Talk:Disc jockey

message: I just removed an external link as useless. My reasoning is, per WP:ELNO, that the link "does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article." I see no reason why a very short webpage with two-sentence definitions should be appended to this much longer and more thorough article. Binksternet (talk) 13:53, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: The mobile DJs I've seen just have a laptop and music gear.  Haven't seen discs for 5+ years. What do you think? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 17:32, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I know of several who still use CDs, and some who lug heavy crates of vinyl. Not everybody sees the need to stay current with technology, especially if what they have is working for them. Binksternet (talk) 17:37, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article seems old 

message: Hi Everyone
I am trying to find out who ias the world highest awarded D.J He/She must be voted on by
the entertainment industry in general not by a company.. He/She is NOT a radio Disc Jockey and must be either a club or function D.J.
Has your country got awards for D.J's ( Not Radio ) Here is Australia we have the Entertainer of the Year Awards where votes are taken from every area of the Industry ( Entertainment Industry )
I would love you to email me please prior to the end of Febuary
At aussiemagic2007@hotmail.com    with as much info as you can
Regards
paul J. Tyler  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.105.109.53 (talk) 04:42, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  HIGHEST AWARDED DISC JOCKEY 

message: With the changes in technology in the 2000s, the article could be improved by adding a "2000s" subsection.69.181.118.225 (talk) 01:54, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add a 2000s subselection 

message: Hello, I just made article about clubbing subculture. In order to attract some new editors, I was a bit violent last night in editing this one, sorry. I would be glad if you can somehow link my article Clubbing here, and help me improve mine.
--Nemanjanede (talk) 14:12, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Cite your sources and you'll have more luck bringing something about clubbing to this article. If you're short on reliable ones, try the books Last night a dj saved my life: the history of the disc jockey, Subcultures: cultural histories and social practice, Beyond subculture: pop, youth and identity in a postcolonial world, Digital diversions: youth culture in the age of multimedia and Music and youth culture. Cheers! Binksternet (talk) 14:33, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need help to improve my article 

message: This article has almost no mention of the radio history of DJs. No mention of their hit-making power in the '50s and '60s via airplay. And no mention of Wolfman Jack? I mean, I know it's only Wikipedia but come on!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.106.209.61 (talk) 22:07, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's true. Radio station DJ's were around long before club DJs. I'll see if I can dig up some relevant historical material to add. - LuckyLouie (talk) 13:35, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I did add some material to the 50s section, but I notice the article was originally written to favor club DJs over radio DJs. That's understandable since modern radio DJs are all but extinct and many people only know of club DJs. Maybe a solution is two separate sections giving a short history of each? - LuckyLouie (talk) 21:42, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

text: Agreed, they are two different careers (although I do know of at least one radio engineer who used radio equipment (carts) when he moonlighted as a club DJ in the early '70s, and surely there were others). Thanks for what historical info there is on radio DJs, but as the article stands now, it would seem that the job died out in 1960.  The careers of many then-famous "personality" DJs peaked into the late '60s (when FM album formats took hold, still featuring DJs of a different sort).  The decline of DJs on U.S. radio actually came around 1980 (only my impression), when talk radio began to take over AM airwaves. There is so much material to be added, that this really should be TWO different articles. But how to differentiate their titles?  Club Disk Jockey  vs. Radio Disk Jockey?   Suggestions? Eplater (talk) 09:07, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think a separate article with a title like "Radio disc jockey" might be warranted. And to answer your question, at one time, radio DJ's in the US who operated any of the transmission equipment (this could include a DJ from a small local station turning off the transmitter on Sunday night) had to have a third class General radiotelephone operator license, as did taxi, police and fire dispatchers. - LuckyLouie (talk) 18:19, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely a separate article for radio DJs is warranted.  This article smacks of historical ignorance in its current format.  The argument above that most people mean the term the way it is used here is not only irrelevant, it is contrary to the purpose of an encyclopedia. Unschool 19:40, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Long since taken care of. See History of radio disc jockeys. - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:53, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that.  Looks like a good article.  I still would like this article to do a better job of clarifying the origin of the term, but it's not a big deal. Unschool 05:03, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Narrow focus 

