Talk:Stella Parton discography

Latest comment: 12 years ago by Rivertorch in topic Including track listings

Including track listings

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Should a tracklisting for a not individually notable album be included in this discography? Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 14:58, 26 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Including a track listing is absolutely not a coatrack as the revision note stated. A track listing is immediately relevant to a discography, especially if the individual albums don't have notability. That said, do the individual albums have notability? Should they have their own articles or redirect here? D O N D E groovily Talk to me 01:32, 26 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

  • Individual albums have notability if they charted, were certified, were on a notable label, or were reviewed by someone reputable such as Allmusic. Sticking a random track listing on the article just sticks out like a sore thumb and clutters up the article. It's completely pointless if the album is not individually notable, and there is zero precedent for randomly squeezing a tracklist into the middle of a discography. Does it not look butt ugly to you? That said, I'll start a RFC and see if we can get any traction here. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 14:53, 26 March 2012 (UTC)Reply
  • Comment This doesn't seem to be the best place for this RfC. Would it make more sense at WP:Albums? D O N D E groovily Talk to me 15:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)Reply
  • I see quite a lot of merge tags proposing to merge an album that is only a track list to discographies. If all of these are wrong, that's fine, I can just remove them instead. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 15:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)Reply
  • An artist's discography is supposed to provide an overview of their recordings. Dropping an album's track listing in the middle of a discography, particularly an album with insufficient notablity, places undue weight on the album and, as has been said above, sticks out like a sore thumb and is without precedent. If an album isn't notable enough for a standalone article, its track listing has no place in the artist's discography. Eric444 (talk) 23:13, 26 March 2012 (UTC)Reply
  • Per Eric444's second sentence, it shouldn't be included. It might be a worthwhile goal to eventually list tracks for all albums, but with existing page formatting it looks confusing and draws undue attention to the album. Rivertorch (talk) 05:00, 31 March 2012 (UTC)Reply