Talk:List of bands from Canada

message: why do we need this page here if this:
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bands_from_the_USA
:doesnt exist?? this list and the similar one from europe, is as useful as a list of every band ever. justify to me please, MobiusStriptease 17:17, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ahem

message: Recent edits removed the solo artists who were on this list, in keeping with the article title.  This raises an issue:  We have a list of Canadian bands by location, and we have a List of Canadian musicians which is bands and solo artists listed alphabetically, but I could not find a list with solo artists arranged by location.  If that does not exist, one proposal would be to have a new list (i.e., Canadian solo artists by location). Another would be to alter this list so that it would be for both bands and solo artists.  Any thoughts? --Paul Erik 01:33, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How about we just change this list so that it's sorted alphabetically? Then, there's less chance of having bands mentioned twice. -- Scorpion 01:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I could see the advantage to that. I find, though, that there is some value in being able to look up quickly which groups or artists are from a particular city or province... if I were considering improving the article Music of Prince Edward Island, for example.  An alphabetized list is less useful to me. --Paul Erik 05:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Once again, there is the problem of bands being listed multiple times. Nickelback used to be listed as being from 5 places in 3 provinces. -- Scorpion 05:50, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Persoanlly, I think an alphabetic list is more useful because then people looking for a certain group know exactly where to look. But, if you want to keep it by location, then it's fine with me. -- Scorpion 01:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I should also add that Bearcat has now turned this into a much more comprehensive list.  Impressively done! And I recognize that would have been much more difficult to do if this had remained as a list by location. --Paul Erik 21:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I crossreferenced the list by the various musical group categories to expand it. I would, however, note that I haven't entirely finished xrefing it against the following: :Category:Canadian rock music groups, :Category:Canadian indie rock groups, :Category:Canadian indie pop groups, :Category:Canadian heavy metal musical groups, :Category:Canadian alternative rock groups. So if anybody wants to help out, there are still some outstanding names to be added from those lists. In the longer term, though, I think it would be helpful for each band to have its genre, location and years of activity listed next to it, possibly in a table format. I have to go out shortly, but I'll try as soon as possible to post a short sample table here on the talk page so you can see what I mean and we can discuss whether it's worthwhile or not. Bearcat 19:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I think it might be more helpful for locations to each have their own "List of musical artists from (Wherever)" list, each of which could combine both bands and solo artists. A single combined Canada-wide list by location would be very difficult to navigate and/or maintain, I think. Plus it's more helpful for people who are looking for information on a particular location's music scene — a more general audience might not necessarily know what city a particular band is from, which is why I don't think that type of organization makes sense on this list. But for the people who are looking for a list structured in that way, a specific List of musical artists from Vancouver would probably be more helpful than a Vancouver subsection on a cross-Canada list. Bearcat 19:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musicians listed by location? 

message: Justin Biber doesn't belong here, and certainly not under J.  Woogee (talk) 03:18, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: This is list of bands, not list of musicians

message: I added The Rabble to the list, because they have an entry in the published two-volume printed Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia (also on-line), and I put a reference with the link to the on-line encyclopedia. Nobody from that generation has created a wikipedia page about them yet. This was a classic 1960s to early 1970s band that worked out of Montreal and was well-known in central and eastern Canada at the time, with two albums and several singles.77Mike77 (talk) 00:59, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Only bands who have Wikipedia articles are allowed to be listed on this page. If the Rabble are that well-referenced, then they'd certainly qualify for a Wikipedia article — but that article has to be in place for this page to link to before they can be listed here. Bearcat (talk) 02:22, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Band listed with no wikipedia page.