message: The caption for the bottom-most picture is almost certainly inaccurate.  It claims "DJ Hazel in the late 1990s", however it appears to show a DJ with a pair of Pioneer CDJ-1000, which weren't released until 2001.  //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 14:49, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL, you're right, the metadata for the photo says it was taken 13 June 2008 (!). - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:54, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a terrible photo either way, and should probably be dropped in its entirety.  //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 14:55, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I just moved it to the gallery in case anyone really loves it. - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:59, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date inaccuracies 

message: the wore tigh short dresses  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.171.160 (talk) 17:50, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  1960  

message: DJ whatever performing at an AIR FORCE ball?! Wikipedia should not promote a military agenda!! Please choose a CIVILIAN DJ performing at a civilian festival. Thank you. 93.219.166.236 (talk) 04:54, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the image on the page. It is up to you to discuss deletion of this image if you so choose.Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 12:28, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo should be removed 

message: It seems to me something should be said in this article about what radio DJ's do to select the music they play, both in the past and presently.  At least for a while, although I haven't heard as much about it for a year or two, this was a somewhat controversial topic, with commentators saying the music on radio had become bland because it is mostly selected by corporations, and that in the past it was better because it was selected by the DJ's themselves.    There's probably someone who knows about this topic and could add more solid info to the article than I could.  Someone reading this article might likely be interested in this topic.Greg Dahlen (talk) 12:58, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  do radio dj's select the music they play? 

message: just some basic and historical adage that seems to be missing from the Wiki description of a DJ, Disk Jockey as referred to.
Primarily the term was originally given to 'Announcers' in the 1940's and popularised in the 50's rock n Roll era . 
The title is that of 'riding' the Vynil or Shellac disks that were pressed as 'records' that were commonly 10" or 7" .
the usage describes that the Announcer 'rode' the music with a flow and expression giving at least the Artist and title of what was about to, had been, and sometimes talked over instrumental parts of the track.
Most in the 40's also read out sponsor announcements between the music played, this was paer of their agreement.
so 'Disk' = the Vynil audio hardcopy . 'Jockey' = to ride between or over .
this also applies to any person playing whatever other music format in this case since the 1940's / 50's providing they speak.
after that, you get 'Presenter' on many stations, on particular FM & DAB which insist they their operatives are not DJ's.
On Rockabilly Radio we have DJ's, we don't read News, Weather or have sports announcements.
However We do have 'announcements' that our DJ's make .
please add to the description before this important issue gets lost in history
Regards
Dave Brighton
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.83.148 (talk) 17:05, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I totally agree. The term disc jockey was exclusively used to describe a radio DJ for at least 50 years before it was superseded by the club DJ. I recommend moving the radio DJ material to a new article, such as Disc jockey (radio), and leaving a disambiguation link at the top of this article. See the section of this Talk page Talk:Disc_jockey#Narrow_focus for details. The beginnings of a draft for this new article are located located here. - LuckyLouie (talk) 17:42, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Resolved  at Radio_personality#Radio_disc_jockey_history. - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:52, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disk Jockey Description 

message: Female DJ's that are famous for their craft should be mentioned in this article. Such as DJ Tatiana, DJ Sandra Collins, DJ Chassis, DJ Maya Jane Coles, just to name a few. Sage Cadence (talk) 14:42, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous Female DJ's  

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message: I see that it is apparently notable: , , , and . - LuckyLouie (talk) 18:41, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm suggesting removing this section completely as Miming isn't substantial topic and doesn't represent a consistent technique. Individual cases with famous listed artists generally include TV broadcasting, where it's often impossible to arrange a live performance. And, of course, these facts don't make them fake DJs.Iiiked (talk) 06:14, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

text: It seems notable enough for a few sentences in the Techniques section, citing the Digital DJ Masterclass, and Empire of Dirt books to define what "miming" is (it's not a new thing), and the billboard.com article with the example about Disclosure (duo) miming that also mentions David Guetta miming. The magneticmag.com is probably a WP:RS as well, although it's best to avoid the sensational angle ("so and so did a set that was completely fake!") and go for a more encyclopedic "just the facts" tone. - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:45, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

