Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic/Archive1

List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic
This page was created by SuperDude115 on 2:58, 10 June 2005 (UTC). Since that time it has expanded to list every song that "Weird Al" Yankovic has released commercially on his 11 studio albums, 5 compilation albums and Peter and the Wolf. It also lists "Spy Hard", the theme of the film of the same name that was included on the Spy Hard  soundtrack.

The list is in tabular form where it lists the name of the song, the album/s of which it appears and whether it is an original, a parody of a song, or a parody in the style of a particular band or artist.

Originally this listed all songs and albums in "Title Caps". I have since changed this to conform to the current naming convention, as set out at Naming convention, where states that "the standard rule in the English language is to capitalize words that are the first word in the title and those that are not conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for), prepositions (to, over, through) or articles (an, a, the, that)."

The list also conforms to Manual of Style (titles) where it states that italics should be used for titles of musical albums and that titles of shorter works, such as songs, should be enclosed in "double quotation marks".

With regard to links, only those songs that have their own article are linked and only those artists or bands, whose works that were parodied, that have their own article are linked. Whilst on other Wikipedia articles sometimes the song is linked to the album on which it appears, it is not the case with this list.

With regard to the presentation of the table, the songs are listed in alphabetical order and both the song and the double quotation marks are bolded. (As a side note, there is currently no policy or guideline on whether when placing a song in bold, or anything else for that matter, that the double quotation marks should bolded or not. That is, whether it should be "song" or "song". I personally think that the first option looks neater and that's how it is throughout this list.) Where the song appears on more than one album, the albums are listed in the order of their release, from the earliest to the latest.

All of the information that is presented can be verified by the references that are listed.

In summary, this list complies with all the criteria as set out at What is a featured list, it complies with the Manual of Style and the appropriate naming conventions. It is a useful, comprehensive, accurate list, well presented in tabular form that deserved to class to one of Wikipedia's finest. May I strongly encourage you to support this nomination. Thank you -- Ianblair23 (talk) 12:49, 2 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment. It would be useful if the lead could have a brief explanation of who "Weird Al" Yankovic is. Also, are the external links really references or are references absent? jguk 13:05, 2 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Object. As a hard core Al fan, I think this list should attempt to also incluid songs not released comercially such as "Belevdere Cruisin'" and "Take me to The Liver" for the title to be accurate. --The_stuart 17:09, 2 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment. I think the introduction should be longer; for instance, you could elaborate on why some parodies are wrongly attributed to "Weird Al" instead of just providing a link. The list would also be served by a picture of "Weird Al" or some other relevant image. You could make the table a bit more visually appealing by adding class="wikitable" to the syntax; I won't do it myself since it really is your call to decide and it really isn't that important. -- Rune Welsh | &tau;&alpha;&lambda;&kappa; | Esperanza  22:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment. Ok, I have addressed the above concerns. I have expanded the intro quite significantly by explaining who "Weird Al" is and what he has done. I have also added a picture of "Weird Al" and added class="wikitable" to the table. Would you now please reconsider your vote. Cheers -- Ianblair23 (talk) 22:39, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Comment: I think that this article should be integrated into the main "Weird Al" Yankovic page, and not be a seperate page. If you don't wan't to do this, there should at least be a link on the main "Weird Al" page pointing to this page. Thanks! swat671 01:46, 13 March 2006 (UTC)