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IRONICtypo commented on “Wiki Length” (2)   9 days ago

fmera commented on “Guidelines” (17)   July 2009

IRONICtypo commented on “Disappearing Wiki Markup” March 2009

Bravepower commented on “Tag page wikis” February 2009

Bravepower commented on “Artist/song listing voting” February 2009

• IRONICtypo wrote:
  August 2009

  those guidelines are great and include a lot of things I already do and insist everyone else adapt.

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• fmera wrote:
  July 2009

  hey, i put up these draft guidelines for wiki editing quite some time ago, and it's still pending submission to this group (group leader, please check?). some feedback/discussion would be welcome, thks.

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• IRONICtypo wrote:
  January 2009

  Happy New Year from the Wiki Improvement Clan group!

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• IRONICtypo wrote:
  November 2008

  I too, would love this group to be more active. Shame.

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• fmera wrote:
  November 2008

  btw, i've seen deader groups ;)

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• fmera wrote:
  November 2008

  not to sound like a broken record (how appropriate!) but seeing as how we *are* the wiki improvement group, couldn't we make a formal group request to the staff to put in a decent set of bbcode buttons (plus all the special ones) to make life easier for wiki editors? it's so ridiculous to have to draft/edit wikis in a journal or forum page (because they have the buttons and wiki pages don't!) and then copy/paste them onto the wiki page. i don't think it's too much to ask?

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• FromHeartache wrote:
  October 2008

  I am still here to dancing around on merry wikis.

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• IRONICtypo wrote:
  October 2008

  I'm still around, still improving Wikis. You can count me in, Fulvian.

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• Fulvian wrote:
  October 2008

  Dead already? needs some volunteers who can juice this group up

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• ChAwech wrote:
  August 2008

  Yay for this group! I hope everyone uses the 'comment' or 'summary' option when editing. I hate it when it's left blank.

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• IRONICtypo wrote:
  August 2008

  yeah, in fact my "year reformed" tag idea was also ignored by the higher ups. And what am I supposed to do with artists who are on hiatus like Pink Floyd (inactive since 1995 or 1996 but never actually broken up), and placeformed works for solo artists (hey, it still works). I mean the placed formed thing is still weird. It never did this before and its only with US artists. UK artists don't need to have "United Kingdom" in front of "Cardiff, Wales" (using the example of my favorite band Los Campesinos!), so it must be last.fm staff's unfamiliarity with US geography (hopefully not. It would make me sad being an Anglophile and all).

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• Fulvian wrote:
  August 2008

  Yes, I've suggested birthdate, birthplace, etc. for solo artists in the past, but it was ignored, probably because the system can't tell whether an artist is a group or a person. I support the use of those band markups in solo artist wikis :D

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• fmera wrote:
  August 2008

  this thing about placeformed, yearformed, yearsplit etc - it applies only to artist groups right? not solo artists? just want to be clear. some wikis i've come across have placeformed tagged to place of birth(!), yearformed as the year a solo artist's career took off, so to speak, and... yearsplit as the year the artist died! i hope i did not assume wrongly.

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• Fulvian wrote:
  August 2008

  Try "Akron, Ohio, United States" instead of just "Akron, Ohio".

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• IRONICtypo wrote:
  August 2008

  I've submitted a query to the forums since there's a problem with the [placeformed] tags (among other things, a glitch is causing the wiki for a band from Akron, Ohio is proclaiming they're from "Cleveland, United States")

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• Fulvian wrote:
  August 2008

  If anyone has a better logo for our group, please tell us :P

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• IRONICtypo wrote:
  August 2008

  Hi, All! I'm the new co-leader! please message me if you need anything. Currently, i'm in the middle of adding the new yearformed, yearsplit and placeformed tags to as many wikis as I can. Whenever i'm on the site, i'm usually available.

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• FromHeartache wrote:
  August 2008

  That chris user should be a co-leader to. he deserves it. Ryan, is good to.

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• Fulvian wrote:
  August 2008

  I have chosen the new co-leader, the staffs will give him the leadership on Monday, and due to my new job, I may have less time at Last.fm in the future, so enjoy Your time with the new leader! ;)

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• fmera wrote:
  August 2008

  i thought you would, but luckily dayslipper's one of us :) anyway, you've acknowledged his contribution as the author of the image. we're pretty organized, aren't we? ;)

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