Talk:Godsmack

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*Archive One

GA nomination on hold

Please leave a note on my talk page when the issues listed below have been resolved, so the article be passed as a good article. — Dihydrogen Monoxide 00:18, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

*You can mention the home town (Salem) in the lead.

• There is only one ref in the lead - generally speaking, everything, or nothing, should be cited there. I suggest the ref be moved elsewhere.
• "The Scam quickly changed thier name to Godsmack, after recording one demo" - "thier" is a typo, it should be "their" :)
• "The band’s name as stated in the home video DVD Smack This! by Merrill, “we stole it from Alice in Chains”, referring to the song “God Smack” from Alice in Chains' second studio album Dirt." - Worded poorly. Try something like "The band's name, according to Merrill in the Smack This! DVD, was stolen from Alice in Chains' song "God Smack"."
• Any idea why Richards and Stewart left the band?
• Ref 3 needs a publisher

*"three days for 2,500 U.S. dollars." - Formatting --> "three days for $2500."

• Any idea how they attracted Steward back the band when D'Arco left? Or did he just come crawling back...
• "shows as well as playing “Ozzfest”[8] and “Woodstock '99”" - Need a comma or something before [8].
• Ref 17 - publisher is Blabbermouth.net
• "In 2002, Erna was asked to write and perform a song for the soundtrack to the motion picture The Scorpion King, the third installment in the Mummy saga, it is a spin-off prequel of the Mummy series." - Split to 2 sentences. Suggest "In 2002, Erna was asked to write and perform a song for the soundtrack to The Scorpion King. The motion picture was the third in the Mummy saga, and was a spin-off prequel of the Mummy series."
• "selling 211,000 copies its first week[20] and later" - Need some punctuation before the ref (eg a comma).
• "losing to the Evanescence' single “Bring Me to Life”" - "losing" is a bit immature (especially when they lost to the better song :P). How about "but the award went to Evanescence' single "Bring Me to Life"."?
• "The album’s name came to be, as stated by Larkin" - Say woah...how about "The album got its name after a pool incident, retold by Larkin;"
• "making it unclear of how the albums title came to be" - apostrophe (album's)
• "an acoustic EP was released from the band." --> "an acoustic EP was released by Godsmack."
• "this is a high position for an acoustic EP" --> "a relatively high position for an acoustic EP"
• "It includes several previously..." - Included! We're using past tense, remember.
• "In 2004, they were opening for Metallica’s “Madly in Anger with the World Tour”,[28] and headlining the tour along with Dropbox during the summer. Afterwards they did acoustic shows for their newly released EP The Other Side in the fall of 2004, while still opening for Metallica.[29]" - May I reword the entire paragraph? Thanks. Here goes. **"In 2004, Godsmack opened for Metallica's "Madly in Anger with the World tour",[28] and headlined the tour along with Dropbox. Afterwards, in Autumn 2004, the band played several accoustic shows to promote The Other Side, while at the same time continuing to open for Metallica.[29]."
• "Godsmack says they will be back in 09 with a new album and huge tour." - 09 --> 2008. Remove "huge tour" as POV.

Reviewed version: [1]

Good luck, — Dihydrogen Monoxide 00:18, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Passed. — Dihydrogen Monoxide 09:18, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Number of Albums Sold

A user by the name of Skeeker has removed a citation of how many albums Godsmack has sold mutliple times. The citation I insersed was from a Shannon Larkin quote in an interview. Skeeker has provided no reason why he is consistently removing this citation, simply saying "No citations in lead it is either all told their or nothing." Which doesn't make any sense; most artist articles on wikipedia have in the introduction of the article the number of albums/records sold, and provide citation for that number. Why he is removing a valid citation is beyond me.

Perhaps I'm missing something Skeeker, so please explain this to me. If you dont, I plan on reinserting the citation again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dantheman102100 (talk • contribs) 00:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Currently the article is going through a Featured Article candidate review. The lead does not need that source, and the source is placed in the article elsewhere anyway. There is more on this topic in the discussion section before this one from a Good Article reviewer, it might be hard to see because it will have a line through it (<s></s>).
Thank you,
Skeeker _[Talk] 00:54, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Godsmack's Genre

Godsmack's genre must remain as "Heavy Metal, Post Grunge (early), Hard Rock (later)". This is because their self-titled debut album 'Godsmack', is easily recongnized as Post-Grunge. The next two albums 'Awake' then 'Faceless' are definitely Heavy Metal. Its music, theme, tone, lyrics, and the general fanbase, is Heavy Metal. The band's fourth album 'IV' is NOT heavy metal. The theme, lyrics and tone have changed to the more 'escapist' rather than 'nihilistic' Hard Rock. I am an expert on Metal and only the albums 'Awake' and 'Faceless' can classify as Metal. Anyone who truly knows about the difference between Rock and Metal music would agree.

