Talk:Mike Portnoy

message: This page is being vandalized by disapproving fans, who are angry he is leaving Dream Theater. Please lock it. 24.144.148.37 (talk) 05:28, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: LOCK THIS PAGE

message: The link at 'with Neal Morse' -> 'Question mark'  is wrong, it should be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F_(Neal_Morse_album) Sbgirl54 (talk) 23:02, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It will be original research unless it has some valid citations Anger22 17:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: and his tremendous ego, that is mentioned at the beginning of the article, and I don't see a citation nowhere. Should it be removed? --Lashiec (talk) 14:53, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

text: "Portnoy" in Russian means "taylor" (0:         --CopperKettle 02:30, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'd translate it to "port + adjective suffix" ("portian", "porter", etc.) as a native speaker of Russian. --84.249.253.201 00:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

text: 22 --Λeternus 14:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: This article could use a picture of Mike, images of the different drumkits would be nice as well.--E tac 09:17, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: Willy1234x1 09:23, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Equipment 

message: There's a new interview up on Mike's site (http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1769224) where he talks some more about his alcoholism, including the last day he took a drink, the number of AA meetings he attends, and a little about the AA suite.  Might be worth working into the article. Habfan29 18:53, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alcoholism 

message: I really think it would be helpful if someone familiar with this article would archive comments that havee been resolved!  Most are from 2007! Last thing anyone wants to do is to answer a question from over two years ago. I am unable to archive anything on this computer, not even mentioning that I'm computer-ignorant on such things. Could someone do this please?--Leahtwosaints (talk) 06:47, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archiving talk page 

message: Am I the only one who thinks that this article has an oddly large section about his work with Avenged Sevenfold? There's more about that here than his work with Dream Theater.
142.177.224.216 (talk) 19:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: A7X Section Disproportionate

message: I moved Mike's Modern Drummer award section from the Dream Theater page to the Mike Portnoy wikipedia page since Mike is no longer in Dream Theater and I removed the original Modern Drummer paragraph. Ssjgoku75x (talk) 12:41, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards Section modification 

message: The massive and totally unrefernced section on his various drum kits seems to cross the line into excessive intricate detail.  I think this section should be removed. Ridernyc (talk) 22:00, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Intricate Detail

message: Somebody on Reddit pointed to this Wikipedia page joking aboutthe idea that Portnoy cited Lars Ulrich as an influence two hours ago.
http://www.reddit.com/r/MetalMemes/comments/ykbv9/til_mike_portnoy_cites_lars_ulrich_as_an/
Eight hours ago, Lars Ulrich was inexplicably removed. According to the source, it's real. I undid the edit. Kire1975 (talk) 06:47, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Lars Ulrich an Influence or Not? 

message: Main photo of Mike Portnoy is, I think, 7 years old. The article could use a more recent one. Or the editors can keep that one and include photos of him with various bands (current, former and dormant) viz. Dream Theater, The Winery Dogs, Transatlantic, Flying Colors, Neal Morse , Liquid Tension Experiment. Also like someone mentioned, in the Drum Kits and Percussive Equipment is very generous with text; a few images could help. This section also seems to have been not edited since 2009.
Discography: The Winery Dogs DVD (Unleashed in Japan) and the new Flying Colors album (Second Nature) aren't mentioned.
Awards: Portnoy won his 13th Modern Drummer Magazine Reader Polls "Best Progressive Drummer" award and two others (MVP, Recorded Performance) in 2014
There is also no mention of Progressive Nation at Sea (one of Mike's remarkable achievements). I suppose we could have a separate section for all the Progressive Nation events (2008, 2009 and 2014)
Can someone also include a tattoo section? Not on the top of the list of "things to be changed" though.
PS - I'm not a Wiki editor. Just thought I could give suggestions to improve this article. Thanks!
115.242.246.193 (talk) 05:54, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few changes needed: Photo, discography, awards 

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message: Just because he was in Dream Theater for 20 years doesn't mean he wouldn't have an article if he wasn't in Dream Theater. He's done work and contributed to many many other bands, but we can all agree DT was his biggest contribution. 
69.201.166.50 (talk) 16:17, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  ...Shouldn't there be a section on his twenty years with Dream Theater, aka the most significant part of his life by far and the reason he has an article? 

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message: --Tenebris078 (talk) 08:59, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Max Portnoy's New Band Added