Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of number-one instrumental singles (UK)/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 Giants2008 19:20, 7 August 2011.

List of number-one instrumental singles (UK)

 * Nominator(s): Rambo's Revenge (talk)  16:31, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Following on from my EP nomination this is another list that I believe is interesting and, having created it in 2009, didn't required much to get it to what I hope is FL standard. All comments gratefully recieved. Rambo's Revenge (talk)  16:31, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I realise this doesn't relate to the "featuredness" of the article, but is there any chance it could be linked to from anywhere else? Currently only one actual article links to it, making it technically an orphan...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:06, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * This would make a great "see also" for the articles on the songs listed. J Milburn (talk) 10:54, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

So far as I can tell there is no reference(s) to show the listed songs are instrumental. The article says that instrumental tracks are those without any lyrics, then goes on to list such songs as Mouldy Old Dough which used the lyrics "Mouldy old dough, dirty old man". Regards, SunCreator (talk) 18:45, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Comments – A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 01:09, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm a little concerned over the list title. "List of number-one instrumental singles (UK)" suggests to me that there's some kind of instrumentals chart in the UK, and that this list contains all the songs that have reached number one on it. Maybe "List of instrumental number-one singles (UK)" would work better, or perhaps "List of instrumental number ones on the UK Singles Chart". Personally, I prefer the latter.
 * I don't think the opening sentence quite follows WP:BEGINNING; it mentions the singles chart, but doesn't mention number ones or establish who defines an instrumental track and how.
 * As of today, there have been 1166 number-one singles, so would it be more precise to say "nearly 1,200" rather than "over 1,000"?
 * Maybe it's just my monitor, but the image of Flat Eric is displacing an edit link and the entire table. Could its size be reduced to prevent that?
 * "Flat Eric who featured in the video" – should that just be "Flat Eric featured in the video"?
 * "Multiple" seems a bit overly formal to me.
 * "9 weeks" -> "nine weeks"
 * Maybe I'm just misremembering, but didn't "Flat Beat" contain some lyrics at the start? "Oh yeah, I used to know Quentin... He's a real... He's a real jerky."
 * If "Hoots Mon" isn't technically an instrumental track, then who is it that classifies that it is? Is it the OCC, or Guinness?
 * What makes When We Were Kids reliable?
 * Spaced hyphens should be spaced en dashes.
 * "Allmusic" isn't italicised in ref 19.

Comments Otherwise, nice work as usual. —  Andrew s talk  01:49, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree with A Thousand Doors concerning the title.
 * Per SunCreator - "Mouldy Old Dough" is unverified
 * guardian.co.uk ref needs publisher (Guardian Media Group)
 * Now a nitpick: MOS:ITALICS - Allmusic should not be italicised


 * Oppose - Several problems highlighted above. The main one being a lack of references to cover the claims. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 13:05, 27 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Nominator hasn't edited in two weeks. If we don't see some activity soon, this will have to be archived.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 00:10, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
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