Sum 41 on wikipedia

[LTS]

well; i'm an avid wikipedian; and i'm kind of disappointed that the English wikipedia's entry on Sum 41 isn't that great.

The italian version is a featured article.

Let's all work together and find anything on sum 41 and collect references. the article needs more references.

go to the article. find an unreferenced claim.

find a reference for it.

update the article...

we can do it!

[LTS]

For what reason? You are bored, aren't you?:P

yes. and i think since we are all sum 41 fanatics (minus a few of us who aren't going to be named at the moment)
we should do whatever we can for sum 41.
and having a good wikipedia article means just that.

if it's a featured article; more people will look at it and there will be people who have never heard of them who get to hear about them (and with my awesomeness; i managed to get Sum 41 passed for the WIkipedia CD.. that means the little kiddies at school can learn about the sums!)

[Pedro]

I see lots of "Citation needed" thingies but I cant find articles to prove teh statements

[I'm A Cunt [*banned*]]

Someone would just fuck our hard work up.


lol, i remember the "Fart knock song"

[LTS]

Someone would just fuck our hard work up.


lol, i remember the "Fart knock song"

oh noes; i'll make sure that nobody would fuck up any hard work...

i've reverted sooooo much vandalism for that article it isn't even funny

[punkrock101]

i wanted to do this 2 months ago (cause i was bored too), but was too lazy to do so

[Dan]

Actually, i think its a good time to stuck this in.

sum41.wikia.com

I put some work into this a couple of weeks ago, and sort of left it to die. If anybody would like to take over, or add some articles, please do

Make it the definative Sum 41 reference!

[Boni]

Actually, i think its a good time to stuck this in.

sum41.wikia.com

I put some work into this a couple of weeks ago, and sort of left it to die. If anybody would like to take over, or add some articles, please do

Make it the definative Sum 41 reference!

I like what you've done so far, but why did you stop?

[Dan]

I didnt have much free time to work on it.

All i did was steal articles from wikipedia and copy lyrics off TNS.

I wanted to put some proper work into it, but i didnt have the effort.

[Bobbyjames]

Someone would just fuck our hard work up.


lol, i remember the "Fart knock song"

i suggest not letting me or tomhoppus work on this then. lol

[tomhoppus]

Someone would just fuck our hard work up.


lol, i remember the "Fart knock song"

i suggest not letting me or tomhoppus work on this then. lol

[CIRCUITzach]

how do u do it just hafe 23956782697236973 people look at the page?

[LTS]

i like the idea of that sum 41 wiki thing; but only if we can make it really good. i wouldn't want every single one to be copied from wikipedia; we would have to copy all the syntaxes and the album; single; and song templates; plus a couple other templates.

but it's a copy word for word of the wikipedia article.

Since we are the greatest sums fansite; we can add a bunch of stuff to it that wouldn't be allowed on wikipedia if unsourced; and even possibly use the sum 41 wiki as a reference in the wikipedia article.

also; we can blast it with media (audio samples; images; even probably video maybe?)
since we can't really do that in the main wikipedia because of fair use and copyright and all that jazz

[Boni]

i like the idea of that sum 41 wiki thing; but only if we can make it really good. i wouldn't want every single one to be copied from wikipedia; we would have to copy all the syntaxes and the album; single; and song templates; plus a couple other templates.

but it's a copy word for word of the wikipedia article.

Since we are the greatest sums fansite; we can add a bunch of stuff to it that wouldn't be allowed on wikipedia if unsourced; and even possibly use the sum 41 wiki as a reference in the wikipedia article.

also; we can blast it with media (audio samples; images; even probably video maybe?)
since we can't really do that in the main wikipedia because of fair use and copyright and all that jazz

That is a really good idea

[Dan]

but it's a copy word for word of the wikipedia article.

I know, I did say that I copied it a few posts up.
The article on the band is going to be one of the biggest articles on the site. It was one i needed to put first, so everything would grow around it, and i really couldnt be bothered to write an article that big myself.

And now, looking at the wiki this morning, i see 'D-wib is the lead siner of the sumz ' which was written by Luke The Spook.

Luke, I appreciate you writing articles, but if your not going to be constructive, don't bother.

[LTS]

but it's a copy word for word of the wikipedia article.

I know, I did say that I copied it a few posts up.
The article on the band is going to be one of the biggest articles on the site. It was one i needed to put first, so everything would grow around it, and i really couldnt be bothered to write an article that big myself.

And now, looking at the wiki this morning, i see 'D-wib is the lead siner of the sumz ' which was written by Luke The Spook.

Luke, I appreciate you writing articles, but if your not going to be constructive, don't bother.

yeah; i was waaaaaay to bored. Bad things happen when i'm bored. I'll work on being contructive later... when i get even more bored

[TomiT14]

All i did was steal articles from wikipedia and copy lyrics off TNS.

http://theresnosolution.com/forum/viewt ... 222#p83799

...This took a lot of time and effort to complete, since I listened to all the songs many times (also in slow motion), word-by-word (even made sure about every single 'a' and 'the'), and so I could get all the backing vocals too...

IMPORTANT!

-Please, DO NOT post these lyrics elsewhere. I really put some time and effort to this, so let's make this exclusive for TNS!

Maybe the fact that I've had a bad day could have some influence on my mood, but I found it little bit frustrating to see my work flowing around the net.
Yes, I did see this coming, but not from a member of this forum (no offense by any means) to make a step.
And as the lyrics spread to one site, they will spread very fast around the net.

And yes, technically they are the lyrics from Sum 41 songs, so they are not MY lyrics. But before I wrote them all down, no one had figured out (or at least posted) the backing vocals of T.H.T., Confusion And Frustration, Speak Of The Devil, Open Your Eyes or many others. I'm not saying I'm the genious, but without my effort they'd still be mostly unknown.

So I'd appreciate it if you could remove my versions of the lyrics from your wiki site.
We have an excellent Sum 41 fansite here in TNS, so IMO it's great enough to have the correct lyrics only at one place.
Also, I understand that these lyrics are now property of TNS, and it's great. But still, the staff were nice to give me the credit for them. So, if you don't see the deletion of the lyrics from your site as a possibility, the least I ask for is to give me the credit for them.

And I see I make this bigger deal than it is, so I'm sorry if I offended you or anyone else. I used countless of hours for TNS to have 100% complete lyrics, so I just don't like to see it getting spread without my permission (which might be too much to ask for since they are now property of TNS) or giving me the credit.

[Dan]

I see your point.

And because i'm feeling nice, I'll take them down.

*Edit* I've just removed the lyrics for AKNF, but now i've got to go. Tomi (or anybody for that matter) if you'd like to remove the rest of the lyrics, that would be greatly appreciated.

[LTS]

we can have the lyrics; just find another place to copy and paste from

or... i think we should have the 'official' lyrics; straight from the booklet (even though the booklet lyrics are slightly wrong..) and have a disclaimer saying that these are the official lyrics found in the booklets and may not be 100% accurate

but we definately need lyrics one way or another; because that's takign advantage of the fact that it isn't wikipedia; so we don't have to follow copyright rules and stuff.

[LTS]

The article has almost met "Good article" criteria; for a list of what needs to be done to finish it; see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sum_41/GA1

Sadly, we can't use TNS for sources, which sucks because there's some stuff that the only place i could find it was on the TNS news thing..

maybe the admins of tns that originally posted the news stories can help by posting there original sources.


the article is so close to passing and i would hate for it to fail simply because i couldn't find sources for some things...

(If worst comes to worse; the information can just be removed from the article)