Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Ian Svenonius discography/archive1

Ian Svenonius discography[edit]

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. No further edits should be made to this page. The closing editor's comments were: Withdrawn by nominator. Circeus 02:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nominating article, based on its comprehensiveness in covering its topic. Drewcifer3000 08:42, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

oppose
- Improper focus: It's not a "discography", it's a "list of works who X contributed to"
- Formatting is thoroughly improper, and doesn't even remotely attempts to followother discographies.
- Lead is far too short. Done (Drewcifer3000 18:45, 19 August 2007 (UTC))[reply]
- Overinclusiveness makes the table of content useless.
Circeus 17:48, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review Circeus. Hopefully I can address your concerns.

I agree somewhat. Although the majority of the entires are musical releases, there are indeed a number of them that aren't. There are a total of 57 musical entries, and 10 non-musical entries (video, zines, writings, etc). Perhaps a move to List of works by Ian Svenonius might be in order, but I'm not sure if a 10/57 ratio really warrants that.
Is there a MoS for discographies? Or a general consensus on formatting? If there is I'd be happy to follow it. I actually based the formatting of the article on Butthole Surfers discography, so it's not something I made up out of the blue. And the formatting of many discographies, namely the ones already featured, emphasize sales and chart positions, which is irrelevant to this article.
Agreed. I'll work on expanding it.
I'd be happy to remove the ToC if that's a problem, but the article's inclusiveness almost requires it, I think.Drewcifer3000 17:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- "I'm not sure if a 10/57 ratio really warrants that." No, the problem is all those band sections should be there to begin with. Wikipedia sorts discographies by group and people separately, for reasons this list demonstrate very well: they get humongous very quickly. See Gwen Stephani discography. It explicitly doesn't include stuff from No Doubt discography.
- Well, you might want to look at dozens of discographies, or just the various ones we have featured (Goldfrapp, Gwen Stefani, Hilary Duff, No Doubt, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Wilco)
- The problem with the TOC is caused by the fact the list is far too inclusive, removing the TOC is never a solution to anything.
- Circeus 18:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I can definitely see your point. Thanks for the review. I guess I'll split the article up into numerous smaller discographies, and hopefully nominate those soon too. In the mean time I'll delist this article. Thanks again. Drewcifer3000 19:17, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]