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Four-year anniversary of film's release. See [[WP:TFAR#January 19]]. Thanks. –[[User:Dream out loud|<span style="font-variant: small-caps">Dream&nbsp;out&nbsp;loud</span>]]&nbsp;<small>([[User talk:Dream out loud|talk]])</small> 02:04, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Four-year anniversary of film's release. See [[WP:TFAR#January 19]]. Thanks. –[[User:Dream out loud|<span style="font-variant: small-caps">Dream&nbsp;out&nbsp;loud</span>]]&nbsp;<small>([[User talk:Dream out loud|talk]])</small> 02:04, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

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Some articles not appearing in quality/importance assessments

Achtung Baby and Moment of Surrender are not appearing in the quality/importance assessments for this project. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of appears to be misbehaving, as well. Any ideas why?

There's a brief explanation here - WP:FAQ/Categories#Why might a category list not be up to date? The problem should have fixed itself by now. –Dream out loud (talk) 15:09, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Importance standards

The old WikiProject had a list of importance standards (which pages are top, high, med, or low), but I think that we should re-do them for this project. I deleted the old ones from the page, but of course I'd like to discuss it before implementing it. Here's what I think:

  • Top – Obviously the U2 article itself, plus all four band members, and the "most important" albums and songs (which would be further discussed on its own)
  • High – All remaining studio albums and singles, plus concert tours
  • Mid – All songs not already categorized, concert films, EPs, other albums/releases
  • Low – Any topics not directly related to U2, but owe part of its notability to the subject of the band (ex: Trash of the Titans, Anton Corbijn, etc.)

Other articles should not be included. With that being said, there are a lot of articles a part of the project that shouldn't be. I don't think that every single article that mentions U2 in some way should be included, and many articles should be re-assessed to see if they belong in this project. Please give me your thoughts. –Dream out loud (talk) 01:27, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds good to me, but the "most important" albums and songs seems a bit ambiguous. What qualifies something as top importance? What qualifies it as Low? I think that some songs which the band collaborated on but did not release under the U2 name (ex. "Do They Know It's Christmas", "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew", etc.) should probably fall under low class. MelicansMatkin (talk, contributions) 14:52, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA reassessment for Streets

I have posted a good article reassessment for Where the Streets Have No Name. You can see my reasoning in the listing. I think we should all pitch in and help clean this page up so it can keep its GA status. –Dream out loud (talk) 11:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

May want to take a look at Adam Clayton too; it's been about 3 years since that was made a GA, and it definitely needs a lot of work to stay at that standard. MelicansMatkin (talk, contributions) 05:06, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OS1 template for deletion

The template {{Original Soundtracks 1}} has been proposed for deletion. See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:Original Soundtracks 1. –Dream out loud (talk) 23:58, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It has been relisted because after 8 days i was the only one to comment. Whatever your thoughts be it would be nice to see some more input. Cheers delirious & lost~talk to her~ 04:38, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lee DeWyze's American Idol cover of "Beautiful Day"

There is currently a discussion underway at Talk:Beautiful Day#Lee DeWyze's American Idol cover on whether the cover of "Beautiful Day" by Lee DeWyze on American Idol should receive it's own section in the article. Comments are welcome. Melicans (talk, contributions) 01:17, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nominating Achtung Baby as Featured Article Candidate

I have just nominated Achtung Baby as a Featured Article candidate. You may contribute to the discussion by visiting the nomination page. Thanks. Y2kcrazyjoker4 (talk) 14:54, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion

A discussion has been opened at Talk:Original Soundtracks 1#Merger over whether to merge the articles on "Your Blue Room" and "Slug" into Original Soundtracks 1. Melicans (talk, contributions) 21:35, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Terrible layout

