User talk:131.191.88.224

Help me!
Please help me with... Hello! I am downsizing a large collection of vintage vinyl LPs, and I don't want to let them go without posting the LPs' production info on Wikipedia. I know that this information will soon be gone forever. I am a music-o-phile who often uses Wikipedia for detailed information on artists and their albums. This is all I want to post on Wikipedia. I will not be writing articles, but I would like to know how to post all of the detailed info (band member names, song authors, producers, side musicians, liner notes, etc.) of several hundred LPs. Please point me to a good tutorial for this specialized editing. And thank you for what you do!!!

Jennifer S 131.191.88.224 (talk) 21:56, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Are you saying that you want to edit existing articles? Wikipedia is not a webhost to merely post information as a historical record. 331dot (talk) 23:02, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I admit Wikipedia might not be the best place for your particular trove of information.
 * Wikipedia aims to be an encyclopedia. This means it generally summarizes information from mostly secondary sources, aiming for a general rather than specialist/enthusiast audience, and includes articles for only notable subjects. It's not intended to be an indiscriminate collection of basic information about published music; see WP:NOTEVERYTHING. That said, I encourage you to improve and add information to articles about artists, records, and songs, and write articles that should exist (i.e. satisfying notability). I'm sure you've seen personnel and track listings for records on Wikipedia, and those are good things to flesh out. And you can upload (limited) copyrighted images and documents to Wikipedia to illustrate articles, under our fair use of non-free content policy.
 * You could upload images and documents to Wikimedia Commons, if the content is out of copyright.
 * Your best move likely is to upload your content to a specialized non-Wikimedia database, such as discogs.com, MusicBrainz, or the Internet Archive (a nonprofit kindred to Wikipedia).
 * I'm a generalist editor, so that's about the limit of my advice. (I'm a first-line responder for help requests. I suppose I was the just first person available; an automated system pinged several dozen of us volunteers when you posted.) There very well could be a better fit for your collection; I suggest you get a second (or further) opinion on the matter at...
 * the WikiProject Music discussion page (which may be somewhat slow to respond),
 * or the WP:Teahouse, a newbie-friendly board,
 * or the WP:Help desk, which might be your best bet for deep inquiries and getting some more eyes on your question.
 * It's bad form to ask in multiple places simultaneously, so give it a day at least for people to respond. I'd start at the Help desk, which is fairly quick. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions; per the orange box to the side, you can ask the same way again using help me (someone else might respond), by continuing to ask here, or on my talk page. I'm happy to help somone who wants to help share information with the world. – Anon423 (talk) 23:17, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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Happy editing! – Anon423 (talk) 23:28, 28 December 2021 (UTC)