Talk:CHIC (band)

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Contents 1 Chic --> CHIC? 2 Cleanup 3 New "Chic" article 4 Samples

[edit] Chic --> CHIC?

Does anyone with any knowledge of this band believe the page should be moved to CHIC (all caps) with a redirect from Chic? Thanks. JHMM13 (T | C) 15:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and made this move after reading through the page and seeing the cover art and album titles. Please revert me if you think it is a mistake. JHMM13 (T | C) 15:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

The move is complete, but I will finish the disambig link (and double redirect) fixes when Wikipedia is not running quite as slowly. JHMM13 (T | C) 16:04, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I run a fan web site on this band and are in contact with them too. They should definitely be spelt CHIC with all caps, just like for instance ABBA. Check out my website for more info: http://www.chictribute.com Pocat-chictribute.com 23:51, 23 March 2006 (GMT)

Seeing that even Nile Rodgers' own site is spotty about capitalizing the name Chic, it appears as though its status in all-caps is revisionist history. Although it appears on some album covers in all caps, that is a graphical device. Throughout the media, in myriad articles, it is not capitalized. Furthermore, on certain albums such as Chic-ism' and Chic Freak it appears on the album cover with only a capital C. Chic is not an acronym; the letters don't stand for anything, unlike ABBA, which stands for Agnetha, Benny, Björn, Annifrid. This whole capitalization affair appears to be fanism, and the pages should be reverted to the way they were before. Iamvered 13:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

CHIC have released 8 albums, 9 if you count the live album released in 1999. On all but one "Take It Off" (1981) have CHIC been written in all capital letters. I don't know what kind of release of CHIC-ism the above poster have, but I have the original release, and an additional copy printed later, both have "CHIC-ism" using CHIC with all capitals on the front cover. And on all CHIC albums and CHIC Organization productions, such as Sisters Sledge' "We Are Family" (1979) the "Produced by Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers for the CHIC Organization Ltd." note is on the back cover, with CHIC in all capitals. No matter if CHIC is not an acronym, the band have almost always choosen to present themselves as CHIC with all capitals, who are we to change that? Btw, I have seen ABBA, despite it being an acronym, being written Abba in several articles, that doesn't make it right. The "Chic Freak" album was originally released as a Nile Rodgers album in Japan in 1996, it has just been renamed (a CHIC album) for release in the US in 2005. Pocat-chictribute.com 12:59, 9 June 2006 (GMT)

[edit] Cleanup

What about the articles needs to be improved or cleaned up? Hyacinth 23:19, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't look bad overall, but it could definitely benefit from:

• a better lead section, and from being divided into logical sections. (Compare The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Duran Duran, all music category featured articles.)
• a separate discography on a page titled CHIC discography, if it's going to have pictures in it. There is no standard format for discography pages yet -- shop around the other examples at Category:Discographies to find one you like.
• The extensive quote about "Le Freak" should be moved to that article; it's unbalancing here.
• A section about who influenced the band, and who the band has influenced since, would be helpful -- be sure to cite sources (magazine articles, interviews, reviews), as something this subjective should not be based on personal opinion.

I hope that gives you something to start with....check out the links above for helpful guidelines, as well as the Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles and Wikipedia:What is a featured article? for more pointers.

You don't have to wait for someone else to remove the cleanup tag, by the way -- after working on it, if you feel the article meets the points in the better articles guide, you can remove it yourself. Good luck! — Catherine\^talk 00:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New "Chic" article

The main heading "chic" appears to have been hijacked by some strange article in which the word "acronym" does not appear to have been spelt correctly. I have added some links to other "chic" items, but do others think that this new article amounts to anything?--IXIA 13:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Have now sorted this out - I think! New "chic" article transferred to "chic (conference)", but someone needs to correct the spelling amd generally tidy it up. Looks a bit like an advert.--IXIA 15:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Samples

Chic are (surely) one of the most sampled bands around... shouldn't we start an appropriate section dealing with this? Alcazar, Sugarhill Gang, De La Soul, and Faith Evans all come to mind... more are found by Googling find sites such as this. Jhamez84 21:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)