text: So....something like this. - LuckyLouie (talk) 00:49, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi User talk:LuckyLouie, thanks for the good suggestions. Yeah, you are right. We need to tone down the sensational writing. Some journalists writing about pop music topics can be a bit dramatic (every 20 year old who can play 2 notes on guitar called a "legendary prodigy who is revolutionizing rock guitar"!)...It's good to cool down the sensationalism for WP.OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 18:44, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: User talk:OnBeyondZebrax: Your edits are great! Thank you for taking the time to do this. Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 14:58, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  DJ's "Miming" 

message: While miming in instrumental performance, that is, pretending to play the instruments while a pre-recorded backing track sounds over the loudspeakers, is mostly associated with traditional instruments (e.g., guitar, piano, etc.), there is evidence that some DJs are miming the motions of mixing onstage while a pre-recorded mix plays over the speakers. Magnetic magazine states that there are "[c]onstant battles of button pushing and pre-recorded sets [in the DJ world], along with in depth arguments on whether or not cords were plugged in." The 2015 article states that a model/DJ was "twisting nobs and touching buttons" at a DJ set, but the CDJs were not being used and all the audience was hearing was a "pre-recorded set being played through the speakers."  
: I'm suggesting removing this section completely as Miming isn't substantial topic and doesn't represent a consistent technique. Individual cases with famous listed artists generally include TV broadcasting, where it's often impossible to arrange a live performance. And, of course, these facts don't make them fake DJs.Iiiked (talk) 06:14, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Miming

message: "The idea behind the modern DJ has shifted radically in the past five years. Constant battles of button pushing and pre-recorded sets, along with in depth arguments on whether or not cords were plugged in. It's an ongoing debate, but in this recently surfaced video of Colombian DJ and model Natalia Paris, there is no question what is going on.
From the front this would have looked like any other DJ set, music blaring and Natalia twisting nobs and touching buttons, but an arial view reveals that this DJ set is completely fake. There is absolutely nothing going on with the CDJ's, and it's no more than pre-recorded set being played through the speakers.
Unfortunately, this type of stuff is happening more often than not. DJ Natalia gets paid $10k per gig, but it's not so much her accolades behind the decks that get her booked. Promoters understand that people will come watch a celebrity or model perform, so they pay extra to book them when there are countless other talented artists looking for gigs.
This was the reason Deadmau5 said he wouldn't be playing in Ibiza this year, after hearing about Kim Kardashian getting a residency there, and we've witnessed with our own eyes Paris Hilton clearing a dance floor at her own party with an atrocious DJ set. At least she was attempting to perform, but this didn't prevent the train wreck.
This trend doesn't seem to be slowing down but actually speeding up, and a time where being a DJ is more reliant on your social status than talent seems to be upon us." 
I tried to use a mix of quotes and paraphrasing to provide key points from Jordan Calvano's article in Magnetic. In the article, he says a DJ did a set that was "completely fake", and which was only a pre-recorded set.OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 19:12, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems notable enough for a few sentences in the Techniques section, citing the Digital DJ Masterclass, and Empire of Dirt books to define what "miming" is (it's not a new thing), and the billboard.com article with the example about Disclosure (duo) miming that also mentions David Guetta miming. The magneticmag.com is probably a WP:RS as well, although it's best to avoid the sensational angle ("so and so did a set that was completely fake!") and go for a more encyclopedic "just the facts" tone. - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:45, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

text: So....something like this. - LuckyLouie (talk) 00:49, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi User talk:LuckyLouie, thanks for the good suggestions. Yeah, you are right. We need to tone down the sensational writing. Some journalists writing about pop music topics can be a bit dramatic (every 20 year old who can play 2 notes on guitar called a "legendary prodigy who is revolutionizing rock guitar"!)...It's good to cool down the sensationalism for WP.OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 18:44, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: User talk:OnBeyondZebrax: Your edits are great! Thank you for taking the time to do this. Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 14:58, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Full text grab

message: Gendre has nothing to do with DJing. So it shouldn't be mentioned. It looks like somebody obsessed with hip hop and social justice splooged all over the page. 2607:FEA8:9920:10F4:50FB:E558:1926:622C (talk) 23:26, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally agree. Reading through the section I don't understand what's the actual 'role'. Iiiked (talk) 05:13, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Doesn't comply with Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. 154.5.234.189 (talk) 07:01, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion: Remove the "role of women" bit 

