Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Slipknot/Archive 1

Archive 1

Assessment scale and guidelines

I think that these are beneficial things we need to help start this project and for something that members can adhere to when editting articles within the projects scope. I would be interested in helping make both of these elements of the project but I haven't been part of a WikiProject before and I feel it's too big of a task to tackle on my own. So could one of the fellow members who feel they are up to it help me create these? Rezter ^TALK 03:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Today I began work on the guidelines for the Project, you can find my progress on my sandbox; here. I have written the Citations section and give a rough idea of the other sections that need writing up. I would like other members to help me write these guidelines, feel free to write up a section or even add another one. The sections I have listed were basically all that came from the top of my head so feel free to add as many sections as you see fit and you know, I don't think you can ever give too much help. Once the guidelines are up to a reasonable standard they should be moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Slipknot/Guidelines. I also gave the assessment scale thing a re-think and I think at least for now, we should leave the assessing for more established projects. Rezter ^TALK 06:22, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

History

Note that the page is built on a test page of mine and the history is a little strange. Thundermaster^TRUC 08:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

FA Comments

BuddingJournalist made some good points that need to be checked about the main page such as:

"While the band's roots lie back as early as 1992..."
"one of the most popular nu metal bands of this period." What exactly would "this period" be?
"Since which time they have released two other albums..."
"Early formations of a band were beginning to form as early as 1992 with the core band members" Very awkward. Why is this single sentence its own paragraph?
"The band continued to develop their vision of what the band would be"
"at a local club called Crowbar" What's local? Des Moines area?
"suggested renaming the band "Slipknot" after their song." What song?
"eventually the anti-image concept developed towards the members wearing masks" Quite awkward, and what's an "anti-image concept"?
"remained mainly obscured due to their desire to wait until their music was fully developed." Perhaps "in obscurity"? Sentence seems unfinished. Wait to do what?
"In February 1996, guitarist Steele left the band due to his Christian beliefs; though the other band members were prepared to allow him to stay, Steele decided to leave." Explain further how Steele thought his Christian beliefs clashed with being in the band. "Steele decided to leave" – we were just told this.
"After conflict over the mixing and mastering," Vague. What conflict?
"which resulted in airplay on local radio and, in turn, won a spot at Dotfest" Awkward and what is Dotfest? "Slipknot had returned to the studio " Why "had" returned?
"who was to become the first and only member to be fired from the band due to his lazy attitude." Spot the ambiguity. Also, was he really fired for his lazy attitude, or his laziness?
"the band were assigned individual numbers respectively" What does that mean, and why was this done respectively?
"interest grew from record labels" "With the acquisition of Ross Robinson, interest grew" Repetitive, and awkward phrasing. Note that these examples are from the lead and Early years (pre-1998) only.
In general, an over-reliance on the weak passive voice. ("The demo was sent to many record labels", "eventually producer Ross Robinson was contacted", "it was then decided they would work together", "DJ Sid Wilson was brought in") The alternating between referring to bands as singular and plural entities is jarring.
Linking needs work. Sometimes specific phrases that require linking are not ("heavily down-tuned guitar set-up (lead, rhythm, and bass guitars)"). Sometimes phrases are linked more than once.
Thundermaster^TRUC 08:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Outline for all albums

I think we should create an outline for what all of the albums should include. That way each one will fit in well within the overall project and look good as a group. I've gathered the follwing from what I think are good album articles: This list includes: Dark Passion Play and Reign in Blood (whitch was featured on the main page). All catagories are as needed, but let's try to get as many as we can.

Outline of what to include, in this order (Adjust as you see fit):

• Album Infobox (with all info filled in)
• Intro Paragraph
• Title Origin
• Recording of
• Leaks (if needed)
• Music Style
• Track Listing
• Lyrical Themes
• Live Performance
• Critical Response
• Chart Performance
• Credits
• Notes
• References
• See Also
• External Links

