Talk:The Beta Band

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I'm pretty sure the current image 'BM - the beta bar.jpg', is not The Beta Band —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thegodbotherer (talk • contribs) 17:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Three E.P.'s

While the misused apostrophe pains me, I'm afraid that, according to my copy, this is how the CD is punctuated: I've changed it on all the relevant pages ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 21:14, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"It was when living...."

the para that starts thus, in the 'formation' section of the article.... breathless rush that it is, I can't make head or tail of the anecdote.

can someone that knows the sequence of events & can verify them to wikipedia's absurdly high standards take a swing at fixing it? ta. duncanrmi (talk) 23:49, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

'Their style was described as being "folktronica"'

I can't find any evidence that this band is considered folktronica or has ever been by any reliable sources. This claim has been on this page since its first revision from over 20 years ago, unsourced, then claiming that they described themselves as folktronica (which I can't find a source for). Over time, the claim has changed to them self-describing as folk hop, to them being generally described as folk hop after a citation needed was added, to them being generally described as folktronica, and that's where it has stayed since 2009.

In the 15 years since, a source has never been added, although now if you search online for "beta band" "folktronica" you can find a couple of websites that have copy pasted the band description from here, and if they haven't, it's very possible that they read the opening of this Wikipedia article describing them as folktronica and called them folktronica because of that. If you narrow it down to just sources from before 11 February 2009, when the claim was added in its current state, none of them are describing The Beta Band as folktronica, they just happen to mention both.

In respect of this, I am removing the claim; the conception of this band as 'folktronica' seems to me to be something entirely manufactured by Wikipedia, and it would be best to not have it here any longer. --Michaelofg (talk) 11:32, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]