Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Sonic Youth discography


 * 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 promoted 23:20, 16 May 2008.

Sonic Youth discography
This is a big one! I've been working on this for a couple weeks now, and I think it's ready at long last. Sonic Youth have had an obscene number of releases throughout the years, so I had to take a few liberties here and there. Namely, the charts-table having top and bottom headings, and the lead prose being very listy. As always, any comments and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks! Drewcifer (talk) 00:04, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Support Another great list. Good work. Burningclean [speak]  02:35, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help and support. Drewcifer (talk) 11:48, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Comment "Touch Me I'm Sick/Halloween" has its own page. Where did you get chart info for albums/singles that charted worse than #40 in the UK? everyhit lists only top 40 AFAIK. indopug (talk) 06:15, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Good eye! It was a bit of a mental error on my part.  Found a second source beyond 40, cited it, and double checked all the entries. Drewcifer (talk) 06:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Neutral Only because I won't be around for two weeks and will be unable to see this out. Sorry. Hope my comments helped, though. -- ṃ• α• Ł• ṭ• ʰ• Ə• Щ•   @  05:42, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment There are rather few citations/references in the lead. Tom pw (talk) (review) 16:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Added citations wherever needed. Drewcifer (talk) 01:50, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Comment
 * The last paragraph of the lead is unreferenced.
 * The information in that paragraph is repeated further down, and I'm not sure that's entirely necessary to repeat that lead information in the SYR section.
 * Agreed, took it out.


 * There are a lot of albums, songs, etc. in the latter lists that don't have articles. If they're notable, it would be useful to at least create stubs to start the process of creating them, and to make the list more useful.
 * I agree, but I'm honestly not that knowledgeable about Sonic Youth, so I'll leave that some that is.


 * Great image for the infobox, btw.
 * Marrio (talk) 13:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comments, I believe I took care of everything. Drewcifer (talk) 22:02, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Support - good list. Marrio (talk) 22:23, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your support and help. Drewcifer (talk) 22:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

That's all I have, great work on such an important band. indopug (talk) 08:17, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * The charts should be alphabetical order, although I suggest UK to be second after US.
 * Daydream Nation didn't chart? DAYDREAM NATION!!?? But seriously maybe the websites only list info after 1990, so is there any way to double-check? Surely the 20th edition deluxe edition charted?
 * The catalogue numbers don't need to be in small, it just makes it harder to read, nothing else. Also, the label's code is unnecessary along with number as it seems to just repeat the name of the record label. Make sure the labels are linked the first time
 * I created the "Touch Me I'm Sick/Halloween" page, that's why I could point it out. :D and neat thing you did with the bottom of the albums table.
 * Lead: The "In 1990 the band resigned once again to Geffen..." paragraph could be made bigger I think, since they released their most successful albums then, so give it the "this album charted this much" treatment for Goo, Dirty and Jet Set. Also mention their most popular singles, "Kool Thing" and "100%". You should also mention that Daydream Nation is a landmark alternative album.


 * Generally well-written. Formatting: I've noticed tons of em dashes in the blank squares of tables in other FLCs. Rather ugly, don't you think? I've changed the top row to en dashes—aren't they a little more attractive? Please change the rest if you don't disagree. Probably a global search and replace in Word is the easiest way. TONY   (talk)  11:25, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * How about if the nominator used a middot (·) instead of a dash? I think that looks better; it's a lot 'softer' because it isn't as blatantly obvious. Gary King ( talk ) 00:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * If I'm not mistaken, the em dash is meant to describe a lack of something, at least in tables. This isn't specified in any MOS thing, but I believe this is just a normal (ie not Wikipedia-exlusive) grammar thing.  I'll dig up my MLA style book and see what I can find.  For now, however, I'm going to revert the dashes back to the em-dashes, and move this discussion over to MOS:DISCOG since this is something way beyond the scope of this one list.  Cool? Drewcifer (talk) 00:16, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. It's not a major concern, at least for me. It looks like existing discographies use emdash. Gary K</i>ing</b> ( talk ) 00:41, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Ref 2: author not listed .... Doesn't appear to support the statement to which it's appended in the lead. I hope Ref 1 is good—it's used about a dozen times in a row in the lead. TONY   (talk)  13:32, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if I follow you completely. There's two citations since neither describes fully what's in the rarities release, but together they do.  Maybe you were confused since the link was to a redirect?  I fixed that, as well as added the author. Drewcifer (talk) 00:16, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Question How come Canada's album chart isn't included (it is on some other discographies), is it because it didn't chart there? Should the major charts their albums haven't charted on be noted? -- Scorpion0422 22:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't it be a little unneccessary to mention charts an album didn't chart on? Surely the list of charts one doesn't chart on is a much bigger list then those they did? Drewcifer (talk) 22:44, 16 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Support Another list I can't find a problem with. Noble Story (talk) 02:25, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! Drewcifer (talk) 22:44, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
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