Talk:Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)

This soundtrack album is actually labeled and owned by Paramount Records. --PJ Pete

What is a Black Album chart?
In the article there is a reference to "Billboard Music Chart's Pop Album and Black Album charts". I can't find any explanation to this use of the phrase "Black Album", neither in this article nor in the articles on Billboard or Black Album. -Ulla — 12:39, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Billboard has renamed the R&B charts several times over the last few decades. At one point, they were the Black Singles and Black Albums charts.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.28.136.188 (talk) 03:50, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Faulty/very un-wikipedia-like link
'Night on the Disco Mountain' links to Mussorgsky's 'Night on the Bald Mountain' which is, while associated, absolutely incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.128.91.242 (talk) 08:27, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was move per request.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:39, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track → Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack) – Very few or couple of sources use the whole current title. Per WP:NATURAL, obscure or lesser known title must not be an article title. George Ho (talk) 21:57, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:37, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Support The OST part is redundant.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 18:32, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
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Requested move 8 June 2016

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The result of the move request was: No consensus to move the article has been established within the RM time period and thus defaulting to not moved. &mdash; Music1201  talk  21:26, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack) → Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track – Saturday Night Fever is the title of the movie, so per WP:NATURALDIS we need to disambiguate. First we consider: "Natural disambiguation: Using an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title." Only if that fails do we use "Parenthetical disambiguation, i.e. adding a disambiguating term in parentheses after the ambiguous name: Wikipedia's standard disambiguation technique when none of the other solutions lead to an optimal article title." Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track is the official name of the album, and is commonly used:, , , , , , , , , , , , etc. There are variations, such as Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Soundtrack, but most use Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track which is the wording on the album. Given that we prefer natural titles over disambiguation by parenthesis, and that the above move was made under the assumption that the full title was rarely used (or perhaps it was rarely used in 2013), the title should be moved back to Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  10:23, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Still too long for readers to search for. Also, too precise. Parenthetical disambiguation is suitable when natural disambiguation doesn't lead to an optimal article title. Optimal = "best or most favorable". --George Ho (talk) 07:35, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * "Parenthetical disambiguation is suitable when natural disambiguation doesn't lead to an optimal article title." The wording missed out is "when none of the other solutions...". The official and widely used title is our first solution and should only be replaced when there is good reason to. That the original and widely used title meets our naming policy and does not clash with any other title, means that it is the most appropriate or optimal. We should only replace such titles when there is a genuine problem. WP:ALBUMDAB says "Only when necessary, disambiguation should be done using "(band)", "(album)", or "(song)" ". Here is a case where it's not necessary. We are taking away the official part of the name "The Original Movie Sound Track" and replacing it with our own version of "(soundtrack)" on the assumption that people would find typing out the extra three words too onerous. But, looking at the stats, 75 people a day do it, which is over one fifth of the average daily total of 398 viewers, even though there are over 500 direct click links using Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack) so many viewers would not be typing anything. It would be interesting to see how many readers type in "Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)", because there is no optimal reason why they should, as that is not the name of the article they are looking for. And they might wonder why they are arriving at an article which Wikipedia is calling "Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)" even though as the first line makes clear, it is about "Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track". There is an odd dissonance about that.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  11:45, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Stats aren't only everything. There is not enough time to change the links that they click on because changing it manually is slow and such. I could use a semi-automated software to do the job if you want me to change the links. You don't think most readers are interested in mostly the title, do you? I don't think they mind with the present title as much as searching for the soundtrack, which is the subject of the article. Also, many, if not most, people use AutoComplete to search for the soundtrack, and this is what they found. Unless there may be another soundtrack of the same name, a subtitle wouldn't be necessary. George Ho (talk) 18:32, 13 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Oppose – Too long, cumbersome and redundant. Unlikely to be the common name for the topic. Per George Ho previously, "Very few or [only a] couple of sources use the whole current title." While it may be possible to find a significant number of sources that use the long official name, that seems highly unlikely to be the common name in general use. Per Lugnuts, "The OST part is redundant." —BarrelProof (talk) 16:12, 14 June 2016 (UTC)


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Writing and recording section narrative has a gap
It goes from Robin Gibb saying "We hadn’t any time…to write (songs for it)" to "The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend" " Who knew they were even writing the songs? The reader hasn’t been told. Boscaswell  talk  07:05, 18 February 2024 (UTC)