User talk:Jcsokola

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Genres, especially in Pink Floyd articles
In case you didn't get a chance to read it, here are excerpts from something I posted at "Genre policy proposal" on Pink Floyd's talk page:


 * Genre changes tend to get kicked around like a football. Decision A gets changed to B, then to C, then to D, then unwittingly back to A. Wikipedia edits are supposed to gradually evolve toward a stable ideal; most genre changes do not...

and:


 * Most of the time, one genre per infobox is sufficient. Some guidelines for picking the best genre out of many options: pick one which is the most all-encompassing, or which reflects the style of music the group is best known for...

I proposed that all Pink Floyd albums (excepting The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and others with Syd Barrett era material) should show only one genre: progressive rock. Only one person replied to the proposal, and though he agreed with it, this isn't enough for consensus. Read the whole proposal at the link above, and let me know what you think. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 14:54, 31 December 2008 (UTC)