Any changes you would like to make...just change my list. Keep it (sic) though. Blackngold29 (talk) 03:31, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Good ideas man, add it to the guidelines we are currently working on. They're over at my sandbox: User:Rezter/Sandbox. We need to try get these up to some kind of finished standard some time soon and then I think we should do to-do lists for articles and focus on fulfilling those to-do lists one at a time. Rezter ^TALK 10:54, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Awesome I'll add it over there, the list looks good so far. Blackngold29 (talk) 14:35, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to point out that those information should be properly referenced on the article. No original research. Zouavman Le Zouave 05:57, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, or 1. it will never get promoted 2. it will contain lots of rubbish and 3. it will probably get deleted. So we need to use and strong and reliable sources as possible. Thanks for reading, ThunderMaster ^UTC 09:53, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Bigmouth Records

Is it mentioned anywhere on Slipknot's article that Corey Taylor has his own record label entitled Bigmouth Records? They are a label focused on the native grassroots musicians of the area where Slipknot grew up. I just thought that this was interesting, and also reflects good on Taylor's character since it shows that he still cares about his hometown and its musicians.

If this IS a part of 'pedia, then would it be a good idea to include Bigmouth Records on the Wikiproject:Slipknot? Dark Executioner (talk) 19:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC)Dark Executioner

If it has anything to do with the band or any of its members, then yes, I think it should be.Inhumer (talk) 17:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I just found out that it is here. Dark Executioner (talk) 15:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)Dark Executioner

Getting Articles Graded...

I think that it would be beneficial to the project if we had some articles reviewed and given a rating. The main band page is pretty good, but none of the albums have been given a rating it would be easier to improve some of the articles if we knew exactly what needs to be done. Blackngold29 (talk) 04:14, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Maggots

Shouldn't ther be more on the fact a slipknot fan is called a maggot like an ICP fan is called Jugallo /Juglette —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.25.175.188 (talk) 04:03, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't see what else is to add. Slipknot fans are often referred to as maggots. That's it. There is nothing else to add. Zouavman Le Zouave 06:14, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Unless, we could find any sourced information on it, yes, I think that is basically it. Thanks for reading, Thundermaster^TRUC 16:37, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

RIAA Certifications

I have added the RIAA certifications (Gold and Platinum albums) to all of the CDs and DVDs. However, the Disasterpieces DVD has not date in the RIAA Archives for a Double Platinum Certifacation, it does have logs for triple and quadruple though. If you know the date or another site that has it, please add it to the list. Thanks! Blackngold29 (talk) 04:55, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Crowz

If Anyone can find any source that can improve this article, please provide it.the juggreserection ^IstKrieg! 15:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I have 3 books specific to Slipknot, along with multiple other musical books which include Slipknot along with a huge stack of magazines which contain information about the band. The only mention of anything that I could possibly see related to it was that they continued to write and record material after releasing MFKR. Soem of which were released on Roadrunner Records Demo, they may have planned to write and record enough material for a second independent release but they never did and there's no mention of track listings, album names or anything of the sort. There is information on FAN websites but that is unreliable, I personally don't believe it and it's not enough to base information on wikipedia. Rezter ^TALK 17:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

The offical site states that it is a "collection of songs", which has not been released; it is not now, nor has ever been an album (or released in any format). It can be found on some fan-sites, however none are legit sources. If all traces have not been removed yet, they should be. Thanks. Blackngold29 (talk) 03:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I added info regarding the recordings that have been dubbed as "Crowz" by fans to the Slipknot Demo article so that should dispell any further additions of Crowz... thought it probably won't. It just gives us more reason to keep the term "Crowz" and any unreliable information off Wikipedia. REZTER ^TALK ø 18:34, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

MFKR

Serious problem with the genres. Does anyone have any solutions to this? Thanks for reading, ThunderMaster ^UTC 10:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Thats a good point. Its very unique, unlike all their albums. It has a very technical influence on it, but not nu metal. I don't know what kind of genre you can put it as, but they definately need changing. Riverpeopleinvasion (talk) 20:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

On here: [1] it says Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Rap-Metal. You will probably be able to find some other sources like this too. REZTER ^TALK ø 21:03, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Slipknot (album)

