Talk:List of albums titled Greatest Hits

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on March 24, 2007. The result of the discussion was NO CONSENSUS TO DELETE.

This page is a disambiguation page. It is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather a navigation aid. As such it should include those albums that are likely to be confused for each other and not every album containing the words Greatest Hits. If you think that an editor would accidentally link to the Greatest Hits page, when they meant to link to the album pages you're working on, or a reader is likely to type in "Greatest Hits" it belongs on this page. I.E., the following types of albums should be included on this page:

The following albums do not belong on this page:

  • 1. Albums entitled The Best of X, The Essential X, The Ultimate X, The X Anthology, The Definitive X Collection, where X is a bands name.
  • 2. Albums entitled Greatest Hits: x y ... z or x y ... z: Greatest Hits, where x y ... z represents a significant modification to the title name, which serves to disambiguate it from other Greatest Hits albums. E.G., Greatest Hits: My Prerogative by Britney Spears and Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock by George Thorogood & The Destroyers.
  • 3. Albums entitled Greatest Hits Live. See link at the bottom of article page for separate article.

[edit] Modified titles

I propose the rules above. The rules are basically derived from the page as it exists. I was unsure whether to include or exclude albums with modified Greatest Hits titles such as Greatest Hits: My Prerogative by Britney Spears and Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock by George Thorogood & The Destroyers. I posed the question on the WikiProject Albums (section) talk pages on October 3, 2006. The response came back that the title should almost say Greatest Hits. Albums with titles that have significant modifications which disambiguate the album should not be included. I also feel that they might prefer a more stringent set of rules, but I don't want to make major modifications without further input. I.E., some probably believe albums falling into categories 3-6 on the first list should be excluded. I don't know what the majority or the experieinced wikipedians feel, but will follow along if the rationale is good to do otherwise.

I removed the following albums from the page according to the above rules, but am open to debate on this topic:

I also decided not to add the following as per the above rules:

  • The Greatest Hits on Earth (The Fifth Dimension album)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs)

It sounds good to me. The key is If you think that an editor would accidentally link to the Greatest Hits page, when they meant to link to the album page. But the other reason for accidental links here, is people thinking they're linking to the page describing what "greatest hits" collections are. The what links here page would be a good cleanup project. :-)

[edit] Cleanup

This page was marked for cleanup per MoS:DAB. I changed the style per the disambiguation guidelines. I added the release dates for several albums. I also deleted the following albums from the dab page, mainly because those albums weren't even mentioned on the artist's or artist's discography page, therefore a creation of a said album article seems rather unlikely in the near future. Please copy-paste the individual entries back onto the dab page if you have reason to disagree.

– sgeureka t•c 13:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I tried to cleanup all the pages that link under What links here but noticed that this page wasn't of much help to me because the places where GH albums are misnamed as just "Greatest Hits" are exactly the pages with obscure/less known artists where a proper article about a GH albums will likely never be created, and this renders this dab page basically useless.
I also noticed that Special:Allpages/Greatest_Hits basically already lists all existing wikipedia articles of artists who had notable GH albums, and that the amount is almost endless. I am going to nominate this disambiguation page for deletion. Not because I want to have it deleted but because I'd like to know in how far it is possible to just use Special:Allpages/Greatest_Hits as a disambiguation help, and to have this list trimmed down to only a few handful of manageable "examples". – sgeureka t•c 15:16, 24 March 2007 (UTC)