Talk:Cool (Gwen Stefani song)/Archive 1

message: Mel, please stop removing information which is quite relevant to the song's message. OmegaWikipedia 08:21, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that it's only just been added to the article (by someone else), it was (and is) difficult to see how it's essential.  It's also only about the video, and no link is made to the song. It's also poorly written, and at the very least needs to be copy-edited; as it seemed to be a bit of fan-cruft gossip, I thought it better just to remove it. --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 10:44, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Important removal of information

message: The peer request has (finally) been answered. I've combined two of the paragraphs in "Chart performance" into one and moved the "CD single track listing" above the "Charts". I'm curious to know how the "Music video" paragraphs beneath the image should be expanded. Does anyone have any ideas? --Winnermario 22:50, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is the guy in the video actually supposed to be Kanal? I mean, you might interpret it that way, but they don't look very similar so I don't know if I'd assume that automatically. Everyking 11:26, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It is supposed to be Kanal, despite the fact that they don't look alike. --Winnermario 23:22, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Request review

message: This article is now a featured article! Congratulations! Much thanks goes out to everyone who contributed to its success. Thank you and continue making Wikipedia the excellent and informative place that it is! --Winnermario 22:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't quite understand why an article about an interpretation of song lyrics is a featured article to begin with.  I'm new to Wikipedia and I thought an encyclopedia was about information, not interpretation?  Ms ArtGeek 16:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured article

message: Hi, the article doesn't appear to state which musicians (other than Stefani of course) performed on the song or instruments etc. Leithp 08:14, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If this had been a collaboration, it would have been noted. Credits are not exhibited on Wikipedia. --Hollow Wilerding 22:00, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the musicians are significantly more important than the video, which takes up a large portion of the article. The song, of course, is a collaboration between Stefani and Austin but that's not to say that the contribution of the musicians is unimportant. Leithp (talk) 22:14, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Where appropriate, brief lists of credits are, an always have been, exhibited on Wikipedia. --FuriousFreddy 05:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It mentions that they collaborated on the piece of work. If you mean featured-artist-wise, there are none, so that question is completely irrelevant. Also, it is no walk in the park to find all the musicians on one song. --Hollow Wilerding 01:35, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The liner notes for the CD don't give any musicians other than Stefani or Austin? If it doesn't, there's no reason to try and look for them. However, many albums credit the musicians who played on the record. --FuriousFreddy 05:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm reminded of the fact that Motown chose not to credit The Funk Brothers as the musicians on many of their tracks, despite their talent and influence on the songs. That's not to say that I think that the musicians here had the same creative input, just that I believe that on an article this length and in this level of depth their names, at least, should be noted. Leithp (talk) 07:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've raised the same point in a bit more detail at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hollaback Girl for those who are interested. Leithp (talk) 11:15, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

text: I agree entirely entirely. For an article that spends so many pages discussing lyrics of the song, responses to the song, video accompanying the song, success of the song, etc., it's remarkable how little time is actually spent on the music itself. That hardly strikes me as "comprehensive". See Layla for a real Featured Article that's almost entirely about a song, and not just about everything extra piled on top of the song. -Silence 10:01, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The above is a personal attack to those users who devoted their time to transforming "Cool" into a featured article. Please refrain from making comments like these again. Much appreciated! —Hollow Wilerding 15:14, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musicians