Template talk:MusicBrainz artist

message: *This template was listed on templates for deletion, but there was no consensus to delete. See the log. →AzaToth 21:00, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  tfd 

message: This "editrequest" tag was added March 11 for a month-old request.
All Musicbrainz templates need a slight edit to match the other discography sites wordings (eg. Discogs) which just have the Artist being included in the link and not the word "discography" which is not needed. Such ease-of-style change would better aid ease of understanding what the link info is going to. (i.e. should be "Artist discography at Musicbrainz" rather than "Artist discography at Musicbrainz"). Jimthing (talk) 09:28, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Specifically, the word "discography" should be in plain text and outside of the link. A clear example of the discrepancy can be seen at the bottom of the Queensrÿche discography article.--Lashuto (talk) 23:36, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 07:31, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please make this match other discography wordings which are clearer 

message: Old format:
: http://musicbrainz.org/artist/66fc5bf8-daa4-4241-b378-9bc9077939d2.html
New format:
: http://musicbrainz.org/artist/66fc5bf8-daa4-4241-b378-9bc9077939d2
Old URLs still work, but they redirect to new ones. This is true for all MusicBrainz entities, so other MB templates (release, release-group) require update too. LiDEL (talk) 18:31, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  URL update suggestion 

message: I'd like to have :Category:Articles with MusicBrainz artist links added so there's an easy way of finding all pages that use this template.
Gnu andrew (talk) 07:13, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you just use Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:MusicBrainz artist? — Bility (talk) 20:19, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done per above. --Closedmouth (talk) 05:54, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Gnu andrew, 12 August 2011 

message: I'm converting all the MB templates (except the wiki) to the new . This new template will ensure that all of them will use the same URL structure.
So this  is what I need it changed to:
 discography at MusicBrainz


Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 12:29, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry, I don't think you want a change to this actual article? If that template needs fixing, just edit it, :Template:MusicBrainz meta. If I'm mistaken and this is a specific request to change this article, please explain further. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  00:03, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

text: Please can you clarify that the code in Template:MusicBrainz artist/sandbox is exactly what you want making live? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

text: Poke User:CyberSkull ... — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:53, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

text: Deactivated for now, please reactivate if needed. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:39, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

text: Hang on. I'm updating new functionality into MB meta. I've put this back on hold. Thank you for your patience. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:42, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

text: . I've tweaked the spacing a bit; hope you don't mind. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:52, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's readable, it works, so I'm cool. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:13, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convert to meta template 

message: For whatever reason, I didn't notice that the convert to meta request never went through. So I need the template body changed to

This way all functionality will go to the meta template. The links generated by the current template are for an older format. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 20:54, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Please can you clarify that the code in Template:MusicBrainz artist/sandbox is exactly what you want making live? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

text: Poke User:CyberSkull ... — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:53, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

text: Deactivated for now, please reactivate if needed. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:39, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

text: Hang on. I'm updating new functionality into MB meta. I've put this back on hold. Thank you for your patience. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:42, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

text: . I've tweaked the spacing a bit; hope you don't mind. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:52, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's readable, it works, so I'm cool. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:13, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convert to meta (again) 

message: This is a set of code that will verify the data against Wikidata, but not actually pull any data from it. You can see a similar example at Template_talk:Commonscat#Edit_request_on_24_April_2013:_Check_Wikidata_errors.

This should be compatible with the above edit protected request. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 10:05, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: --Rschen7754 10:14, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 28 April 2013: Check Wikidata data 

message: For more consistency with MusicBrainz, the  parameter has been renamed to . Functionally, nothing has changed, but the documentation can't be updatded yet until the following code change can be made:
 discography at MusicBrainz


Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:58, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Question:  it looks like your change to the  parameter would break the categorisation scheme. For example, we have :Category:MusicBrainz artist id not in Wikidata, but we don't have :Category:MusicBrainz artist ID not in Wikidata. Are you planning to migrate the relevant categories as well? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 05:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oh, that was a mistake on my part. I've changed it to "MusicBrainz artist", to reflect the correct usage. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:33, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

text: , shouldn't it be "MusicBrainz artist id"? —  (t • e • c) 14:18, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, if you look at the rest of them "id" isn't in use in the categories at all. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:43, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

text: Done —  (t • e • c) 00:49, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 22 February 2014 

message: In the source, shouldn't 'wcd-category', be 'wdc-category'? --Azertus (talk) 13:53, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at :Template:MusicBrainz meta, it seems you are right. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:02, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

text: and good catch! – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 02:51, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo in source? 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikidata#Edit in Wikidata links.  Thanks. Evad37 [talk] 01:39, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for comments on "edit in Wikidata" links, for templates using Wikidata

message: It seems that many articles are incorrectly added to :Category:MusicBrainz artist not in Wikidata. For example 65daysofstatic and The B-52's both have the same respective mbid as that in their Wikidata entries. Other templates based on Template:MusicBrainz meta don't seem to have this problem. The only difference I can see with the other MusicBrainz templates is the capitalization of the property in " |wdc-property=p434", which may be worth trying to capitalize. Anyone sees what's wrong or am I missing something? --Azertus (talk) 11:29, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tracking categories not working correctly? 

message: Just wondering if all the discography pages should be excluded from the :Category:MusicBrainz artist not in Wikidata tracking category? I can make a change for this if there are no objections. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:45, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it! --Azertus (talk) 23:55, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I had forgotten all about this.  Now done.  -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:44, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tracking categories and discography pages