Talk:The Blanton-Webster Band

Place in Ellington discography?
I can't place this in terms of "next" and "last" in the Ellington discography because the Ellington discography at All Music is riddled with inconsistencies. This CD collection was released in 1990, but is listed in the master discography as 1932. If Ellington's albums were sparse, I might be able to guess where it falls, but under the circumstances that's pretty much impossible. I will try to locate a reliable discography elsewhere to solve this questions and, meanwhile, leave "next" and "last" blank in the infobox. --Moonriddengirl 20:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The problem, of course, is that this music isn't from albums. Strictly speaking this CD is from 1990. The music on it was recorded over a long period in the 1940s and was released on singles, not albums. The only way to really make sense of "next" and "last" is to put them in release-date order, which means 1990.


 * Another problem: there are two pages with almost exactly the same title and almost exactly the same content -- The_Blanton-Webster_Band and The_Blanton–Webster_Band. I don't know how to merge them. 216.231.46.147 18:01, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmm. That is a problem. :) The difference seems to be in the formatting of the title. Let me check policy on that to see which one should be the base page, and then we can worry about merging. --Moonriddengirl 18:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I assume the difference is an endash versus a hyphen. It's hard for me to distinguish the difference. I guess if it were an emdash, it would be very visible. MOS says "The en dash may be used in a page name, for example, Eye–hand span. Editors should provide a redirect page to such an article, using a hyphen in place of the en dash (e.g., Eye-hand span), to allow the name to be typed easily when searching Wikipedia. See also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision). Regardless of whether the page name includes a dash, the associated talk page name should match the page name exactly." Since I'm substantially the only editor on this version, I'd be perfectly willing to merge what I have into the other one, allowing this to stand as the re-direct per policy. There's no copyright issues that way. I think I'll get on that now. --Moonriddengirl 18:09, 4 October 2007 (UTC)