What do you guys think about this article? Recently it was rejected as a "good article" and the comments state it could do with a copyedit and some expansion on the reception section. Do you guys think we should continue to pay focus to this article and push it to GA status now? I personally can't be involved in the coediting of the article because I wrote most of it, so obviously I'm not the best of writers haha. So yeah, shall we push thsi to GA status now or do you think we should move the AoF to something else? REZTER ^TALK ø 11:52, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering the same thing, I don't think we need to make it our article of focus, as to me it looks like pretty good. I say we do something different and then after we've improved most of the other important articles (Vol. 3, Iowa, some members, etc.) we could "hit it again". That being said, if anyone doesn't like writing new stuff; they could copyedit Slipknot (album) while we're working on the other articles. Thanks! Blackngold29 (talk) 17:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Slipknot has been graded, should be begin Iowa as our next AoF now? Assuming nothing else will be nominated. It seems pointless to keep this promotional period going, we should move on and try to improve the rest of the albums. Blackngold29 (talk) 20:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Copyedits

Have we made a request for Slipknot (band)to be copy-edited? And also, what about Slipknot (album)? 86.135.80.62 (talk) 13:17, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

There is a request made for Slipknot (band) at WP:LoCE but not for Slipknot (album) I think that should be handled by our project because we're not trying to get FA status with it like we are with Slipknot (band). REZTER ^TALK ø 15:03, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Coverage template

I noticed how the coverage template didn't work on the talk pages of templates so I made a template for template talk pages at {{Slipknot Project TempVersion}}. Thanks for reading. Thundermaster (talk · contribs) 16:47, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Band member list?

Many bands have articles dedicated to the members and line-ups of bands, should we do the same for Slipknot? A basic example of what I'm talking about can be seen here. The only reason why I question whether or not it should be done, is because there have not been many member changes, none since 1999 actually. In addition, I do not want to start adding articles that are not necessary, because we have quite a bit of work to do. Thoughts anyone? Blackngold29 (talk) 02:36, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Not a bad idea. Thanks for reading. Thundermaster (talk · contribs) 14:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Done Slipknot band members REZTER ^TALK ø 18:34, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Things are moving along, let's keep it going...

I believe all the issues of the Slipknot (album) GA review have been addressed, it shouldn't be too much longer now. Iowa (album) is looking good, I think it is close to a GAC. I added a reception section to 9.0: Live, which has fullfilled all of the requirements for a "B class" article. Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) is lined up to be the next AoF, I think that we have learned quite a bit from the first two articles and Vol. 3 should have a good amount of material out there to pull from. I think that the project has generated quite a lot of improvements, unfortunately it seems that participation in the project is dwindling. I was just wondering if there are any users out there who no longer wish to participate; so that we can keep the Member's list on the main page updated. If no one responds to this messege, than perhaps some sort of survey could be sent out to all members addressing their involvement into the Project. I don't wish to offend anyone, I do not have all of the Project's articles on My Watchlist, so if you are contributing, keep up the good work! Blackngold29 05:14, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

My contributions haven't been great lately due to college work but I should be able to contribute more when I break up in June.. but then I'm going to University in September so my contributions may dwindle even more I dunno, but I check My Watchlist nearly everyday so I'm always keeping an eye on things. REZTER ^TALK ø 16:07, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Former members

I realize these guys are pretty low on the food-chain in our Project, but we'll get to them eventually (hopefully). Are these guys really notable enough to have all their own articles? It looks like Anders Colsefini has moved on to other bands, but info on Josh "Gnar" Brainard or Donnie Steele doesn't exactly seem plentiful. Could we maybe merge these guys into one "Former members of Slipknot" article or something like that? Because if we don't, we'll have a heck of a time getting them up to GAs. Thoughts? Blackngold29 02:42, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I think that is a really good solution, I do have sources for a lot of band members (Books, CDs, DVDs). We could maybe do it after MFKR I dunno. REZTER ^TALK ø 08:57, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I was thinking we should do atleast the DVDs before people; but members like Corey or Joey are pretty popular so maybe doing a person would be a good change. Blackngold29 19:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I was looking at WP:Music and noticed that it said "Members of notable bands are not given individual articles unless they have demonstrated notability for activity independent of the band.". By virtue I think that all the past members articles should be removed. I thought about adding a section in Slipknot band members about the past members but I think this should remain as a list article. I don't think we should make another article for past members and the information provided in the main article should be enough, I believe. REZTER ^TALK ø 18:34, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Now that the Slipknot band members article is much more substantial and more than adequately discusses their role in the band, when/why they joined and when/why they left, I propose we redirect; Donnie Steele, Anders Colsefini, Greg Welts and Josh Brainard to that article. Per WP:Music they are not notable as there isn't really any significant activity besides their involvement with Slipknot, if it is agreed then we shall remove all wiki-links to their individual articles and leave a message on their talk pages and redirect the articles to Slipknot band members. REZTER ^TALK ø 05:23, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

