User talk:Zmbro

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Your good article nomination of the article Load (album) is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of SignedInteger -- SignedInteger (talk) 14:05, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Your decision to revert was good, not sure if you're aware but these edits come from an LTA who has been blocked several times. They have a bunch of technical tells (which is why I know that was them) but their general preoccupation is insisting on vandalizing the term "neo-Nazi" into articles with 0 sources, often of random CEOs and celebrities they don't like, then concern trolling about it when confronted.

Going forward, just revert them for block evasion, debate is useless. No matter what source you bring up, they aren't satisfied, they will misrepresent sources, then admit it don't say this, and then when you call them out will imply you're whitewashing secret neo-Nazi cabals. They have been doing this for several months, and may continue targeting the Bowie page. Just wanted to make you aware. PARAKANYAA (talk) 17:14, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

PARAKANYAA I appreciate the heads up. The only reason I didn't revert to begin with was that I neglected to see the original revert, and no one had reverted the post I responded to by the time I replied (thinking it was real). I'll keep an eye out for the future and not waste my time with this shit. Thanks! – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 17:16, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Load (album) has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of SignedInteger -- SignedInteger (talk) 02:26, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Reload (Metallica album) is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of SignedInteger -- SignedInteger (talk) 02:44, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Reload (Metallica album) has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of SignedInteger -- SignedInteger (talk) 04:43, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello there. This is a courtesy notification to let you know that I've just blanked-and-redirected the articles "Sense of Doubt" and "Neuköln" to "Heroes" (album), since neither song seemed to have any significant coverage outside of mentions in Bowie biographies or coverage about "Heroes". As the person who got the album to GA, you are likely the editor with the most knowledge about whether this sort of significant coverage does exist at all for these songs; if so, feel free to reverts these BLARs. Leafy46 (talk) 21:24, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Hallo Spaceboy is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Ceoil -- Ceoil (talk) 21:46, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for all of your wonderful work - it was such a delightful brightness to see Ziggy Stardust on main page today. You rock. Netherzone (talk) 01:46, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you today for Life on Mars?, "about... David Bowie's 1971 masterpiece "Life on Mars?". Take two, electric boogaloo. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:40, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you both so much! Appreciate the kind words :-) – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 17:08, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

On 5 February 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Load (album), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the cover artworks for Metallica's Load and Reload were created by mixing blood with semen and urine, respectively? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Reload (Metallica album). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Load (album)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

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JuniperChill (talk) 00:07, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

On 5 February 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Reload (Metallica album), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the cover artworks for Metallica's Load and Reload were created by mixing blood with semen and urine, respectively? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Reload (Metallica album). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Reload (Metallica album)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

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Your good article nomination of the article Hallo Spaceboy has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Ceoil -- Ceoil (talk) 00:09, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi, zmbro. I'm just posting to let you know that List of songs recorded by the Smiths – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for March 18, 2026. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. --PresN 02:48, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your work on Elvis Costello. I agree that it is not GA status (yet.)

His appearances on Saturday Night Live were mentioned in three places. This seems unnecessary. I merged them.

Bob Dylan has a Featured Article, and rightly. Without GAs are those who followed in his happy wake: Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and Elvis Costello. One thing at a time...

I love this quote, on the influences of Armed Forces: "If you're sitting in a station wagon driving from Atlanta to Madison, Wisconsin and listening to Bowie's Low and Heroes and Iggy Pop's The Idiot and ABBA's Greatest Hits over and over again, that's the kind of record you'll make!" Hollis Hurlbut (talk) 02:49, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Hollis Hurlbut These things take time. I still have a bunch of work to do at David Bowie (already an FA) to bring that article up to modern standards. Problem is, I have other hobbies that gets in the way of WP, as well as other projects and the like. For the future, do NOT nominate articles for GA (and especially FA) unless you've reviewed the GA criteria. Costello's article should have been a given: dozens of uncited paragraphs, a refs needed tag, and improper sources. For example, the wiki fan site is not a reliable source (which you cited in this edit). Furthermore, in this edit, you did not provide enough info (see Template:Cite comic). And that only covers sources; Costello's article needs much more on prose writing, musical influences, his jumping from genre to genre, and songwriting style to be even close to GA, but I think it's doable, especially while he's still alive. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 18:20, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Strunk and White write "If those who have studied the art of writing are in accord on any one point, it is this: the surest way to arouse and hold the reader’s attention is by being specific, definite, and concrete." I have tried to that. There was mention of the Byrds influencing Costello's interest in country music. The album was Sweetheart of the Rodeo. I added it. I have tried to say more with less, as brevity is the soul of wit (the character who says that, Polonius, is long-winded, so that was a joke on Shakespeare's part. Never mind.) I also added quotes around Bowie's "Heroes" (I heard Philip Glass's "Heroes" symphony on the radio this morning. Synchronicity?

I have not read Costello's Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, though I want to. His songwriting is specific, definite and concrete. (I have read Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One. Well-written, but don't expect a lot of answers.)

The article is far from perfect but, as Lennon and McCartney said, getting better. Hollis Hurlbut (talk) 15:14, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

I do think the article is getting better. It used to say Costello "neither particularly liked or disliked Presley". I do not think someone who was ambivalent about Elvis would record King of America with two of Presley's sidemen.

