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Template:The Life of Pablo

Should Template:The Life of Pablo be nominated for deletion? I never see navboxes for specific albums. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:46, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

There are quite a few of them Category:Album navigational boxes - X201 (talk) 20:33, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Since Template:Kanye West songs contains links for all the same songs (and listed by album) and the templates would appear in the same articles, it is redundant navigation. 16:43, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

@X201: Hmm, not all of these are templates about individual albums. I don't feel too strongly either way, so I will let others decide. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 21:24, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Anyone have access to the album Blunderbuss's liner notes?

This is a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone had access to the liner notes of Jack White's album Blunderbuss, because I'm having issues finding a reliable source for the Personnel listing. As far as I can tell by the article's history, there's a good chance the Personnel listing was adopted from Discogs, which is crowdsourced. The best source for credits that I can find is this page from AllMusic, but it doesn't contain the level of detail given in the article (i.e. the tracks each person contributed to). If anyone with access to the liner notes could check the Personnel listing in the article for accuracy, then the liner notes can be used as a source, and that would resolve the issue. It would also be helpful to check for missing people; I noticed that Bob Ludwig and Vance Powell aren't listed in the Personnel section despite working on engineering and mastering, and I would assume that they're credited in the liner notes. Thanks, Hadger (talk) (contribs) 03:05, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi Hadger, I've checked my personal copy against this discogs entry: https://www.discogs.com/Jack-White-Blunderbuss/release/3566352 as far as I can see the entries are entirely accurate, you can check some of the pages of the album booklet against the discogs entry here for your own piece of mind: http://mimsnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/11/jack-white-blunderbuss.html. Hope this helps :-) EL Foz87 (talk) 15:19, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

@EL Foz87: That's very helpful. Thank you so much! I'd like to cite the copy that you checked, so could you tell me which format your copy is in (CD, vinyl, or digital download) as well as the ID on your copy? (I think the proper name for this is the category number, and I believe it can be found somewhere in the liner notes, perhaps the back side; it seems like vinyl copies tend to use TMR followed by three digits, while CD copies tend to use an 11-digit number.) Hadger (talk) (contribs) 17:29, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey Hadger, sorry for the late reply, doing shift work. I have the CD format it appears the category number is XLCD-566 and it's a UK pressing can't see any other identifiers apart from one after the copyright jargon on the back which is LC05667, hope that helps :-) EL Foz87 (talk) 20:52, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

No worries! This is exactly what I needed. Thank you! Hadger (talk) (contribs) 19:01, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Blake & Rice album release date

The article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_%26_Rice states that the album "Blake & Rice" was released in 1992, but as noted correctly in the discographies of both Norm Blake and Tony Rice, the album was released in 1987. I do not know when it was recorded.

References to help verify the date:

Picture of the back of the CD case

WorldCat entry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.73.104.54 (talk) 21:42, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction and source! I've gone ahead and made the change. If you find another mistake on a page, please feel free to fix it. Hadger (talk) (contribs) 02:11, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

References

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles

Could Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles and/or the website be reliable? I don’t know that much about the print source, but the website has a big about us page, even featuring Martin Popoff, who has wrote a greate amount of books about music. ~SML • TP 00:07, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Anyone? ~SML • TP 10:53, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Metal isn't my area, and I know nothing about Canadian publications, but the fact it ran as a print version for 15 years (as a proper magazine with an ISSN number, etc.), is still going online, has what appears to be an editorial structure, and includes well known contributing journalists like Martin Popoff and Greg Prato, makes me think it's an acceptable source. I personally wouldn't have any problem accepting it as a reliable source, but I think I'd probably defer to Sergecross73 and Walter Görlitz here, who are likely to know more about this genre and type of publication. Richard3120 (talk) 13:56, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