After looking down the list I agree that all former members should be re-directed. The one that was giving me second thoughts is Anders Colsefini. Per notability guidelines he is notable if: "Has credit for writing or co-writing either lyrics or music for a notable composition." MFKR is notable to have its own article, so does that make it a "notable composition"? On the other hand the guideline also states "Where possible, composers or lyricists with insufficient verifiable material to warrant a reasonably detailed article should be merged into the article about their work. When a composer or lyricist is known for multiple works, such a merger may not be possible." On top of that he is in a currently new band.

I think that while MFKR could be considered notable, in Ander's case it is the only notable thing he has done (neither Painface or FleshCraft cite any sources whatsoever), therefore causing him to fall into the second catagory of "insufficient verifiable material to warrant a reasonably detailed article". While Painface could take off and become notable in the future it is not notable yet. Blackngold29 05:46, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Roll Call - June 2008

Just so the Project can keep an updated list of people who continue to contribute to the Project a Roll Call will happen from time to time. It is understood that over time, users may have lost intrest in the Project or Wikipedia alltogether; if you have, it's no big deal. If you would like to keep contributing to the project please sign the list. If you do not add your name to the list by July 4, you will become an "Inactive member", this will bar you from voting in the Aof, as well as recieving the monthly newsletter. Remember, if you ever want to join the project again, you are always welcome!!!

List (I wish to continue contributing)

• Blackngold29 05:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
• REZTER ^TALK ø 08:56, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
• Portillo (talk) 07:20, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
• MOTE Speak to me 13:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Project Scope

I know we have a LOT of articles and a LOT of work to do on the ones we already have but I was wondering whether side-projects from the band members should be added to the WP:SLIP scope? I'm talking about articles such as:

• Stone Sour (and all albums... singles, maybe even band members other than Jim and Corey)
• Murderdolls (same as)
• To My Surprise (same as)
• Dirty Little Rabbits (same as)
• DJ Starscream's albums
• Big Orange Clown Records
• Great Big Mouth Records
• Tuff Bong Records

I was just wondering what you guys thought about this? You know technically these are all Slipknot related articles. REZTER ^TALK ø 17:13, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I was thinking that after we got through most of our main stuff we could start throwing in stuff like Roadrunner Records and Rollerball (2002 film). Blackngold29 17:28, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Outside The Nine

I was thinking, why isn't there an article about this? It is the official Slipknot fan club, it's certainly note-worthy I think. Here's some other ban fan club articles:

• Aero Force One
• ABBAMAIL
• Fort Minor Militia
• Kiss Army
• Turbojugend

Clearly, these aren't good articles by any stretch and some of them are being challenged on notability and verifiability. But we are the Slipknot project and we do kick fucking ass lol and I think if we found enough genuinely good sources we could have atleast a notable article, if not a a good article. So yeah shall we try gather some sources and decide if this can be done? REZTER ^TALK ø 20:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Slipknot

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It may be time to re-visit Joey and get him up to a GA. Not sure why Vol. 3 is listed only as a GA. Blackngold29 01:21, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I just put the permalinks for the albums and the main Slipknot article. Not sure about Joey atm, I'd love to help give it the last boost but I'm afraid I can't. REZTER ^TALK ø 11:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Metal Hammer Mag

I just found a really good (new) source and I've order it, maybe it owuld benefit te proejct more if other project members ordered it too. Metal Hammer have published a special edition of their magazine which follows the bands journey so far, right up to now.

http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/store/displayitem.asp?sid=450&id=25003&custid=16@09@200836417@95886346&setext=magazine

Liek I said, I have ordered it but I think other members should get it because I will nto be able to edit Wikipedia as much in the VERY near future. REZTER ^TALK ø 12:53, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Requesting comments at FAC for 9.0: Live

If anyone's interested, the Slipknot live album, 9.0: Live, is currently at FAC. Please post comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/9.0: Live if you can, as it has stalled and has not received comments in the past few days. Thanks in advance! Gary King (talk) 18:05, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Slipknot Tours

