User talk:ICommandeth

Pink Floyd and WP:3RR

Sorry about that the fact the first people you have contact with here are so rude and dismissive. Pls be assured its not the norm. So what can you do ...dont edit the content into the article again..WHY...because there is a bright-line rule called the three-revert rule, the violation of which may lead someone to be blocked from editing to prevent further disruption despite if the edit is good or not. So what can you do!! You did right by bringing it to the talk page before others did (good on you). So its clear those that watch over the page dont like the chart (I dont know why at this point yet). I will come to the talk page and see if I can ask the right questions. If you find that your still not satified after a talk there you can go through the Wikipedia:Requests for comment process (I can help you set that up if you like).-- Moxy (talk) 22:15, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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A cookie for you!

From what I can see, you're helping to restore the status quo on band member timeline graphics. Every now and then we have a vandal come by and think it's easy pickings, I don't know if it's two different people or if one is a sock of the other. Either way, thanks for your help! It's seriously irritating to have to deal with these sorts of edits, but somebody's gotta do it. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist ^{(Speak quickly)} _{(Follow my trail)} 03:28, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

October 2015

Stop reverting on Breaking Benjamin. Please adhere to WP:BRD. You may boldly change something, but if someone reverts you, then you are to wait and discuss, only making the changes if there is consensus to do so. This is especially important when your argument is entirely subjective and opinion based, and you're dealing with a peer-reviewed "Good Article".

Continuing to revert without discussion may lead you to be blocked from editing, so please follow my advice. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 01:42, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, see here. User:Jacedc (talk) 17:53, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Invite to join band member/timeline discussion

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Update this pages

The timeline of Acheron have many errors, please use the band members in Metallum
The timeline of In-Quest is incomplete, please use the all band members from 1987 to 2014

please read my messages up :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.15.231.173 (talk) 13:31, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Help me with 2 timeline

please redoing the timeline of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster and Vital Remains with all the session members in the all albums, with all the touring members and actually touring (see the official page facebook of the band) and the correct band list :) because my computer have a problems with this timeline — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.34.112.218 (talk) 22:05, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Removing content from articles

Hello, if you removing content from Wikipedia articles, you don't cause disorder. You removed constitutional republic from some countries, which wasn't arranged in any way by the editors. You caused mess, because you edited only some articles. Now remove constitutional republic as you intended from all countries articles in the world, or I am going to revert all your edits. Thank you. --ThecentreCZ (talk) 01:12, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The mass change is quite drastic, unless there was a policy change, RfC or infobox discussion, to mass edit every republic's listed government type. It is not the way to remove content consistent with Wiki policies. Rauisuchian (talk) 07:00, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't asked your opinion. --ThecentreCZ (talk) 10:52, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Was there RfC? Shadow4dark (talk) 09:04, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalisation

"Christian" and "Islamic" are capitalised in English. All the best and happy holidays, CentreLeftRight ✉ 20:54, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Timeline standards?

While I agree with the rest of the edits, I don't see why you reverted nearly all of my edits to the timeline. I see nowhere on Wikipedia that has a guideline or essay for such stuff (Wikipedia:Timeline standards is about prose), nor do I see why its current state is better or why Joe Hawley was considered to have all his roles during 2010. These colors of yours blend into each other way too much. Aaron Liu (talk) 20:01, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, please respond. Aaron Liu (talk) 11:21, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I did reply to you. You probably have to check on desktop. ICommandeth 11:24, 17 October 2023 (UTC) ICommandeth 11:24, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Ah, sorry. I don’t think your signatures are recognized by any of the talk page tools, that should be why. Aaron Liu (talk) 11:26, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the colors because those are what most timelines use as their colors, ie guitar being green, bass being blue etc.. I wanted to change it because it makes it look weird when it does. As for 2010 Joe, since he didn't leave the band and Shea was only a touring substitute, having him fully marked out for 2010 didn't seem accurate. ICommandeth 06:54, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

The only such article I could find was They Might Be Giants. In that article, the only other instrument the percussion person plays is drums. These colors contrast nicely against each other. In Tally Hall, most vocalists also do percussion, and these colors do NOT play off each other nicely; they blend into each other. Having some colors match tie colors also helps the reader to understand the article in the specific case of Tally Hall.

On Joe and Casey, well he still didn’t play anything which is what the chart implies. I’m also pretty sure Casey did not manage aspects of the touring itself.

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Changing colors based not on a standard but what you think would contrast for the band isn't really a good reason since it isn't immediately clear, and having it be out of sync with the general informal standard is weird. I did make some of the smaller bars wider so it's easier to see the colors. As for Joe and Casey, the more slim bars for Joe I think imply that he was just in remission, not totally out of the band. Also for the yellow I imagined that implied a touring member in general, not specifically a touring manager. ICommandeth 11:45, 17 October 2023 (UTC) ICommandeth 11:45, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Makes sense. Just to clarify, I meant contrast as in color contrast. (I also don’t think this is a conforming standard due to the OK Go article) Aaron Liu (talk) 11:50, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Forms of government SVG

Hey there! I would like to request your assistance in editing the SVG file depicting the world forms of government. Specifically, I need both Guyana and Botswana to be highlighted in green. Unfortunately, I lack the expertise to do this myself, so I'm reaching out for your kind help. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Aficionado538 (talk) 13:09, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Just did that; it's actually pretty simple: download inkscape vector graphics editor, then once you've opened the file, click on the country and you should see a color option. You easily change it by copying and pasting it from another country. Hope that helps! ICommandeth (talk) 01:47, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Aficionado538 (talk) 13:07, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo, could you please revert Austria back to orange? Or have a striped version of yellow-orange, but it certainly is closer to an orange system, not yellow like France. Gryffindor (talk) 22:56, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's not a thing we do. It has to be one or the other and the consensus is is that Austria is semi-presidential (yellow) ICommandeth (talk) 05:40, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Western Roman Empire

