Talk:Year Zero (album)

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[edit] Year Zero (political notion)

I feel like there should be some mention of the political meaning of the term "Year Zero" in this article, since the title seems rather clearly based on the totalitarian political ideology of Pol Pot and his "Year Zero", the catastrophically authoritarian restructuring of Cambodian society. What would be the best place to add this description? Has Reznor commented on his intended meaning for the title? --Ryan Delaney talk 20:44, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] remix.nin.com

Why was this removed? "Reznor himself strongly supports fan-made remixes of songs off of the album, as evidenced by his decision to upload every song in multi-track form to the official Nine Inch Nails remix website. Instrumental versions of the songs are also available there for download as mp3s." Zzzronnyzzz (talk) 17:43, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I mainly removed it because it was not referenced. If you can find a source, feel free to replace it. Drewcifer (talk) 23:57, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Isn't the fact that Reznor created a remix website and uploaded multi-tracks to that very website reference enough? Sorry, I'm new to all this. Do I just have to mark that website as the reference? Zzzronnyzzz (talk) 01:24, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Honestly, I don't think it's that big of a deal either way. If you want to put it back, feel free, but a reference to the actual site (or even better a NIN Hotline article about it) would be nice. Drewcifer (talk) 14:35, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GA nom on hold

  • This doesn't have to deal with the article, but this page should be archived.
You read my mind, I was thinking of doing that anyways.
  • "all over the world" if it says that in the booklet you should use {{cite cd notes}} or change it to Numerous locations, or something along those lines
Y Done Used the suggested template. The template seems a little broken, but I'll bring that up on it's talk page. Seems fine for now here.
  • Is HALO - 24 really the label it is on?
That's not the label, but that's kind of the catolog number. And that's typically how catalog numbers are displayed. But for clarity's sake, I added a link to the NIN discog which clarifies the number.
The Interscope catalog number is not the same as the halo number, may start with INT something. There may be a lot of different catalog numbers for the versions and they're not essential for listing (for example see With Teeth's). –Pomte 00:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
  • "Reznor reportedly began work on this next project by September 2006" maby change "by" to "in"
I'm pretty sure "by" is the more appropriate word here.
Agreed. There's a good chance that he started before September. –Pomte 00:46, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
  • I don't know what the rules are on this but saying NIN instead of Nine Inch Nails looks kind of tacky
Y DoneAgreed, fixed the one instance of NIN.
  • "In August 2007 Reznor his plans to pitch the idea to television networks:" his → has
Y DoneReworded the sentence.
  • Ref 11 needs a publisher
Y Done
  • Same with 31
Y Done
Leave a note on my talk page when this is taken care of. Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 00:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Note Looks like there was edit conflict as myself and Pomte were addressing the same issues simultaneously. I think everything got worked out though. Drewcifer (talk) 00:48, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about that wasted duplicated effort. I'll remember to check if you are active next time. –Pomte 00:58, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Passed. :D Burningclean [Speak the truth!] 00:55, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chart positions

According to its own reference, the New Zealand chart has Year Zero peaking at 20, not 2. I fixed it, but I'm wondering if it should just be taken out altogether since it's not Top Ten..? Zzzronnyzzz (talk) 04:17, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Good catch! I think I was looking at the "Weeks" column not the correct one. Nine Inch Nails discography had a ton of wrong numbers from the same source, which I fixed. I think it's ok to have non top-10 numbers. I'll actually add a few more from the NIN discog. Drewcifer (talk) 04:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This album was used in CSI.

HYPERPOWER! and Survivalism were used in two CSI episodes. Take note of that.--Nightingale12 (talk) 07:56, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Doesn't really seem that notable to me. We can't mention everytime a track from the album is used anywhere. Drewcifer (talk) 08:12, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
The only place that would be appropriate may be the single article. No way it should be used in the album or artist article, it's pure trivia. -- Reaper X 16:23, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spectrograph of My Violent Heart's static

I'm wondering why this isn't mentioned in the article. Should it be added? --Thaddius (talk) 15:22, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I've added the image to the promotion and release section. Would saying that it resembles "the presence" be original research? -- Reaper X 17:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)