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message: Jimmy Savile claimed to be the first DJ and the first to mix two turntables (a claim repeated on this page) but the use of two turntables and a mixer was already common in radio stations. See the second picture on http://www.orbem.co.uk/women/women.htm which refers to August 1941. The RCA Type 81-A mixer in the 1939 catalogue (page 31 on http://bh.hallikainen.org//wiki/uploads/HaroldHallikainen/RCA-1939-Catalog.pdf) has 'an input key for switching between two turntables'. Manufacturers had been making twin deck gramophones since at least the Chronophone in 1910 http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/auxetophone/auxetoph.htm#gau Danieljames (talk) 11:43, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe Savile's claim is as the first person to use two turntables "to keep music in continuous play" in a live setting. Just being in possession of a twin deck gramophone or a broadcast console with two turntables and a control board mixer does not mean it was being used to present a seamless flow of music in a club. In fact, most radio DJ studios in the 40s, 50s, 60s etc. were equipped with two or three turntables with switched inputs. This was used to cue up and play records quickly, not to mix an uninterrupted stream of music. - LuckyLouie (talk) 22:42, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  First DJ claim 

message: It seems this article lacks a certain part. DJs weren´t really the typical "famous" character one sees today, before a certain person was known, for "fronting" or more negatively "posing" as if he was special for playing other peoples music. DJ Tiesto for instance, droppped the "DJ" name from his stagename for the same reasons, since such people was outmost hated in the culture after. "Some within the DJ community" as it already says in places in this article, identifies him as DJ Smack. He basically is who the crossfader was for. (Nobody else used that.) Sensible people actually used separate faders, for mixing segments into eachother. The whole mixing DJ thing or legend at its core became really that.. Before DJ was simply a disc jockey who did´t not mix segments at all. - A note about this extremely unpopular but wellknown character belongs in there somewhere. SkyBlueness (talk) 20:47, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The egoic now famous typical "fronting" DJ. 

message: CDJ is the name of the line of CD players (now called Multi Players) by Pioneer DJ. They were industry standard for more than 10 years and it partly describes why the term 'CDJ' almost became a common noun and we see misleading articles like this one: CDJ. However, other manufacturers of DJ equipment and Pioneer DJ itself refer to their players as a CD Player, or recently Multi Player. Iiiked (talk) 05:37, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion: Change Equipment > CDJs to Equipment > CD players 

message: Okey, I'm really new to Wikipedia and still learning a lot of stuff, for example, that I shouldn't contribute to the articles that describe the field I'm considered to be an expert in - I partly get it, so in turn, I would like to start this talk. My question is very simple, do you think that DJs are musicians? And here's my (possibly biased) story on this topic. I have two friends that are graduated geologists and it happened to be that they both are also very good music producers. Does it mean that geologists produce music? Answer: yes, apparently some of them! But does Geologist produce music? Of course not, right? I really encourage volunteers to make a research on this, because as an expert in the field I regret to say that DJs are not musicians and do not produce music, it just happened to be that a lot of us are musicians at the same time. Iiiked (talk) 19:06, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Iiiked and welcome. The way Wikipedia works is that editors use reliable sources for content they use to build articles, rather than their own personal experience or opinion (which is why we we call our users editors and not "writers"). See more at WP:WHYCITE. If a reliable source A says something-something, we would write "According to A, something-something", and if multiple reliable sources say it, we would just write "something-something". And to avoid plagiarism and intellectual property lawsuits, we summarize what a source says in our own words, or use short quotes from the source. As you may have already picked up, blogs or some guy's self published website or Youtube videos are not considered by Wikipedia to be reliable sources. See more at WP:RS. All this is to say, we don't generate content via our own research findings or having a discussion among editors about their own personal experiences. It really is all about the sources here at WP. - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:42, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the intro LuckyLouie. I hope you understand that in a real-world scenario of narrow subjects like DJing there is no such thing as a credible source. It might work in science and for articles about actual events only. I'm just a few days here and I quickly can see why and how Wikipedia is not a 'directory of all existing things' and this article easily falls under this statement. My opinion that this article has misleading information remains and it's up to editors to choose whether they want to take my claim into consideration, do some research and try to find sources that either refute my claim or confirm it. I believe this is what Talk pages are about.Iiiked (talk) 20:43, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I get what you mean about reliable sourcing in the DJ field as compared to science or history, but the encyclopedia does need some standards, otherwise, it's just the Internet where anyone can put anything and the loudest voice wins. And look, it's not that hard to come up with a decent source like I did here, when sourcing one of your additions. Of course, it takes some effort. But I hope you'll decide to work within the existing policies to improve articles. Best, - LuckyLouie (talk) 21:05, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do DJs produce music? 

