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Article clean up.

The article infobox has been messed up following recent edits which I have noticed. I hope that it should be fixed. Benfskye1 (talk) 21:16, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Someone has removed a big part of the Discography which includes all of their single releases. I am NOT happy about this at all.

This is exactly why I refuse to give anymore money to Wikipedia until they stop allowing just anyone to edit articles on here. I am really sick and tired of people (who have no idea what they are even doing) ruining certain articles anytime they remove certain information. 69.11.161.35 (talk) 22:52, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is already a list article at Kraftwerk discography, which holds the whole thing. Binksternet (talk) 23:30, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fritz Hilpert as a member

There is no source for information for Fritz Hilpert being a member from 1987. The last appearance of Wolfgang Flür in Kraftwerk is Telephone Call video in 1987. However according to Karl Bartos he was asked by Florian Schneider to perform with the band in 1990 in their Italian tour but declined. Fritz Hilpert became operator of Synclavier for Kling Klang Studio in January 1987 and in 1990 appeared onstage with the band first time. Flür had not been working in Kling Klang Studio after the band's world tour in 1981, but with Hütter, Shneider and Bartos also Joachim Dehmann worked there from around 1979 to 1989 as sound enginier and technician, and Henning Schmitz from 1986. So what I think it is a bit anachronist to list Hilpert as a member of the band straight from 1987 as Hütter and Schneider seems to have understood Flür as the band's live member still before 1990 tour and as Hilpert was not the only enginer in Kling Klang Studios. 87.95.45.202 (talk) 15:56, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]