No offence to whoever revamped it, but this new layout is terrible and has been seriously irritating me for a very long time. It's impossible to edit any of the sections unless you go to the panels which, if you don't know where they are, gets very annoying very quickly. Hell, you can't even edit the List of members; is it any wonder there remain only three listed when it appears that we've closed ourselves off from any more additions? It's exceedingly user unfriendly, and I don't see why the revamp to these panels was even considered necessary in the first place. Can we at least figure out a way to make the various sections editable? It's a complete and unnecessary pain in the ass that seemingly serves no purpose other than to irritate and to make things as complicated as possible. Melicans (talk, contributions) 18:39, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll look into adding obvious edit links to individual components of the layout. Y2kcrazyjoker4 (talk) 21:45, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I've added edit links in every place where they are expected. Hopefully, that alleviates your concerns. Y2kcrazyjoker4 (talk) 13:17, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers; it is much easier to use now. Melicans (talk, contributions) 22:37, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion nomination for "Flowering Rose of Glastonbury"

I've nominated "Flowering Rose of Glastonbury" for deletion, as there is nothing to indicate this song has achieved notability yet. Please see the deletion nomination page. Thank you. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 17:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Setlists in tour articles?

I recently acquired the third (and most recent) edition of the book U2 Live: A Concert Documentary by De La Parra. It contains almost all the tour details from the early days to the Superbowl; the setlists are almost identical to that found on sites such as U2Gigs (although some setlists have been updated online since then), but in a book that can be used as a reliable source. There will be no fourth edition for some time as the author died during production of the third edition, although Axver of U2Gigs told me that it was possible he and Matthias would write the next edition in a few years time, which would make U2Gigs the online version of the book. Anyways, I am losing track and getting off of the point/suggestion I want to make.

