Template talk:Madonna

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[edit] Album cover images

Before placing album cover images on a navigation template, please read Fair use, Template:Fair use and Template:Album cover, and note that Wikipedia is attempting to cut down use of "Fair use" images. Please discuss the issue here or at the other Template talk pages. Jkelly 23:04, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Greatest Hits section

What is the criteria for putting a song in the "Greatest Hits" section of this template? Jkelly 01:07, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Look at the Madonna discography. The criteria is 1. a good chart position (national or/ and international) and 2. a good overview of her musical recordings. I didn't create it, but i like this selection. It considers all albums and mentions the hits. If you ask because of "Hung Up": It's #1 in many countries including Netherlands, Turkey, Yugoslavia and propably next week in France, Germany, UK...) --Red-Blue-White 03:22, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Templates merged

I merged the templates Template:Madonna singles and Template:Madonna --Red-Blue-White 23:51, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

It is now very, very big. Jkelly 00:03, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Yeah! ;) But it's complicated to use 2 different templates for Madonna's singles and albums. I'm sure it's possible to arrange it a little bit clearer. Or to separate albums and singles templates. Then put the album template to the albums and so on. What do you think? --Red-Blue-White 00:13, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd go with something like Template:Michael Jackson. I prefer using Categories to navigate, myself. Jkelly 00:31, 16 November 2005 (UTC)


Artist page | Discography | Albums | Singles | Movies | Triva | Achievements/awards

The Madonna discography is much bigger than the MJ one - and it's still growing. If we use the small categories template, it's the same like the "see also" section - (or the categories at the bottom) The actual template is much bigger - but I think it's more comfortable to find albums and singles with one click. Other sites (Star Wars or Lemony Snicket) have much bigger templates. It's on you. --Red-Blue-White 05:13, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I'm just expressing a personal preference for smaller templates. I'm not going to tear up all of your work just because I happen to like smaller templates. Jkelly 22:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I like it big ;) The greatest hits template wasn't wrong - but it's incomplete - and it's hard to use 1 template for this song and another template for the next song. Let's look at other articles. Maybe we find another (smaller) template that's better for Madonna. --Red-Blue-White 00:34, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Size

Does this template really need to take up half of each article page? It just seems so silly to include every album and book when anyone can just click Madonna discography or Madonna bibliography and find all of the albums and books there. Sure, it's an extra click of the mouse, but at least the template doesn't look like it's about to explode.

The videography section of the big template especially irritates me. Most of those articles have only small sections on the music videos. If we're going to keep the big template, it would make more sense to have a section of singles than music videos.

Anyway, thoughts? -- Charity 00:37, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Royal Box

I'd question the inclusion of this in the template, as it's not a significantly different item to the regular Immaculate Collection (and doesn't merit a separate entry away from that title). Everything else in the other compilations category has a significantly different track listing to its 'parent' item and has its own separate entry, so I'd be inclined to drop this. Thoughts? Gusworld (talk) 06:51, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, three weeks have gone by and no-one's offered any objections, so I removed it. Gusworld (talk) 12:06, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
And then ten days later it's been restored with the comment "The Royal Box is a relevant compilation". I don't want to start a revert war here, so I'll pose the same question -- how justified can the inclusion of this compilaton on the template be when it doesn't actually merit a separate entry, but merely a note as a differently packaged edition of the Immaculate Collection? Gusworld (talk) 21:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)