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[edit] Album list format
I've been seeing more and more of these discographies in tables recently - do we really need them in that format? It makes them rather troublesome to edit for those not familiar with HTML. Why not just do them as a bullet-pointed list, thus:
- Album Title (Label name; Year)
- Another Album Title (Another Label; Another Year)
That seems cleaner, easier on the eye, and easier to edit to me. --Camembert
- There is no need for the table. I say get rid of it because it is difficult to edit and isn't needed. --mav
It looks like the origin of the table is from Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums. It's only difficult to create the table, editing is not too hard, in my opinion. I agree that the bullet-pointed list is more appealing to the eye, and much quicker to edit. It seems like some of those groups with albums in the WikiProject Albums are in the table format, while those groups not in that project are in a list format of this kind:
Example Discography
Another Example
- Please Please Me (March 22, 1963) #1
- With the Beatles (November 22, 1963) #1
I wish they were in a standard format as you suggest, but there is a lot of inertia to overcome.Gbeeker 19:56, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] "the The" or "The, the"?
In the category Category:British musical groups, should this be alphabetised under "the The" or "The, the"? — JIP | Talk 09:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I'd say The The. Secretlondon
- I.e., Secretlondon recommended alphabetisation under "the The", which is incorrect, just as it would be incorrrect to list the Who under T instead of under W. In the case of the The, the situation is very clear; even on the band's albums, the article preceding the actual name is lower case. In the case of the Who and the Rolling Stones and the Netherlands etc., the following links provide clear, common sense help based on a sound feel for the language:
http://www.chicagomanual.org/cmosfaq.CapitalizationTitles.html http://fmwriters.com/community/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=17&topic_id=33574&mesg_id=33576
Many of the other bands on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:British_musical_groups&from=T are alphabetised incorrectly too. The list should go like this:
- Talulah Gosh
- The Teardrop Explodes
- The Tears
- Tears for Fears
- Teenage Fanclub
- Televise
- Television Personalities (band)
- Ten Years After
- Terrorvision
- Texas (band)
- The The
- Theatre of Hate
- Theaudience
- Them (band)
--Espoo 15:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Dockers Commercial
Should we mention the Dis-Infected version of "This Is the Day" (aka "That Was the Day") was featured very prominently in a Dockers commercial recently?
- I would say that would belong in the page for the song... which doesn't exist at the time of writing, as far as I know. Folkor 19:02, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] chords/tabs
I want to find chords to the song " bluer than midnight". thank u a lot. Tomas
[edit] Members
I don't know if I would call Sinéad O'Connor or Neneh Cherry (or certain others) "past members". Surely they were contributors / guest artists / backing singers etc. Johnny Marr may have been a "member", but Jools Holland wasn't. Your thoughts? Stephenjh