Every setlist from the Joshua Tree onwards in complete in this book; the Unforgettable Fire Tour lacks a few setlists, and there are more gaps in knowledge the older one probes, but almost every setlist from the Unforgettable Fire Tour (and possibly the War Tour) onwards is included. What do people think about adding an additional column box in the tour date tables to incorporate all of the setlists. Everything from the Joshua Tree to the Elevation Tour could be added in this manner, and it could be kept shrunk for convenience sake using {{hidden begin}} and {{hidden end}}. I put forwards the suggestion only because with this book those details can all be reliably sourced. I recognize that it might be seen as cruft or as a long list of miscellaneous information, but I think that it might be worth having. What do you think? Melicans (talk, contributions) 06:32, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For example, this could be what it looks like (note that the below setlist examples are not accurate, just a demonstration):
Date City Country Venue Set
2 April 1987 Tempe United States Arizona State University Activity Center
"Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Where the Streets Have No Name", "One Tree Hill", "Exit", "Gloria", "I Will Follow", "With or Without You", "Party Girl", "Pride", "40"[1]
4 April 1987
"Bullet the Blue Sky", "Running to Stand Still", "Pride", "Twilight", "The Electric Co.", "MLK", "Bad", "Where the Streets Have No Name", "October", "One Tree Hill", "New Year's Day", "40"[2]
What do you think? Few other artists have had their touring history chronicled as fully as U2; I think that this is something that would really be worth looking into, at least for The Joshua Tree onwards. If I'm not mistaken, the Vertigo and 360 Tour's are covered on the band's website, so pretty much everything from 1987 on (possibly earlier) could be added. Melicans (talk, contributions) 06:42, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
To be honest, information like this doesn't seem to be very encyclopedic. Wikipedia does not need to be a collection of everything. If there is an external website that already has an entire history of every tour and every song played, why not link to it instead of replicating the information on Wikipedia? A comparable example would be sports statistics tables for professional athletes. It seems to be a consensus that yearly stats tables not be included in athletes' articles and that instead, their stats are linked to externally (e.g. ESPN.com, Baseball-Reference, NBA.com, etc). I find setlist information for every show to just be overkill. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 21:24, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I would read it... if nothing more than to satisfy some curiosities. However i think it is a bit much for WP. As much as i would appreciate it and could even help it would surely piss off someone else, kinda like the second half of my comment below on a quasi related matter. If one wanted to know they could just download most any concert or browse U2gigs. That said, if this goes ahead let me know where i can work on some.
I am actually popping in here because my watchlist was flooded with changes to every article on a U2 song thanks to koavf. Considering the band 99% of the time does the music as a collective and is credited as such is there really any bloody need to add a category for songs written by Adam on this fine sunday? For that matter Larry has a mere handful of songs outside of the band (that i know of) so would not these personal categories be "category cruft"? I sorely want to remove all of them but i don't use AWB so it would take me forever. If you don't want me hijacking a topic i'll just walk on. delirious & lost~hugs~ 04:44, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm supportive of the lists of dates. Very informative. I'm happy with them on either the tour page or on their own pages. That this info is somewhere else is irrelevant. Indeed, according to WP:OR and WP:V everything in wikipedia must be somewhere else.
as for all the new cats, I agree it's overdone (and I'm surprised I still have quite a few u2 articles on my watchlist). --Merbabu (talk) 05:46, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
ps - if one wanted to remove cats, one could simply "rollback" the edits. --Merbabu (talk) 05:57, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm also here because of the cats. I think adding Category:Songs written by U2 would be sufficient, and would allow things like All Along the Watchtower to only be in Category:U2 songs. Explicit entries in Category:Songs written by Bono could be reserved for the few odd cases like Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) where there isn't a group credit, and then joined by a parent relationship to Category:Songs written by U2 (since every song written by U2 is also written by Bono). Ditto for the Edge.
As for the setlists, I understand the motivation and I'm almost always in favor of more information not less, but I'm against adding them. The tour date lists are already arguably borderline violations of WP:NOTDIR, the attendance and grosses figures for each date moreso, and a setlist for each date seems definitely across the line to me. Wasted Time R (talk) 10:57, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merbabu, I don't think anyone here is going to argue against the list of dates, it is the inclusion of set lists that seems to be the point of contention. Indeed, I think this information would violate WP:NOTDIR, WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:EVERYTHING, etc. Even though all information needs to be available somewhere else before it is added to Wikipedia, there is a certain threshold to what should and shouldn't be included. Set lists for individual shows, I believe, crosses that line. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 11:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
And for the record, I also do not like all these category edits. As Wasted Time pointed out, if you create a Category:Songs written by U2, you can include Category:Songs written by "x band member" as a sub-category to prevent these waves of editing. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 11:10, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Lists of tour dates on the articles for the respective tours would be ok by myself. Separate pages purely for lists of tour dates tend to find their way to being tagged for out of project scope / general notability / afd. Set lists, while most certainly readily available and referenceable, would push the matter of including everything to its limit.
Category:Songs written by Bono would include songs such as Silver and Gold and Falling at Your Feet, and GoldenEye (song) were they to have their own articles. Oddly enough, for the sweeping edits of 129 songs edited on average 4 times (500+ edits) that flooded my watchlist last night GoldenEye was not categorised. :P Category:Songs written by Larry Mullen, Jr. would have Put 'Em Under Pressure if one is liberal in defining writing. But Adam did not write "Van Diemen's Land" and Category:Songs written by Salman Rushdie was not created for The Ground Beneath Her Feet (song). In hindsight i really should have split this into its own section instead of hijacking the setlists and treating both as a "too much?" discussion. Rolling back non-vandalism is outside of the permitted use of the feature, but it is tempting on these categories. If there are no songs specifically written by Adam and Larry does anyone want to get the categories deleted and create Category:Songs written by U2? Apparently there is the option to empty the categories outside of any process and have them deleted 4 days later. So far i can find no other band who has categories for song writing by each member of said band. delirious & lost~hugs~ 21:10, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Since U2 generally credits music and lyrics separately, someone could get ambitious and use Category:Songs written by U2 for the music and Category:Songs with lyrics by Bono (and the same sometimes for the Edge), akin to all the lyricists in Category:Songs by lyricist. Most of these are from the 'standards' era, however, although a few are Brill Building (Category:Songs with lyrics by Gerry Goffin) or more recent (Category:Songs with lyrics by Marilyn Bergman). This option seems like a bit much to me though. Wasted Time R (talk) 01:16, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

U2 3D copyedit

U2 3D just failed its first FA nom due to a needed copyediting. I think that the admins were a little quick to fail the nomination and didn't even give us a chance to fix it up. I personally think that failing the article because some words needed to be changed around was a little uncalled for and a few minor edits could have solved the problem. But anyway, a copyedit needs to be done and it should to be done by someone who hasn't contributed much to the article. After two and half years of working on the article I think I've done all about I can do with it, so I'm basically done editing the article. It seems perfect to me, but apparently the rest of Wikipedia doesn't feel the same way. So if the article is going to become featured, someone else on here (Wikipedia in general, not just this project) is going to have to step in. –Dream out loud (talk) 06:54, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Having followed the nomination, it seemed to me like the sections they cited for improvement were just select examples. Overall, I think they were correct in saying the article was in need of copyedit, which I attempted to do during the nomination (but alas, time ran out). Having been through numerous FAC nominations myself, the reviewers' stringency to pass the article didn't seem out of place. In any case, I will take another look at the article and try to review it from head to toe again. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 12:58, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Passengers article

