Talk:List of bass guitarists

message: Could we please remove the reference to 'four string mother fucker'? It seems to me that young children might be reading this. Do we really want to be explaining to them what that means (assuming they don't already know?) Brequinda 08:48, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have to say I have a problem with the title of this article. The page is a list of bassists or bass players, or at least those that have reached great heights playing electric bass. They are not considered great guitarists. In the discussion on the bass guitar vs electric bass one comment was the memory of Jaco Pastorius was discounted by refering to him as a guitarist. I agree with that comment.
Should the page title be List of Modern or Contemporary Bassists?
Ozbass, 30 June 2005
No.  The point of the article is that it's people who play the bass guitar, as opposed to double bass, etc.  A "bassist" is a general term for someone who plays a bass, whichever kind, but this is a list of bass guitarists.  Jaco was both a bassist and primarily a bass guitarist, as double basses fell apart in the climate he lived in.
60.231.213.206 (talk) 04:59, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the Article Title Wrong? 

message: The place for him in "W" says that he played bass for Beck on Go It Alone for his latest album Guero, which is true. It also says that he played bass for several White Stripes songs, which is false, as The White Stripes do not feature bass at all in their songs. So whoever put in the latter is dumb. --S-man 09:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jack White 

message: It seems that a lot of non-notables have been added to the list recently, or I've just become more aware of it anyway.  The first lines of the page say:
Can I propose that this is amended to say that any entry that doesn't either have their own page or a mention in their band's page will be removed?
For example, the opening lines of the list of guitarists page are a little more unambiguous, and its embedded comments
leaves editors with no doubt as to what the policy is.  I think that we should adopt the same policy here, as I don't think that it's terribly practical to have to trawl Google, Amazon etc for evidence to see whether or not someone is a notable musician every time someone enters the name of their mate in the highschool band.  Of course that doesn't deal with people who create their own vanity pages, but I think that's another issue.-- Chris (blather • contribs)  12:26, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My suggestion doesn't seem to have generated a great deal of excitement so far (funny, that!)  Can I say that if there're no objections by, say, friday the 8th that I'll go ahead with the proposal to change the guidelines for who should and who shouldn't be added?  Just to reiterate, I'm not planning anything outlandish, just to implement the same policy that the guitarists page uses, since ours isn't very clear at present.—Chris (blather • contribs)  18:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am late reading your post but will add a quick comment. The nowiki rules don't exactly stop NN's from being added(everyone likes to self-promote) to the List of guitarists article. But at least they let the editor know what's going to happen if they drop a red link in. I notice the same thing in the Guitar/Bass model articles which all seem to contain "notable player" lists. These lists tend to spiral into POV favourite lists if they aren't monitored. I'd say go ahead and post the rules. At least then the law will be laid when it comes to dead links. I have this page in my VandalProof watch window. I will check in to see that the rules don't get deleted once they're added in. Cheers Anger22 00:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the comment; I hadn't thought about the possibility of someone changing the guidelines back...  I'll wait 'til the end of the week to see if anyone else wants to comment before making any changes.  Cheers,—Chris (blather • contribs)  11:58, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Okay, since there were no objections, I've done that now: I've just used the wording of the existing comment at the top of the article (the one that I even missed myself) and displayed it under the "this list is incomplete" message; hopefully it's not too obtrusive but still noticeable.  As with the list of guitarists, I've also added the notice as a comment at the beginning and end of each section.  It probably won't stop people adding themselves because they're in a school band, but at least now they can't say they weren't warned when they're removed again!—Chris (blather • contribs)  10:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-notables 

message: I've just noticed a clearly vandalising edit made apparently by me some time ago, which I had absolutely no knowledge of and don't know how it was made in my name. I know most people probably won't care but this annoyed me when I found it since not only would I never do anything like this, the edit blanked a previous, legitimate edit of mine. Again, I'm sure it doesn't matter, I just wanted to clear my name and make sure nothing came of it.
Offski 23:51, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism?

message: Hi, I added a bunch of bassists out there. Many are from metal bands, but they are also from other sorts of rock bands. If someone is unhappy with the edits done, talk to me. All of the 52 bassists I added are on Wikipedia or have their band on Wikipedia. 
--Zouavman Le Zouave 21:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits by Zouavman Le Zouave 

message: I've changed the heading to "Only add names here if the person has their own article - anything else will be removed" as list is getting too many red links or no links at all. I've just looked back to how the list was last year and it was such a mess - I think it's a lot better now and that peoples hard work is paying off. INXS-Girl 17:51, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Change

message: I added Justin Meldal-Johnsen; bass player known best for his work with Beck. I also linked to Beck in parentheses... it seemed succinct enough to just list it as that. I also put him under J, before remembering the Meldal-. Anyway, it should be correct, but if anything is wrong, don’t hesitate to change it. Kikimm (talk) 21:22, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Justin Meldal-Johnsen 

message: I would like to see how many bass players were the frontman or lead singer for their band/group. There are not that many and is kind of interesting when you see one: Geddy Lee (Rush), Sting (The Police), Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Les Claypool (Primus). Would there be a problem with indicating this somehow, like using an asterisk or something?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BillyNair (talk • contribs) 19:53, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The above list is incomplete: Mark King and Phil Lynott come to mind, to name just a couple... JezGrove (talk) 22:19, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, meant to also mention Jack Bruce. JezGrove (talk) 22:22, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead Singer/Frontman