The articles we tend to be focusing on are articles with GA status that we are trying to get to FAC. Rather than that, shouldn't we try and get some other articles bumped up? I saw that there was a page for the All Hope Is Gone Tour, but I thought it could be a lot better than it is. Adding a typical set-list, critical reviews for each leg (if posible) and seperating the Mayhem Festival into it's own article, as there is more than enough to make an article with, and it's not actually part of the tour. Also, I don't see why there isn't a page for the Vol. 3 tour. It was a big tour, it finished a 3 years ago, and there was a live album made of it. I'm not saying that it should be an AoF or anything, but we could do a lot more with them than we could with most of the albums. Xanthic-Ztk (talk) 04:25, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

When somebody first made thr AHIG tour article I wanted to document all the tours that Slipknot had done but-as you should know-you need reliable sources for any information that you submit to Wikipedia and after weeks of researching, there was a lot of holes that I couldn't find sources for. And that was just looking for sources which confirmed their tour dates, never mind looking for reviews or images or any of that. (see my sandbox to see what I came up with before) So yeah, if you can find sources to confirm every single gig they've done on one tour then please provide them because I'd be more than happy to help create those articles. REZTER ^TALK ø 12:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

I got a source for reviews. Not professional, but reviews nontheless. It has rougly 30 dates for the Subliminal Verses Tour. I'm just not sure if it's a RS. If you wouldn't mind checking it out, it would be greatly appreciated. Here's the link-- [2]. Xanthic-Ztk (talk) 00:22, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid fan-sites are not reliable sources for any information so please refrain from relying on them (I know they have a lot of info and a lot of it could be true but a lot of its not and wether to beleive it or not is up to you, you jsut dont know if the information they provide is based on printed facts or rumours). Of course when it comes to reviews you can't contest somebodys opinion and that's were notability comes in and on Wikipedia we only use reviews and opinions from sources that are generally respected in their area. So for example... popular music websites/magazines and stuff. REZTER ^TALK ø 02:25, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I didn't expect it to be a reliable source. But I thought there was a chance that in this case it would be. Oh well, it was worth a shot Xanthic-Ztk (talk) 20:46, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I found a review for a show on the Subliminal Verses Tour. And also one from the recent All Hope Is Gone Tour. Xanthic-Ztk (talk) 20:58, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Slipknot Demo

Perhaps more feedback will be given here. The article has gone through 3 GANs and long-story-short: the article has very limited information which may or may not become available in the future. What do people think about merging the article into the Slipknot (album)? Nergaal (talk) 03:39, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm sure blackngold29 addressed this issue before with you. First of all.... "the article has very limited information which may or may not become available in the future". Yes, we know at the moment it cannot be expanded and yes we know it's unlikely that we can expand but that's no reason merge the article. This has nothing to do with Slipknot (album), it was a demo that they produced that which is turn got them signed to Roadrunner and working with Ross Robinson on that album but it is not a Demo OF that album... its completely separate. REZTER ^TALK ø 15:22, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Category:Slipknot concert tours

I'm creating a few articles in the category, so you might want to check them out, link to them from wherever necessary, expand them, etc. Gary King (talk) 22:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

They also performed in a few other tours that aren't in the category because they didn't headline them. I tried to fit in these tours somewhere in Slipknot (band), partly so that the articles don't just fall by the wayside. Gary King (talk) 22:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Okay I'm done at List of Slipknot concert tours. I'm trying to only include tours that are primarily Slipknot. Is it complete? Gary King (talk) 21:02, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

One of the main reasons I never created articles for those tours (so far).... is due to a lack of sources to back up all the information which I think is needed to make a good article. For all but one of those articles you don't list their tour dates or anything.... they seem kind of weak tbh... no offense. You've also taken a different style to that of All Hope Is Gone World Tour which is a weird decision. For example... in that article we include all of their appearances in support of All Hope Is Gone... not articles for each singular leg. I'm just not convinced it's possible to make these articles as comprehensive as I feel they should be. I think a good indicator of if you missed any dates would be this, but as you know... that's unreliable. I've been working on collecting data for the subliminal verses tour on my sandbox, however there are holes and I can't find sources for shows I know they've performed. REZTER ^TALK ø 07:42, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

If necessary, all the Slipknot concert tour articles articles can be merged into List of Slipknot concert tours, as there should at least be enough information to support that article; that would be the worst case. Gary King (talk) 04:59, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Copied from Talk:Slipknot (band)

Do we really need four articles for the Iowa tour? Every leg of the tour has its own article and they really don't even warrant existance - no tour dates, very little information (about a paragraph, and that's the whole article) and offline references so they cannot be varified. The Pledge of Allegiance could warrant an article but needs serious improvement, as does The Subliminal Verses Tour, but at the moment, All Hope Is Gone World Tour is the only one that should have an article.