What do we think about a Passengers article? I'm referring to a new article, separate from Original Soundtracks 1. I think we could add some new material to a new article that wouldn't exactly fit in the OS1 article. Discussions about how/why the project was formed, why the project dissolved, the group's live performances (as Passengers and later as U2), inspiration given/received (if any), etc. Of course there would be mentioning of the OS1 album in that article, there would be much more information not relating to the album. I'm willing to contribute if someone else starts it up, but only if we think it's a good idea. –Dream out loud (talk) 05:17, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I started one in a sandbox during the failed FAC for "Slug", but life got so hectic for me that I haven't gotten around to doing any real work on it besides the infobox and one paragraph of text. I've been meaning to improve OS1 for the longest time too, but just haven't had enough time to really do anything about it... Melicans (talk, contributions) 16:07, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think a Passengers article separate from OST1 would be completely redundant. Anything that needs to be said about U2/Eno's experimentation can be included in the article about the album. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 17:30, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

U2 articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Anybody here able to read music?

By which I mean sheet music. I purchased an (official) book which has the sheet music for all the songs of The Joshua Tree; guitar and bass. I'm looking to add the information in it to "Mothers of the Disappeared", but of course I don't actually know how to read music myself. It's definitely the last thing the article needs before FAC. Anyone who can read sheet music able to help? Melicans (talk, contributions) 00:28, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I never saw this post when it was originally made - but I'm willing to transcribe any sheet music details that you would want for any article on a Joshua Tree song. I'm not completely literate with sheet music, but I can probably pick out the important details. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 01:17, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, sorry, I missed your response. What I'm hoping to do is something like we did for "City of Blinding Lights" in the first two (or three if you count the lone sentence) paragraphs in Composition. Can you give me a quick email? I'll send you the details that way. Melicans (talk, contributions) 06:55, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nom

I've listed Wide Awake in Europe to be featured in Did you know?. See the entry here WP:TDYK#Articles created/expanded on October 29 and please comment. Thanks! –Dream out loud (talk) 21:34, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject U2/members

I have nominated Wikipedia:WikiProject U2/members and two other related unused subpages of this WikiProject for deletion. If you want, comment on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject U2/members. Svick (talk) 13:51, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

I think that Hasta la Vista Baby! U2 Live from Mexico City and Zoo TV Live should be merged into PopMart: Live from Mexico City, and Zoo TV: Live from Sydney, respectively. Both albums are just album versions of the concert videos, and there isn't too much that can be said about them, except for the fact that they're fan-club exclusive releases. This makes sense because there is only one article for U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland, despite there was a video and album release. –Dream out loud (talk) 19:06, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree - if we were to expand these articles into FA, they would both describe the circumstances of those particular concerts and their recordings, and that would pretty much be duplicate information. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 01:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, no objections here either. Melicans (talk, contributions) 04:05, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

U2 3D FAC

U2 3D is still undergoing its FAC. It was recently started over by a user who could not "make any sense" of it, so all previous comments were erased. If you already posted comments or support, then please do so again because the FAC has basically been "reset". If you didn't get a chance to comment yet, please do so, I'd appreciate as a user and as a member of this project. –Dream out loud (talk) 21:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would throw my support in, but I think I've contributed too much to give a partial, un-biased vote. As such, I will refrain from giving my support in the FAC, but I will continue to monitor the nomination and help address any issues that may be identified. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 14:11, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Have you left any messages at WP:FILM or WP:ROCK about the FAC? It can be a bit of a longshot, but sometimes that will attract more editors who will give their input. Melicans (talk, contributions) 06:57, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
WP:FILM has it listed on its list of FACs on its main page, so posting on the talk page there would be redundant, but I did leave a message at WP:ROCK. –Dream out loud (talk) 20:51, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Mothers of the Disappeared"

