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Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Rock Soldier, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! --evrik ^(talk) 22:17, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects and cut/paste

Hi! It looks like you're trying to move one or more pages. However, please stop doing that this way - the new name of the page might be good, but Wikipedia has another procedure for moving pages. Look at Help:Renaming (moving) a page: you need to use the move tab, and not cut and paste. Cut and paste moves don't take the edit history with them and thus violate the GFDL copyright terms. Also, in some cases, when the move might be controversial, you might first want to discuss the move on the article's talk page. If a move is not possible because a page with the new name already exists, go to Wikipedia:Requested moves. Thanks!

Also, it would be incorrect to move some of the pages you have for reasons of convention. For example, the article named "Leaving Here" is already a song, which would make "Leaving Here (song)" a bit of a redundant disambiguation. This is why it was at "Leaving Here (Motörhead song)" (the fact that it should really be under "Leaving Here (Motörhead single)" is currently under debate! The same goes for "Louie Louie" as well. "Motorhead (song)" and its live counterpart were thus placed for logical reasons explained on its history log by Kingboyk. Hope this clears things up for you, and keep up the good work in the field of music. Rock on! Bubba hotep 09:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks

That's some seriously painstaking work you've been doing recently, doing those sorts of expansions usually make my eyes glaze over after a bit, it's laborious stuff and it's appreciated. Thanks.--Alf ^melmac 23:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you're going to do something ...

... learn to do it right. --evrik ^(talk) 21:14, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Metal Bands

I've seen you on the metallica page doing it, but this also happened on the Megadeth page. Do not set the tables on metal bands to your version. They are not as aesthetically useful. The grid form shows the longetivity and time period easier. Mobus 04:52, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Genesis timeline

Hi Rock Soldier, I wanted to reach out to you to talk about the Genesis timeline. I say this with all sincereity, I truly do appreciate your edits and your attempts in trying to improve the quality of this article. However, the the initial edits made by you had affected to format and display of the timeline in the main article. The second edit, I'm sorry to say, made the timeline look rather confusing with acronyms that not everyone would/could immediately understand. Therefore I would like to revert back to the original version. My reasoning is simple — when the timeline was initially created, it was meant to document active Genesis personnel through the years and not necessarily to talk about what instruments they played. Also, the Genesis Infobox at the very top right corner of the Genesis article discusses the various instruments played by Genesis personnel in the sections "Members" and "Former Members", so this information is repetetive.

Again, I would like to say that I truly do appreciate your efforts and would like to request you to continue contributing to and monitoring this and other articles to improve their overall quality. Thanks AreJay 15:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I'm not at all being funny, but what is it with your propensity for trying to condense two articles down to one when two is just fine in a non-paper enyclopedia, considering it reads and navigates better for the common-or-garden user? Does it offend your Wiki-nature? – B.hotep ^u/_t• 22:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plus if you are wondering why I have been a bit short with you with your big ideas at various article talk pages and actions without consultation with peers – consider the fact that you never reply to, or even acknowledge, queries or actions contrary to your own holding. I've invested 3,000+ hours into this project, always with consultation. I can't afford much time nowadays, hence the pert input countering your proposals. – B.hotep ^u/_t• 22:55, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 2007

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you. ~ Wiki hermit 03:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User page

Very nice new user page, it seems vaguely familiar, now where have I seen that before? :D --Alf ^melmac 14:37, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Haha. Well, I decided I was tired of seeing the red in the link to my page, so I just went to the first userpage I could find, copied what I could from there, and took it from there. Maybe I'll get around to some originality some day. :)

--Rock Soldier 14:41, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad to see the redlink go, look forward to version two ;) Just to let you know that there is now a Wikipedia:WikiProject Motörhead.--Alf ^melmac 05:55, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

a few editing tip

You keep making a blunder on your Deep Purple album edits. Please read WP:ALBUM#Chronology for explanation on the proper entries for 'next' and 'previous' album fields. 156.34.216.32 00:37, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It says "Only studio albums, usually excluding live albums, compilations, singles and EPs should be included in the chronology." So by that I would assume that all of the live albums and compilation albums would be left out of the chronology. But why, then, does the chronology include Made in Japan and 30: Very Best of Deep Purple?

--Rock Soldier 01:46, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was suggested that you be made aware of WT:ALBUM#Quick question about recent edit summary. (As for chronologies, it is preferred (that's what "usually" refers to) that they don't include live albums, but that guideline is often disregarded, most likely because many editors are unfamiliar with it.) Have a nice day. --PEJL 15:08, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So what should be done: should we delete all the live albums from the Deep Purple album chronology, or should we add in all the live and compilation albums, ordered by year?

--Rock Soldier 21:35, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

read WP:FAIR

Adding album covers to song articles is a violation of WP:FAIR. Covers are only fair-use in the article about the album itself. Not fair-use for the songs from the album. Songs categorized as singles can have covers but not from the album... only the actual single cover itself. Feel free to delete any/all "album" covers from song articles unless the song is designated a single... and the proper single cover is being used(that image, of course, must have fair-use rationale and proper sourcing) 156.34.228.60 01:51, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is also mentioned at Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs#Single cover. --PEJL 02:04, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed your Satriani info box

209.181.219.106 15:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica song). Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 03:25, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect genre additions

Perhaps you should read Folk rock and Symphonic rock. Since you don't know what these genres really are perhaps its best that you not add them to any articles until you learn more about them. Also maybe read Hard rock as well. Again... since you don't know what that genre incorporates it would be best that you not try to remove valid placement of it from articles until you get a better understanding of what it is. Hope that helps. 156.34.218.39 19:33, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An editing question

How come your editing under your Rock Soldier account now. But earlier you edited anonymously as IP 69.148.69.175? And then you created a new user account called Cholmes76 even though you already have a Rock Soldier account? And previously you've edited as IP 69.148.83.96, IP 69.148.83.96, IP 68.88.71.191, IP 69.148.68.58, IP 69.148.69.125 and many more different IP #'s even though you have a very active username? And if you have this account why did you create an account called Metal Head 4 life? Why do you need to edit under different usernames? 142.166.250.54