Talk:Roger Meddows-Taylor
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The following comments were left by quality and importance raters: (edit - history - watch - purge) It looks like the article wants to blame the rest of QUEEN for not giving the importance that Roger Taylor would have deserved... I think it's a matter of point of view and that if he stayed in the band for so long it must have not been that hard for him... |
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There's usually an is-a relationship between the parenthesised text and subject in article names, as in "Queen (Band)" -> "Queen is a Band"; This makes "Roger Taylor (Queen)" slightly unfortunate. Also, he has a solo career entirely separate from Queen which would still be worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia without him having been part of Queen. Does anybody have any suggestions for a better way of formulating this article name (keeping in mind there are two famous drummers called Roger Taylor)? --fvw 20:14, 2004 Oct 13 (UTC)
- What about ranming both articles to Roger Taylor (Queen drummer) and Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer)? --xDCDx 12:40, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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- Possible, though it still doesn't address the fact that Roger Taylor also does solo work. Someone at the village pump came with the wonderful idea of just using their full names; Moving now… --fvw 15:46, 2004 Oct 14 (UTC)
I agree, how about we put "Queen's" Roger Taylor as Roger Meddows-Taylor and the "Duran Duran" Roger Taylor as just Roger Taylor? Billvoltage 21:35, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Neutrality
This article needs a lot of work in the neutrality department; removing stateents like "a staggering 7 albums" and "an amazing ability to...". — Deckiller 12:12, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I dunno, 7 albums whilst with still with Queen is pretty staggering. But the second quote is pretty expendable.--GiantSpider 16:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I agree that seven albums is staggering, but like GiantSpider mentioned, the "an amazing ability..." can go.Lucius funk 15:32, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Seven solo albums is remarkable, but the news does not overwhelm me with emotion or astonishment. It is not staggering. I have made a change which I think still captures the impressive nature without succumbing to hyperbole. Mooncow 23:15, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Style and orthography
Several sections need some work. I've done some cleaning up of some of the paragraphs under the "Cross" section, but more is needed, particularly with sorting out all the references to songs, albums, tracks and artists. A consistent bracketing style is needed for a start, and some of the sentences get a bit confused. Mooncow 23:15, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Life before Queen
From the article:
Smile were signed to a record label and released a promotional single in America. Two seemingly official releases by the band were made in 1982 and 1997.
These dates seem unlikely to me. Is this an error/vandalism? If not then it's pretty remarkable that this short-lived band released singles 30 years later. Perhaps the article can elaborate on this? --C-sonic 16:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Indeed, after writing it I see the confusion. But the Promo was released while the band was still going. The CDs were released when Queen had become in as probably an attempt to cash in on their fame by whoever owned the recordings.
http://www.queenpicturehall.com/singles/snon69e.shtml
http://www.queenpicturehall.com/albums/snongs.shtml
http://www.queenpicturehall.com/albums/snongoas.shtml For reference. GiantSpider 20:40, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