I think detail is worth adding. I think it's notable that "Watching the Detectives" was inspired by The Clash's debut and by Bernard Herrmann's Hitchcock scores, as that shows Costello's eclectic affinities. Hollis Hurlbut (talk) 18:00, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

It is, but a few minor additions and copyedits will not make it a GA. The article still needs restructuring and an overhaul of sources (particularly in the 2000s era). I would like to see more analysis of his consistent genre-hopping and collaborations, as that feels particularly weak. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 20:26, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Agreed, the more recent sections seem weaker. What structural changes do you recommend?

There was mention of him playing with Green Day. Interesting, I guess, but I'm not sure it's encyclopedically significant. Some things were mentioned redundantly, in many places, like R. White's "Secret Lemonade Drinker" ad. That seems important enough to mention once. Hollis Hurlbut (talk) 23:46, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

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User:NegativeMP1 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

When I checked the Hall of Fame, and did not find Zmbro (talk · contribs · count · logs) anywhere, I was appalled. Of all editors who work primarily on music articles, Zmbro is among those whose repertoire I look up to the most. With a grand total of 13 featured articles, 17 featured lists, and 69 good articles, his work includes a topic for every single studio album by David Bowie , of which all I believe he promoted (or at least most), multiple songs by Bowie (including Life on Mars? and, one of my personal favorites, "Heroes" (David Bowie song)), multiple albums by Bruce Springsteen (including the FAs Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run), and multiple song lists (including the Beatles, Daft Punk, and Led Zeppelin). He's also reviewed a great number of nominations, including some of my own, to which I will say that he is an incredible reviewer and has even helped add content I initially missed . On multiple occasions, I have checked one or more of the articles he has worked on as a frame of reference on how to structure my own contributions. And with as expansive and impressive of a list of works as his, I can't imagine I'm the only one. This nomination was seconded by TechnoSquirrel69 and Gog the Mild.

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Zmbro

Editor of the Week for the week beginning March 22, 2026

Zmbro's extensive and high-quality work on Wikipedia's music articles over the years is applauded. With a grand total of 13 featured articles, 17 featured lists, and 69 good articles, his work includes a topic for every single studio album by David Bowie , multiple songs by Bowie (including Life on Mars? and "Heroes" (David Bowie song)), multiple albums by Bruce Springsteen (including the FAs Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run), and multiple song lists (including the Beatles, Daft Punk, and Led Zeppelin). He's also reviewed a great number of nominations while adding content other editors may have missed.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 20:37, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Bowie's 'The Man Who sold the World' was described in one little part of the Wiki piece about it as being and being close to heavy metal (after being compared to hard rock several times). It is not heavy metal and to describe it as heavy metal demeans it. Early Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin were not heavy metal bands either, they were hard rock bands. Judas Priest was probably one of the first heavy metal bands, Very loud, screaming vocals, fast, very high energy, that's heavy metal, The Man Who Sold The World is art and if it must be labeled, it should be called something like hard art rock. From a 73 year old hard rock bassist who dislikes most heavy metal. Bobyoung53 (talk) 00:47, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Hey there. Heavy metal as a genre began as a branch of hard rock. Early Sabbath and Zeppelin have very much been described as heavy metal, even if what the genre became later on in the 70s and 80s diverged from the early beginnings. Nevertheless, the genre began somewhere, and it's been widely established that heavy metal began in the late 60s and really came to prominence and contributed to the genre's development with bands like Sabbath (saying Sabbath wasn't heavy metal is frankly just plain wrong and demeaning to them).

More importantly, Wikipedia operates under what reliable sources say about the topics at hand. The provided sources compare Man as heavy metal, as that's what they should say. We can come across information we disagree with, but changing that doesn't make it true. You also saying you dislike most heavy metal introduces bias, and WP is built on neutrality. I hope this helped. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 15:00, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Zmbro. Thank you for your work on List of songs recorded by Depeche Mode. Another editor, Aszx5000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

These are perfectly created articles - you should be autopatrolled? thanks.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Aszx5000}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Aszx5000 (talk) 20:00, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Zmbro, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled user right to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers.

Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Chetsford (talk) 05:38, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much! – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 14:22, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

First of all, congrats on the EOTW award! Secondly, I wanted to clarify regarding John Lennon. His official website states in its search page, from verbatim, that it is the "Official website for artist, musician, poet, peace activist & philosopher John Lennon." My main thing regarding that was was that I would write it as his website would, as it technically is also ran and accepted by his family and the Lennon estate. I did not intend to stating that he was one, only that his website made it that he would be recognized as such. I don't know the logistics of it, but I feel like there is some weight via the website. Once again, not my words; blame the site!

Thank you. Be blessed. Frippinator (talk) 22:14, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Frippinator Hey there! Thanks for the kind words! Ah, I understand where you're coming from. I didn't see the summary when I looked at the page. I don't necessarily see how he could have been a philosopher. Yeah he wrote some philosophical lyrics, but was he Aristotle? No. He was a songwriter. Then again, Bob Dylan's been compared to a poet for decades... Anyways, back to Lennon, since philosophy isn't really mentioned elsewhere throughout the article, I don't think it makes sense to include it in the opening sentence, even if his website says so. But maybe that's just me. Thanks for explaining! – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 02:12, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Now I will begin to ponder for the rest of my life whether John Lennon was Aristotle. Maybe I'll have to reinterpret Nicomachean Ethics as Nicobeatlean Ethics. I don't agree that he should be listed as a philosopher; I feel as though that he didn't really have any real credentials of philosophy besides his contemporary songwriting and lyrics. Intelligence and poetry does not equal philosophy; it's as steep a hole to become one as it is to relate to one. Thanks for the response! Frippinator (talk) 08:56, 21 April 2026 (UTC)