Talk:Moe (band)

message: It seems to me that there are a lot of dead wiki links in the main article, a sea of red if you will.  I think i am going to go through and unlink a lot of those words.  I will give it a few days to see if anyone posts any objections.  Thanks.--Gephart 08:39, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A sea of Red

message: For those that don't know, this band is known widely for allowing the recording of their live shows much like the Grateful Dead and Phish did. One of the staples of the group is their humourous banter and musings in between songs. My thoughts are to make a Wikiquote page for the band and adding quotes from the members from shows. I collect a lot of shows, so I would add to this often. Since the shows are widely availible from http://www.etree.org , one would be able to cite and shows the link to the particular show that a comment was made. Would this be a fruitful or fruitless effort? Would it be deemed acceptable on Wikiquote? -- Moeron 11:09, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is their banter at shows quote-worthy? 

message: The Good article nomination for  has failed
:The prose is far from good - a history section written in the present tense is much more akin to a fan page than an encyclopaedia article.
 Worldtraveller 17:10, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed its nomination again - prose like (for more information, check out the Generations section under the jam bands wikipedia entry) is really not encyclopaedic at all, and there's a lot like that.  There are also a lot of grammatical and spelling errors, and a general lack of encyclopaedic tone.  It really needs a lot of work on the prose - please compare with examples of featured and good articles.  Worldtraveller 20:31, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the one spelling error in the piece and will look for grammatical errors. I have looked at other good articles on bands or musicians such as the Grateful Dead and Cat Stevens. Should the Future Plans section be nixed as not encyclopaedia? *shrug* --Moeron 03:21, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Helping where I can.  The grammar is a mess.  I guess that's why this is an on-going communal process.Silver Dollar 19:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Good articles|Good Article]] [[Wikipedia:Good articles/Nominations|nomination]] has failed 

message: A stylistic question: shouldn't "moe." still be capitalized as "Moe." when it is the first word of a sentence?
For example, here is an article (from a college paper, granted) that capitalizes the word at the start of a sentence: . There is also a precedent with Al-Qaeda, which has a capital "Al-" at the beginning of a sentence but retains its lowercase "al-" when in the middle of a sentence. My understanding is that the fact that a person or band chooses not to use a capital letter at the beginning of a proper noun doesn't trump the basic rules of English capitalization. Any objections to changing this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill shannon (talk • contribs) 20:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization/Punctuation?

message: The band is not "Moe" or even affiliated with any act by that name.
"moe." is the proper name of the band. The punctuation comes from when they changed their band name from "Five Guys Named Moe" to "moe". Places would still bill them according to their old name, so they would claim that they were "moe, period" ("moe."). This became a bit of an "inside joke" with the band and fans, which they turned into the de facto name of the band.
The use of the name at the beginning of a sentence does not require capitalization. This would follow the same suit (in reverse) as the requirement to capitalize proper names when used in the middle of a sentence.
e.g.: "moe. are a band from Buffalo, New York." or "moe. are the perennial headliners at the moe.down concert festival."
Please see the k.d. lang page for an example of another artist whose name is styled the same way. 208.44.170.115 (talk) 14:24, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Punctuation, not capitalization

message: Can someone who knows wiki's javascript better then me (read: anyone) add the two Dr Stan albums to the reference box on the bottom of their page.  I can't figure out how.  Also can someone look and see if the two pages for those albums still need the stub tag or are they complete enough.  If not please complete. Cysinger (talk) 02:02, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr Stan's Prescription Vol. 1 and 2 

message: I thought these would be better here - WikiProject musicians policy is that external links to news articles and other such things should be used in the article as references or not put up.  Addionne (talk) 19:38, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: moved to Moe (band). Born2cycle (talk) 19:22, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles 

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message: For a long time, the lead sentence of this article started  Recently, in conjunction with the discussion about the name of the article, this was changed to   I think it should be changed back to the way it was.  The old text made things clearer to our readers, and I believe it also conformed to Manual of Style guidelines.  Usually the name of a band is a proper noun, with initial capitals and no punctuation, but in this case it's stylized.  That should be made clear in the lead sentence, as it was before.  (This is independent of the name of the article itself, a question that I'm not taking a position on at this time.)  — Mudwater (Talk) 11:33, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: *That is incorrect usage of the band's name. Please don't add your assumptions to the article. 208.44.170.115 (talk) 12:57, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You're not even reading the guideline that you are citing properly, which specifically gives the exact opposite instruction to the one that you are trying to force!!!!  Wow.  --woodensuperman 15:03, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Band name in lead sentence