It seems like I've seen past discussions for Brave Words when looking through the talk page archives in cleaning up the WP:ALBUMS/SOURCES list earlier in the year. Seems like its reliability was debated, without any clear consensus, if I recall, though I'm not sure. I can try to look around later. Sixty, you can look through the talk page archives some if you want an answer faster than that. Sergecross73 msg me 14:24, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Martin Popoff is a very promising sign that it's reliable, but don't let my statement alone declare this reliable. Let's see what else we can find. dannymusiceditor ^oops 18:53, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at WT:NFC#Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV - 70 non-free files being used

 You are invited to join the discussion at WT:NFC#Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume IV - 70 non-free files being used. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:51, 11 September 2018 (UTC)Template:Z48

RfC notice

Please see Talk:Buddy Williams (country musician)#RfC on discography format. Thanks! – Reidgreg (talk) 13:25, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

This RfC could use some additional input! – Reidgreg (talk) 17:31, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Discobuzz as a source

Hi, I just wanna know your opinion about this website called Discobuzz. It seems to be an online CD shop, can it be used?. Also, I wanna know if you think the product on the link (Shakira's "Pure Intuition" Remixes CD) seems realiable to you? I'm having my doubts about it. It says it was released by Energy Records from Germany, but I can't confirm their existence. Thank you. --Paparazzzi (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

It's only a promotional CD, not an official release, so the question of whether Discobuzz is a "source" (I'd say no) becomes irrelevant, because this CD was never commercially available. Richard3120 (talk) 21:51, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

searching for ace records brooklyn ny

Hello everyone, I am trying to locate any information on Ace records. It was a small independent label in Brooklyn NY in the 1980s'. I am trying to find anything written about this company to add to an article i am drafting. Carolcappetta (talk) 00:27, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

If anyone can help you here, it will be 78.26 or Chubbles... Richard3120 (talk) 01:52, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey, that sounds fun! I'm not going to be available much for the next few days, but I'll try to help out. What were some of their artists? I'm afraid a name like "Ace Records" will be a bit difficult to search, but if I have a couple artist names it helps. Then we'll see if it meets notability standards. Thanks Richard3120!78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 04:59, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

I'm sure Carol wants the information for the article she is drafting on Derek Reese, so there is the name of at least one artist. Richard3120 (talk) 15:28, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

So, this is not the famous Ace Records label out of Mississippi that we have an article on already? (If so, Discogs has it wrong.) I'm afraid I don't have anything on an Ace out of New York in the '80s. There was also a guy named Warpozio who was at one time a real whiz with label articles, but I don't know how active he is these days. Chubbles (talk) 01:58, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

the band nu clear energy was on ace records and the band called big boys Carolcappetta (talk) 15:34, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

AllMusic links

It looks like a lot of the links to the AllMusic album reviews have changed. For example, the album ratings template in the current version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has this link, but now should have this link. Did these AllMusic URLs change recently, or did I miss an older discussion about it? And is there any fix for this, other than going through lord knows how many album articles, and updating the links manually, one by one?

References

— Mudwater ^(Talk) 10:10, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

From what I've seen we've generally stopped using the former, and I'd guess it's been that way a while now. However up until recently I believe clicking on those old-format refs still worked. Guess not anymore. We could get a bot to do it, but we'd have to request its use and anything involving bots is completely out of my wheelhouse. dannymusiceditor ^oops 13:49, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

• agree it needs a bot as there are an awful lot of refs that need fixing, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 13:57, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

The editor Holiday56 is doing exactly that, updating the links one by one, but I'm sure he/she would appreciate the help of a bot. The {{AllMusic}} template should probably be removed from the album article style guide, as it is now obsolete. Richard3120 (talk) 15:26, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

The {{AllMusic}} template is not obsolete, I'm pretty sure. The id= parameter just needs to be updated to the new value, and the tab=review needs to be removed, if present. I'm not a huge fan of the template, but it seems that it's still okay to use. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 16:09, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Not obsolete, exactly. There's a difference between "not used" and "deprecated". It's just less popular than standard format. dannymusiceditor ^oops 00:51, 24 September 2018 (UTC)