Talk:TMBG.ORG FAQ

Can someone limit the table width or something? Right now it scrolls almost infinitely to the right. Joygerhardt 23:43, 14 Jun 2005 (EDT)

"Start out with Fabian Road Warrior. He's like "Weird Al" Yankovic, only he writes his own song(s)"

WTF? What moronic, ignorant, presumptuous pusswad wrote that? First of all, half of every Weird Al album is original songs, not parodies. Most of them are "style parodies" or "tributes" or "pastiches", but he wrote the lyrics and the music himself. Secondly, he writes the lyrics for his parodies. How does that not count as writing? I know there are a lot of TMBG fans who hate Weird Al for various reasons, but when someone spews crap like this, it shows they don't know what they're talking about, and this is not the elitist "you don't like it because you don't get it" argument, I'm talking about facts vs. snark.

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I don't know if this is an archived-type page, but it needs a massive update. Like, a MASSIVE update. It seems like it hasn't been updated since 2002. It needs newer information. - HotelDetectiveInTheFuture🪗 talk 🎸

"This FAQ was imported over from tmbg.org a few years ago, and naturally, many of the answers to questions are a bit outdated. Feel free to edit the questions/answers to keep everything up to date." --Self Called Nowhere (talk) 16:13, 14 November 2022 (EST)

It was an archival page of a decades-old FAQ, just like the Early Years Handbook. I'm not sure why we're rewriting this page with contemporary answers — it's an old FAQ from another fansite that we copied over for preservation purposes, intended to be a snapshot in time rather than a modern resource. If it was a "TMBW FAQ" then it would make sense to keep it up to date. I think if we maybe wanted to add editor's notes sparingly under existing answers to correct any potential misinformation that's been cleared up in the last 20 years, that could be helpful — but replacing pages of paragraphs defeats the purpose of why we imported this doc here. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 18:36, 14 November 2022 (EST)

My apologies. I see now: this is supposed to be an archive of exactly what the site looked like. -FloridaFlamingoGirl

No worries. I've restored the document, merged it back to one page and updated the note on top to add a little more context. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 18:59, 14 November 2022 (EST)

And just so all that work hasn't been totally deleted, here's the 4 pages of the FAQ merged with the work you two did: Talk:TMBG.ORG FAQ/Revisions -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 19:24, 14 November 2022 (EST)