Talk:Uncle Tupelo

message: Ah, lovely.  No true Discography here.  And, as always, I don't have the information to do it myself.  Not entirely, at least.  *sighs*  Could someone get in here and fix this?  Please?
Kell 05:11, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
Caption of who's who on the photo? 70.218.176.94 22:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Uncle Tupelo also accompanied Michelle Shocked on her tour for the Arkansas Traveller album. However, Uncle Tupelo left the tour after Shocked fired The Band and because they didn't like the way that Taj Mahal was being treated.[22] Omarcheeseboro 00:30, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening for Michelle Shocked blurb 

message: Especially since most of the content for this article comes from the Tweedy book by Kot, how about including some of Farrar's perspective?  The Tweedy incident here seems pretty important in the history of the band.
Omarcheeseboro 00:26, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jay Farrar 

message: Split the Lead into three sections. Put in the ISBN numbers for the Kot and Goodman books. Take out the links for Kot's page numbers. :) egde 18:13, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Teemu08 00:13, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I second the comments above, excellent work, Teemu08. The article has come a long way since you took over. My primary concern now is with the overreliance on Kot's book, which can't really be seen as a perfectly independent, neutral, or reliable source (a lot of the imput seems to come from the Tweedy family). I email Michael who runs factorybelt.net a whole bunch of contemporary news clips on the career of the band, and I believe he posted most of them. Some of the details (breakup, Michelle Shocked tour) should probably be toned down unless we have multi-sourcing. Also, the claim that UT "spawned" alternative country is denied both by the band and doesn't pass a quick fact check. The earliest mention I can find on Newsbank is from 1986, and it's usually used to denote Dwight Yoakam and similar, anti-Nashville country artists. It's probably more accurate to say UT spawned "No Depression", if ND is defined as the punk/folk subgenre of alternative country. Sadly I'm currently inactive on WP, but I'll try to help where I can. ~ trialsanderrors 04:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article nomination

message: :GA review (see here for criteria)
#It is reasonably well written.
#:a (prose):  b (MoS): 
#It is factually accurate and verifiable.
#:a (references):  b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR): 
#It is broad in its coverage.
#:a (major aspects):  b (focused): 
#It follows the neutral point of view policy.
#:a (fair representation):  b (all significant views): 
#It is stable.
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#It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
#:a (tagged and captioned):  b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA):  c (non-free images have fair use rationales): 
#Overall: 
#:a Pass/Fail: 
The article, as of Tuesday, June 5, 2007, is well sourced, has a NPOV prose (which could use a small bit of embellishment), and each image contains an appropriately allotted Fair Use rationale. The only comment of mine is actually a personal one: redlinks. This article does have a few. I think it would be quite a bit better off with them removed. My advice doesn't have to be followed; it's just a minor input on my part. Other than that, everything looks great. Continue the exceptional work.  NSR77 (Talk|Contribs) 21:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:GA|GA]] Review

message: I speak english pretty well for an American with a Masters degree.   Never heard this word in my life.   Why? WHY is this used here???  
Cosprings (talk) 14:34, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean this one: "byword"? ~ trialsanderrors (talk) 15:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction use of "Byword"

message: In September I merged the Uncle Tupelo discography into this article. PresN undid this move, saying in their edit summary "Merging a featured list into a featured article with no discussion? Odd move" There was nothing whatsoever "odd" about this move. As WP:MERGE states: "If the need for a merge is obvious, individual editors can be bold and simply do it." PresN does not state in their edit summary why they believe the discography should not be merged into the main article, nor did they start a discussion about it, so I can only conclude that the only reason PresN had for reverting my merger was I didn't discuss it first. Since Wikipedia's guidelines clearly state that I can merge without discussing if the need is obvious, and there have been no concrete objections raised to the merger on cause, I have remerged. The need to merge these two articles is very obvious:
*WP:SIZERULE states that an article with a readable prose size under 40 kB is not long enough for its length to justify splitting out a section. Uncle Tupelo, even with the full discography, has a readable prose size of only 32 kB. You don't need a readable prose size counting tool to recognize this is a short article, just a glance at the article will tell you that.
*WikiProject Musicians Article Guidelines state that "Musicians that have released a significant amount of work should be given their own discography articles." This makes it clear that not all musicians should be given their own discography articles, only those that have released a significant about of work. Uncle Tupelo only released four studio albums. On top of that only two compilation albums, and only five singles. In no world does this qualify as a "significant amount of work." 
Since the band is no longer together, neither the main body of the article nor the discography are likely to have much information added to them. Adding the discography to the Uncle Tupelo article makes a relatively short article a better article, it improves it, the rationale for merging the two is obvious thus doing so without discussion was appropriate, and the merger should not have been reverted, and now I have provided an exhaustive explanation of why, so the remerger should now stand. Mmyers1976 (talk) 22:59, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Discography Merger into this article

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