I don't know how to nominate them for deletion, so could someone else do it? Xanthic-Ztk (talk) 22:19, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm gonna suggest that the four Iowa tour articles should be merged in to; Iowa World Tour. Then we can focus on potentially improving them and making them the quality they could be. What does everyone think? REZTER ^TALK ø 13:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

It's better than all the legs in different articles. It should be set out like the AHIG tour article, with tour dates and everything, if we can find it. The Disasterpieces DVD could also provide info such as set-lists. Xanthic-Ztk (talk) 05:51, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

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I would like to help

Umm .Is there anyway that I can help you guys out.I love Slipknot and know a lot about them. Peace Out—Permethius (talk) 14:54, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I added The Rock on the Range info and references to All Hope Is Gone and SlipKnot.Hope That helped—Permethius (talk) 15:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

That is good info, but it your recap was way too long, and it isn't deserving of its own section on any article. I trimmed it down on AHIG and removed it from the main article for those reasons. As for everything else, you're certainly welcome to help out! The main project page has pretty much everything you should need to know. blackngold29 15:38, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok ,Cool.I'll be adding all the info and such and make sure its written down correctly.Peace Out—Permethius (talk) 16:48, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Snuff (song)

Umm somebody wrote in poor fashion a song from Slpiknot that is supposedly coming out in April or May but not for sure.i forgot how to write the delerion from .Could someone remind me so i can get this deleted? Peace Out—Permethius (talk) 12:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

You can send it to CSD or AfD. Gary King (talk) 15:19, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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Info on Slipknot's "World Domination Tour"?

I know that this took place, but could we have some info about it on Wikipedia somewhere? It probably does not warrant its own article, but surely there's an article where info on the tour can be added to? Where would that be? Gary King (talk) 20:35, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Well first of all we need some sources and then we can figure out roughly how much information we have and then we can decide were it can go. REZTER ^TALK ø 12:38, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Okay; I'm going to need some info on it before expanding List of Slipknot concert tours, which I'd like to work on soon. Gary King (talk) 18:09, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Inactivity

Would it be of the project's interest to rectify any problems regarding member inactivity? Thanks, The Mad Muffin!^{Muffin Chat?} 11:55, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Possible Good Topic?

I think that this wikiproject has created enough good (and featured) articles to form a potential Slipknot good topic. The one I feel that may most likely succeed in becoming a good topic would be Slipknot's discography. Here is a proposal for the possible good topic; the topic will include all four studio albums the band has released as well as live and video albums.
—Terrence and Phillip 13:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Have a look at this. Gary King (talk) 15:24, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

They may argue it's not comprehensive if we do not include Slipknot Demo though... which sucks because we will never be able to get that up to GA status due to lack of sources. REZTER ^TALK ø 16:15, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Wow, I guess I came way too late in bring this up. Also if someone got the first demo into GA, how come there's not enough refs for the second demo? —Terrence and Phillip 19:34, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I dunno... it wasn't as big of a thing.... I think it was more for just record labels instead of public release. There just isn't that many publications on the second demo, or the first DVD (which is also not a GA). REZTER ^TALK ø 23:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Update: See this. —Terrence and Phillip 04:48, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Images

Just to let all you guys know... I have uploaded nearly every free image of Slipknot from Flickr to WikiCommons. I also uploaded a set of photos from 2005 which I requested permission for. Just letting you guys know, in case you feel the need to use them. However, don't just use them for the sake of it. (images here) REZTER ^TALK ø 07:17, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

New Goals?

