Talk:Magma (band)

message: Removed links to online sellers "Wayside" and "Aquarius Records", as they are unrelated to Magma. Removed some editorial and non-neutral elements in "Discographic Notes".
Some items in "Trivia" need citation.
Shtaman 02:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modifications 

message: Though I've seen his name spelled many ways (Jannick, Jannik, Janik, etc.), it seems that it is spelled Janik, as seen for example on the back cover of a pre-Magma album by his band Speed Limit (http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g266/avestin/SpeedLimitback.jpg).  The article spells his name Jannik.  I think it should be corrected to Janik.
Rileydog22 04:03, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's Jannick, see his official site. David.Monniaux 19:00, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of Top's first name 

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 07:21, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Does anyone know enough about this language to write about it? It would be very interesting with an article, or at least a section on the magma page, about it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.165.147.247 (talk) 23:52, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There's at least one Kobaïan lexicon out there in internetland. It doesn't seem to have a grammar, though. — Gwalla | Talk 04:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

text: The lyrics to MDK are under copyright. We can't legitimately post them here. — Gwalla | Talk 18:31, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

text: Wow.  Either you're wrong or the lyric wiki project is in big trouble!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.253.220.232 (talk) 20:07, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: What lyric wiki project? They may very well be in big trouble if they're posting copyrighted lyrics. Public domain lyrics are okay, but Magma is not nearly old enough for its work to fall in the public domain. The occasional snippet (though not long sections, and certainly not full songs) may be justifiable as fair use. Most online lyrics sites are violating copyright law, and only get by because they're so small-potatoes that it's not worth the rights-holders' time and money to sue. — Gwalla | Talk 23:39, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: Kobaïan 

message: The statement "While Magma's recordings remain relatively hard to find, Christian Vander and Jannick Top together keep Magma's back catalog in print on CD." is inaccurate.  Almost all official Magma albums are readily available from on-line retailers such as Amazon.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpfowler27 (talk • contribs) 23:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point in my view. As far as I can tell, the record label Seventh is closely related to Magma and has been publishing their (and related) music since 1990. Apart from other online vendors, it may be difficult to find their music in physical CD shops. Maybe somebody with more knowledge about Seventh could adjust the text? BNutzer (talk) 11:51, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

text: BNutzer (talk) 02:21, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Availabilty of Magma recordings 

message: "# 1972: The Unnamables (studio album released under the alias Univeria Zekt)"
UZ is a link to a non-existent page. Is it really worth having that link there?
I think not, and so am removing it. Jbsegal (talk) 03:07, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other 

message: Ok, I've just spent the last half-hour adding several citations, modifying some of the wording, removing large extraneous - and uncited - sections, leaving a few  tags, and moving the critical perception section to precede the discography, which is typically the conclusion of a musician or band's page in my experience. The anonymous edit was also mine. Peace! Psychonavigation (talk) 07:36, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few reparative measures 

message: Anything about Vander and his imputed beliefs that comes from a blog needs to be removed asap. Without proper sourcing, it violates WP:BLP. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 05:12, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The entire controversy section may violate BLP 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Kobaïan doesn't seem, in my opinion, to be notable enough as a constructed language to warrant its own article. It doesn't have a comprehensive vocabulary or grammar system (things that are of great interest to conlang enthusiasts), and all of the article's sources are either from music critics or Magma themselves (not from linguists or conlangers). Strictly speaking, some may not even consider it a real language, just a vehicle for the band's sound poetry.
The language is, however, an integral part of Magma's work, and so I also believe on that count that merging the two would make for one overall better article. Turning the Kobaïan article into a section on Magma (band) would help put key context behind the rest of the article, as well as put everything about Magma's compositional philosophy into one place. Most of Kobaïan is repeat info from Magma (band) anyway, so it can definitely be merged in a way that keeps the article size sensible. —Marisauna (Talk) 02:54, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why not. Most of the info on there is restating things that are already in the Magma article and most if not all use of it is seen in Magma's work Chipsahoy95 (talk) 01:01, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

text: I looked at the Kobaïan article, and it does not look significant enough to be separate. I think it should be merged. JanKeso (talk) 19:33, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Klbrain (talk) 17:27, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to merge Kobaïan into this article