Talk:Mr. Children discography

message: In light of everything I have decided to pick up where others decided to leave off and so: Original table along with references to discography listings have been listed. The original table contains more information about said singles and albums then the current one. The use of tables to list an artists discography is common practice amongst wiki writers and have been used, but not limited to the following artists discography: L'Arc~en~Ciel discography, Utada Hikaru discography, Namie Amuro discography, BoA discography, Ai Otsuka discography, L'Arc~en~Ciel discography, Ayumi Hamasaki discography, Kumi Koda discography. While the original point to the current revision was to compact the discography into a more readable state, Japanese artists like Ayumi Hamasaki and L'Arc~en~Ciel have discography’s just as, if not larger, then said artist, and have yet to receive complaints about reducing its size. Unless it becomes a serious issue, there is no need to minimize it. The only thing that needs to be fixed is for the album, compilation and DVD charts is to use the same table layout as the singles are using (which is a minor thing to do).
The one question I have before listing the albums using the same table layout as the singles, is that on the artists website, they label their B-Side compilation as their 14th original album. Do we go by what their official website says? I have also placed reference links for the singles, albums, DVDs, and created a source area which explains the whereabouts of the discography sale numbers, which is also a common way of sourcing sales data (which again can be seen in the other artists discography pages that this paragraph has referenced to). I have also placed a reference to their indie/demo material which was printed in their 1996 book. I wanted to source them as a group, but for whatever reason it wasn’t working so I individually sourced each work.
I will also be adding the correct album title names into the individual album articles (i.e: to their correct capitalization spelling) as that is how the artist and the label intended them to be listed. While trademark guidelines state we should use proper capitalization instead of uppercase, even if the trademark is in uppercase, the individual articles that are up for the few albums should make note of their correct spelling.
:For example: Home (which is officially titled HOME) is Mr.Children’s 13th album released on March 14th 2007.
I think we should at least make note of the official spelling, so that the average reader knows at least the correct spelling of the material.
Also while I feel the listing for commercial tie-ups like this to be weird, until all singles have their own article page, I feel they should stay listed so the reader can see them. They have also been sourced/reference too.
Questions/Comments?
--24.233.167.16 02:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also I would like to add that the existence of the Oricon numbers is an important factor as it gives the average reader an insight into the groups popularity in Japan --24.233.167.16 02:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also while Oricon does charge for the sales number, I also led readers to TWO non-paying websites that they could also find the information from. As for citing, how am I suppose to cite a discography? I referenced each work to the proper book. --24.233.167.16 11:07, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Regarding your side note, yes, the numbers should be either removed, or a tag about lack of reference should be used. I have contacted many anonymous adding the information there asking for them to add a reference for the numbers, but they never do so, many times because they are different anonymous. I always wonder where they get the information, but it may be possible that those guys just know Japanese, and since my Japanese is not very good (and their English is so-so as well), we never manage to get those references. -- ReyBrujo 03:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discography Tables