It's really very easy; in cases of disagreement, we present the reliable sources. Whoever can present the best source, that's the genre that's identified. You forgot to include your source. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 13:35, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Also, music genres aren't capitalised. See WP:MUSTARD#Capitalization. Funeral 13:38, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Oo an expert, I didn't know there was such a thing. The genres are going to stay as they are. The are heavy metal and hard rock, the other two genres, especially nu metal I think can do without, but one editor really likes them being there. ;p
Thank you,
Burningclean _{[Speak the truth!]} 19:43, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Bullshit. This guy is no expert. I have both the albums Awake and Faceless and it's just modern hard rock with some distorted guitars and a bit of screaming every once in a while. That's not what makes metal, kiddies. Oh, nice job there asshole trying to discredit anyone who disagrees with you by adding that last line. That certainly opens this up for discussion >_>. Godsmack is not a heavy metal band and never was so I'd like to know a little bit more about your claim to expertise.24.19.227.39 (talk) 19:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Wow! Watch the WP:CIVIL! If you ask me there is NO SUCH THING as a "heavy metal expert", and belive me almost every metalhead claims to be (keep in mind I said almost). They are heavy metal, and if you want to delete it go ahead but I will revert it, if you delete it again I will source it very, very good, if you delete it again you will be blocked.
Thank you,
Burningclean _{[Speak the truth!]} 22:49, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

My apologies. Anyway, I never said I was going to edit the page as I know I'm not supposed to do that without discussion, so I dunno what your beef is. Anyway, as for this band, they aren't heavy metal. See? I can put things in bold too. Also I'm very curious to see this very, very good source of yours. 24.19.227.39 (talk) 09:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I can get some sources, I got the article to featured article status. Burningclean _{[Speak the truth!]} 15:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, sounds amazing, let's just see these brilliant sources you're so proud of that you keep referring to. 24.19.227.39 (talk) 20:38, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

There you go buddy, I can get more if you really like, unless you want to man-up and call it quits. Burningclean _{[Speak the truth!]} 20:49, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Right. Let a big name website like AMG tell you what's metal and what isn't. Oh my, Godsmack is heavy metal because AMG tells me so. Furthermore, I didn't see anything on their AMG page that explains how they are a heavy metal band. There's just this thing under styles that says "heavy metal". I guess if that's the way we're doing things, go to metal-archives and do a search for Godsmack. Nothing will come up. I suppose you'd argue that bands like Slipknot, Disturbed, and Korn are all heavy metal because some website refers to them as such. 24.19.227.39 (talk) 00:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't think any of those bands are metal. Metal Archives isn't a reliable source by the way, it is just another wiki. And you failed to mention the other source I got. No don't cry about it. Burningclean _{[Speak the truth!]} 02:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

No, it's not a wiki. Only moderators can fully edit pages. As for minor edits, they require users to amass 500 points before they can do anything. It's certainly a more reliable source than AMG on metal since it's a website that specializes specifically in heavy metal. As for the interview with their drummer, once more, it doesn't address how they're supposed to be a metal band which is what I'm asking you to prove. It seems like you're unable. Your entire argument here seems to be, "Oh look, I can link to this website which refers to them as a metal band lololol." 24.19.227.39 (talk) 03:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Alright, if you want a source so bad, you find it. Quit crying over a little article, mature up a bit, by the way it sounds it is like you are a ten year old. Metal Archives is a wiki, there are members that can contribute to the pages. And the are only a few moderators tht chose who is on the site and who is not, making it a wiki. Burningclean _{[Speak the truth!]} 21:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm not the one trying to convince people Godsmack is heavy metal. You find the source, it was your weak challenge to begin with, don't be upset because I called you out on it. I'm here discussing this because it's a blatant inaccuracy to call Godsmack metal of any sort and countless others would agree with me (people that actually listen to real metal and actually know their stuff instead of just getting everything they know from music sites). There's no immaturity about it. As for metal archives, whether or not it's a wiki isn't really important. The point is, unlike wikipedia, users can't just add pages or edit genres as they see fit, which is why Godsmack isn't in their archives. Anyway, it seems like all of this is unimportant because if this truly is a "little article" as you call it, you wouldn't mind heavy metal being removed from the genres now would you? 24.19.227.39 (talk) 22:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)