Talk:Thin Lizzy (album)

message: Wasn't there another album cover? Brakn (talk) 10:30, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, there was a US cover, but it's very hard to find - never made it to CD. Bretonbanquet (talk) 10:46, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Album cover. 

message: Ivor Raymonde – mellotron on "Honesty Is No Excuse"
    Eric Wrixon – keyboards on "The Farmer"
    Gary Moore – additional guitar and keyboards on tracks 16-19
    Midge Ure – additional vocals and guitar on tracks 16-19
How did they get these additional musicians to record with them in such a short time? In 5 days!?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:554E:7801:3953:A7C7:D925:B378 (talk) 04:21, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional musicians? 

message: Might be just me, but literally none of these links work. Can someone who knows how to add references clean these up? Or I'll remove the lot. Bretonbanquet (talk) 13:34, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The ref name argument should almost always be used in citations. Used properly, repeatedly citing the same source will simply repeat the footnote from when it was first cited. Regardless, if citing the same source multiple times in a row in close proximity, just cite it once at the end rather than after every term. Regardless of that, that mess should not have been there. The then-cited source states that the band was influenced by genres x, y, z, apple, butter, and charlie, but none of this is to say that the end product fits into those categories. Just as you wouldn't classify a brownie as being an egg simply because an egg was one of the many things mixed together to make it. This last part is simply my take on the matter and reasonable minds may differ. GabberFlasted (talk) 14:16, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

text: Was it you who added it? Bretonbanquet (talk) 09:30, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

text: Right, so it's that source added by a blocked editor who asked exactly the same question when he got reverted, which you're now asking having never edited before today. Do you mean the sentence by the interviewer: "Thin Lizzy were inspired and influenced by a variety of different styles and genres (hard rock, blues, folk, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, etc.)"? Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:10, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

text: The reason is in the sentence I quoted. "Inspired and influenced" – that is not a reference to the actual genres of this album. It's a comment on the band's general stylistic influences. It needs to be something that actually describes the album, or songs on the album, as those particular genres. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:20, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

text: What editors do on that page has nothing to do with this page. But that sentence in the lead specifically states the album was influenced by those genres, so the point stands. The infobox genres could have been sourced another way, or not sourced at all, I have no idea. Stick to this article. If these genres are so obvious then they should be easily sourced. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:40, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

text: I think it's very clear what I said, perhaps go back and read it again. For the avoidance of doubt, it is not OK to add these genres to the main Thin Lizzy page with this source, which does not support any genre at all. Bretonbanquet (talk) 18:21, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Genre sources in infobox