Jump to content

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Robbie Williams discography/archive1

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 promoted by Hahc21 10:01, 4 September 2013 (UTC) [1].[reply]

Robbie Williams discography

[edit]

Robbie Williams discography (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Toolbox
Nominator(s): I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 14:13, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because I feel that it meets the criteria following extensive development of the tables and prose. Not really a Robbie Williams fan, but lots of chart positions and certifications to work with. I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 14:13, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Crisco 1492 (talk)
Comments
  • That image is hideous. Please choose another. It's blurry, out of focus, and badly coloured.
  • Done Since opinion on the quality of images is subjective (and the current one is extremely poor, I admit), is this one better?
  • male pop group Take That, whom - whom or which?
I've addressed the comments: thank you for being the first person to add some comments, a month after I originally nominated the page. I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 08:56, 18 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 19:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • "thirty-nine music videos" infobox says 41.
  • Infobox image caption doesn't need Williams' first name.
  • Williams is English but Michael is British? Why the distinction?
  • "before the group disbanded the following" reads funny to me, maybe "; the group disbanded the following"
  • "led to increased sales, leading to " repetitive prose.
  • "only charting at number two" would lose the "only" (I'd be happy with a number two album, and I think this places undue weight)
  • Check for SHOUTING in the refs.
  • Check refs for en-dash, e.g. ref 30, ref 88, ref 89 etc...

The Rambling Man (talk) 15:05, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Think I've dealt with everything. I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 17:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • A new thought, and a sad one at that, we have very precise sales figures, but I assume many Williams albums are still on sale, both physically and digitally. Perhaps we need to consider a date (like an {{as of}} template) for when those sales were precisely those sales.
Very rarely do you get such accurate sales figures, but even that brings its own problems. I've put this information into the notes to avoid it cluttering up the main table. There is a problem, though: the French sales figures on the all-time list (found in refs 40 and 44) don't actually have a date on them (the source simply says "depuis 1968 (since 1968)) so presumably the source is updated periodically. Therefore, do they need an "as of" as well? I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 17:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A good question, but I'm not sure we can assume the site has been updated... However (although this is a little synthetic) you could check the most recent entry in the reference and use that as the "as of" date for Williams' stats? The Rambling Man (talk) 19:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Seeing as the reference (spread over several pages) contains 1000 entries, that may take a while. I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 21:19, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There doesn't seem to be any album after 2005 in the entire list, so I suppose that'll have to do for now until I find a better date. I'll make the changes. (There's this page on the InfoDisc website, visible above the list in the reference in the table, which mentions a list broadcast by the BBC (I wouldn't have guessed it) on 30 December 2006: however, as the page points out, their top five is in a completely different order and excludes foreign artists: I don't think their the same lists (although Google Translate is correcting the pages in such broken English it's quite hard to tell). It only includes a top five anyway, so that's no use either.) I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 16:59, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, the sales figures for these albums in the decade end charts (which were presumably taken on December 31 2009) are lower than those in the all-time list. So the list must have been compiled by 1 January 2010 at the earliest: thus, I'll use 2010 as the date for now. I Am Rufus • Conversation is a beautiful thing. 17:11, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/Robbie_Williams_discography/archive1&oldid=571491516"