Hey ICommandeth, just wanted to let you know why I reverted your edit: the Western Roman Empire is not easy to categorize as a monarchy due to the disparate power structures and how it presented itself (technically being a republic for much of its imperial history), and the concept of Absolute Monarchy is something of an early modern invention, rarely applied backward to earlier periods. Autocracy has been used as the acceptable catch-all for the Western Roman Empire for this reason. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 01:13, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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List of countries by system of government

Hallo ICommandeth, please feel free to take a look at the discussion going on concerning Austria and others on the talk page. Talk:List of countries by system of government#Map is wrong. Gryffindor (talk) 22:59, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting edits on Tally Hall

About this edit, why did you revert it? I would say it’s some important information, I don’t see why it should be removed, only improved. Sorry if this is supposed to be sent on the talk page, I’m new to Wikipedia. Not-cheesewhisk3rs (talk) 09:22, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The info was formatted in a way that isn't standard for Wikipedia, with external links. Plus the info was already stated later in the article. ICommandeth (talk) 15:05, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you mean. Thanks for clarifying. Not-cheesewhisk3rs (talk) 15:20, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting edits on Tally Hall

Hi there. I noticed you reverted one of my changes to Tally Hall. Why did you do this? There was no edit summary provided. --cheesewhisk3rs (pester) 22:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you're referring to adding the "2002-2011" bit after the bands name in the introduction, that's because you reserve that for people and their birth and death dates, not for bands. ICommandeth (talk) 22:46, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote it with fl., which is not for birth and death dates, rather when something was most active. In this case it's Tally Hall's activity - they were active together from 2002 to 2011. --cheesewhisk3rs (pester) 09:52, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Even so, that's not something you add to band pages ICommandeth (talk) 14:06, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? --cheesewhisk3rs (pester) 16:10, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of the time that info is in other places, and it just isn't standard anyway. ICommandeth (talk) 17:48, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yes, the info is restated. However, this isn't a problem. For example, on the Seedfeeder article, there's a fl. template with dates of when the artist was most active which is immediately restated. I don't see why it would be a problem.

The reasoning for it was that if a reader wants to find when Tally Hall was active, it's much simpler for them to just find out in the first sentence than to continue reading. Wikipedia should deliver information without making it hard to find.

Also, why exactly is it not standard? You've made the point that it's "not for bands" twice, but I've found no information on Template:Floruit/doc or Floruit. --cheesewhisk3rs (pester) 21:18, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's just not useful or needed information. Even if something isn't specifically forbidden in a standard, adding little bits of information that aren't standard to an article, or even useful really, is an unwritten faux pa on wikipedia ICommandeth (talk) 00:54, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't seen a single guideline which was "unwritten" on here. I don't think it's the norm to abide by unwritten guidelines on Wikipedia, which has a tendency of really liking to write things down. Although as it seems we can't get to an agreement so far, I'll go and ask at the Teahouse for more opinions on this :) --cheesewhisk3rs (pester) 20:41, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Writing "fl. 2002–2011" seems to me pretentious. Many modern nmusic fans won't know the word "floruit". Why not just write "active 2002-2011"? Maproom (talk) 07:31, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I guess that would work too. --cheesewhisk3rs (pester) 10:38, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced edits and inaccurate sourcing

Please stop adding unsourced information, as you have to the Devo main page and first eight album pages. Regarding personnel listings, none of the first eight Devo albums, in any format, have ever listed specific duties for the band members in the liner notes, which means the refs you changed for those sections are now wholly inaccurate. That's precisely why I cited Pioneers Who Got Scalped on those pages a few years ago; it's, unfortunately, the best published source we have for those credits thus far. If you are able to find reliable published sources that state more specific credits (as per WP:PERSONNEL), feel free to add them and amend the information. Otherwise, anything beyond that is considered WP:OR and is not allowed on Wikipedia. Thanks.—The Keymaster (talk) 03:54, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there.

Thanks for messaging me. Wrt to Tally Hall, I actually monitor the page and remove stuff that isn't very useful or needed. The band has a very teenage fanbase that doesn't really understand Wikipedia standards, so I make sure to uphold it and make sure it doesn't become clogged with useless info.

For Devo, my thought process behind the edits was that simply just giving every album the blanket credits from the comp would be inaccurate, so making it reflect the live settings of each album would make more sense. While they aren't sourced necessarily, imo they more accurately reflect what's played on the album. I know "I saw it on youtube" isn't a good source but that was my thought process. It seems like you want to go for "sourced if slightly inaccurate" over "unsourced but possibly more accurate", which is understandable. ICommandeth (talk) 04:35, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thanks for understanding. Pioneers isn't perfect, but to my knowledge, it's the best reliable published source we have for those credits at this time. I will go ahead and revert those edits as good faith edits. The Keymaster (talk) 05:10, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I should also add that we should never use live instrumental duties as the basis for an album's credits. I can think of dozens, if not hundreds, of instances where that would yield very misleading results. (The Beach Boys and the Monkees, for starters.) I've been a Devo fan for 45 years and, beyond Pioneers, I have never seen a detailed breakdown of who played what on the studio albums, so we just cannot assume anything. I've been hoping there are better sources to be found out there somewhere, but as of now, I have yet to find anything. The Keymaster (talk) 05:49, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good point yes. ICommandeth (talk) 05:52, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]