User talk:Garrlick
Compilations
[edit]Hi Garrlick.
I see you reverted my edits that changed the box type of various albums. The reason i changed them is that "posthumous album" is not a type of album as specified in the definition of the albumn infobox. If the album doesn't fit in one of these categories it would be different from the tens of thousands of album articles currently on the english wikipedia. I have now corrected all the albums in question so they are studio albums as that is what i think you were trying to say.
I don't know a lot about the albums in question but given as they were compiled after the artist was dead i would say they fall into the broad category of compilation. As an example of a posthumous album that has had this problem before look at the Micheal Jackson album Michael. there has been considerable discussion about what to categorise this as and the community consensus was compilation. Here is a link to the initial discussion. Please try to be civil in your edit summaries i was only doing what i think is general consensus on this kind of thing.
Would you be happy to have them changed to compilation with regards to the discussion above or do you still object?
LenTheWhiteCat 11:58, 9 October 2015 (UTC) LenTheWhiteCat 18:06, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
Tupac albums
[edit]Hi Garrlick,
I think we dissagree on what constitutes a compilation. Personally I would say that any album realeased after someone has died and that mostly uses tracks from various studio sessions would fall under the category of a compilation. I think there is definitely consensus looking around wikipedia that albums released after an artists has died that are made up of tracks from various album sessions should be treated as compilations. Please have a look at the category Category:Compilation_albums_published_posthumously some relevant examples are:
- I Care 4 U - Aaliyah's first posthumous release
- Endangered Species - Big Pun's first posthumous release.
If we take Elliott Smith for example. From a Basement on the Hill was released posthumously as Elliott Smith killed himself during the recording of the album. Various tracks from the album sessions were then selected by his estate and released. This counts a Studio Album as all the tracks were created with an albumn in mind and from the same sessions. New Moon was also released posthumously but features unreleased tracks from his Elliott Smith (album) and Either/Or (album) sessions and as such is defined as a compilation.
The above reason is why Biggy's album Life After Death is a studio album and Born Again is a compilation.
LenTheWhiteCat 08:55, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Also here is a link to a good discussion on the difference between Posthumous Compilation and Studio albums Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Music/Archive_28#Posthumous_albums:_Studio_vs_Compilation
LenTheWhiteCat 11:54, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Tupac Albums
[edit]I don't think that we'll agree on this issue so i'll stop going on about it. Just a small point, you were replying to my user page not my talk page. Also when commenting you can put in your name and date of comment by putting ~~~~ at the end.