The slipknot wikiproject has just finished trying to make its first good topic featuring about Slipknot discography and its related articles. Right now it has been nominated (for the 4th time actually) at WP:FTC. After the GT nomination passes (knock on wood), I think the wikiproject should either shift its focus from album articles to expanding band member articles or trying to get the main article Slipknot (band) to FA status. I personally favor expanding band member articles to GA/FA would be a better idea since it could form a potential second good topic. —Terrence and Phillip 09:41, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Whatever you guys want, I'll help out. I think bringing Slipknot (band) to FA will take less time, since there are nine band member articles that we'd have to work on, and all are at C-class status right now. It could be a great morale booster to have our main article at FA, too. If we work on band members, maybe we should split the nine up among us, so we each get our own article to work on? Gary King (talk) 16:59, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

As for individual band member articles, right now I'm working on the Joey Jordison article to get it to GA, hopefully after it finishes its current peer review. I also think getting the main slipknot band article to FA would be a fantastic idea, but it would unlikely be included in any good/featured topic. One major problem of getting all the band members' articles to GA would be the relative lack of information. Most band members rarely mention anything about their personal lives outside of Slipknot. —Terrence and Phillip 17:13, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

The Jordison article should be pretty darn close to GA. The member out there with the most info on him besides Jordison would be Corey. Beyond that it will be a stretch to get some to GA, I doubt it will be possible for all of them. Getting singles to GA will be difficult, especially for the early ones, simply based on a lack of reliable info. Same goes for Behind The Player: Paul Gray. I want to help, but like Rezter I've been limited in the amount of time here because of work. blackngold29 23:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Just so you guys know... I'm in talks with a lot of photographers tryign to get their permission to issue photographs of Slipknot under a free license to use on Wikipedia. Like I said in the previous section I did get some from 2005, but there seems to be a little trouble with them ones because the permission wasn't explicit enough. But I did get some KILLER photos from earlier this year and there are a few other photographers who have already shown interest and they just need to give me their explicit permission with this kind of informal contract thing. As for what we should work on... How about these articles; Nic Diederichs Technical High School slashing, Rollerball (2002 film), Infected (video game). I know these articles are low on importance within the project, but I think we could turn these articles over quite quickly and get them to GA status without too much hassle. I am also mid-way through writing the article for Come What(ever) May and that is shaping up to be easily GA status if not FA, I'm pretty sure the side-projects and all that is lower on peoples importance lists but as the collaboration elements have unfortunately dwindle as of late, I have been working on the side-project articles on my own. REZTER ^TALK ø 01:41, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

I think I've found one task the wikiproject could work on. If we could pass this one through, it could be a major accomplishment for this wikiproject. I also tried looking for some info about Behind The Player: Paul Gray, but all they have is amazon.com, youtube trailers, online stores, and torrent sites. Nothing useful from this guy. —Terrence and Phillip 15:48, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

If anyone is interested, check this out. Additional input could be really helpful. —Terrence and Phillip 05:11, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Good work guys. Two more featured articles and we can bump it up from a Good topic to a full Featured topic (as of now Slipknot and All Hope Is Gone are the two closest). I didn't realize how few bands have achieved this. Ultimately after all of the band members and singles are improved (though doubtfully all will be GAs or included in a mega-topic, but hey, who knows?) I hope to order this! blackngold29 03:16, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Damn I'm so gonna order one of those. After all the time I put in to Wikipedia and definitely Slipknot on wikipedia, it would be awesome to have a physical record of it. REZTER ^TALK ø 06:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Tour article image consensus

I'd like to have people's opinions on this topic. It would be appreciated to get as many people involved in the discussion as possible. REZTER ^TALK ø 09:06, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Roll Call - January 2010

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• REZTER ^TALK ø 01:29, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
• CrowzRSA ^{01:44, 2 January 2010 (UTC)}
• blackngold29 05:06, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
• Andre666 (talk) 13:05, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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• Torque3000^|talk| 15:53, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
• Ritzbitz00 (talk) 22:53, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
• Fun With Ahmed TALK 2 AHMED —Preceding undated comment added 17:35, 15 January 2010 (UTC).

