Talk:GBI (German Bold Italic)

Assessment comment

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start: info & infobox supplied; needs: in-line refs (could be C-class with several more good refs added);Shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 03:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Substituted at 18:19, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:GBI (German Bold Italic)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Cukie Gherkin (talk · contribs) 07:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Images

1. No fair use images, neat

References

1. References seem to be formatted and organized really nicely; unless I'm overlooking something, does not seem to use any low-quality sources. Will do a spotcheck after reviewing the article itself.

Lead

1. Changed 'has little success' to 'had little success'
2. Otherwise, lead seems solid (will come 'round back if it seems like a vital aspect of the article is absent from the summary)

Infobox

1. All details important for the infobox appear to be present, and vice versa with the article

Background and production

1. All good

Composition

1. Seems fine, though if I may ask, which source is being used to say that she "seductively reads her line"?

I changed "seductively reads her line" -> "seductively talks" (per Independent: "... features Minogue talking and giggling over a minimalist house rhythm") Damian Vo (talk) 07:54, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Release and remixes

1. All good

Reception

1. Is there anything that you feel may be gained by expanding the reception provided by Priya Elan?

• Sadly the author only mentioned it as one of Kylie's most interesting yet lesser-known collabs Damian Vo (talk) 07:54, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

1. I tweaked 'has' to 'had' again, as the arguments made for its lack of commercial success are all past tense

Production and synopsis

1. All good, although I think that the following line about it not being released fits better here than in the following section.

Reception and analysis

1. All good

Aftermath

1. I feel it may be a little redundant to say "has made several..." and "has worn traditional..." maybe change it to "where she wore"

• Fixed

Comments

1. Will finish tomorrow, too dang tired. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 07:45, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
2. Done reviewing the text, will do a spotcheck soon. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 16:50, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Reviewed the following:

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I'm comfortable that these sources indicate the article is accurately citing external sites. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 01:48, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for picking this up for a review. I almost forgot I nominated this article back in June. I fixed all of the issues you mentioned above. Please let me know if you have any more questions Damian Vo (talk) 07:54, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

No problem. Good job on the article and the (very few) changes! - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 00:48, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 12:14, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

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• Comment or view
• Article history

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• ... that "GBI (German Bold Italic)" has been described as the first song written about a specific typeface? Source: ...on GBI, perhaps the first ode to a typeface / ...this is probably the only song ever written about a font! / GBI may be the only song specifically about a typeface
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Muhsin Hendricks

Improved to Good Article status by Damian Vo (talk). Self-nominated at 09:05, 5 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/GBI (German Bold Italic); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• The article has passed a GAN recently and the hook fact is verified from the sources cited.--NØ 18:45, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Damian Vo (talk) 16:01, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Typeface rather than font?

To be precise, should references to 'font' be changed to 'typeface'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.185.209.13 (talk) 13:05, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

I have found some archived download links for the typeface, just wondering where the 'correct' place for them would be

The article mentions how the typeface was free to download from the official websites of Tei and Minogue, so, naturally, I tried looking for the typeface myself. I have managed to find a couple of archived download links for it - albeit the archives I found were archived from a fan site (haven't found any archives from the official websites). I opted to be WP:BOLD and added those archived links in a footnote in GBI (German Bold Italic)#Release and remixes, but I was wondering if they should be moved to an 'External Links' section or something instead. (the archived download links in question are https://web.archive.org/web/20000118185710/http://kylie.co.uk/gbi.zip and https://web.archive.org/web/20021014062050/http://www.kylie.co.uk/desktop/gbi.TTF) 🔥HOTm̵̟͆e̷̜̓s̵̼̊s̸̜̃🔥 (talk・edits) 13:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

@HotMess: I did find these download links but hesitated to use them because these are fansite/blog-owned sharing files, not directly from either Minogue or Tei's website. Also, WP:LINKFARM. Damian Vo (talk) 15:15, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

First song about a typeface?

The band Couch Flambeau released a song about the Helvetica typeface prior to 1989. The assertion on the Wikipedia main page on 3/20/24 is not true. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqArN-kyFJo Mikelibrik (talk) 16:56, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Good find, but quick heads-up: if you see further main page mishaps, you should report them over at WP:Main Page/Errors (not on the talk pages of the articles featured on the main page) so the people with permissions to do stuff to the main page can do something about it whilst there's still time. 🔥HOTm̵̟͆e̷̜̓s̵̼̊s̸̜̃🔥 (talk・edits) 01:09, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

I couldn't hear the lyrics clearly because the guitar is too loud, and I couldn't find anything about this song anywhere else, but I guess it is not about the typeface and they only use it in the title. If this trivia is backed up by any credible sources, please leave it here and I will be happy to fix the article. Damian Vo (talk) 15:06, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

It is about the typeface. The lyrics pretend to be a cheesy love song that's actually about the font. I didn't transcribe the whole song, but some key lines: "so simple and plain, yet so beautiful...you're plain, you're bold, but that doesn't stop me from using you"...and so on, all of which describe Helvetica the font reasonably well (in fact, better than they work as a love song).

I'm not sure what more credible source you need concerning the existence of a song than discogs...the song was also released on the band's compilation album "I Did a Power Slide in the Taco Stand" https://www.discogs.com/release/12753137-Couch-Flambeau-I-Did-A-Power-Slide-In-The-Taco-Stand-Anthology-1982-2001. You might be getting the idea this band doesn't take themselves too seriously, and you'd be right.

Because the song's obscure, it's reasonable to note that many critics thought it was the first song about a font...but since this song precedes it, such assumptions are factually incorrect. Spanghew2fs (talk) 22:04, 30 March 2024 (UTC)