Talk:Billy Mackenzie
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you can't cite whether someone has a similar voice as someone else. this is a matter of opinion. personally i don't particulary hamill and mackenzie have similar voices, but its not really something you can cite, unless providing audio linbks to each of their singig voiuces, somewhat tedious.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I would suggest taking out the sentence about The Smiths song "William it was really nothing" being about Mackenzie. I'm pretty sure that was just speculation and it's not cited. 60.240.75.73 (talk) 10:47, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I believe MacKenzie is correct - this is how his name appears all the way through Tom Doyle's biography The Glamour Chase, and in the Guardian article referenced here. Both tribute sites created by fans also use MacKenzie, as does The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music.--Michig (talk) 05:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
dmode (talk) 19:31, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks,Michig for curating this page but why would we remove a non-commercial playlist?
Noting from WP:EL:- minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article.
None of the content is copyright-protected and made as tribute by a Billy McK fan.
HKgamer (talk) 03:07, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks,Michig re HKgamer and linking to a second skin play list of Billy Mackenzie's music. YouTube has reached many different agreements with media and music recording companies owing copyrighted content. Typically arrangements pay the copyright holder, who in turn via contract law pays the estate of deceased artists like Billy MacKenzie. Please reconsider your position. Btw, I did knowingly add WC playlist to Billy's Wikipedia, I did so as a fan, because there is are no other comprehensive play lists of The Associates and Bill Mackenzie's work anywhere online. --boul22435 (talk) 17:11, 30 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.104.220.59 (talk) [reply]
Michig External links help enrich Wikipedia content. What is dubious about a playlist of popular Billy Mackenzie songs each with many views/comments on YouTube? http://billymackenzie.wave.cat/?playlist=clubcountry Thank you for input dmode (talk) 15:18, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Michig The wave.cat site is a second-skin system curating content from YouTube.com (a Google company). YouTube protects Wikipedia against claims of contributory copyright infringement by complying with the notice-and-takedown procedures of the DMCA. YouTube also supports Content ID claims allowing owners of copyrighted videos to be paid for plays by listing adverts along side videos. If the wave.cat site shows adverts associated with artist videos does this change your decision? For details, see Notice-and-Takedown. http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/linking-copyrighted-materials. Thank you https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6013276 dmode (talk) 17:20, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Michig My main motivation as software designer and music fan is figuring how independent bands and terrific artists like Bill MacKenzie can crowd source and share play lists of their work when its ignored by record companies and how compensation can be credited to the artists or copyright holders. Ward and other designers are working on software notions for forking wiki pages to support advanced sharing http://wardcunningham.github.io/ dmode (talk) 07:17, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Michig The wave.cat site is a second-skin system curating content from YouTube.com (a Google company). YouTube protects Wikipedia against claims of contributory copyright infringement by complying with the notice-and-takedown procedures of the DMCA.(talk)
Isn't wave.cat operating in a bit of a grey area? It offers links to both YouTube and Soundcloud & so is a redirect service, as a search engine might be considered, only totally within web-audio. It isn't purely a second-skin because individual curators also post unique content (in so far as this is the case, Wikipedia is also unique content + collated/curated links). I'm a BMcK fan too and would like to ask you to reconsider the decision. As User:Boul22435 said this is a the only playlist of any note on the web (for Billy). That it is so far delivered without advertisements, but preserving the link to the source file on YouTube or SoundClou is an advantage for the listener/fan.
I don't know what wave.cat's plans are for advertisements but hope they plan to continue without. As a quasi search-engine I doubt that they are obliged to offer copyright notice & indeed less so because of direct links to source files.
Hope you agree. I admit 'some of it is in a bit of a grey area'.HKgamer (talk) 07:50, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a bit late, but given that the OP's "main motivation as software designer and music fan is figuring how independent bands and terrific artists like Bill MacKenzie can crowd source and share play lists of their work", was he even aware that McKenzie has been dead for almost twenty years? Was there a flood of similar links to other Wikipedia articles? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 14:00, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
There have been suggestions that the song "William, it was really nothing" by The Smiths is about Billy MacKenzie, and consequently The Associates song "Stephen, you're still really something" was his response to Morrissey
I've just watched a documentary about Billy, and Billy's father tells of finding Billy after his suicide. It was not in a garden shed, but in the dog kennel in the garden of a bungalow that Billy owned at Auchterhouse (he owned the main house as well). So not a garden shed, and not his Dad's house. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link, but the video is under the title 'The Associates - Documentary 2000 HD', at www.youtube.com/watch?v=riop6MNVoqA. The subtitles don't do well with Billy's Dad's Scottish accent. Timestamps 16:05 (house and bungalow); 20:57 (suicide). Stronach (talk) 08:53, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]