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The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was not promoted 19:05, 4 May 2008.

Pink Floyd discography[edit]

I'm nominating on behalf of Wikiproject Pink Floyd article improvement goals. --Freedom (song) (talk) 19:33, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow, it's nice to see a discography for a band that I'm actually familiar with. A few things: the citations should be properly formatted (see Wikipedia:Citation templates) the bit about the lawsuit in the lead needs a citation (and to be honest, I'm not sure if it is entirely necessary) and I'd like to see a bit added about Dark Side of the Moon being the fourth highest selling album, and spending 741 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. -- Scorpion0422 21:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose A very good start, but I honestly see alot of problems. Here's a few of the bigger ones:

  • The in-line citations need to give full attribution.
  • Only some of the chart columns are referenced.
  • Year shouldn't be wikilinked in the Year column.
  • The Year column in the Video table is much bigger than the others.
  • The "Album details" columns don't actually give details, just the title. Whatabout release date or label or formats or any of that?
  • There seems to be a consensus lately against the addition of B-Sides, since this is a discography not a songography.
  • The article's table style is not consistent with established FL discogs and even itself. The first table says "Peak chart positions" and combines certifications into a single column. The following three tables split the certifications into seperate columns. The Singles table says "Peak positions". The years are bolded in the Music videos table but not the others. Drewcifer (talk) 05:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • I got bored today and fixed some of this, we'll just say as part of Wikiproject Discogs :p. Lara❤Love 06:27, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Drewcifer; also I am very interested in finding out where you got US charting information from so far back (60s and 70s). Why don't you try to model the article on some similar high-quality FL discographies such as Nirvana discography and RHCP discography? Pretty much all Wikipedia featured discogs are formatted like those two. indopug (talk) 12:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

  • A proper introduction in the lead should be given: "This is a discography for the band Pink Floyd", for example
  • In that little table under the picture, B-Sides is listed. Why? 1. It doesn't link to anywhere, 2. It's a discography, not a songography, and 3. Why if you're going to total up each track of every single, aren't you totalling up each track of every album?
  • "for individual songs, see the category listing." is unnecessary
  • The second and third paragraphs of the lead need citations
  • IMO, English speaking countries should be listed before non-English speaking countries. US first, then Aus, NZ and UK (alphabetical order), then all other countries in alphabetical order
  • Tribute albums are not by Pink Floyd, and should be removed
  • Unreleased albums need citations
  • Perhaps "Live albums" and "Compilations" should be subsections of "Albums"
  • What is everything in "Other"? Expand the comments column to provide citations, and more details.
  • Again, I would suggest removing the B-sides column from the Singles table.. Why include information on the singles releases' tracks, but not album tracks?
  • Why is "Videos" and "Music videos" separated by five other sections?

-- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 03:13, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • I addressed some of these as well. Lara❤Love 06:27, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment to Matthewedwards I think UK/US should come before all other English-speaking countries in the charts. These are the two most important markets in terms of marketing, sales, promotion, media coverage etc. indopug (talk) 07:12, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my argument to the contrary at the Sonic Youth FLC. Drewcifer (talk) 07:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Further In the album column of the Singles section, mention only the original album the single was released from. For eg: "Arnold Layne" is a non-album single that was later collected on Early Singles, so the column should read "Non-album single". Also, how come The early Singles isn't listed in co,pilations? indopug (talk) 13:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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