Talk:Harvest Records
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[edit] To-do
I'm afraid I've taken some awful liberties with this page; but when I came to it, I thought some improvements could be made:
- Move list of Harvest artists to here & change into a table
- Add references to keep less important text out of the main flow
- Improve formatting of the post-1984 issues
- Tighten up the wording
- Remove the link to record labels - this IS a record label!
- Add reference to Picnic sampler.
--Rodhullandemu 23:04, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Picnic sampler and pre-1984 release section
Rodhullandemu was asking on my User Talk page about edits I made to the article today in relation to the Picnic sampler and discography section.
The fact that the Picnic sampler was released was, before I edited it, just a random piece of info in the middle of the prose. I couldn't tell why it was being mentioned at all. It set a bad precedent for everyone else adding their favorite releases into the prose. It seems there's just a desire to have a link to the article about the album, since the article exists? I know nothing about it, so I didn't really want to try to gauge the album's notability; I just assumed that it was mentioned here for a good reason. Rather than keeping it in the prose, though, I put it in its own section in what I felt should be called a 'selected' (deliberately incomplete) discography, hence the heading change.
The compilation was also described as "classic", which is a rather subjective term used by fans & critics; if that word is found in an encyclopedia, it should be cited and characterized as something that "has been called a classic by so-and-so", not just "is a classic", you know? So rather than "classic", I decided to use the term "acclaimed" (as in, tended to get favorable reviews), which may be slightly easier to verify, and is a marginally more neutral criterium for releases to be included in the list. "Notable" is another option, though what that entails is always a matter of debate in WP:MUSIC.
I don't intend to populate the list of pre-1984 "acclaimed"/"notable"/"classic" albums myself. More knowledgable fans of the label can figure out what meets the qualifications. Feel free to change the structure or criteria, and figure out some other way to retain the link to the Picnic sampler, if it really needs to stay in. I just wanted to get things a little tidier. —mjb 04:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
