Talk:List of greatest hits albums/Archive 1

Inclusion criteria
This page is a disambiguation page. It is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather a navigation aid. As such it should include those albums that are likely to be confused for each other and not every album containing the words Greatest Hits. If you think that an editor would accidentally link to the Greatest Hits page, when they meant to link to the album pages you're working on, or a reader is likely to type in "Greatest Hits" it belongs on this page. I.E., the following types of albums should be included on this page:
 * 1. All albums titled Greatest Hits by various artists. The cover art on such an album will typically say the artists name along with the phrase Greatest Hits, but may only say Greatest Hits or nothing at all. E.G., Greatest Hits (Bruce Springsteen album), Greatest Hits (Journey album).
 * 2. All albums titled X's Greatest Hits. The possessive title will often be on the cover art either with or without the artists name. E.G.,
 * 3. Either of the above with the addition of an Arabic or Roman numeral volume number. The cover art on such an album will be similar to the above with the appropriate modification such as, Greatest Hits II, Greatest Hits 2, Greatest Hits Volume II, Greatest Hits Volume 2, Greatest Hits Vol. 2, Greatest Hits Part 2., etc.    E.G., Greatest Hits Volume Two (George Strait album), Greatest Hits, Volume II (Chicago album), and Greatest Hits II (Queen). An album with a cover that says something like Artist X Greatest Hits - Artist II such as Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Temptations album) fits here as long as it is truly titled appropriately.
 * 4. Any album in category 1 or 2 but for the addition of a range of years. E.G., Greatest Hits 1982-1989 (Chicago album).
 * 5. Albums fitting into category 2 below, but belonging to a sequence of greatest hits albums where one such album is titled correctly above. E.G., The Best of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II.
 * 6. Albums titled ## Greatest Hits. E.G., 20 Greatest Hits (The Beatles album).

The following albums do not belong on this page:
 * 1. Albums entitled The Best of X, The Essential X, The Ultimate X, The X Anthology, The Definitive X Collection, where X is a bands name.
 * 2. Albums entitled Greatest Hits: x y ... z or x y ... z: Greatest Hits, where  x y ... z represents a significant modification to the title name, which serves to disambiguate it from other Greatest Hits albums.  E.G., Greatest Hits: My Prerogative by Britney Spears and Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock by George Thorogood & The Destroyers.
 * 3. Albums entitled Greatest Hits Live. See link at the bottom of article page for separate article.

Modified titles
I propose the rules above. The rules are basically derived from the page as it exists. I was unsure whether to include or exclude albums with modified Greatest Hits titles such as Greatest Hits: My Prerogative by Britney Spears and Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock by George Thorogood & The Destroyers. I posed the question on the WikiProject Albums (section) talk pages on October 3, 2006. The response came back that the title should almost say Greatest Hits. Albums with titles that have significant modifications which disambiguate the album should not be included. I also feel that they might prefer a more stringent set of rules, but I don't want to make major modifications without further input. I.E., some probably believe albums falling into categories 3-6 on the first list should be excluded. I don't know what the majority or the experieinced wikipedians feel, but will follow along if the rationale is good to do otherwise.

I removed the following albums from the page according to the above rules, but am open to debate on this topic:
 * 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! (James Brown album)
 * Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (Britney Spears album)

I also decided not to add the following as per the above rules: —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs)
 * The Greatest Hits on Earth (The Fifth Dimension album)

It sounds good to me. The key is If you think that an editor would accidentally link to the Greatest Hits page, when they meant to link to the album page. But the other reason for accidental links here, is people thinking they're linking to the page describing what "greatest hits" collections are. The what links here page would be a good cleanup project. :-)

