Talk:Lindsey Stirling

Born

What city was she born in? The Listed 'Orange County', is beyond vague and needs to be updated College Watch (talk) 08:16, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Nevermind, I just located it on the web and will reference it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by College Watch (talk • contribs) 08:17, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

HS

Anyone know what high school Lindsey attended? —Eustress ^talk 03:33, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

I think there was a video posted on a Mormon youtube channel recently where she may have talked about her life in High School, but I'm very unsure if she ever mentioned the name of it. ~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 05:24, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

From her face book page:https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/59239_560447463987445_1092491844_n.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.73.141 (talk) 12:16, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, so perhaps Mesquite High School (Gilbert, Arizona)... but any reliable sources that can confirm? Wearing a school shirt is not definitive... could have been a sibling's shirt. —Eustress ^talk 21:59, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Faith?

Lindsey was recently featured in an interview on Mormon.org and in her own "... and I'm a Mormon" clip. As of this writing it's actually on the main landing page of Mormon.org. It's not exactly clear how much of this is Lindsey's original content (or if it was extensively edited by the LDS church) but it deserves a mention on this page. The page would really be enhanced by some facts on her Mormon faith. Just noticed her missionary work is mentioned. Not sure if there's anything new here, but check it out. http://mormon.org/lindsey — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:EA00:104:2C00:1BF:19A:9BB2:DDA6 (talk • contribs) 18:58, 10 May 2013‎ (UTC)

Done, thanks —Eustress ^talk 19:07, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Other songs

If somebody would please add her renditions of "The Phantom Of The Opera" and the theme from The Lord of the Rings" movies (both released in 2012), that would be great since the beta article editor isn't working right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jschoenborn (talk • contribs) 22:10, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

These songs are not notable as they are not official singles. This should not be a collection of all works by Lindsey Stirling, but only list officially released singles and albums. If we include every video Lindsey Stirling has created or contributed to, the list would be a mile long, so there must be a line to draw, and notability is that line. :) ~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 23:16, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Scott, If you are worried about long listings, it is probably time to create a Discography and perhaps a Filmography article (or section for Filmography within the Discography). Stirling's music video, "Phantom of the Opera" is a well done piece of performing art with 9.5 million views in eleven months and "Lord of the Rings Medley" has over 13 million views.

Until someone has time to create the Discography article, I'm opposed to any effort to limit the number, or type, of the artist's published works documented here because the edits will be useful when moving the entries to the Discography. 009o9 (talk) 22:10, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Youtube has always been an issue on Wikipedia. The issue is that it's social media. And while extremely popular, individual videos/channels hold zero notability on their own, regardless of popularity. "Notability isn't determined by something's quantity of members, but rather by the quality of the subject's verifiable, reliable sources." (from WP:BIGNUMBER). The fact that the videos have received millions of views each is not a reflection on the videos' notability for Wikipedia inclusion. The songs have never been released as a single or on an album; which, I might add, is grounds for inclusion to a discography. If a separate list is going to be made of all the works created by Lindsey Stirling, it should not be a Discography, as that list will be about the same size as what's included here in this article. Instead a "List of recorded words by Lindsey Stirling" would be more appropriate, but also risks deletion due to lack of notability.

Anyway, as I ramble (I tend to do that), the point I'm trying to make is that millions of views do not make these officially released singles by the artist, nor does that make them notable. And that is why I have removed them from the list of sourced singles directly from the independent label's official website. If the videos are that popular, there should be news articles about them, or other third party sources which would only then give them notability enough to satisfy Wikipedia's requirements for inclusion. ~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 22:30, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

WP:BIGNUMBER discusses WP:Articles for Deletion, not individual works, unless of course, the article is about the individual work. In Discographies and Filmographies there is no requirement that each work be notable, just that the subject of the discography/filmography is notable.

Discography is the study and cataloging of published sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified musical genres.

For the establishment of the general releases in a discography – that a certain release exists, was released in the first place, and is a part of the artist's body of work – general sources, as opposed to in-line citations, are sufficient. For additional non-contentious facts such as release date, record label, and catalog number, general sources are also acceptable See Wikipedia:WikiProject Discographies/style#General references 009o9 (talk) 23:35, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Slapping a video onto YouTube does not make that an official "release", and again, this is not a discography article. "General sources are sufficient": this article has a general source, that being the official record company, and it does not list these songs. (and you may want to take it easy on the text formatting, holy crap) ~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 00:03, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

The "Official Label" has one artist and one album. Bridge Tone Records is a single officer LLC with a single page website, an email address and phone number. How is this even close to the credibility of say iTunes, which is always referenced on the YouTube releases? Perhaps the Discography section in this article should be renamed to "Selected works".

Faq "iTunes content provider FAQ"

Stirling "Lindsey Stirling on iTunes page 1 of 2" 009o9 (talk) 03:22, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Because iTunes is not a record label. Virtually every song created by every artist is available on iTunes, that does not make every song in existence a "single". Lindsey Stirling is simply "partnered" with iTunes to allow them to sell her music in cooperation with her record label. The fact of the matter is that YouTube artists, while popular, do not hold as much notability as their popularity suggests. The discography section here includes only those songs which have been officially released by a record label and are sourced properly according to the guidelines that you posted above, anything more than that becomes listcruft (which the lightly-monitored "collaboration" section has become). If you want to create a separate Listed Article of all works associated with Lindsey Stirling then by all means make one, but without any sources other than a link to her YouTube Channel or her iTunes listing, it won't hold much notability in the eyes of Wikipedia, as it too becomes listcruft (a list with no other purpose or meaning but to exist as a list). ~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 03:50, 22 July 2013 (UTC)