I've pretty much finished with "Mothers of the Disappeared". I think that all of the details that could be expected to be included in the article are there, so I'll soon be nominating it at FAC. I probably won't do that until March as I'll be away for a good chunk of time at the end of February, and the FAC process seems to take at least a month nowadays. In the meantime, if anyone with fresh eyes would be willing to give it a look over and many any tweaks or adjustments that they feel are necessary, it would be very much appreciated. Melicans (talk, contributions) 07:22, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

U2 360° Tour

Now that the U2 360° Tour has ended, I was able to get it featured under the "In the news" section on the Main Page. But the article has really deteriorated over time, and I know at one point there was talks of nominating it for GA-status, but I think it really needs a lot of work. I hate to see that this project is tagged as "semi-active", so I think collaborating on this article and getting it to GA-status would be a great way to get ourselves more active. –Dream out loud (talk) 18:57, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think first things first, we need to make sure the entire article is no longer in present tense, but rather in past tense, since it is no longer ongoing. After that, I think we need to make sure the setlist overview reflects the last few legs. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 12:20, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Exit" composition

I can't recall who helped me with the 'song walkthrough' in the composition section of "City of Blinding Lights" and "Mothers of the Disappeared" (I'm so sorry! I have a horrible memory!), but I've just recreated an article for "Exit" and would like to do it again. I have the transcripts but can't read music (I don't even know how to tell what the key is), so if someone who can would be willing to help me with this I would be eternally grateful. Melicans (talk, contributions) 01:46, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto that request on "One Tree Hill"; I have all the information we need for it, I just don't know how to read it. Melicans (talk, contributions) 18:46, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Great job on Exit! Let's get a DYK nom for this. –Dream out loud (talk) 18:52, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Already done ;-). Melicans (talk, contributions) 19:24, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like all of our hard work is going to somebody's profit

[1]. Melicans (talk, contributions) 20:11, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that's what Books LLC does. They take free content on Wikipedia then print it and sell it on Amazon.com. What a bunch of chumps. –Dream out loud (talk) 07:11, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great interview with Bono

Just found an archive of a great interview with Bono by Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner in 2005. The audio and text segments are different. Has some really cool stuff on Zooropa, and a few other things that might be worth adding. Melicans (talk, contributions) 20:27, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's quite an interview! I have exactly one copy of an issue of Rolling Stone from beyond last year, and that just happens to be the one. I've saved it for reference purposes, but it looks like now that this entire thing is online, it'll be even easier to use. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 04:39, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good/featured topic

I think there is a really good chance of making both The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby good (or perhaps even featured) topic:

The Joshua Tree Achtung Baby
"Where the Streets Have No Name" "Zoo Station"
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" "Even Better Than the Real Thing"
"With or Without You" "One"
"Bullet the Blue Sky" "Until the End of the World"
"Running to Stand Still" "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses"
"Red Hill Mining Town" "So Cruel"
"In God's Country" "The Fly"
"Trip Through Your Wires" "Mysterious Ways"
"One Tree Hill" "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World"
"Exit" "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)"
"Mothers of the Disappeared" "Acrobat"
"Love Is Blindness"

