Talk:Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Musicians C‑class

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Musicians (assessed as Low-importance).

Rock music C‑class Low‑importance

	Rock music portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Rock music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Rock music on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Rock musicWikipedia:WikiProject Rock musicTemplate:WikiProject Rock musicRock music articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

See also: Talk:Tom Petty

Not Petty article

I have been asked to explain why I deleted certain information on the heartbreakers article. This was because it was information on Petty,s solo records. This is a band article and not intended for a tom petty article. --Feeling free (talk) 00:08, 11 October 2008 (UTC)Feeling Free[reply]

While the article is not about Petty by himself, a single sentance describing occassional side projects and works by other members of the band does not, IMHO, detract from the overall article, but it DOES help to provide context for how the band has worked together over time, especially since all of Tom Petty's "solo records" have featured some considerable contribution from the all of the other members of the Heartbreakers. If these albums had been recorded entirely independent of the rest of the band, then that would be one thing. Especially on Full Moon Fever, the decision to release the album as a "solo" record did not occur until late in the recording process, mainly based on the "sound" of the songs more than the amount of contributions from the individual Heartbreakers. While I would agree that we should not include tons of detail on these solo projects, it does not seem to be out of place to simply place their occurance within the chronology of the band. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 00:45, 11 October 2008(UTC)

I see where your coming from. perhaps we should include a brief section on stuff members did without the heartbreakers --Feeling free (talk) 01:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)User:Feeling free[reply]

That would be a cool idea. Perhaps a section titled "Band members other projects" or something.--Jayron32.talk.contribs 19:53, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that would be a good title. i like that. --Feeling free (talk) 20:13, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dead external links to Allmusic website – January 2011

Since Allmusic have changed the syntax of their URLs, 1 link(s) used in the article do not work anymore and can't be migrated automatically. Please use the search option on http://www.allmusic.com to find the new location of the linked Allmusic article(s) and fix the link(s) accordingly, prefereably by using the {{Allmusic}} template. If a new location cannot be found, the link(s) should be removed. This applies to the following external links:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:difrxq8aldse

--CactusBot (talk) 17:49, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Band name spelling

It seems there's a bit of confusion about how to write the name of the band. Some use 'and' and some use '&'. So now I'm wondering which is the correct one. :-) --62.16.186.44 (talk) 03:59, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]