Talk:Take a Vacation!

Take A Vacation! Cover Art

Yes, somebody have images and cover art of the album, please upload more than possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by UltraHeadShot (talk • contribs) 17:12, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

"Inspiration"

Firstly, my comments in the edit summary were fragmented to avoid going over the character limit. However, my English, or anyone else's for that matter, is irrelevant to the reasoning they provide for edits to Wikipedia. I ask that you remember this when editing. Secondly, the reference in question most certainly does use the word inspiration, but that does not change anything. As I said in my edit summary, to use the word "inspiration" we would need a source citing the band (or someone else involved who may have had ties to them during the writing process) as saying that themselves. This is due to the nature of the word. Also as noted in my edit summary, sounding similar is not the same as drawing inspiration from something. Regardless of what any reviewer says, it is not a reliable source for the claim being made in this case. Please make any retorts here instead of simply reverting. Dfsghjkgfhdg (talk) 10:05, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

It is not irrelevant. If you write something in bad English, that's not an improvement to the article. And it sounds like you want to substitute your opinion for the direct words of the sources; that's not a very encyclopedic attitude. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:40, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Whoah, there. I thought you were saying my English in my edit summary was bad. I'm pretty sure there wasn't anything wrong with my edit grammatically. Also, taking random sources making claims is not what Wikipedia is about. Wikipedia is about synthesizing claims made by authorities on the subject matter. A reviewer cannot be an authority on what inspired them in the writing process. Regardless of any parallels the reviewer draws in their music, it doesn't mean they actually did. The band (or someone who was there for the writing process) are the only ones that can give us that information. Without them saying it, the word "inspiration" is most certainly usable. In addition to that, the source that does actually use the word "inspiration" only mentioned 3 of the bands that the reference was being used for. I'd say you should invest a little more time in reading Wikipedia's policies before you go insulting others so heatedly. Furthermore, your current edit doesn't stand either. All we can say is that others have said that it is similar; we cannot actually assert that it is similar ourselves. As I said before, if you find any problems with this, then please respond here without reverting. If we keep having to go back and forth like this, I'm just going to do an RfC and be done with it. Dfsghjkgfhdg (talk) 17:34, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Ok, let's discuss this, since you have now made this change a third time and I don't want to get into an edit war. "Reviewers have noted the album as being similar to the music of" takes 12 words to convey something that is easily expressed in many fewer: "The music is similar to" or "The music is inspired by" or "The music is reminiscent of", whichever one prefers. It beats around the bush for too long and the reader gets tired of reading it before it ever gets to the point. In addition, it's a mismatched comparison: it's not the album that's similar, it's the music on the album. It's just bad writing. As for your argument that we can never assert anything directly but only say that someone else asserted it, that's just silly. If reviewers found it reminiscent of those other bands, then it is reminiscent of them, ipso facto: it did, in fact, remind them of the other bands. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:54, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

None of the alternatives that you listed work; we are only reporting what we can cite, which is that those reviewers note the music as being similar to that of the various acts mentioned. Similarly, no, we cannot say that it is reminiscent of a band (a global statement) unless we somehow have a source that reliably reports such (obviously impossible). Your point about the wording regarding "the album" versus stating that it's actually the music on the album is very true, though. Dfsghjkgfhdg (talk) 14:24, 27 June 2010 (UTC)