Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elvis Presley/Archive 1

Length of Elvis Presley
Just under 120kb is the largest the article has been, I believe. We should set a goal to get it closer to 80kb. That's my recommendation.  Lara  ❤  Love  21:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

List of Elvis Presley songs
I spent about an hour cleaning up List of Elvis Presley songs, removing a number of obviously bogus and erroneous entries, fixing wikilinks that either went somewhere else, or went to another song entirely, and so on. The list still needs a lot of work. There are a few song titles I feel dubious about, plus there needs to be many corrections regarding capitalization of song titles (words like "and", "to", etc. are usually always left lower-case unless they're the first word, for example). Most importantly I killed a bunch of redlinks. Generally I'm all for keeping redlinks, even in lists, but in this case only B and C actually had every song made a wikilink, so it wasn't consistently applied, and we ended up with some links being created for songs and topics that have nothing to do with Elvis, such as the link for the song Angel which, of course, went to angel. Etc. 23skidoo (talk) 03:25, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I missed this before. There are so many things to be fixed up regarding Elvis. The whole thing is a mess right now. Thank you for all the work you've put into Elvis content, it's obviously sorely needed.  Lara  ❤  Love  04:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Album track listings
I just noticed that some album articles such as How Great Thou Art (album) have incorrect track listing information. We should be listing the original release track list, not the later CD reissue versions. The bonus tracks can be listed separately. A good example is Pot Luck (album) where the original LP release and 1999 CD release have separate track listings. If there's only one song and the basic song order isn't changed, such as the case with the How Great Thou Art article, I don't think a second full listing is necessary, just a line saying such-and-such was added for the CD release. 23skidoo (talk) 01:15, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for bringing this up. I'll add it to the project page. Feel free to make such additions to the to-do list. Everyone is welcome to change the project page. :)  Lara  ❤  Love  04:04, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

non-notable
I tagged the article about minor Elvis in-law Danny Keough as non-notable. Steve Dufour (talk) 21:28, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * In process of adding some cites/info. Cirt (talk) 21:58, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Expanded the article a bit more, w/ info from (35) cites. Cirt (talk) 00:16, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Cirt. My complaint is withdrawn. Sorry to question the notability of any relative of the King's. :-) Steve Dufour (talk) 02:31, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Love me Tender
Hello, I think Love Me Tender (song) has several sentences that should be in a different article, they don't directly relate to the topic of the article. The material is about Elvis getting co-writing credits for several songs, payola, etc. I think this should be in another article. The article says that Elvis got co-writing credit on all or almost all new songs, and I thought that I read in a book about Elvis that this happened only on a few early ones. Bubba73 (talk), 00:52, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Elvis Presley
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Deleting the album and single covers
I am going to have to delete some cover pictures because there is no article to put them on. These include: File:ElvisPresleyEasyComeEasyGo.jpg File:ElvisChristmas1970.jpg File:Elvis presley JXL conversation.jpg File:ElvisPresleyWayDownCover.jpg File:ElvisPresleyPartyCover.jpg File:ElvisPresleyHoundDogCruel45rpm.jpg File:ElvisPresleyGhettoCover.jpg. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:57, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Sun Studio
I have added a WikiProject Elvis Presley tag to the Sun Studio article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BillyJack193 (talk • contribs) 19:20, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

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Request for comment on Biographies of living people
Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

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Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, many wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:
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Elvis Presley articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Elvis Presley articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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Heartbreak Hotel
A GA review on Heartbreak Hotel is in progress and has been put on hold for an initial seven days to allow time to address issues raised. See Talk:Heartbreak Hotel/GA2. Assistance in developing the article would be welcomed.  SilkTork  *YES! 13:16, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Do all Elvis Presley songs need an article?
I have nominated Adam and Evil for deletion as a non-notable Elvis Presley song, but Blofeld thinks every Elvis song deserves an article, even if it means creating a one sentence stub that provides zero information and offers zero sources and the song was nothing more than an album cut. Do articles such as A House That Has Everything need to exist. I suggest redirecting until they can be expanded, if they can. But you're the experts here. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 17:37, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Bill Belew
Should Bill Belew, Elvis' last costume designer, be considered part of the Elvis Project? 71.234.215.133 (talk) 03:07, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Present Elvis to the world
Elvis Presley is a vital 1000 article that is a featured article and has not been presented as todays featured article on the main page. I think it should be. When nominated he will be unstoppable (as always). Anybody wants to tidy him up for the event? --Ettrig (talk) 19:21, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

List of songs recorded by Elvis Presley
There is a discussion rename this from the above title. Does anybody want to comment at Talk:List of songs recorded by Elvis Presley? --Richhoncho (talk) 16:22, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Template talk:Elvis Presley
We have someone who is edit warring and determined to remove Elvis Greatest Shit from this template. It is part of his oeuvre and ought to be there. I would admit this was not his greatest work, but it still belongs there. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 18:13, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

elvis is the number one artist of billboard
Please put in the beginning that per Joel whitburn ( recognized as the foremost authority on charted,music has Elvis as...

Top 100 artists 1955-2009

Elvis 7,537 points, The Beatles 4,611 Madonna 4,317 Elton John 4176 Mariah Carey 3,942 Stevie wonder 3,470 Michael Jackson 3,410

The billboard top 40 hits Joel whitburn

9th edition Page 870

" elvis dominates billboard and is the top artist of it.

Thank you

64.134.65.11 (talk) 18:49, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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Elvis Presley Featured Article Review
FAR coordinator User:Casliber has nominated Elvis Presley for a featured article review here. This is a procedural review of its FA status due to the discovery of socking at its original FAC. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. The instructions for the review process are here. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  16:24, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination of Portal:Elvis Presley for deletion
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User script to detect unreliable sources
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