Talk:The Motels

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[edit] Links

I linked Martha Davis and Warfield Foxes to The Motels page

[edit] Sources

I've started to add in the sources but it's gonna take awhile to hunt down all the articles. I'll try to add a few more each day or two.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.129.87.69 (talk • contribs)

Excellent. Try to remember to sign your posts with four tildes (~~~~). I'll check out what you add and try to give you some formatting tips that will make this article likely to be considered for Good Article status and maybe one day Featured Article. IvoShandor 09:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I often forget that tilda signing until "after" I click save, darn it. And I haven't forgotten your suggestions on other info to include but I want to get this tedious business of sourcing out of the way first. Somehow I can't see this article ever being important enough in the scheme of an encyclopedia to merit Featured status, but if it could just reach the noble position of "Good" I'll know that whoever clicks on it will be receiving truthful, well-rounded and relevent information on The Motels. Fyunck(click) 09:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Eh there are plenty of FAs on obscure topics. GA won't be a problem with a little work. IvoShandor 09:51, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

(CR).I think I've hit all the sources you had concerns with... now that my eyes are strained to the point of blurryness :-). I hope it doesn't make the article look too unwieldy with all those footnotes. Some sentence structure still needs tightening and your 5 listings on expansion are a future project but at least the tedious stuff is out of the way. Fyunck(click) 08:42, 1 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Additions Without Sources

I worked really hard to source everything...weeks and weeks. What 75.51.191.113 added was fine except we don't know where it came from. If you are a former band member let me know so I can source it properly, otherwise we need something in print that we can use to verify. We want to stay off Wikis unsourced article listings. Thanks. Fyunck(click) 06:34, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Martha Solo

I changed "So the Story Goes" from Motels listing to her solo, it was released as Martha Davis album according to Amazon.com and other then in it's "Special Thanks To" section it dosen't even mention the Motels as a band. (Floppydog66 19:26, 7 September 2007 (UTC))

Hmmm... unfortunately it is very difficult to classify her albums these days. There is no difference between "Standing Room Only", "Clean Modern and Reasonable" and "So The Story Goes" as far as it's her and the new Motels band members. Sure the new album says Motels (a moniker that she alone owns since she traded it for a microphone) but that is just marketing sense Down Under. They are all Motels albums. How is it best to do this? Maybe we should just tile the section Albums - under Martha Davis or The Motels ? Fyunck(click) 21:27, 7 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Published Articles

Let's try to keep the sources within the wiki protocol... no personal research. Most personal interviews are not allowed. I have tons of info I could put on this page from personal conversations, memories and keepsakes... but it isn't allowed unless the band members themselves put it up on a website. Internet interviews are shakey and one should always look for another source if possible, however sometimes it's all we have. Fyunck(click) 23:35, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images That Can Be Used

We were told by wikipedia early on in the development of this page that images of albums were not allowed, even small ones, without the record company's permission. Has the record company relinquished their rights for this image of All Four One, or has wiki changed its tune on allowing them? We can't use photos of band members without expressed permission from the photographer so it seems very shaky to use album cover art also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fyunck(click) (talk • contribs) 18:52, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Fair_use#Images. — Wackymacs (talk) 19:07, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I guess it's very tricky. Wiki tells us it is illegal to use album cover art as part of the discography in an article, but it is fair use to use Cover art for identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item. I don't recall the original objection to the art but it looks fine to me where it is. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)