malian article. Or perhaps a disambig page would do for both, though my first instinct is to say that a ruling political party is more encyclopedically-notable. Any thoughts? I'll probably do this next weekend some time. --Dvyost 17:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

For now I'm adding a small disambig at the top. Best, --Dvyost 17:24, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
As you said yourself, it's called A.D.E.M.A.. And, searching Google it's obvious to see which gets more responses when you search for "Adema" or "ADEMA". And all the articles here are "encyclopedically-notable", I don't see how one is more so than another. Enfestid 23:34, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
My apologies; I phrased that badly and didn't mean to start an argument. Unfortunately this isn't really a case where Google is going to be the most reliable test, as Mali is a French- and Bambara-speaking nation that is largely without internet access; hence Mali-related articles tend to come in at a lower ranking by default because of the paucity of hits. Despite their lower Google ranking, ADEMA does control a country of 11 million people, and has for nearly fifteen years.
My understanding is that ADEMA actually is the most common abbreviation for the first version of this party (as you can see in the English and French articles on the subject). I wrote it with periods for the sake of clarity, but typically ended up confusing the subject more =). Unfortunately I don't think the Wikipedia software will allow an article "ADEMA" and an article "Adema" to coexist. How would you feel about splitting the difference by moving this article to Adema (band) and creating a disambig page linking to both (picking random examples, similar to Nono or Salif Keïta)?
Thanks for responding so fast! Best, --Dvyost 02:03, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Planets" Sales

Please stop editing the page to say Planets sold better than the other two albums. There is no information that confirms that, and given the first week sales of the album and the fact it was only on the Billboard for one week makes it extremely unlikely. As for album sales, just leave it at what we know -- it's not "unknown" since we know it sold that much and more (hence the +). Enfestid 22:58, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Adema - Adema.jpg

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[edit] Level

Despite what many seem to think, Level has NOT announced plans to disband. It's starting to look like that, but stop saying "former Level singer" when he never left Level, and they haven't disbanded. Thanks. Enfestid 14:52, 1 July 2007 (UTC) A post from the vocalist disputes this now. Link is http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee264/Zacht_01/BOBBYREEVES.jpg

[edit] Rewrite

Hey guys, rewrote the page. Let me know if anybody has any:

  • Pictures of Adema they'd be willing to open-source (that is, release your copyright on the photo to Wikipedia)
  • A copy of the "Cold and Jaded" CD (I need a WAV-quality rip), so I can put a sample of it in the article
  • Better information on the start/stop dates of the early band.

Thanks! :) Lalala666 01:53, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit war on album sales

Hey folks; I just noticed an edit war going on here with album sales. Everyone involved needs to watch out for the three revert rule. Also, in the process of warring, the footnote on the album sales seems to have lost the reference. Someone who knows what is going on here needs to clean up a bit. The footnote had a reference which was removed in this edit on 15:44, 5 August 2007 by 67.80.47.183 (talk · contribs). The figures were reverted in this edit on 16:47, 5 August 2007 by Enfestid (talk · contribs), but not the footnote.

I have no idea about the subject matter or rights and wrongs involved. I'd just encourage people to talk about it here. —Duae Quartunciae (talk · cont) 04:53, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Misunderstanding

This is wrong:

The band has blamed low sales of Unstable on being dropped.[10]

The quote from the citation ([1]) is

Kris Kohls: "Basically what happened was that we didn’t sell enough records for their tastes and we got dropped."

So what the band is saying is they're blaming low sales for being dropped, like the original edit. This is saying the exact opposite, that they got low sales because they were dropped; actually, they were dropped because they had low sales! You can reword it to make it more clear, since this page is a little too fanboy-ey for me to fight that edit war. Thanks :)

--Lalala666 02:31, 22 August 2007 (UTC)