This roll call is now closed, please do not edit the list above. If you want to join the project or remove your name from the inactive users list on the main project page then please go ahead. REZTER ^TALK ø 12:25, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

"Unauthorized" consensus

I would like to get a project consensus on this. Are Unauthorized releases notable enough for Wikipedia? For example Behind the Mask (Slipknot film) and Up to our Necks, I know they're real DVDs and everything but a quick glance at WP:NF would make them appear non-notable. I had a similar problem with the stuff on Music made in tribute of Slipknot and my conclusion was to put them in to a combined article. Do you think this is a good idea with these? If so, would the article be (for example) Unauthorized films about Slipknot? Because then one might also argue that Unauthorized CDs such as these: [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] would deserve a place on Wikipedia and I'm sure that would then bring all kinds of connotations including a multitude of bootleg albums and we all know that will bring Crowz in to it. Then that would bring about copyright issues and verification. There's also books including [8] [9] [10] [11], I have all these books but once again per WP:NB they don't seem notable. The point I'm trying to make is we need to reach a consensus on whether we make similar articles to Music made in tribute of Slipknot for unauthorized stuff or rule it out on notability and verification grounds. Does making a combination article make any difference on notability or should we hard line with the guidelines? Add comments below and add your name to one of the lists below. REZTER ^TALK ø 17:02, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Vote

I believe we should remove all unauthorized material according to Wikipedia guidelines.

1. REZTER ^TALK ø 17:02, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

I believe that this information has a place on Wikipedia

1. CrowzRSA ^{17:56, 18 January 2010 (UTC)} - Comment: I'm pretty sure bootlegs are like unauthorized, so take this for example.

List of Slipknot concert tours

Like many of you know, I've submitted List of Slipknot concert tours to be a FL Candidate. If anyone, especially the participants of the Slipknot Project, could help with stuff the people say. You can see all thier comments here. Thanks, CrowzRSA ^{02:16, 17 January 2010 (UTC)}

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Request for comment on Biographies of living people

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Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, many wikiproject topics will be effected.

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Ikip 05:28, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Slipknot: A-Class?

The main Slipknot page goes beyond the requirments for GA and I think it meets the A-Class criteria. Appearanlty, it requires more copyediting to become FA but the page surly should be A-Class. I notice their are their are only two other bands in the Category A-Class biography (musicians) articles but why shouldn't Slipknot be included? CrowzRSA ^{03:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)}

Actually I don't see how it's not FA now. CrowzRSA ^{22:42, 26 March 2010 (UTC)}

(sic)nesses

I have made an article of the DVD (sic)nesses. I was reluctant to make the article as I thought that it would be very small. I believe that we have enough information to start a stub and we can keep expanding it as more info gets released. Some clean up might be required. Torque3000^Talk 16:23, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Paul Gray

can someone please change paul out of the former members catagory and put him into a new catagory called deceased —Preceding unsigned comment added by Quakemasterscarecrow (talk • contribs) 23:33, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

It is not practice within Wikipedia to create a separate section for deceased band members, they are simply categorized as Former Members. See similar topics: Metallica and Queen (band). --REZTER ^TALK ø 23:42, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Slipknot articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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"No articles for former members"

If Donnie Steel continues on with the band as a full time member, will he qualify for a article sometime in the future?Jasper420 21:16, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Roll Call August 2014

With the fifth album just weeks away and loads of information is being released concerning the album, singles, tours etc. I would like as many people as possible to join in to help get some more of Slipknot's articles in the Good Article section and even help push the main page as a featured article. Just so the Project can keep an updated list of people who continue to contribute to the Project a Roll Call will happen from time to time. It is understood that over time, users may have lost interest in the Project or Wikipedia all together; if you have, it's no big deal. If you would like to keep contributing to the project please sign the list. If you do not add your name to the list by September 25, you will become an "Inactive member", this will bar you from voting in the AoF. Remember, if you ever want to join the project again, you are always welcome!!!

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• Kevon100 ^Talk! _Mail 20:15, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

• I am so rusty and busy... but I'll try help when I can. --REZTER ^TALK ø 20:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
• CrowzRSA 21:41, 25 August 2014 (UTC) — Wow, haven't seen Rezter in quite some time. I'll help if I can, but classes just started back up so we'll see.

Donnie Steele

An editor has expanded Donnie Steele from a redirect into a full article. I noticed that there's a notice on the talk page saying WikiProject Slipknot had decided it should remain a redirect; has the situation changed since that note was made? — Paul A (talk) 05:51, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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Revisit merge for Wednesday (band)

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