Talk:Lists of albums

message: If we're listing artists alphabetically, why do we have "Neil Young" under N instead of "Young, Neil" under Y?  —LarryGilbert 09:40, 2004 Mar 13 (UTC)
:See my long unresponded-to comment at the top of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music standards.  There's too much blurriness in the names of bands -- while it would be possible to come up with some set of standards, it would be easier IMO to just go with the first character. The current list, for example, includes Alice Cooper (Billion Dollar Babies - by a band named Alice Cooper, IIRC, and so therefore presumably under a and not c, though a later album would be under c) and some awkward ones (Parsons, Alan Project?). Tuf-Kat 17:57, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)
::This is something that's going to have to be discussed and written into the style guide. While things remain ambiguious at present there is one rule I've always worked with. Album, band, and song titles beginning with "A " or "The " should be catalogued according to the second word in the title eg. "The Rolling Stones" is catalogued under "R" not "T" for "The" or "A Saucerful of Secrets" should be catalogued under "S" for "Saucerful" not "A". "A" and "The" are still written but ignored when cataloging. Iam 05:56, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)
:::Oh, I agree.  I'm not talking about A or The -- I just mean alphabetizing under first name instead of last name. Tuf-Kat 09:29, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)
::::Personally I would much rather see artists filed under their surnames. This is, after all, how all music stores display their artists and how every collector I know (including myself) files their records. Also, it makes more sense (to me) to have Bob and Ziggy, or Frank and Dweezil next to each other, than it does Messrs Jones and Petty, or Messrs Jagger and Hucknell :-)
::::I'm happy to take on the task of re-ordering the page, but only if we get some consensus on this.
:::::If you would like to propose a standard for dealing with names like Alice Cooper and Alan Parsons Project, go ahead.  I don't really care, as long as it is easy to find what I'm looking for. Tuf-Kat 19:12, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)
::::::Most music encylopaedias that I've seen list Alice Cooper under C, and Alan Parsons Project under P. Iam 06:23, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)
::::PS Anyone got any thoughts on my recent comment added at: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Music_standards?--Bwmodular 09:22, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Alphabetical list of artists

message: Shouldn't this article be named "Lists of albums" now that the content has been split into separate pages? - dcljr 08:35, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title 

message: For the deletion debate related to this article, see Talk:List of albums/delete -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 00:44, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  VfD debate 

message: Eponymous albums is listed twice. I'd go and edit it myself, but you never know what people want done with these articles. 
--69.157.7.124 07:24, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of eponymous albums 

message: I just created List of lists of albums as a redirect for this page and I think this page should be moved there as it is a more accurate title.  Thoughts?--Hraefen 22:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes and no. Moving the list of topics from this main page to List of lists of albums would be accurate, and would be a good companion for List of lists of songs. However, the actual list that is here (List of albums (A), List of albums (B), etc) should remain here as they are correctly doing what this title says, they're listing the albums. Satan's Rubber Duck 23:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name change?

message: Shouldn't the dashes be – instead of -? And also, why isn't the date listed in parenthesis instead of seperated by another dash?
*Mary Prankster - Blue Skies Over Dundalk - 1998
vs.
*Mary Prankster – Blue Skies Over Dundalk (1998)
Joltman 17:52, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps. At least one pages has the ndashes - List of albums (F) - so if you want to go through and change them then do so, but be careful that you don't break any wikilinks. As for the years, AFAIK it's always been set out that way in this list. If you want to go through and change them, then be bold and do so, but it'll be a lot of work. Satan's Rubber Duck 21:04, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dashs and Year formatting? 

message: Hah, well I only just discovered that there's a List of EPs page. Now, as I've been going through (so far from Punct-D) I've been adding in bands' EPs because I see them as just small albums... whoops. Just to let you know, and I'll stop that one now. Satan's Rubber Duck 17:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * Just a note to people who might be interested that List of EPs is current AFDed. Halo 14:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Haha, great, guess I'll start adding EPs into this list again then. Satan's Rubber Duck 11:12, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

text: OK, as of O, I'm going to start adding in EPs to the list as well, with EP being placed within the date bracket. Please comment whether you think this is appropriate or not. Satan's Rubber Duck 20:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oh dammit... EPs 

message: THere are lists of albums by artists, but what about lists of albums by year?  Just wondering? ONEder Boy (talk) 20:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: By year