tarquin Wrote:
What do we think about all these pages about music albums, which give just a track listing and nothing else?
I've disliked those from the start. It seems very little thought went into them, not even enough to establish barebones context (e.g. artist and genre), much less a greater historical or social context (e.g. why we should care). (something we often fail to establish, me included, though with the basics down it's easier to get there).
[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]] - now *that*'s an encyclopedia article!
yes.
kq
wikikarma: stub for [[Baraka (film)]]--and now I'm off to continue editing my own film, tho one that almost certainly will not merit an article. :-)
|From: koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com |Cc: |Sender: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:46:58 -0800 | |tarquin Wrote: |>What do we think about all these pages about music albums, which give |>just a track listing and nothing else? | |I've disliked those from the start. It seems very little thought went |into them, not even enough to establish barebones context (e.g. artist |and genre), much less a greater historical or social context (e.g. why |we should care). (something we often fail to establish, me included, |though with the basics down it's easier to get there). | |>[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]] - now *that*'s an encyclopedia |>article! | |yes. | |kq |
Certainly, lots of album articles are simply inserted by fans of the band, and many of them are weak to the point of inanity, but everything you ask about including albums in the Wikipedia is being addressed even as we speak by a WikiProject on record albums. See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums]] for formatting standards and discussion and [[Wikipedia_talk::WikiProject Albums]] for a list of albums that should be covered. The project is thoughtful and careful. I believe [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]] was one of its first articles, or was at least a model the project looked at.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88