Talk:List of musical band types

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Shouldn't this page be titled band (music), according to standard Wikipedia conventions? Michael Hardy 01:31, 30 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, maybe. Can you cite a policy or examples to back up your assertation that it's "standard wikipedia convention"? (I'm not saying you're wrong, just asking you to show supporting evidence) &mdash; Fudoreaper 02:18:57, 2005-09-01 (UTC)


 * mathematical measure redirects to measure (mathematics); mathematical group redirects to group (mathematics). The point is that no one calls groups "mathematical groups", but in mathematics, one calls certain algebraic structures "groups".  By contrast, mathematical induction does not redirect to "induction (mathematics)" because people do frequently use the term "mathematical induction" when writing about that concept.  Generally, if the word "trunk" means one thing in zoology, another in botany, and another in automotive design, and another in communications engineering, then one finds articles titled "trunk (zoology)", "trunk (botany)", "trunk (automotive design)", and "trunk (communications engineering)". Michael Hardy 23:44, 1 September 2005 (UTC)


 * See Disambiguation and Naming conventions (precision). Hyacinth 09:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it seems that in music, a "band" is a group of players. Thus, "Band (music)" would be the correct title, because people in music never say "musical band".  I agree with Michael Hardy. &nadash; Fudoreaper 17:24:53, 2005-09-02 (UTC)

OK, I'm going to move the page. After that, there's the problem of fixing all the links to this page. click on "what links here" on the article page and you'll see the list. Could others help? Michael Hardy 20:35, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * At this time, if you click on "what links here", all pages that include template:band-stub will be listed, even though I have edited the template. But if you click on the word "band" within the template, it now goes to band (music).  Apparently it will take some time for "what links here" to be fully up to date in cases like this.  After that, there will still be articles linking to musical band, now a redirect page.  To be fixed.... Michael Hardy 20:57, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Are vocal groups "bands"?
I note among the types of bands listed the entry "vocal group." And someone had renamed my article on The Gaylords to "The Gaylords (American band)" (I just changed it to "The Gaylords (American vocal group)"). It has always been my understanding that a "band" was an instrumental group, sometimes with a vocalist included, but where the vocalist was at most attached to the group. Has this usage changed? -- BRG 18:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Types versus genres
The list is about types of bands (i.e. how many people, which instruments, covers or own material, written down or improvised...) but a few genres have crept into the list, like "Ska Band". Since a ska band is basically the same as a traditional R&B, soul or funk band (i.e. a rock/pop band with a brass section), I propose to remove this (and similar entries) from the list. 84.198.246.199 (talk) 05:11, 20 April 2010 (UTC)