message: OK. I think we've had enough foolishness. This article now lacks a lead image because one editor here has strange ideas about sourcing for images that don't apply and have never applied on Wikipedia. They have edit warred repeatedly to remove the image. Repeatedly removing the lead image from an article is disruptive and may lead to a block. The image offered by Toglenn is of high quality and amply illustrates the article topic. The image currently highest up the article is blurred crap that any professional photographer would delete from their memory card, let alone upload to Wikipedia. Some of the comments here about self-promotion are baseless as already explained at AN/I. Unless anyone has a valid argument against Toglenn's photo, I shall restore the image and hope that is an end to this embarrassing mess. SergeWoodzing is advised to educate themselves on the norms for images on Wikipedia and to refrain from edit warring. -- Colin°Talk 08:20, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Colin. If we are choosing a lead photo based on image quality, aesthetic composition, and verifiability, I prefer this one. It is much more dynamically framed and dramatically lit than the one of Ashlee Williss, and clearly shows a DJ in action, rather than in a staged pose, and, as someone pointed out, "this isn't an article on famous DJs" it's about the entire concept of DJing, so a non-celebrity is ideal for the lead image. - LuckyLouie (talk) 13:30, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why we can't use both. Using multi-images can be very useful for illustrating generic concepts. Compare the lead images I put together for Humour, Poverty, and Famine. MOS:IMAGERELEVANCE also advises us to strive for variety, with a global perspective in mind. We could do something like this. Using this crop of the Bad Ash image at the same ratio as the other, also effectively anonymizes it, so that we're showing generic images of DJs operating DJ equipment, rather than trying to select one named individual to single out for the lead. (I would prefer that one of them was something other than a white American, but image quality has to be balanced with the need for diversity.) GMGtalk 13:48, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The four-image comps you did for Humour, Poverty, and Famine are interesting. If diversity is an issue, maybe cropping and adding two more such as  and  could be a good solution. - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:03, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The second one is pretty good. The first one is pretty bad though. GMGtalk 14:16, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn’t have to be those exact images, but you get the idea. - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:28, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, I think I would use these two images for the lead. The flow pretty well together as far as lighting and composition goes. I would replace the horribly blurry DJ Spooky image with the main image used by Wikidata. Probably replace the blurry Avicii image with this image, that gives a nice view of the equipment itself. Then remove the generic gallery, because it's arbitrary, and all the images are pretty low quality. GMGtalk 14:57, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

text: I think the :File:DJ SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE.jpg image has some problems. The wide-angle lens & nearby hand makes it proportionally large, and the white hand & black top background gives the effect of a disembodied hand, especially in thumbnail. The upper-left of the image is dull grey space. The :File:Pete Rock @ The Brookyln Bowl in 2016.jpg photo has good lighting, though the angle-of-view means we don't really see what he is doing, and the image size (0.6MP) is tiny. I agree with GMG's approach and may be a good compromise for a generic topic that could best be illustrated by a variety of styles of DJ. -- Colin°Talk 15:37, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Good discussion so far. No time at the moment, but hope others will join in,  in the spirit of WP:CONSENSUS. - LuckyLouie (talk) 16:05, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

