Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of number-one albums of 2008 (Australia)/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was not promoted by Matthewedwards 20:48, 2 August 2009.

List of number-one albums of 2008 (Australia)

 * Nominator(s): Sk8er5000 (talk) 09:24, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I have worked tirelessly for the last few days, and believe this article is now compliant with all the Featured List Criteria. When I started working on this list, prose was virutally non exsistant, and the table formatting was as far from standard as possible. I worked on improving references, the prose, and all the table formatting. I now believe this list now meets the Criteria, and will review the nomination frequently. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 09:24, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

"This list deals with albums that reached number one on the ARIA albums chart in 2008." This sentence is wholly unnecessary. Also, check the toolbox to your right; there's a disambiguation link to be fixed and several dead links (is the ARIA site down?). Dabomb87 (talk) 14:29, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed all. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 19:59, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Nice expansion. I made a few changes myself and have a few minor issues left, if you fix them I will support.
 * Image caption "...and reached number two on the end of year albums chart". It sounds a bit strange, maybe "...and became the second most-popular album in Australia in 2008". Also could you link to List of Top 25 albums for 2008 in Australia?
 * "This data are..." incorrect. Either "This data is..." or "These data are...", I would advice the first one.
 * Remove the extra dot after ref [2].

That's it. Happy editing.-- Music 26/  11  14:00, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Comment Image needs alternative text. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:02, 19 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Edited article per Music2611 and Dabomb87's suggestions. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 21:02, 19 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose from
 * Dabs
 * Number-one albums of 2008 (Australia) -> is a self-redirect, I'm not sure whether its intentional or not, but if its not, it needs to be unlinked.
 * External links
 * Check out fine.
 * Lead
 * For starters, the see also links above the lead need to be removed and moved to the See also section.
 * The ARIA Albums Chart, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association (also known as ARIA), is a record chart that features album sales information. -- 1)no need for the also known as per WP:ACRONYM 2)I really recommend you see List of number-one albums of 2008 (U.S.) for an example of a better intro sentence
 * Overall, the lead lacks because its not really saying much about the list, see List of number-one albums of 2008 (U.S.) for an FL-style lead/prose. There are a couple of grammar issues which also need to be resolved, but if you base it off the list I showed above those can be fixed.
 * List
 * The list needs to be in its own section.
 * This is the first list I see with the Labels section, was this agreed upon by the respective project? The reason I ask is because the acronym usage is overwhelming and not every reader knows what they are and adding a key for all of them would be exhausting to read. I believe without the column the table is still the same.
 * The ref column should be unsortable.
 * Is the Weeks at number one column also a new feature agreed upon?
 * References
 * There is no need to have the language parameter filled in if its in English because this is the English Wikipedia.
 * I look on the websites from the australian-charts, and what states that the information is originally from the ARIA? It doesn't state it.-- T ru  c o   503 22:58, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I've tried to fix it up per those suggestions. The weeks at number one, and label column has been used in all the other lists of Australian number one's, and thus exsists here. I have made the references column unsortable. I have also written a new lead sentance based from that article you linked to, and tried to improve the lead. As far as the infomation coming from ARIA goes, is states on the homepage "Thanks to ARIA for the agreement to publish the charts from Australia.", thus implying the data comes from ARIA. I hope this is good enough. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 20:15, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Support -- Previous issues resolved/clarified; list now meets WP:WIAFL.-- T ru  c o   503 20:48, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:05, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:13, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Support. No issues left. Good work :) -- Music 26/  11  16:14, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

--Crzycheetah 05:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose
 * What's ARIA? Can you open that acronym before using it?
 * This data are → "These data are" OR "This data is"
 * ...Internet sales (both physical and digital). - I don't understand what "physical Internet sales" means. Can you elaborate?
 * The fact that Pink's album was atop for nine weeks is mentioned wherever possible. Any other idea for the caption of that image?
 * Why are those repetitive rows present? The first 4 rows have the same info. Rows 6-10 have the same info. The last 9 rows have the same info. It's unnecessary! Why not just say "January 7-28 Timbaland"?
 * We all expect the references to be in English, why state the obvious?


 * ARIA is not opened straight away because the charts are known as the ARIA Charts everywhere else, even ARIA Charts opens it up once it's started. "This data are..." has already been changed at least once in accordance with a earier suggestion. I have elorabated on the "phyiscal and digital media". The repative rows are present to show how many chart issues each song was at number one for. I have removed the English bit in the refs. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 20:16, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Try "The data are..." Dabomb87 (talk) 21:06, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * You have a column where you state how many chart issues each song was at number one for.--Crzycheetah 21:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

reset indent

, that way the table can become sortable again.--Crzycheetah 03:38, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I have fixed the remaining problems, however, while I was merging rows to prevent repeating, the sorting of the table broke, thus was removed. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 06:56, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I suggest separating the issues and refs with
 * What do you mean? Could you (or someone else) please do it, I have no idea what you mean. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 07:04, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 * What I mean is something like this:

--Crzycheetah 07:19, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I tried, after looking at the example, and I still couldn't do it for some reason. The issue dates didn't show up, and the other bits of info got pushed over one. Can you please do it, you seem to know what your doing a lot more than I do (lol). -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 07:28, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. When did we switch our roles? ;)--Crzycheetah 07:59, 25 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose
 * A shame that physical media is a red link. Is there nothing you could link it to, or rephrase without linking and expanding to include compact disks, DVDs etc?
 * Seems a little odd to me to use the ARIA abbreviation before explaining what ARIA is.
 * Question : should end of year be hyphenated?
 * "number one" or "number-one".
 * Note: the hyphen usage depends on whether "number one" is used as a noun or an adjective. "Other albums with extended chart runs include Funhouse by Pink, which spent nine weeks at number one," but "number-one albums". I caught one unneeded hyphen, but everything else should be fine. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:05, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Was Pink's run consecutive or non-consecutive? Who actually had the most consecutive weeks at the top?
 * "won the ARIA award for Album of the Year and Best Dance release" presumably these are separate awards, so it "won the ARIA awards for..."
 * The repeated use of "week" in the table is unnecessary given the column heading. And I would centrally align that column.
 * Sometimes there are multiple references so the column heading should be "Reference(s)".
 * Sortable table so relink things on every instance, such as Jack Johnson.
 * Presumably "Issue date" relates to the chart, not the album - I'd make that clear.
 * Is it "Australian Recording Industry Association Ltd" or just "Australian Recording Industry Association"? (see refs).
 * Is there a 2008 in music style category this could be added to?
 * The Rambling Man (talk) 10:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


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