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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 16:14, 8 May 2008.

Foo Fighters discography[edit]

Self nomination Yet another discog. Comprehensive and cited. Started on it when it was like this and added more detail and references. Thanks Tenacious D Fan (talk) 18:02, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Gary King (talk · contribs)
  • Would it be better if Studio albums is renamed to Albums so that the link in the infobox for Studio albums works? Gary King (talk) 18:16, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments from WBOSITG (talk · contribs)
  • Word only numbers less than ten.
  • sorted
  • Albums should be Bold Italic rather than just Italic.
  • originally had it like that, but was undone. redid it.
  • Countries should be in alphabetical order (but keep USA first as the home country)
  • hnnngh. your right, i'll get onto it.
  • References needed for the videos.
  • done
  • Perhaps an external links section would be appropriate?
  • done
  • Disambiguation pages are linked to in the videos section.

That's all I got now. Good work so far. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:54, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Matthew

Comments

  • "This is a comprehensive discography of Foo Fighters, an American rock band. The band has released...": No need for comprehensive, that's assumed if it is Featured. Instead of "The band has..", use "The Foo Fighters have..."
  • "The band, consisting of Grohl on any every instrument with the exception of a guitar part" needs fixing
  • UWC chart should be at the end of Peak chart postitions. Use the US charts first, followed by English language charts in alphabetical order, then the non-English lang charts, alphabetically, followed by the World chart.
  • Are there references for the music video directors and Other appearances section?

-- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 23:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Other appearances is per music videos, in that its self referential. I mean, would I cite from Amazon? Tenacious D Fan (talk) 15:52, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral as I am unable to see the nomination to the end. Sorry. Hope my comments helped, though. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 05:59, 29 April 2008 (UTC) Comment mvdbase is not reliable, don't cite it. In fact, there isn't really a need to reference music videos as they are self referential. Also, check if the official website lists their videos, because mvdbase often passes off live videos and minor edits to a music video as different videos. The "Times Like These" entry is quite confusing as it is now (make it repeat on three different rows), any way, I think only one of those would official. The lead should be expanded; just by the length of the band's history, I'd say double the size of the lead. (Include chartings for the albums etc, overall sales is very important too) indopug (talk) 03:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would say that the directors should be cited though. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 03:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Music video directors are conventionally credited at the beginning and end of a music video when a video is shown on music television. So it's nothing really disputable. WesleyDodds (talk) 04:46, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Solution to this is to remove all cites, as they are unreliable and not required. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 15:34, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That might be true for music television in the US, but not in the UK, where the only identifiers is the title and artist. Anyway, it's no big deal. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 18:30, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments from The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)
  • "Comprehensive" in the lead is redundant - it's either complete or it isn't (and if it isn't then it shouldn't be at FLC).
  • "...solo material performed..." - released?
  • "...Grohl on all instrument..." - instruments?
  • "...guitar track from "X-Static"" - what does this mean?
  • The lead seems to focus heavily on personnel changes in the band rather than albums, singles, certifications etc.
  • US not U.S. (as you have UK).
  • Remove spaces between text and references/notes.
  • I can't see note 2 anywhere...
  • "(see above)" - yuck. "..as shown in the table..." perhaps?
  • Note 1, second sentence, reads very strangely to me.
  • Ref 50 has redlink "Spin (magazine)/Spin" - is this what you want?
  • I get one dead link - see this.

That's it from me. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:43, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have now correctly ordered all the charts following MoS. US (the home of the Foos) the all other countries (so as to be NPOV). Tenacious D Fan (talk) 19:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Looks good! Drewcifer (talk) 16:26, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved stuff from Drewcifer

Comments Very nice! I only have a few minor suggestions. Foo Fighters needs to be wikilinked in the lead (but not in the bold title). External links should come last, after references. Wherever possible, try and keep similar columns between tables at a consistent width. In the lead "three videos" isn't specific enough, since they're video releases, no music videso, but that's not clear. "Initially, he band" typo. "instruments—apart from a guitar track from the song"X-Static"—released" This is the wrong dash. Should be –. "record the bands next three albums" is missing an apostrophe. Drewcifer (talk) 00:52, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, all addressed. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 12:56, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Leads needs expanding; only members going in and out of the band has been discussed not the success of the various releases. See Nirvana discography. indopug (talk) 19:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're completely right. I've done some work, and made the talk of line-up changes briefer, and added a considerable amount of discussion on album/single release chart performance. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 16:52, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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