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Please, restore genres section!!

Genres are very important in pages about artists & bands, I think it's necessary to restore this section soever. Vziel (talk) 19:02, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

The main discussion of this topic is taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?. Feel free to join in there. "P.S." It's best to start new talk page sections at the bottom of the page instead of the top. See Wikipedia:Talk#New topics and headings on talk pages — Mudwater ^(Talk) 16:24, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I was pretty confused why it was removed as well. YBK

Where is the infobox template for classical musician articles?

The template repeatedly states this is the template for non-classical musical articles/artists. Where is the template for classical conductors, composers, instrumentalists? Softlavender (talk) 02:57, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm guessing there isn't one. I looked at Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, the first two that came to mind, and they don't have an infobox. Then I looked at a few other names; the only one with an infobox was György Ligeti, and he is using the musical artist infobox with green colour scheme for "non performing personnel" (despite the instructions saying this colour is not for classical music composers). You may want to look at whether a template is being considered at WP:WikiProject Classical music or WP:WikiProject Composers. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 13:38, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

In ru-wiki, we have no problems using the same infobox as for pop artists, even for featured articles. Here, you may try using "Person" infobox Netrat (talk) 18:25, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

During the original discussions over content and layout for the current Infobox musical artist the members of the classical music/composers projects flatly rejected the musician box for use on classical composers. I believe it was just as much a "we do not want your infobox forced onto us" which is what some of the more ignorant musician project members were trying to do as it was a 'cosmetic' issue. The layout and fields that were available for use on composer articles were deemed to be as useless/retarded as the current genre field is to every active music related Wiki-project. The Real Libs-speak politely 19:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Height

Can we have a field with the height of the artist as I think alot of people would be highly interested in this statistic as alot of the time celebrities are completely different heights to what the public might expect. And I think it is relevant and appropriate to have it in the infobox with all the other statistics listed. Xcahv8 (talk) 15:12, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

How is it relevant to a musician again??? This subject has been beat to death before. (along with eye colour/hair colour/etc) No one really cares how tall Dizzy Gillespie was. Or how tall Clapton is.... or whoever. It might of a piece of information important to a professional wrestler. But not to a guitar player or a piano player or a... etc. The Real Libs-speak politely 16:00, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

We're writing articles, not baseball cards. --IllaZilla (talk) 18:02, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Agree, it's an irrelevant piece of information. --Rodhullandemu 18:08, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Agree as well, this is totally and completely irrelevant. These are musicians, not basketball players. We already have enough fields abused in the infobox templates as it is, too. coccyx bloccyx_(toccyx) 18:29, 28 October 2008 (UTC)