text:  The only problem is that the subject of the photo is so stretched out horizontally that you can't crop it similarly, in the way that we anonymize the photo of Bad Ash. Admittedly, the Commons category for DJs is just 80% garbage that should probably be deleted F10. So it doesn't make finding quality photos particularly easy. GMGtalk 21:15, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

text: All of the suggested images suffer from :WP:RECENTISM, as does the article. Club DJs and turntablists have only been around since the 1980s (about forty years at best), while radio DJs and announcers who spun discs have been around since the 1930s.: fifty years before they started to become popular in clubs. To that end I offer the following from commons. :File:Bassoradio2.jpg, :File:Luis López durante el programa World Dance Music..png and :File:Aron Rcm.jpg. Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:00, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: We should get something up there as a lead image. If you're going to have an edit war it should be swapping one picture for another. There are a lot of good candidates here. There's no reason why we shouldn't have some lead image on display. ~Kvng (talk) 14:55, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Walter has made a point that I totally agree with – all these photos are of club DJs, and there is still a huge number of people in the world (possibly even the majority, still) for whom the words "disc jockey" will automatically be associated with a radio presenter who plays music on his/her program. I would be happier with two lead images, with the captions "radio DJ (left); club DJ (right)" or something to that effect. Richard3120 (talk) 16:33, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully agree with that, and we might also use at least one historical image (60s or 70s), if there is any free one (very hard to find) - whether or not it may be of superduper "quality" - to illustrate & educate that the occupation is not a new one. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 23:54, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I notice that Wikipedia tends to favor lead images that depict the contemporary thing rather than the historical one. A historical DJ image would definitely be appropriate for the "History" section  though. As far as addressing the article's RECENTISM, that would certainly take a major rewrite, which may not stick, given that radio DJs are now a smaller segment of the DJ profession thanks to broadcast station playlist automation. There has been some consensus in the past affirming the modern popular notion of a DJ as a club DJ, which led to the creation of a sub-article, History of radio disc jockeys to clarify the historical evolution of the term. Anyway, I for one, agree that a pair of lead images depicting Club and Radio DJs would be a good solution. - LuckyLouie (talk) 02:05, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

text: I really like the air base DJ photo with the big hand in the foreground, because it shows the typical action of many DJs rather than showing off a glamour photo of a particular DJ. I don't like the idea of pairing the big hand photo with the female DJ in a red dress because that image looks posed, and because the pairing would put too many Caucasian DJs into the article. We should show a DJ with darker skin color. Binksternet (talk) 03:05, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo(s) for article lead (Arbitrary break)

message: I propose that sections Disc_jockey#Software be split into a separate page called DJ software. DJ softwares are highly used nowdays (eg VirtualDJ (software), Mixx,  etc) and this section is large enough to make its own page. Saunderson Anreef (talk) 16:04, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's notable on its own and there are enough sources to carry a stand alone article, it could certainly be split. Someone has to write the article. - LuckyLouie (talk) 18:44, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

text: If further information is added to expand on the topic it may be split. Anyways it also depends also on the consensus of editors and contributors. Cheers EpicSnek   Talk to me here   03:04, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting proposal 

message: The image in the "Techniques" section shows Grand Wizard Theodore on the right. He is posing with an unknown person. The sentence in the caption about Grandmaster Flash was unnecessarily confusing, so I removed it. - - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:54, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grand Wizzard Theodore 

message: This kind of article must only have photos of people who in some way or another have had profound influence on the subject. Looks like we now (again) have various promo photos which do not rise to such a standard. Anyone with better knowledge than mine who'd like to delete a photo or two or three? SergeWoodzing (talk) 08:37, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Be bold and make the common sense edits you feel are appropriate. If someone feels strongly, they will revert, and that will lead to a discussion here on Talk to find the best solution. - LuckyLouie (talk) 14:22, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arbitrary choice of photos / promos?