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Another proposal for changing track list formating

On the project page track listings are shown as this:

"Complete song title" (John Doe, Brian Smith) – 4:23

But that leads in practical reality with links to things like this:

"Baby It's You" (Mack David/Barney Williams/Burt Bacharach) – 2:38

Which if you are reading it at 3AM on a small screen or a laptop just looks like one big line of blue until you come to the time.

Additionally if you have a majority of the songs written by one person but a couple tracks written by different people you can end up with this situation (part of the track list from the album Double Eclipse):

"Change of Heart" – 4:42
"Everything" (Schon/Gioeli/Gioeli/Eddie Money/Jonathan Cain/Tony Marty/Mark Tanner) – 3:55
"Takin' Me Down" – 3:34
"Hot Cherie" (Randy Bishop/Darrell Gutheil/Jeffrey Neill/Kenneth Shields/Kenneth Sinnaeke) – 4:47
"Bad Taste" – 4:23

This looks really messy to me, makes the eye wander and has little symmetry to it.

I would propose a change of the format to the following:

"Baby It's You" – 2:38 (Mack David/Barney Williams/Burt Bacharach)

Letting the time break up the links makes it a little easier to read, helps prevent the mouse from floating to the wrong link and in a full album listing actually lets things look a little more symmetrical especially when writing credits are involved. It's not perfect but it would be better.

I also prefer using the slashes as opposed to commas in the writers area as I have noticed that slashes are used in many reviews and in most album credits on the album. Perhaps that can be changed also?

I am interested to know what others think. Thanks Solonyc (talk} 21:50, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

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+== Another proposal for changing track list formating ==
-== A pet peeve ==
 On the project page track listings are shown as this:
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 But that leads in practical reality with links to things like this:
 # "[[Baby It's You (The Beatles song)|Baby It's You]]" ([[Mack David]]/[[Barney Williams]]/[[Burt Bacharach]]) – 2:38
-Which if you are reading it at 3AM on a small screen or a laptop just looks like one big line of blue.
+Which if you are reading it at 3AM on a small screen or a laptop just looks like one big line of blue until you come to the time.
-I would propose a change to the following:
+Additionally if you have a majority of the songs written by one person but a couple tracks written by different people you can end up with this situation (part of the track list from the album [[Double Eclipse]]):
+#<li value=4>"Change of Heart" – 4:42
+# "Everything" (Schon/Gioeli/Gioeli/[[Eddie Money]]/[[Jonathan Cain]]/Tony Marty/Mark Tanner) – 3:55
+# "Takin' Me Down" – 3:34
+# "Hot Cherie" (Randy Bishop/Darrell Gutheil/Jeffrey Neill/Kenneth Shields/Kenneth Sinnaeke) – 4:47
+# "Bad Taste" – 4:23
+This looks really messy to me, makes the eye wander and has little symmetry to it.
+I would propose a change of the format to the following:
 # "[[Baby It's You (The Beatles song)|Baby It's You]]" – 2:38 ([[Mack David]]/[[Barney Williams]]/[[Burt Bacharach]])
-Letting the time break up the links makes it a little easier to read, helps prevent the mouse from floating to the wrong link and in a full album listing actually lets things look a little more symmetrical. We don't have to start changing all older pages now but if we could make the change on the project page for future releases I think it would be a good thing. I am interested to know what others think. Thanks [[User:Solonyc|Solonyc]] 21:06, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
+Letting the time break up the links makes it a little easier to read, helps prevent the mouse from floating to the wrong link and in a full album listing actually lets things look a little more symmetrical especially when writing credits are involved. It's not perfect but it would be better.
+I also prefer using the slashes as opposed to commas in the writers area as I have noticed that slashes are used in many reviews and in most album credits on the album. Perhaps that can be changed also?
+I am interested to know what others think. Thanks [[User:Solonyc|Solonyc]] ([[User talk:Solonyc|talk]]} 21:50, 19 April 2007 (UTC)