Template:Did you know nominations/BEAST (South African Band)
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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 06:20, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
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BEAST (South African band)[edit]
... that South African rock supergroup BEAST (pictured) have two bass guitars and no guitarist?
Created by Robvanvee (talk). Self nominated at 17:53, 22 October 2013 (UTC).
Long enough, new enough, good sources. - Title: is there another band of the same name? If not, "(band)" would be sufficient. (In case of a move, don't change the name of this template.) - Formatting: there are some "bare urls", please format them. I don't know if a facebook entry is really considered a "website". There's too much white space below the quote, which doesn't tell me much, actually. - Image: the expressive image is free but hardly recognizable in small size. - Hook: "no guitarist" seems misleading, - isn't a bass guitarist also a guitarist? South Africa doesn't need a wikilink that will take away clicks to the band, - what do you think of ALT1, or would you rather mention the album?
- ALT1: ... that two bass guitarists (pictured) play in South African rock supergroup BEAST? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:26, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Gerda. Thanks for reviewing my nomination. There are 2 other bands with the same name, to my knowledge: Beast and Beast though neither use the capitalized BEAST, hence the reason I added South African band. Regarding the bare url's, I am submitting my 2nd DYK and am unsure what that means, but will research and correct. I added the facebook link as they don't have a website. If you think it's inappropriate, I'm not apposed to it's removal. I was just trying to make it easier for potentially interested persons to find out more about them. How would you propose correcting the white space issue? The picture is not a necessity, I just thought a nice accompaniment. When you open the picture it is quite expressive as you said, but perhaps as a thumbnail too small. The "no guitarist" was just an attempt to make the hook more interesting. In rock circles the bass guitarist is rarely referred to as a guitarist but rather the bass guitarist, with the rhythm and lead guitarists being referred to as the guitarists. How about ALT2? Robvanvee 18:12, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that South African rock supergroup BEAST (pictured) has two bass guitarists?
- Thank you! As you can see my knowledge of the topic is limited ;) - Also my English: do you say a group have two guitarists? (I would probably say: a group has two guitarists. Also BEAST sounds like a singular.) I think if the picture is used (but I doubt it because there are more suggestions with a picture than can be taken) the (pictured) belongs to the guitarists, because it's not the complete group that is pictured, right? Bare url is a link that is only the url (in External links), - please format them as the references, giving title, publisher and a date if known. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:29, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
- ps: thank you for having done a voluntary review! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:30, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
- Your English is fine! I guess it depends on the band. There could be anything from 1-5 or more guitarists. Traditionally, the formula for rock music, a bass and 1 or 2 guitarists. What do you think about ALT2? In the picture you can see 3 of the 4 members. But as you said, there are already too many pictures. Regarding the references they all seem to be titled, publisher credited and dated on my side. I'm unsure which are a problem? I see someone edited the "white space" below the quote. Does it look better to you? Robvanvee 15:21, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
- PPS-You are welcome! Robvanvee 15:22, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
ALT2 preferred, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:50, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
- PPS-You are welcome! Robvanvee 15:22, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
- Your English is fine! I guess it depends on the band. There could be anything from 1-5 or more guitarists. Traditionally, the formula for rock music, a bass and 1 or 2 guitarists. What do you think about ALT2? In the picture you can see 3 of the 4 members. But as you said, there are already too many pictures. Regarding the references they all seem to be titled, publisher credited and dated on my side. I'm unsure which are a problem? I see someone edited the "white space" below the quote. Does it look better to you? Robvanvee 15:21, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that South African rock supergroup BEAST (pictured) has two bass guitarists?
- Hi Gerda. Thanks for reviewing my nomination. There are 2 other bands with the same name, to my knowledge: Beast and Beast though neither use the capitalized BEAST, hence the reason I added South African band. Regarding the bare url's, I am submitting my 2nd DYK and am unsure what that means, but will research and correct. I added the facebook link as they don't have a website. If you think it's inappropriate, I'm not apposed to it's removal. I was just trying to make it easier for potentially interested persons to find out more about them. How would you propose correcting the white space issue? The picture is not a necessity, I just thought a nice accompaniment. When you open the picture it is quite expressive as you said, but perhaps as a thumbnail too small. The "no guitarist" was just an attempt to make the hook more interesting. In rock circles the bass guitarist is rarely referred to as a guitarist but rather the bass guitarist, with the rhythm and lead guitarists being referred to as the guitarists. How about ALT2? Robvanvee 18:12, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that two bass guitarists (pictured) play in South African rock supergroup BEAST? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:26, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
