Talk:Whip It (Devo song)/Archive 1

message: Mothersbaugh says in the source listed: "Nobody really knew it was actually about Jimmy Carter."  Ronald Reagan wasn't elected until nearly a year after the song debuted on New Year's Eve 1979.  The unsourced reference to Ronald Reagan appears to be merely POV-pushing or wishful thinking.  -- 68.45.226.99 04:12, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The song 

message: ‘When a CD comes along | You must rip it!’ – Kaihsu (talk) 10:01, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  My parody 

message: I've heard there is a Death metal version of Whip It by Moby
188.100.30.199 (talk) 14:33, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moby Death Metal Version 

message: So the recent change was based off of xx, a featured article. I think that any kind of source, website, magazine, book, etc. can fit under the umbrella subsection of sources. As for other changes, please discuss them on the talk page, I think we're both tired of this back and forth with edit descriptions :) Famous Hobo (talk) 01:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:CITEVAR is pretty clear about this. I was editing the article way before you, with a consistent style that you shouldn't change without prior consensus. Note that I systematically cleaned up after you to make sure the consistency was kept. Synthwave.94 (talk) 01:56, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  ... and I cleaned up your edits. Constant improvement. --evrik (talk) 03:20, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent change 

message: As far as I can tell, there is no motorik beat in the song. The drums follow a standard dance music pattern (kick, snare, kick, snare ...).--Ilovetopaint (talk) 02:56, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motorik? 

message: Thanks to the ongoing retail apocalypse phenomenon, we need to remove songs from commercials.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.6.131.152 (talk • contribs) 14:13, July 29, 2019 (UTC)
:Interesting theory, but completely baseless. No. - SummerPhDv2.0 23:53, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Eliminating songs from commercials

message: seriously... isnt that what this song is about? "Whip-its" are branded single use nitrous oxide cylinders for whipping cream. every head shop and porn shop since the 80's has sold tools known as "crackers" to rupture the cylinders in a semi controlled fashion. You literally "crack that whip"...
i find it hard to beleive devo inadvertently coined the terms since this form of huffing had been around since the early 1970's.
i also find it pretty hard to beleive none of this is referenced anywhere on the page... whether they inadvertently coined the terms or simply used them for their song. in either event, i would argue it had a significant impact on suburban american drug culture terminology.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.196.54.39 (talk) 03:29, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Your interpretation and guess about its impact is your interpretation and your guess. Without an independent reliable source for that interpretation, all we have is the lyricist's explanati0n and the band members laughing off the purported sexual connotations. - SummerPhDv2.0 04:59, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nitrous Oxide Abuse 

message: , you had an issue with my using ProveIt to clean-up the citations? please explain. --evrik (talk) 04:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: *Except, if you read CITEVAR, you'll see that the edits fell under, "Generally considered helpful." So, you can cite CITEVAR, but the changes are within policy. Therefore your edits are simply continuing your edit warring. --evrik (talk) 02:40, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: *I am restoring the edits which were "Generally considered helpful," and the other edits as well. Given your edits noted above, its hard to believe you are not being a WP:Troll. --evrik (talk) 22:06, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Per WP:CITEVAR : "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference, to make it match other articles, or without first seeking consensus for the change." As I'm the first editor to do so over this article (before you edited the article for the first time), you therefore must be the one to achieve a clear consensus to change the citation style of this article. Synthwave.94 (talk) 02:25, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

text: In other words, if you don't have an explicit consensus of several uninvolved editors, your changes will be reverted again. I'm afraid you won't reach a consensus anyway, as the same thing happened to me for Michael Jackson back in 2015, so I'd suggest you to stop here. Synthwave.94 (talk) 02:30, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, except where the edits are generally considered to be helpful, which you have not addressed. --evrik (talk) 02:55, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Your edits are unhelpful in this case. Synthwave.94 (talk) 03:52, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That is your opinion. The edits are within policy, and standardize the citations. This does not include the fact that you stripped off the KROQ language again. --evrik (talk) 04:28, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations