Why this site?
Well, there’s this band with 43 and counting years of history, and people have lots of various information about it in the fan community, in the forms of photos, bootleg audios, videos, and memories that are sometimes backed up by some of those media, and there’s some interest in having one place for people to share this info. So here we are, an attempt.
Who can contribute to the site?
Anybody, really. At the moment, anyone can register for an account, wait to be manually approved, and then can submit material in the form of new posts. All posts will also have to be manually approved by an editor, so there’s some time lag, and we’re not doing anything Wiki-like in terms of trying to be authoritative. Share stuff, be reasonable, be kind, yeah?
How do I post new material?
- Once you have created an account and gotten it approved, you can login (there’s multiple login boxes around most of the pages, plus the actual login/register page)
- and then use the Contribute / Add New Post menu to submit a new post.
- The important parts are: you need a reasonably compact title;
- the YEAR and CREATOR if you’re uploading content and know when it was — for photos it should be the year/date of when it’s taken and the photographer, for audio it should be the date,
- and then depending on the type of material you’re submitting, either upload images / audio with the “Add Media” button,
- and/or link to the video if you are adding a video,
- or write something if you’re just contributing your memories or some text.
- Very important: please use the categories to submit at least the content type Photo/Audio/Video/Memories, and pick a decade. This will help everyone immensely in organizing the material.
- Then submit the post, and sometime later an editor will go through it, possibly change a few things and add/modify tags, then it’ll show up!
What kind of material is wanted/approved?
A content moderation policy is still being worked out. In general, we want things that are relevant to the band and the individual band members. So for example, photos of band members (and former band members) are fine, also in their myriad other involvements. Material that’s just about other bands/projects they have been involved in, but do not prominently feature those band members, do not belong here. Audio/video of non-EN content is generally not wanted due to copyright issues, unless you are the copyright holder and there’s some good reason for it to be on here (translations/covers, that sort of thing?). Any work that’s not by the band should be credited as much as possible, and we reserve the right to remove anything for any reason. Fan artwork is … complicated? This is definitely not the place for fanfic, there are enough places online for that.
Bootlegs?
Yes? Anything that’s not part of official band releases (that includes all the concert recordings which were/are sold by the band) are ok. However: storage and bandwidth are both limited (and cost money) so please do not upload anything big. You can link to other audio/video hosting places.
How do I update information?
If you have more info about what’s on the posts, especially credits and details that other fans would find interesting, please comment on them so others can see it. Editors will also periodically go through comments and update the posts directly with relevant info if they are submitted in the comments.
Hey my work is on this site and I don’t approve or haven’t been credited!
So sorry, please contact us about it and depending on your preferences, we will either add the appropriate credits / link to you or take down the piece of content.