Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Led Zeppelin/Archive 2

American style dates

Is there a reason why many articles about LZ songs and albums use American style dates (e.g. January 10, 2009)? I would expect them to use European style dates (e.g. 10 January 2009) per WP:MOSNUM, section 2.4.1.2. In fact I've fixed some of these myself. -- Army1987 – Deeds, not words. 00:29, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I gather because most of the editors here (with the exception of myself and Edelmand) appear to be from the United States. Most of the first article edits were done by US editors. Feel free to change if and when consensus is reached. MegX (talk) 03:50, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

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I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 21:59, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

References

It's been a nightmare trying to get the articles up to a higher standard. Could in future all users try and use templates such as Template:Cite journal and Template:Cite book. The instructions on how to use them are found on those pages. It would also be helpful if you could add the journal/book's author to them in the references. We need to start standardising formats within articles. MegX (talk) 10:05, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:20, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

How Many More Times

I inadvertently walked into what apparently has been an issue for a while with the article "How Many More Times" and quite possibly with other Led Zeppelin song articles regarding crediting components of songs that are remakes. This one regards "The Hunter". Perhaps many of you are tired of this one. Nevertheless I am new to the article and have articulated my view without much response. Some response would be appreciated. It is at Talk:How_Many_More_Times#Albert_King.

Also a more general discussion regarding the same issue for all song articles (if you are interested) is at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Music#Writing_credit_vs_original_artist_when_mentioning_a_song - Steve3849 ^talk 06:36, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Keep an eye out for a new soapbox account trying to JBG fancruft a few LZ articles

There is a new account who is trying to alter any "LZ influenced heavy metal" content into saying "they might have... but it was really Jeff Beck". Typical 'so-and-so-said something different' soapbox crufting. The Real Libs-speak politely 14:32, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Project Work

Hello, I just joined the project out of personal interest and geek knowledge of the Zep universe. I'm a Wikipedia vandalism watcher so I will pay special attention to the articles associated with this project. After looking at the To Do list I think I can also donate my time to the Unassessed Articles and throw in my opinions on Quality and Importance. Feel free to follow up on my Assessments as I go forward. Doomsdayer520 (talk) 13:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

While I'm here I have a question. I have noticed that articles for Zep-related books have been included in the project, such as that piece-of-garbage Hammer of the Gods. Some other fairly recent Zep biographies and books of interest do not have their own WP articles. Is it a goal of this project to add articles on these books, or have you chosen to focus on adding and expanding articles about the music and the musicians? (Also, there is a Wikipedia: WikiProject Books and many WP guidelines for book-related articles that will have an impact on this question.) Cheers. Doomsdayer520 (talk) 14:06, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Sockpuppets influencing consensus

I am sorry to report that one of the main contributors to this project has been found to have been operating several sockpuppet accounts and using them to influence consensus. For those not yet aware of the situation, full details of the case are at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wiki libs/Archive. The list of account names and IP addresses involved is rather extensive. Two recent discussions at the band page were influenced by two or more editors making comments that were actually all Wiki libs, Talk:Led_Zeppelin#Genre transcending! being a significant one regarding the lead paragraph. As reported by Luminifer at the SPI archive linked above, Libs used a total of six socks in one thread[1] and used the strength of those numbers to declare consensus (see above linked report). So, I am posting this here to alert anyone who may have been influenced in this way when making decisions about article content in the recent past, based on either edit summaries or talk page commentary or both. Sswonk (talk) 20:14, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

portal

There has been a portal upgrade Portal:Led Zeppelin any concerns pls let me know!!! ......Buzzzsherman (talk) 04:08, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Update again!  Done...Moxy (talk) 21:57, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

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Request for comment on Biographies of living people

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Ikip 05:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Pageview stats

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The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 22:18, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Led Zeppelin articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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