# Talk:Spice Up Your Life

This redirect is protected from editing because it has been the target of cut-and-paste move vandalism. Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 13:24, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
I've removed the article from this page; this is a talk page, and articles should not be created here. Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 09:33, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
If anyone is vandalising, it is none other than the person who posted the previous two messages. DrippingInk 23:25, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

"The original release-date of "Spice Up Your Life" was delayed for seven days to allow Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" to spend another week at the top of the charts" smells of PR-speak.
Does it really mean "it was delayed so that it would enter the charts at number 1 instead of number 2 as it was feared it would have had it been entered the previous week?" Morwen - Talk 08:14, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes, you are correct. Winnermario 21:21, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

There are no sources for any of the statements in the article.  Chart positions, trajectories, sales data, etc. all need sources.  Also, many statements are quite slanted.  Things like "the song received an overwhelmingly positive initial reaction" and the fact that the video is supposedly "considered by many to rank among the Spice Girls' best" is just not very encyclopedic, not to mention weasely.  For such a long page, considering it's for a song, i'm surprised that there are no sources, and that's it's been left in this condition for so long.  SKS2K6 09:10, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

A quick search on iTunes shows that this song has been covered by the following: Little Voices, Spice Squirrels, The Hit Crew and The Twang (Curiously enough, a country artist), among others. Is this worth noting in the article? Retro Agnostic (talk) 03:02, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

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Musicfan122 and SnapSnap: You've both now been warned for 3RR. You both seem to feel there is some shame in being the one to start discussion on the article's talk page. Well, shucks, I'll take the shame for both of you.
Feel free to discuss the issue here. I don't care who did what to whom or how horrible the other editor is. Discuss content. - SummerPhDv2.0 16:21, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Apologies, I never meant to be disruptive or engage in an edit war. Musicfan122, that's enough. PNG is the preferred file format for album/single covers by the vast majority of Wikipedia music editors, as it's a lossless format where the image retains its quality. While there's no guideline explicitly favoring PNG covers over JPG ones, there's no guideline (not that I know of) that forbids you to replace JPGs with PNGs. (MOS:HOTLINK does state that PNG is "useful for storing graphics that contain text, line art, or other images with sharp transitions", even if it doesn't directly addresses album covers.) JPG covers are constantly replaced with PNG covers, regardless of how long the original JPG file was used for, and no one bats an eyelid. Replacing lower-quality images with higher-quality ones is not a controversial matter that requires consensus. Perhaps if I were uploading a completely different cover art, I could see how this could be an issue. (By the way, the "Spice Up Your Life" cover I uploaded is the one that was used for most releases of the single, while the one you reuploaded was only used for the UK CD 2.) You had never contributed a single edit to a Spice Girls article, then all of a sudden you simply reuploaded and restored the original JPG file without so much as providing an edit summary. When reverted (by both IndianBio and I), your only argument was that the original JPG cover had been used "over a decade" and that such change required consensus (even though you're the only making an issue out of it, and you weren't even the uploader of the original JPG). I've already explained my reasoning for replacing the JPG covers with high-quality PNGs. What's your reason to restore JPG covers of visibly inferior quality? How is that helpful or constructive? Not to mention that you've had your account for a couple of months and you already have an extensive history of edit warring. snapsnap (talk) 18:30, 4 March 2019 (UTC)