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Timeline Updates
editWhy doesn't the timeline take into account the pre-1988 members? Also, what about Nightmare Cinema? And what about how the band changed its name? What if we changed the timeline to this:
Let me know what you think...
Lead excessive
editNone of this content belongs in lead per WP:LEAD it is body content and can be summarized in lead.
The band's highest-selling album is the gold-selling Images and Words (1992), which reached No. 61 on the Billboard 200 chart.[5] Both the 1994 release Awake and their 2002 release Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence also entered the charts at No. 32 and No. 46 respectively and received mostly positive reviews. Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory was ranked number 95 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of The greatest 100 guitar albums of all time.[6] It is ranked as the 15th Greatest Concept Album (as of March 2003) by Classic Rock Magazine.[7]
The band's eleventh studio album, A Dramatic Turn of Events, was released on September 13, 2011. On November 30, 2011, the album's lead single, "On the Backs of Angels", was nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" category, marking the band's first ever Grammy nomination.[8] Dream Theater's self-titled twelfth studio album was released on September 23, 2013 and earned their second Grammy Award nomination, this time for "Best Metal Performance", for the album's first single, "The Enemy Inside".[9]
Did a fan write this: The band is well known for the technical proficiency of its instrumentalists, who have won many awards from music instruction magazines.
New main image
editI updated the main article image for the band, as Mike Mangini is no longer in Dream Theater and Mike Portnoy has returned. I opted for a recent image showing this lineup, and I found and used one, but I don't know if it will be removed due to copyright. In that case could someone keep the image updated if it gets removed and present an image that won't get removed? I would like to have this in effect. DarnItAll34 (talk) 16:01, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- If you do not own the image or have permission from the original creator to upload it, you should not be making the change. You have been warned several times already about this on your talk page. CurdyKai (talk) 16:27, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- I have removed the image as it is in violation of Wikipedia's non-free content criteria CurdyKai (talk) 16:34, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- Indeed, I don't know how to determine which images can be safe to use, it's a tricky process. I couldn't find any info on the image I used, so I assumed it was safe to utilize. My mistake, as main images are the hardest for me to do properly. At any rate I feel it is important that the main image should be updated, how that can be accomplished I do not know. DarnItAll34 (talk) 19:49, 2 November 2024 (UTC)