Talk:Mickey Roker

Associated Acts
Just because people are listed under "associated acts" is no reason to remove their names from the article itself. I'm not even sure there is justification for putting a whole bunch of names under associated acts in a case like this. Roker was a sideman in a lot of groups. Ray Brown, for example, must have been a sideman with dozens or hundreds of different groups over his long career. That would be no reason for listing all the leaders of the bands under "associated acts." (Just a hypothetical case here, to make my point.) There must be a rule for this, somewhere, or at least some kind of guideline. Probably there should be some special, extra reason for putting someone under associated acts. --Alan W (talk) 22:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

For the record, in case anybody is interested, there was a long discussion about this a couple of years ago. But I'm not sure it has much relevance to jazz, as some musicians might perform with hundreds of pickup bands over the course of a long career. Are the leaders of those bands all associated acts? --Alan W (talk) 23:12, 7 September 2010 (UTC)