At first glance it doesn't seem like a lot of GAs/FAs, but "Exit", "Acrobat", "One", "ISHFWILF", and "WOWY" are all on the cusp of GA and would probably be promoted with minimal changes if nominated. "EBTTRT" and "WGRYWH" would probably get up there without a massive amount of extra work. The rest would take more time, but the information is almost certainly out there to get them all, even articleless "TTYW", up to at least GA. Is this something you guys want to push towards? Melicans (talk, contributions) 14:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd certainly be up for it, although I have to admit I'm not very good (or interested) in expanding the "Live performances" sections of song articles. That seems like something you are much better at. We might get some good information for the Achtung Baby song articles after From the Sky Down is released. I've been busy these last few weeks, but I project having more free time sometime soon. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 20:15, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
From what I've heard (I don't know how accurate it is) there is some really good information in the film on Love Is Blindness, so that is definitely one I will be starting a sandbox for soon (probably after the weekend since it is Thanksgiving). Hopefully there will be some stuff on Horses, So Cruel, and Tryin' too. I'm surprised that there apparently isn't anything in FTSD on UTEOTW, but there's probably more than enough coverage in secondary sources for that particular song. Melicans (talk, contributions) 20:57, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've seen the film now. There are clips of U2 performing So Cruel, EBTTRT, Zoo Station, and Wild Horses, but no discussion on them. Acrobat, Ultraviolet, TTTYAATW, UTEOTW, are not mentioned at all. There is a little bit of discussion (about 2 minutes worth) on Edge's failed marriage set over him singing Love Is Blindness. There is a little bit on The Fly, mainly discussing how Bono created the persona so he could sing it so honestly (describing it as his armour). Mysterious Ways is featured a little bit, but in the time when it was known as Sick Puppy and only while explaining how One came about, which is the highlighted song in the film. The majority of the film doesn't actually talk too much about any of the songs they came up with in the end. Most of it is the misinterpretation of Rattle and Hum by critics and how they really felt after its failure, how that led them to Hansa, and the creative difficulties they had there until One came about. One, The Fly, and maybe Love Is Blindness are probably the only songs we could add information on from the film; possibly Bono and Zoo TV Tour too since it talks about the creation of The Fly alterego. Melicans (talk, contributions) 15:46, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A few more have become GA/FA since this section was started, which I've updated above. But on that note, a few of them ("So Cruel" and "Acrobat" in particular, maybe "Exit" and "Love Is Blindness" too) are heavy on the theme and very weak on the critical response. There's probably a lot of stuff I've missed (particularly from music journals), so if anyone has any reception that could be added to them it would be awesome. Melicans (talk, contributions) 06:17, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Achtung Baby nominated for "Today's Featured Article - November 19"

Just a courtesy that I've nominated Achtung Baby as "Today's Featured Article" for Nov. 19. With any luck, this will get supports and officially be scheduled. Please review the TFA blurb to make sure the prose is OK. Thanks. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 15:37, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Achtung Baby has officially been scheduled as Today's Featured Article for November 19. Please see the blurb to make sure everything is OK before the article goes on the front page. Thanks. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 23:34, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback requested

Please see here Thanks. —Justin (koavf)T☮C☺M☯ 09:14, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

U2 3D for TFA

Four-year anniversary of film's release. See WP:TFAR#January 19. Thanks. –Dream out loud (talk) 02:04, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject U2 invitation

This is an open invitation to join Wikipedia:WikiProject U2! If you would like to collaborate on articles under this projects scope, you are encouraged to participate!

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Project U2 member list
  1. Melicans (talk · contribs) 14:11, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Dream out loud (talk · contribs) 16:35, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Pjoef (talk · contribs) 16:43, 10 February 2008 (UTC) The 80s, from Boy to Rattle and Hum plus the ONE Campaign[reply]
  4. Y2kcrazyjoker4 (talk · contribs) 03:05, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Lemurbaby (talk · contribs) 03:01, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Difop (talk · contribs) 20:26, 19 October 2012 (WEST)
  7. Miss Bono (talk · contribs) 11:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC) The entire career of the band plus Bono and Ali Hewson.[reply]
  8. Cullen328 (talk · contribs) 22:10, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Teancum (talk · contribs) 14:08, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  10. PBASH607 (talk · contribs) 03:13, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Mayast (talk · contribs) 19:32, 5 February 2014 (UTC) Upcoming songs and album (2014)[reply]
  12. c_meindl (talk · contribs) 10:45, 6 February 2014 Taking a WikiPedia class and had to join a WikiProject. I am interested in supplementing song stubs and articles!
  13. atuldeshmukh1 (talk · contribs)
  14. Calidum (talk · contribs) Wish I had seen this sooner. 01:00, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Fylbecatulous (talk · contribs) returning to active status; just based on a feeling... Fylbecatulous talk 15:44, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  16. [[User:<Pushandturn>|<Pushandturn>]] ([[User talk:<Pushandturn>|talk]] · [[Special:Contribs/<Pushandturn>|contribs]]) 00:57, 1 May 2019 (UTC) optional: Im a longtime U2 fan and I went to the U2 360 tour and love sharing their music!

Miss Bono (talk) 17:44, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ De La Parra (2002), p. example
  2. ^ De La Parra (2002), p. example2
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