Talk:Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album

Merge proposal
The Grammy category Grammy Award for Best World Music Album was split into Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album and Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album from 2004 to 2011. They are true subcategories, as evidenced by how they will be remerged in 2012. I believe this article would do well to include the albums from 2004 to 2011. The sections could be "recipients 1992-2003", "recipients 2004-2011", and, once nominations are here, "recipients 2012-". The section handling the two categories would explain the split and use two columns. In this way, all the World Music Album winners are in one place that has a good formatting and the two articles on the split categories can be redirected here without issue. Hekerui (talk) 08:08, 10 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Support Good idea. Adabow (talk · contribs) 05:27, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Sounds good. Novice7 (talk) 12:58, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: Interesting. My gut instinct was to oppose the merge, fearing the article could become too long and because there are enough entries and details for the subcategories to warrant their own article. Good articles exist for categories with as few as one to four entries. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 14:22, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Having looked at the list again, I oppose the merge. I believe that articles for both the Traditional and Contemporary categories could be promoted to Good status once expanded. I am happy to work on expanding these categories as soon as I can. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 14:42, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your work on the Grammy articles. The subcategories themselves are not distinguished by any means other than selection of releases and the releases themselves - wouldn't there be hardly anything "Grammy-ish" to cover with those releases, and much of it redundant to this article? I remember checking Google News after the Grammys and the winners got almost no coverage. What would the content be that could be put into the articles on the split award categories? (Sorry if that sounds like a request for crystalballing ;) Hekerui (talk) 15:42, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Having separate articles allows the opportunity to provide detail about the nominated works and artists and to note trends relating to the category. See my profile page for links to ten or so GA-status Grammy articles. The Contemporary and Traditional World Music articles would be similar. Once expanded, a merge would not be necessary. I do agree with you that we need to establish a system to connect award categories together. Perhaps a timeline or template at the bottom illustrating a category's evolution over time. Even images could be helpful (example, World Music category with arrows showing a split to Contemporary and Traditional, then arrows showing their merge). This would help viewers to see the evolution of the award. (Note: A discussion relating to Timelines began here. I am happy to bring the topic up for conversation again, though not at the link provided since this thread is archived.) -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 15:53, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Update: I am currently working on both articles and tagged each with the "under construction" banner. My intent is not to stop this discussion but rather to make sure all articles have reached their potential. I hope to have both articles completed in a week's time. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:05, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, no hurry :) Hekerui (talk) 18:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

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The last paragraph of the lede, about statistics, is clearly out of date. Can someone update it? Rigadoun (talk) 15:52, 24 May 2019 (UTC)