Cleanup
This page was marked for cleanup per MoS:DAB. I changed the style per the disambiguation guidelines. I added the release dates for several albums. I also deleted the following albums from the dab page, mainly because those albums weren't even mentioned on the artist's or artist's discography page, therefore a creation of a said album article seems rather unlikely in the near future. Please copy-paste the individual entries back onto the dab page if you have reason to disagree. – sgeureka t•c 13:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Greatest Hits (Isaac Hayes album) by Isaac Hayes (1995)
 * Greatest Hits (Idiot Pilot album) by Idiot Pilot
 * Greatest Hits (Kenny G album) by Kenny G (2004) -- replaced with Kenny G - Greatest Hits by Kenny G (1997)
 * Greatest Hits (Jelly Roll Morton album) by Jelly Roll Morton (1996) -- wikipedia's Jelly Roll Morton died in 1941
 * Greatest Hits (Aaron Neville album) by Aaron Neville (1996)
 * Greatest Hits (Marty Stuart album) by Marty Stuart (1994)
 * I tried to cleanup all the pages that link under What links here but noticed that this page wasn't of much help to me because the places where GH albums are misnamed as just "Greatest Hits" are exactly the pages with obscure/less known artists where a proper article about a GH albums will likely never be created, and this renders this dab page basically useless.


 * Greatest Hits (Cover Girls album) by The Cover Girls (1998)
 * Greatest Hits Volume One (Anal Cunt album) (1991)
 * Greatest Hits (N.W.A.) by N.W.A. (1996)
 * Greatest Hits (Biz Markie album) by Biz Markie (2002)
 * The Greatest Hits (Stevie B album) by Stevie B (2001)
 * Greatest Hits (Geto Boys album) by Geto Boys (2003)
 * Greatest Hits (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album) (2004)
 * Greatest Hits (La'cryma Christi) by La'cryma Christi (2004)
 * Greatest Hits (All-4-One album) by All-4-One (2004)
 * Greatest Hits (Luscious Jackson) Luscious Jackson (2007)
 * Greatest Hits (Aretha Franklin album) by Aretha Franklin (1999)
 * Greatest Hits (Spoken album) by Spoken band) (2001)
 * Greatest Hits (Bucks Fizz album) by Bucks Fizz (1983)
 * Greatest Hits (Ginuwine album) by Ginuwine (2006)
 * Greatest Hits (Kylie Minogue album) by Kylie Minogue (1992)
 * I also noticed that Special:Allpages/Greatest_Hits basically already lists all existing wikipedia articles of artists who had notable GH albums, and that the amount is almost endless. I am going to nominate this disambiguation page for deletion. Not because I want to have it deleted but because I'd like to know in how far it is possible to just use Special:Allpages/Greatest_Hits as a disambiguation help, and to have this list trimmed down to only a few handful of manageable "examples". – sgeureka t•c 15:16, 24 March 2007 (UTC)


 * add Goo Goo Dolls' album. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.229.238.137 (talk) 18:38, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Icon series of greatest hits albums
Should the Icon series of greatest hits albums be added to this article ? Some of them have the same track listing as previous releases by certain artisits but most are different:


 * Icon, a series of compilation albums
 * Icon (Billy Currington album) (2011)
 * Icon (Billy Ray Cyrus album) (2011)
 * Icon (Bryan Adams album) (2010)
 * Icon (Gary Allan album) (2012)
 * Icon (George Strait album) (2011)
 * Icon (Ja Rule album), (2012)
 * Icon (Joe Cocker album) (2011)
 * Icon (Josh Turner album) (2011)
 * Icon (KISS album) (2010)
 * Icon (Limp Bizkit album) (2011)
 * Icon (Lynyrd Skynyrd album) (2010)
 * Icon (Michael Jackson album) (2012)
 * Icon (Mike Oldfield album) (2012)
 * Icon (Nirvana album) (2010)
 * Icon (No Doubt album) (2010)
 * Icon (Queen album) (2013)
 * Icon (Vince Gill album) (2010)
 * Icon 2 (2011), an album by George Strait

QuintusPetillius (talk) 17:32, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * No, this should be a separate article. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:55, 14 July 2014 (UTC).


 * And indeed the above list is at Icon (disambiguation), which is the redirect target for Icon (album). All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:57, 14 July 2014 (UTC).

Scope
The inclusion criteria at the top seem outdated, since this is no longer a dab page.

We also could consider lists for "Biggest Hits" and so forth.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:53, 11 July 2014 (UTC).