Talk:Music of Rocket League

Comments by Czar
Article goes into an overabundance of detail, much of which should be exported to Wikia or another wiki. Wikipedia articles should be written for a general audience. (not watching, please )  czar  14:30, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * please see similar articles in Category:Video game music discographies, most of which are already good article-class and sometimes go into even more depth than this article does. Everything in this article is appropriately cited and goes into the depth and detail necessary to justify a seperate article. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk &middot;&#32;articles &middot;&#32;reviews) 22:09, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm very familiar with the articles in that category as well as the era in which they were promoted. Every article is judged on its own merits and in its own milieu. Information like the version numbers, specific dates, price of a compilation are all factoids that need to be generalized. The point of this article should be a general introduction to the game's music, not a catalog of every fact that can be referenced re: its production. czar  22:14, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * If you have a problem with over-technical detail such as version numbers and prices, then I'll fix that and remove anything that can be deemed unnecessary. Removing dates, however, seems silly to me. I think readers would want to know when specific albums were released, for example. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk &middot;&#32;articles &middot;&#32;reviews) 22:21, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't say no dates but that their specificity is overkill. A general reader wants to know that there was a contest in late 2015 and that the winning remix was featured on the title screen the next year. They don't need to know the specific release dates for each of the updates. Also note that many Wikipedia articles will follow a dateline format only because editors add a sentence each time a news snippet is released. In the larger scheme—e.g., ten years from now—none of these dates matter to a general audience. Focus on overall narrative. If someone needs to research the specific release date of a Rocket League patch, their use case is beyond the scope of an encyclopedia article. czar  22:34, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * All you said was "specific dates". That leaves much to the imagination as to which particular dates in the article you meant. I'll make the necessary fixes to the article per your suggestions now that you've clarified what you meant. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk &middot;&#32;articles &middot;&#32;reviews) 22:40, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Notes for GA reviewer
I'd like to state my preference for any potential GA reviewer for this article to use xt, !xt, or any colour or formatting templates extensively when jotting down their points in the review. (see Talk:Planetary Missions Program Office/GA1 for reference) This way, my replies to those points, and replies to my replies, can be clearly distinguished between the main point and other main points of the review. I would also like to request that each point be numbered from start to finish in order, with the numbering scheme continuing contiguously through all the sections of the review. This way, I can cite in my edit summaries, in the revision history of the article, which edits pertain to which points of the review. Thanks for your understanding! :) – PhilipTerryGraham (talk &middot;&#32;articles &middot;&#32;reviews) 15:51, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I propose Rocket League x Monstercat Vol. 1 be merged into this article. There's not enough coverage of that subject to satisfy notability by itself and the current sources on that page mostly discuss the tracks on the album. 2601:589:8000:2ED0:7008:EDE7:2466:83B9 (talk) 14:30, 20 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Support – The Music of Rocket League article has an entire description of the background, composition and promotion of Vol. 1 in a single seven-sentence paragraph in the "Monstercat" section with citations from notable publications. I do not believe this to be enough to justify an entirely new article, nor can I see any way for the content to be expanded unless new substantial articles, interviews, or documentaries on Monstercat and/or Rocket Leagues soundtrack come along in the future. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk &middot;&#32;articles &middot;'&#32;reviews) 15:26, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 21:50, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support – The album article is small enough and this article already has like 80% of what the seperate album article has, so why not. Micro (Talk) 22:07, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support. Album page doesn't say much that this page doesn't. No benefit from having the album page. While I think the GA can pass right now, I'll wait until this discussion gets closed.  Anarchyte  ( work  &#124;  talk )  23:49, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support per above. AdrianGamer (talk) 14:02, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Original "Rocket League x Monstercat Vol. 1" article source for merge
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Most of this article is either obsolete or already already in the main article, though the infobox, the cover art and/or some of the references could be used.
 * We don't need to use any of this, actually. What's already in the Music of Rocket League article is satisfactory for encyclopedic detail on the album. An infobox isn't necessary, since the article and the "Monstercat" section isn't about the album specifically, and there is not enough cited information on the album to justify an infobox that takes up a lot of space to essentially just repeat the same information in a pretty, but unnecessary, list-in-box format. The vast majority of citations on the original Rocket League x Monstercat Vol. 1 article are not useful, as they were mostly just pages that promoted tracks from the album, in subjective language nonetheless. Not exactly reliable sources either. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk &middot;&#32;articles &middot;&#32;reviews) 04:02, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
 * In that case, should I mark the album art for Vol. 1 for speedy deletion or would it be used on this article in some form? Micro (Talk) 04:37, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The cover art for Vol. 3 was used originally to illustrate the Monstercat Instinct/Uncaged themes of the albums, but this apparently wasn't sufficient to justify its use, and was subsequently deleted. I cannot see how the cover art for Vol. 1 can have more encyclopedic value than how the cover art for Vol. 3 was used, let alone survive any deletion discussion. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk &middot;&#32;articles &middot;&#32;reviews) 04:40, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Marked it for speedy deletion. if someone wishes to use the cover art and justify its use, they could just upload it themselves. Micro (Talk) 04:50, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Redirects
Why do some EDM artists redirect here? I’m trying to look up information about these artists and their releases, not a whole write up about music in a video game! 99.203.30.125 (talk) 23:11, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * They are probably not notable enough to have their own articles if they redirect here. But usually, artists who lack articles redirect to their music label or a closely associated act instead. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 00:58, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

2019 songs
I find it weird how the songs that were added to this game during 2019 aren't included in this article. Is there any way they could possibly be included? An example is sourced in the Monstercat section. Jalen Folf  (talk)  01:31, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Ault's Departure
Hey y'all. Mike Ault left Psyonix a few years ago, and the first 2 volumes of the OST are completely gone. The article doesn't mention any of this, and given how influential Ault was in shaping Rocket League's identity, I think it's a huge omission. Here are some of the sources I could find:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/t9vcnq/comment/i009wxh/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaelault_with-mixed-emotions-i-announce-my-departure-activity-7049382987687231489-9usM